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January booksBest books this month:
The Unwomanly Face of War
Half of a Yellow Sun
Blowout
February booksBest books this month:
Most thought provoking - 1 the Road
Most unexpectedly fun to read - My Sister the Serial Killer
March booksBest book this month:
The Soul of an Ocopus
April booksBest books this month:
The Witches Are Coming
The Watergate Girl
May booksBest book this month:
The Glass House
June booksBest book this month:
I enjoyed all of these! They're very different from each other, so it's hard to pick a favorite.
July booksBest book this month:
How to Be an Antiracist
August booksBest books this month:
Flowers for Algernon
Twenty Lessons for the Twentieth Century
September books
October books
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Books mentioned in this topic
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (other topics)Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (other topics)
Lexicon (other topics)
Lexicon (other topics)
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (other topics)
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Authors mentioned in this topic
John Carreyrou (other topics)Max Barry (other topics)
Timothy Snyder (other topics)
Matt Haig (other topics)
George Dohrmann (other topics)
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� 1. A book with a title that doesn't contain the letters A, T or Y
Long as long as you like, the title has no A, T or Y
Lexicon by Max Barry (September 21) 3 stars
� 2. A book by an author whose last name is one syllable
A well is deep, but Wells is still just one syllable
Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells (February 23), 3 stars
3. A book that you are prompted to read because of something you read in 2019
� 4. A book set in a place or time that you wouldn't want to live
I haven't got any family or friends in Nigeria, so no, I wouldn't want to live there.
My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite (February 14), 4 stars
� 5. The first book in a series that you have not started
The Inheritance Trilogy, book 1
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin (February 12), 4 stars
� 6. A book with a mode of transportation on the cover
Airplanes
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz by Erik Larson (July 31), 3 stars
� 7. A book set in the southern hemisphere
Zimbabwe - 19 degrees south latitude
We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo (January 14), 3 stars
� 8. A book with a two-word title where the first word is "The"
It's pretty obvious how this fits...
The Years by Annie Ernaux (July 19), 4 stars
� 9. A book that can be read in a day
Only 126 pages
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder (August 29), 5 stars
� 10. A book that is between 400-600 pages
496 pages
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith (August 7), 4 stars
� 11. A book originally published in a year that is a prime number
Published August 22, 2017.
Young Jane Young by Gabrielle Zevin (June 22), 4 stars
� 12. A book that is a collaboration between 2 or more people
The writer collaborates with the writer of the writer (AI is "people" right, or is that what we're afraid of?)
1 the Road by Ross Goodwin (February 13), 5 stars
� 13. A prompt from a previous Around the Year in 52 Books challenge
2017 - A book written by a person of color
How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi (July 27), 5 stars
14. A book by an author on the Abe List of 100 Essential Female Writers
� 15. A book set in a global city
New York, New York
Deacon King Kong by James McBride (April 26), 4 stars
� 16. A book set in a rural or sparsely populated area
marsh and swamp are about as sparsely populated as it gets
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens (January 1), 3 stars
� 17. A book with a neurodiverse character
by and about a boy with autism
The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism by Naoki Higashida (January 21), 4 stars
� 18. A book by an author you've only read once before
I also read The Bonobo and the Atheist by de Waal
Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? by Frans de Waal (June 28), 5 stars
� 19. A fantasy book
A fantasy past for medieval Estonia
The Man Who Spoke Snakish by Andrus Kivirähk (July 8), 3 stars
� 20. The 20th book [on your TBR, in a series, by an author, on a list, etc.]
How fortunate that my book club is reading the 20th book on my science shelf!
The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration Into the Wonder of Consciousness by Sy Montgomery (March 4), 4 stars
21. A book related to Maximilian Hell, the noted astronomer and Jesuit Priest who was born in 1720
22. A book with the major theme of survival
� 23. A book featuring an LGBTQIA+ character or by an LGBTQIA+ author
Gay author, two gay characters
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong (February 27), 4 stars
24. A book with an emotion in the title
� 25. A book related to the arts
a how-to for understanding and creating
Picture This: How Pictures Work by Molly Bang (January 3), 4 stars
âœ� 26. A book from the 2019 Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ Choice Awards
Nominated for fiction and debut novel
Fleishman Is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner (March 19), 3 stars
� 27. A history or historical fiction
takes place in Korea in the 1930s - early 2000s
The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See (February 5), 3 stars
28. A book by an Australian, Canadian or New Zealand author
29. An underrated book, a hidden gem or a lesser known book
� 30. A book from the New York Times '100 Notable Books' list for any year
On the list in 2019
Exhalation: Stories by Ted Chiang (June 12), 5 stars
� 31. A book inspired by a leading news story
Have you seen the headlines lately?
Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth by Rachel Maddow (January 8), 5 stars
� 32. A book related to the 2020 Olympic Summer Games in Japan
Because sports
Superfans: Into the Heart of Obsessive Sports Fandom by George Dohrmann (August 17), 3 stars
� 33. A book about a non-traditional family
The sister raises the brother
The Dutch House by Ann Patchett (June 6), 4 stars
� 34. A book from a genre or sub genre that starts with a letter in your name
The e in Cheri stands for essays
The Empathy Exams by Leslie Jamison (March 28), 2 stars
35. A book with a geometric pattern or element on the cover
36. A book from your TBR/wishlist that you don't recognize, recall putting there, or put there on a whim
� 37. Two books that are related to each other as a pair of binary opposites: Book #1
This one is love...
Writers & Lovers by Lily King (April 5), 4 stars
� 38. Two books that are related to each other as a pair of binary opposites: Book #2
...and this one is hate.
The Hatred of Poetry by Ben Lerner (May 16), 4 stars
� 39. A book by an author whose real name(s) you're not quite sure how to pronounce
Can you pronounce it? I can now!
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (January 27) 5 stars
� 40. A book with a place name in the title
Silicon Valley
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou (October 8), 4 stars
� 41. A mystery
What do detectives do? They solve mysteries!
The Last Detective by Peter Lovesey (January 19), 4 stars
� 42. A book that was nominated for one of the �10 Most Coveted Literary Prizes in the World�
Tokarczuk won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2018
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk (June 30), 4 stars
� 43. A book related to one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse
War, death, famine, plague - this book has it all!
The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II by Svetlana Alexievich (January 31), 5 stars
� 44. A book related to witches
It's in the title.
The Witches Are Coming by Lindy West (April 12), 4 stars
� 45. A book by the same author who wrote one of your best reads in 2019 or 2018
I loved Madeline Miller's Circe
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller (March 7), 4 stars
� 46. A book about an event or era in history taken from the Billy Joel song "We Didn't Start the Fire"
"Moonshot, Woodstock, Watergate, punk rock"
The Watergate Girl by Jill Wine-Banks (April 30), 4 stars
� 47. A classic book you've always meant to read
I've heard about this book for as long as I can remember!
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes (August 10), 5 stars
� 48. A book published in 2020
Published March 24, 2020
The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel (May 24), 5 stars
� 49. A book that fits a prompt from the list of suggestions that didn't win
A book about food. Why didn't that win???
Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise by Ruth Reichl (January 17), 3 stars
� 50. A book with a silhouette on the cover
There's a silhouette of a child looking at the night sky
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson (April 8), 3 stars
� 51. A book with an "-ing" word in the title
Noth-ING
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell (May 10), 2 stars
� 52. A book related to time
About someone who lives for hundreds of years
How to Stop Time by Matt Haig (August 28), 3 stars