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Dec 7: I'm new to the group, and I plan to participate in 2021. I read a lot this year (260++ books), so to learn how this works I'm retroactively matching the books I read to the prompts.

Dec 31 Update: I found at least one (sometimes 5+) for each prompt, plus many rejected and previous year prompts. I'm pretty sure I have at least one or two for each, without using a book for more than one prompt. I didn't find the the right spreadsheet, but that's OK. It's time to move on to 2021!

THE 2020 LIST- WORKSHEET
All books completed unless otherwise stated

Prompts 1 to 10

��1. A book with a title that doesn't contain the letters A, T or Y
🌟Sins in Blue
🌟Girl in Disguise

Hollow Kingdom xeno
Hidden
Ginny Moon - neurodiverse
Hounded


��2. A book by an author whose last name is one syllable-
The Secret Room by Sandra Block

The Art of Racing in the Rain - By Garth Stein - also zeno and more than 20 letters

Dark Matter by Blake Crouch [BIO]
Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man by Mary Trump

Reasons to Stay Alive by Matt Haig - also mental health
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by Frank Baum - also classic, more than 20 letters

��3. A book that you are prompted to read because of something you read in 2019.

new -
🌟Before and After: The Incredible Real-Life Stories of Orphans Who Survived the Tennessee Children's Home Society, by Judy Christie. This was a follow-up project based on all the people who came forward during the author talks for Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate

Normal People by Sally Rooney.
(Because my favorite book in 2019 was written by the Irish writer Anne Griffin - When All Is Said, and she recommended Irish writer Sally Rooney.

First Frost, (sequel to Garden Spells)

🌟Sarah's Quilt (Because I liked These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901 also by Nancy E Turner)

🌟The First Girl Child by Amy Harmon.
Because I loved What the Wind Knowsby Amy Harmon. (I didn't like The First Girl Child as much.)

��4. A book set in a place or time that you wouldn't want to live
🌟*Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse - Dust bowl
Oklahoma dust bowl 1934-1935.

🌟*The Ballad of Lucy Whipple 1849 California gold rush. (also full of dirt and dust.
Mischling - Auschwitz in Dr Mengele's section. - also twins prompt.
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek - Appalachia mountains during the depression.
Vorge crew series - space

��5. The first book in a series that you have not started
Sworn to Silence
*Long Road to Mercy
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
We Are Legion (We Are Bob)
Case Histories - will continue
Iron Lake - will continue


��6. A book with a mode of transportation on the cover
🌟Murder on the Ballarat Train- Train on cover and also in title
🌟Into the Wild - An old bus

Flying Too High (plane)
Seabiscuit: An American Legend (Horse)
Nothing More Dangerous (car) - hidden gem

��7. A book set in the southern hemisphere
The Rosie Project (also heart on cover, neurodiversity)
Cocaine Blues (also fits emotion)
Flying Too High (also fits #6)
Murder on the Ballarat Train ( #6)

��8. A book with a two-word title where the first word is "The"
🌟The Fallen
The Friend (also -awards)
🌟The Notebook
The Witches

��9. A book that can be read in a day
🌟How to Train Your Dragon
How to Be a Pirate
The Incredible Journey
🌟Dessa Rose
The Beast Within
Belle: A Retelling of Beauty and the Beast (also retelling prompt)

��10. A book that is between 400-600 pages

🌟One to Watch
Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom

City of Girls
Prompts 11-20

Hi Nancy! Welcome, nice to ‘see�� you here as well. Hope you’ll enjoy the challenge :) No tags to search for in this challenge, lol.

Hilde wrote: "Hi Nancy! Welcome, nice to ‘see�� you here as well. Hope you’ll enjoy the challenge :) No tags to search for in this challenge, lol."

Hi Hilde! Thank goodness for no tags! (Though a few have come in handy - e.g. Survival.) I think I might be able to hit all these categories. I haven't looked at the 2021 list yet. I wonder if any of the potential pbt challenges will match.

