Around the Year in 52 Books discussion

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Weekly Topics 2026 > 19, 20, & 21. A book related to yesterday, a book related to today, and a book related to tomorrow

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message 1: by Jackie, Solstitial Mod (new)

Jackie | 2515 comments Mod
We have a triplet set here: a book related to yesterday, a book related to today, and a book related to tomorrow. You can tie your books together through a shared theme or go for three unrelated books. There's also options on how to connect your books to yesterday, today, and tomorrow - title, theme, setting, the sky's the limit!

ATY Listopias
Yesterday: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...
Today: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...
Tomorrow: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...

How will you be interpreting this prompt? Will you have a theme for your choices?


message 2: by Angie (new)

Angie | 107 comments I'm planning to make it a theme--mystery/detective novels

* One historical mystery
* One present day mystery
* One mystery set in the future/in space, etc.


message 3: by Dixie (new)

Dixie (dixietenny) | 1377 comments I have no idea what I'm going to do with these three prompts. I want to make the connection between them personal to me, but not sure how I want to do that. I'll be watching here with interest to see how others are approaching these.


message 4: by Emily, Conterminous Mod (new)

Emily Bourque (emilyardoin) | 11283 comments Mod
I'm definitely going to settle into an easy approach for these prompts - historical fiction, contemporary fiction, sci-fi.


message 6: by Jenny (new)

Jenny Williams (jenniferw88) | 11 comments Yesterday immediately brought to mind The Beatles for me, so Abbey Road by David Hepworth for that.

Today - ???? No ideas yet.

Tomorrow will be Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin.


message 7: by NancyJ (last edited 12 hours, 28 min ago) (new)

NancyJ (nancyjjj) | 3737 comments It would be cool to use 3 books that each play with time, but that could get messy. So I’ll probably pick 3 books from three distinct eras, historical, contemporary, future, with some important commonality or theme that will emerge based on the books I discover. I read a lot of futuristic books this year, but very little historical fiction, so the list for yesterday is much more appealing to me right now. I’ll probably start by reading several of those.

Alternatively, if I could find 3 multigenerational (or multi century) sagas that each cover yesterday today and tomorrow, that could be cool too. This will probably be among the last prompts I fill.


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