Around the Year in 52 Books discussion

Welcome to the 2026 Around The Year Challenge! As has become tradition in this group, our opening prompt is a nod to our group's initials. This year, we are looking for books that fit into a genre starting with A, T, or Y. You could read something that fits into adventure, travel, or young adult, as a few broad examples, or you could read something from a narrower genre, like American civil war horror.

The goodreads genre shelves list might spur your imagination: https://www.goodreads.com/genres/list

ATY Listopia: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...

What will you be reading?

I will choose one for each letter. From my TBR list I am considering:
A
Autobiography: Kiss Me Like a Stranger: My Search for Love and Art, The Moon's a Balloon, The Egg and I
Afrofuturism: The Galaxy Game
Anthropology: Euphoria, The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution, The Origin of Species, Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
Archeology: Atlas of a Lost World: Travels in Ice Age America, Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past, Homo Britannicus: The Incredible Story of Human Life in Britain, Built on Bones: 15,000 Years of Urban Life and Death
T
Time travel: The Day Tripper, Time After Time, Blackout, Time and Again
Travel: We Are Experiencing a Slight Delay: Tips, Tales, Travels, The Malay Archipelago, West With Giraffes
Y
Young adult: Half World, Emergence

If you want to go down a subgenre rabbit hole, check out this site:
https://www.cuebon.com/ewriters/defin...

Current possibilities:

Time Travel Faye, Faraway

Travel A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
Secondhand: Travels in the New Global Garage Sale

Art Dear Vincent
Katie and the Starry Night

Not What She Seems as a Thriller!

Angie wrote: "If you want to go down a subgenre rabbit hole, check out this site:
https://www.cuebon.com/ewriters/defin..."

Why yes. Yes I do! ;) Here's a list I am interested in reading:
Autobiography, Arthurian, Aliens, Amateur Investigator, Afrofuturism, Alien Invasion, Age Regression, Apocalyptic, Artificial Intelligence, Astrobiology, Astrosociobiology, Time Travel, Thriller, Aviation, Technothriller, Treasure Hunter, Young Adult, Amateur Sleuth

The first genre that came to my (tired) mind was archeology, and the first book that sprang from that is Women in the Valley of the Kings: The Untold Story of Women Egyptologists in the Gilded Age.

I’m interested in reading Butter (thriller) but more so: Research Is a Passion With Me: The Autobiography of a Bird Lover, (autobiography). I’m sure she was a fascinating woman.

Angie wrote: "If you want to go down a subgenre rabbit hole, check out this site:
https://www.cuebon.com/ewriters/defin..."

Thanks Angie, this will come in handy

My possibilities include
*Art
Alternate history, Alternate universe, alternate world
Animals
Apocalyptic
*American history
Adventure, action
Artificial intelligence
Afrofuturism, africanfuturism
Anthropology, archeology

*Time travel
*Travel
Technology,
Techno thrillers, transhumanism
Thriller
Tragedy
*True Crime -
*translated

*Young adult
Yellow journalism - haha

American History - The Small and the Mighty: Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History, from the Founding to the Civil Rights Movement
Animals - Other Minds
True Crime- No More Tears: The Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson
Travel
The Road to Tender Hearts

I am planning Unspeakable: The Autobiography, but I would be happy to swap another autobiography if I spot one in the library. I'm also planning Five Survive, which is a Young adult Thriller.

Currently interested in:

Adventure
Appalachian Noir
Alternate History
Amateur Detective
Thriller
Time Travel
Transrealism
YA

Thank you for posting the sub genres! I will be finally taking this of my TBR stacks … “The Art Thief: A True Story of Love , Crime , and a Dangerous Obsession “

A subgenre I just found out about and haven't seen mentioned yet is tartan noir, if anyone wants to go more obscure!

The Agony and the Ecstasy, for 'Art'.