Ace list of notable female authors
�� = Read in 2020

✅Annie Proulx - The Shipping News
✅Kate Atkinson - Case Histories
Marilyn Robinson - Gilead, Home, Jack
✅Tayari Jones - An American Marriage
✅Emily St. Mandel - Station Eleven
Yaa Gyasi - Transcendent kingdom - (+hard to pronounce name)
✅Agatha Christie - Death on the Nile (+location)
✅Elizabeth Gilbert - City of Girls
✅JK Rowling - HP 1, 2, 3, 4, others read long ago
Joan Didion -
Isabel Allende -
Margaret Atwood -
Elizabeth Strout - Olive books
Jhumpa Lahiri - Interpreter of Maladies
Jeanette Winterson - Frankissstein+ Christmas Book

I also plan to read Elena Ferrante in 2020 or 2021

Books related to sight
Kingdom of the Blind
Trick Mirror


Connected books 2019-2020
Irish books
turner frontier books
Harmon books
Westerns

Transhuman - AI related books 2019-2020
Frankenstein, Frankissstein, Closed and Common Orbit, Exhalations.

Feminist books, Suffrage 1920- She Said 2020,

Tech -entertainment related
One to Watch

Black Lives Matter

December 2020 - planned or started:
��Suite Française #39
Girl, Woman, Other - 20th on International 20-21 tbr
The Constant Rabbit - Dark Satire, or rabbit prompt


Books Read in 2020

Convenience Store Woman - Japan (Olympics prompt)
Ask Again, Yes
Lab Girl - Earth Day or Scientist
Paper Wife - Immigrant./diaspora prompt
How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence TED Reading List


��10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World - Award
The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared
Alice Paul and the Fight for Women's Rights: From the Vote to the Equal Rights Amendment -1920 Right to Vote- 100 years
🌟 All the Bright Places - mental illness prompt #13

🌟All the Devils Are Here - 2020 - #15
Amadeus
An American Marriage
An Apple for the Creature
The Art of Racing in the Rain

As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
The Authenticity Project-2020
Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients
🌟The Ballad of Lucy Whipple #4

Beach Read -2020
The Beast Within
🌟Before and After: The Incredible Real-Life Stories of Orphans Who Survived the Tennessee Children's Home Society prompt #3
Belle: A Retelling of Beauty and the Beast
Best New Artist

A Better Man
Better Nate Than Ever
Big Lies in a Small Town -2020
The Bird and the Sword
The Blessing Way

The Book of Two Ways - 2020
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom [11 letters
[book:Boundary Waters|123604]
A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World [11 letters

[book:Brighty of the Grand Canyon|123196] classic?
The Broken Girls
🌟The Call of the Wild classic #22
Canyon Solitude: A Woman's Solo River Journey Through the Grand Canyon
Case Histories

Catch Me If You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake
Chocolat: A Screenplay
City of Girls
Clayton Byrd Goes Underground
A Closed and Common Orbit

Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers Who Helped Win World War II [16 letters
[book:Come From Away: Welcome to the Rock: An Inside Look at the Hit Musical|41716911]
The Constant Rabbit - not finished
Conversations with RBG: Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Life, Love, Liberty, and Law
The Crescent Spy

Cursed: An Anthology of Dark Fairy Tales-2020
🌟Dance Hall of the Dead -#18
Dark Matter
Dark Sacred Night
The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland

Dear Edward - 2020
Dear Evan HansenDear Evan Hansen
The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
-🌟Dessa Rose - #9
A Different Blue

An Easy Death
Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows
Even Witches Get the Blues
Every Soul a Star
Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are [18 letters

[book:Exhalation: Stories|41160292]
Fairest of All
🌟The Fallen #8
Fifteen Dogs
First Frost

🌟The First Girl Child - prompt #3
🌟23- Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe - prompt 23
The Friend
🌟Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic - Lambda award - Prompt 23
Get a Life, Chloe Brown

🌟Ginny Moon #17
🌟Girl in Disguise prompt #1
The Girl Who Chased the Moon
🌟The Girl Who Drank the Moon -#19
The Girl Without a Name

Girl, Interrupted
The Giver of Stars
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Heidi's Guide to Four Letter Words
Hidden #1

The Hidden Canyon: A River Journey
The Hidden Girl and Other Stories - 2020
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 1979 =diff edition for geo cover
Hollow Kingdom #1
Hounded #1

