Around the Year in 52 Books discussion

2026 challenge

✅1. A book from a genre that starts with A, T, or Y
Darling Girls
Thriller

✅2. A book with a primarily red, green or blue cover


✅3. A book that fits a prompt suggestion for this year that did not make the list
Ink Blood Sister Scribe

Includes a family relationship word

✅4. A book by a new-to-you author
Seven Reasons to Murder Your Dinner Guests

✅5. A book you want to read because of something you read in 2025
The Well of Ascension
Read my first Sanderson book in 2025

✅6. A book related to blood, sweat, or tears
Fearless: The Undaunted Courage and Ultimate Sacrifice of Navy SEAL Team SIX Operator Adam Brown

✅7. A book with a character who appears in more than one book
The Magic Misfits
Series

✅8. A book set in Africa, Asia, or Australia
An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943

✅9. A book with a number, ordinal, or iterative numeral in the title
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

✅10. An award winning book
Circe

Goodreads Choice Award (2018): Won for Best Fantasy Book.Alex Award (2019): Given by the American Library Association for adult books that have special appeal to teen readers.Indies Choice Book Awards (2019): Won both Adult Fiction Book of the Year and Audiobook of the Year.The Kitschies (2018): Awarded the Red Tentacle for the best speculative fiction novel of the year.Elle Big Book Award (2018): Won the inaugural prize celebrating empowering fiction.Books Are My Bag Readers' Awards (2019): Won in the main Fiction category.

✅11. A history or historical fiction book
A Spool of Blue Thread

✅12. A book with cover text that is NOT black or white


✅13. An author's second/sophomore book
Before I Forget

✅14. A book related to a painting by Vincent Van Gogh
Blue Horses

15. A book you've wanted to read for a long time
Plan: Mooncakes

16. A book featuring a character with a similar occupation to one of the Clue/Cluedo characters
Plan: One to Watch

17. A book set in the wellness or beauty industries
Plan: If I had your face

✅18. A book with a location in the title
The Fort Bragg Cartel: Drug Trafficking and Murder in the Special Forces

✅19. A book related to yesterday
Rocket Men: The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man's First Journey to the Moon

✅20. A book related to today
The Pairing

✅21. A book related to tomorrow
The Night Masquerade

22. A book by a Korean or Korean-diaspora author
Plan: Happiness Falls

✅23. A book with a road trip or long journey
Station Eleven

✅24. A book that is either frothy or gothy
Hazelthorn

25. A book from the 1001 Books to Read Before You Die list
Plan: The Shining

✅26. A book with a Z in the title and/or author name
Zombie Spaceship Wasteland ZOMBIE SPACESHIP WASTELAND Paperback

✅27. A nonfiction book
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

✅28. A book related to a resistance, rebellion, or revolution
A Court of Thorns and Roses

✅29. A vacation book
The Paradise Problem

✅30. The most recently published book by an author and a book from that same author's backlist: Frontlist Book
Never Flinch

31. The most recently published book by an author and a book from that same author's backlist: Backlist Book
Plan: It

✅32. A novella of 100-250 pages
The Picture of Dorian Gray

33. A book with an Indigenous character or author
Plan: The Removed

✅34. A book with a window on the cover
The Cinnamon Bun Book Store

35. A book where all or part of the action takes place in a library, a museum, a school, or another public building
Plan: The Testaments

36. A book with a primary character who is a woman over 40
Plan: The Wedding People

✅37. A book that includes a science topic
Orbital

✅38. A book that's part of a series
The Summer I Turned Pretty

✅39. A book connected in some way to the "Queen of Crime", Agatha Christie
How Lucky
Mystery

✅40. A book that has a punctuation mark in the title
Pop Sonnets: Shakespearean Spins on Your Favorite Songs

✅41. A mystery or true crime book
All the Dangerous Things

✅42. A book set in an isolated location
A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping

✅43. A book involving survival
The Midnight Library

✅44. A book with a symbol of death on the cover
Crooked Kingdom

45. A book connected to "Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen
Plan: The Night Circus

✅46. A book that is not a novel
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics

✅47. A book with "this", "that", "these", or "those" in the title
The World That We Knew

✅48. A book with something edible in the title
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

✅49. A second book for your favorite prompt
Elevation

Author's newest book/ backlist. Read a second backlist book.

50. A book with a bird on its cover
Plan: The Correspondent

✅51. A book published in 2026
Most Eligible

✅52. A book related to the name of one of Santa's reindeer
The Sirens