Around the Year in 52 Books discussion

Excited for this new year - a lot of these prompts look really great! Here goes nothin'! 😊

THE 52 TOPICS OF THE 2026 ATY READING CHALLENGE

KEY:
✅ = Read
📖 = Reading
📚 = TBR

✅1. A book from a genre that starts with A, T, or Y - Monster, Volume 11 by Naoki Urasawa (Thriller)
✅2. A book with a primarily red, green or blue cover - Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
✅3. A book that fits a prompt suggestion for this year that did not make the list - An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green ("A book with an urban setting")
✅4. A book by a new-to-you author - Left of Forever by Tarah DeWitt
✅5. A book you want to read because of something you read in 2025 - Network Effect by Martha Wells

✅6. A book related to blood, sweat, or tears - Victorian Psycho by Virginia Feito
✅7. A book with a character who appears in more than one book - Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells
✅8. A book set in Africa, Asia, or Australia - Regretting Motherhood: A Study by Orna Donath
✅9. A book with a number, ordinal, or iterative numeral in the title - Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo

✅10. An award winning book - System Collapse by Martha Wells (Locus Award)
✅11. A history or historical fiction book - The Briar Club by Kate Quinn
✅12. A book with cover text that is NOT black or white - Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor
✅13. An author's second/sophomore book - Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield
14. A book related to a painting by Vincent Van Gogh

✅15. A book you've wanted to read for a long time - Wildfire by Hannah Grace
📖16. A book featuring a character with a similar occupation to one of the Clue/Cluedo characters - Midnight in Chernobyl by Adam Higginbotham (Colonel Mustard = Many members of military present during this event.)
✅17. A book set in the wellness or beauty industries - The Listeners by Maggie Stiefvater
✅18. A book with a location in the title - Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo

✅19. A book related to yesterday - Nobody Knows My Name by James Baldwin
✅20. A book related to today - Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green
✅21. A book related to tomorrow - Artificial Condition by Martha Wells
22. A book by a Korean or Korean-diaspora author

✅23. A book with a road trip or long journey - In the Lives of Puppets by T.J. Klune
✅24. A book that is either frothy or gothy - Wild Love by Elsie Silver
25. A book from the 1001 Books to Read Before You Die list
26. A book with a Z in the title and/or author name
✅27. A nonfiction book - The House at Sugar Beach by Helene Cooper

✅28. A book related to a resistance, rebellion, or revolution - The Wax Child by Olga Ravn
✅29. A vacation book - Sex and Vanity by Kevin Kwan
📚30. The most recently published book by an author and a book from that same author's backlist: Frontlist Book - Platform Decay by Martha Wells
✅31. The most recently published book by an author and a book from that same author's backlist: Backlist Book - Exit Strategy by Martha Wells

✅32. A novella of 100-250 pages - Adrift in Currents Clean and Clear by Seanan McGuire
✅33. A book with an Indigenous character or author - Memories from Limón by Edo Brenes
✅34. A book with a window on the cover - When the Wolf Comes Home by Nat Cassidy
✅35. A book where all or part of the action takes place in a library, a museum, a school, or another public building - Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells
✅36. A book with a primary character who is a woman over 40 - I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman

✅37. A book that includes a science topic - Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
✅38. A book that's part of a series - Throne of Secrets by Kerri Maniscalco
✅39. A book connected in some way to the "Queen of Crime", Agatha Christie - Magic Bleeds by Ilona Andrews (MC mentions Miss Marple, and also the book is a mystery.)
📖40. A book that has a punctuation mark in the title - Chapterhouse: Dune by Frank Herbert

✅41. A mystery or true crime book - Monster, Volume 18 by Naoki Urasawa
✅42. A book set in an isolated location - Snake-Eater by T. Kingfisher
✅43. A book involving survival - Alchemised by SenLinYu
✅44. A book with a symbol of death on the cover - What Stalks the Deep by T. Kingfisher (Skull)

✅45. A book connected to "Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen - Through Gates of Garnet and Gold by Seanan McGuire ("Is this the real life? Or is this just fantasy?")
✅46. A book that is not a novel - If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho by Sappho
✅47. A book with "this", "that", "these", or "those" in the title - This Place Kills Me by Mariko Tamaki & Nicole Goux
✅48. A book with something edible in the title - Butter by Asako Yuzuki
✅49. A second book for your favorite prompt - Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare ("A book related to yesterday")

✅50. A book with a bird on its cover - Muse of Nightmares by Laini Taylor
51. A book published in 2026
📖52. A book related to the name of one of Santa's reindeer - A Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J. Maas (Cupid = romance/romantasy)

STATUS:
Progress: 44/52
Started: January 1, 2026
Finished:

COVER COLLAGE