How Starbucks Saved My Life: A Son of Privilege Learns to Live Like Everyone Else
How to Be a Good Creature: A Memoir in Thirteen Animals N
How to Be an Antiracist N
If Beale Street Could Talk
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

In the Heart of the Canyon
🌟Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl - #11
The Incredible Journey 1960
Infinity + One
The Inheritance: A Family on the Front Lines of the Battle Against Alzheimer's Disease

🌟Into the Wild - #6
Iron Lake
The Jane Austen Society - 2020 hf
Julie of the Wolves 1972
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption

Kingdom of the Blind
🌟The Kiss Quotient =#17
The Kite Runner
��The Lager Queen of Minnesota
The Language of Flowers

The Law of Moses
The Lightkeeper's Daughters
Little Fires Everywhere
Long Road to Mercy
��Magic Lessons -2020 hf #44

Majestic Hollywood: The Greatest Films of 1939
Me & Patsy Kickin' Up Dust: My Friendship with Patsy Cline -2020
Merle's Door: Lessons from a Freethinking Dog
Mindf*ck: Cambridge Analytica and the Plot to Break America
Mischling

Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
Mustard Seed
News of the World
The Nickel Boys
No Other Will Do

Normal People
🌟The Notebook - #8
Nothing More Dangerous
Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg

On Broadway: From Rent to Revolution
One Sweet Ride

🌟One to Watch -2020 - #10
🌟Out of the Dust - #4
Over the Edge
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Practical Magic

The Queen and the Cure
Radio Free Vermont: A Fable of Resistance
🌟Reasons to Stay Alive -#13
Reboot: Leadership and the Art of Growing Up
Recursion #1

Red at the Bone
Redemption
The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company
Rock Chick Reawakening
🌟Roomies #12
The Rosie Project

🌟Sarah's Quilt prompt #3
Seabiscuit: An American Legend
She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement
The Shipping News
Sing to It: New Stories -2020

🌟Sins in Blue -2020 #1
Sold - geometric #1
The Song of David
🌟Song of the Lion - #16
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires -2020

Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You -2020 nf
Station Eleven
🌟Still Alice -#18
Stories of Your Life and Others
The Sun Down Motel -2020

Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know
��Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls #37
Targeted: My Inside Story of Cambridge Analytica and How Trump and Facebook Broke Democracy
��Tell Me Lies- 2020 #37
��This Is How You Lose the Time War
This Tender Land

To Be Taught, If Fortunate
Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man -2020
Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging
Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology
Tuck Everlasting

The Unhoneymooners
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
The Vanishing Half - 2020
The Vanished Birds -2020
Verity

We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
We Are Legion (We Are Bob)
The Weight of a Moment
When Breath Becomes Air
Where the Crawdads Sing

Wild and Crazy Guys: How the Comedy Mavericks of the '80s Changed Hollywood Forever
Will Grayson, Will Grayson
The Witches
The Witches Are Coming
The XX Brain - 2020

Yellow Crocus
Yes Please
Young Jane Young

Mystery

Cocaine Blues plus two others
Flying Too High
🌟Murder on the Ballarat Train - #6

The Late Show
🌟Lost Light - #15
��Messenger of Truth #38
��Sworn to Silence #38

Little Black Lies
The Girl Without a Name
The Secret Room

Classics/plays

��Macbeth 1606 - play #47
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl 1861 (prime #)
Love Among the Chickens
��Death on the Nile - mystery #41
If Beale Street Could Talk 1974
Charlotte's Web - animals
Fiddler on the Roof
A Little Princess 1905
The Secret Garden 1910
Mary Poppins 1934
Persuasion 1818
The Phantom of the Opera 1909
Peter Pan 1911
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof LGBTQ
A Streetcar Named Desire - 1947 brando


SCI-FI/ Fantasy
Dawn - Octavia Butler
Adulthood Rites
Imago

Binti
Home Binti 2
The Night Masquerade Binti 3

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
A Closed and Common Orbit
Record of a Spaceborn Few

Recursion #1
Dark Matter
🌟Illuminae #12
the Vorge crew - series

FANTASY
Howl's Moving Castle
Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone series 1-4
🌟 How to Train Your Dragon series - #9
How to Be a Pirate
🌟How to Cheat a Dragon's Curse #19
Dead Until Dark series
Villains series = The Beast Within...

