Around the Year in 52 Books discussion

1. A book from a genre that starts with A, T, or Y
A Beautiful Place to Die by Malla Nunn - Thriller

2. A book with a primarily red, green or blue cover
Blue: The History of a Color by Michel Pastoureau

3. A book that fits a prompt suggestion for this year that did not make the list
A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy by Tia Levings
La pensée perverse au pouvoir by Marc Joly - Forbidden Topic

4. A book by a new-to-you author :
What I Ate in One Year by Stanley Tucci

5. A book you want to read because of something you read in 2025
Teach Like Finland: 33 Simple Strategies for Joyful Classrooms by Timothy D. Walker

6. A book related to blood, sweat, or tears
1943, la chute du réseau de Sally Grynvogel by Pierre Lubek

7. A book with a character who appears in more than one book
The Rushworth Family Plot by Claudia Gray

8. A book set in Africa, Asia, or Australia
The Secret River by Kate Grenville - Australia
Mrs. Shaw by Mũkoma wa Ngũgĩ - Africa
Lèvres de pierre by Nancy Huston - Asia

9. A book with a number, ordinal, or iterative numeral in the title
La 3e Kamera by Cédric Apikian

10. An award winning book
The God of the Woods by Liz Moore

11. A history or historical fiction book
The Mirror & the Light by Hilary Mantel

12. A book with cover text that is NOT black or white
The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

13. An author's second/sophomore book
L'hiver à Lisbonne by Antonio Muñoz Molina

14. A book related to a painting by Vincent Van Gogh
Art as Therapy by Alain de Botton

15. A book you've wanted to read for a long time
Birth of a Bridge by Maylis de Kerangal

16. A book featuring a character with a similar occupation to one of the Clue/Cluedo characters
A Woman's Voice by Aude Mermilliod - a doctor

17. A book set in the wellness or beauty industries
Wellness by Nathan Hill

18. A book with a location in the title
Last Night in Nuuk by Niviaq Korneliussen

19. A book related to yesterday
Hope and Destiny by Niklas Natt och Dag

20. A book related to today
The Sisters by Jonas Hassen Khemiri

21. A book related to tomorrow
La colonie by Annika Norlin

22. A book by a Korean or Korean-diaspora author
The Silence of Bones by June Hur

23. A book with a road trip or long journey
Wavewalker: Breaking Free by Suzanne Heywood

24. A book that is either frothy or gothy
If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio

25. A book from the 1001 Books to Read Before You Die list
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

26. A book with a Z in the title and/or author name
The Light of the World by Elizabeth Alexander

27. A nonfiction book
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt

28. A book related to a resistance, rebellion, or revolution
Uncultured: A Memoir by Daniella Mestyanek Young
How to Stand Up to a Dictator by Maria Ressa
How We Learn to Be Brave: Decisive Moments in Life and Faith by Mariann Edgar Budde
Madame Fourcade's Secret War: The Daring Young Woman Who Led France's Largest Spy Network Against Hitler by Lynne Olson
Le soleil brille encore: Sophie Scholl et la Rose blanche, une résistance spirituelle (1937-1943) by Adrien Louandre

29. A vacation book
Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lions by Mario Giordano

30. The most recently published book by an author and a book from that same author's backlist: Frontlist Book
Tom Lake by Ann Patchett

31. The most recently published book by an author and a book from that same author's backlist: Backlist Book
The Dutch House by Ann Patchett

32. A novella of 100-250 pages
Foster by Claire Keegan

33. A book with an Indigenous character or author
The Break by Katherena Vermette

34. A book with a window on the cover
Les Mondes de Jane Austen by Helena Kelly

35. A book where all or part of the action takes place in a library, a museum, a school, or another public building
That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America by Amanda Jones

36. A book with a primary character who is a woman over 40
Sandwich by Catherine Newman

37. A book that includes a science topic
La nature à hauteur d'enfants - Socialisations écologiques et genèse des inégalités by Julien Vitores

38. A book that's part of a series
The Grey Wolf by Louise Penny

39. A book connected in some way to the "Queen of Crime", Agatha Christie
The Grand Tour: Letters and Photographs from the British Empire Expedition 1922 by Agatha Christie

40. A book that has a punctuation mark in the title
I, Claudius by Robert Graves

41. A mystery or true crime book
Village in the Dark by Iris Yamashita

42. A book set in an isolated location
The Blue Fox by Sjón

43. A book involving survival
Un homme sans mots: L'histoire enfin révélée du sauveur de Primo Levi by Carlo Greppi

44. A book with a symbol of death on the cover
Madeleine, résistante - Tome 1 - La Rose dégoupillée by Jean-David Morvan, Madeleine Riffaud and Dominique Bertail

45. A book connected to "Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen
Lightning Strike by William Kent Krueger

46. A book that is not a novel
The Thinking Heart: On Israel and Palestine by David Grossman

47. A book with "this", "that", "these", or "those" in the title
These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong

48. A book with something edible in the title
Becoming Salmon: Aquaculture and the Domestication of a Fish (California Studies in Food and Culture) by Marianne Elisabeth Lien

49. A second book for your favorite prompt : A book related to a resistance, rebellion, or revolution
Uncultured: A Memoir by Daniella Mestyanek Young
How to Stand Up to a Dictator
How We Learn to Be Brave
Mme Fourcade's Secret War

50. A book with a bird on its cover
Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy

51. A book published in 2026
Incel: The Weaponization of Misogyny by Katherine Denkinson

52. A book related to the name of one of Santa's reindeer
Stolen by Ann-Helén Laestadius