Dead Until Dark
✨Living Dead in Dallas #40
Club Dead
Dead to the world
Dead as a doornail
Definitely Dead

Others read:
coffee table books -Broadway, movie, flowers.

So great that you did this, NancyJ! I have a theory that if you read 70 or more books in a year, you can go back retroactively as you did and fill them in to any year's prompts. I was thinking of taking my books for this year and plugging them in for 2019 for example, just to see if I could. We also have someone (Hannah) who joined at the beginning of the year, thought she was using the 2020 prompts, found out they were the 2019 ones, and decided to keep going and do both years at once.

In 2020, read 20 books published in 2020


��All the Devils Are Here - 2020

��The Authenticity Project-2020

��Beach Read -2020

��Big Lies in a Small Town -2020

��The Book of Two Ways - 2020

The Constant Rabbit - 2020 (not finished)

��Cursed: An Anthology of Dark Fairy Tales-2020

��Dear Edward - 2020

��The Hidden Girl and Other Stories - 2020

��The Jane Austen Society - 2020

��Magic Lessons -2020

��Me & Patsy Kickin' Up Dust: My Friendship with Patsy
Cline -2020

��One to Watch -2020

��Sins in Blue -2020

��The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires -2020

��Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You -2020

��The Sun Down Motel -2020

��Tell Me Lies- 2020

��Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man -2020

��The Vanishing Half - 2020

��The Vanished Birds -2020

��The XX Brain - 2020

Robin P wrote: "So great that you did this, NancyJ! I have a theory that if you read 70 or more books in a year, you can go back retroactively as you did and fill them in to any year's prompts. I was thinking of t..."

I want to try to find a lot of the rejected prompts too if I can. They seem to be more specific and challenging. I might not ever have a year like this again!

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Prompts 11-20 THE 2020 LIST

��11. A book originally published in a year that is a prime number
[My Prime # books =1861, 1973, 1979, 1987, 1993, 1997, 1999, 2003, 2011, 2017]

��Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl - 1861 ⭐Written more than 150 years ago.


Amadeus 1979 arts
Hitchhikers guide - 1979
Dawn 1987
Fried green tomatoes - 1987 (23)
Shipping News 1993
Girl Interrupted 1993
Dance Hall of the Dead - 1973 - used
Out of the dust 1997 (#4)

��12. A book that is a collaboration between 2 or more people
*The Unhoneymooners By Christina Lauren (Author partners Christina and Lauren) - also vacation
��Illuminae by Amy Kaufmann and Jay Kristoff (Illustrator)

��Roomies by Christina Lauren (also arts)

This Is How You Lose the Time War
by Amal El-Mohtar (ŷ������ Author), Max Gladstone (ŷ������ Author) (also fits lgbtq, time*, )

��13. A prompt from a previous Around the Year in 52 Books challenge
" A book about mental Illness"
��All the Bright Places
��*Reasons to Stay Alive
The Secret Room
Ginny Moon
Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's most Dangerous Man
Dear Evan Hansen
Girl, Interrupted

��14. A book by an author on the Abe List of 100 Essential Female Writers (link)
Covers shown in the article (first 3)
An American Marriage - Tayari Jones
Station Eleven - Emily St John Mandel
The Shipping News - Annie Proulx
Persuasion - Jane Austen
Dawn -Octavia Butler
Adulthood Rites- Octavia Butler
Imago -Octavia Butler
Case Histories - Kate Atkinson

some have awards

��15. A book set in a global city
��*All the Devils Are Here Paris
��*Lost Light - Los Angeles, Las Vegas

Fifteen Dogs - Toronto (also xeno)
City of Girls - NYC (fits others too)
If Beale Street Could Talk - NYC
Living Dead in Dallas -Dallas
The Language of Flowers -San Francisco (also flowers prompts)
10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World - Istanbul (also time prompt)

��16. A book set in a rural or sparsely populated area (also check survival, apocalypse, others)
��*Song of the Lion

Julie of the Wolves
The Blessing Way
The Shipping News
The Ballad of Lucy Whipple
A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World apo
The Call of the Wild animal
Brighty of the Grand Canyon - location
An Easy Death - western

�� 17. A book with a neurodiverse character
��*The Kiss Quotient
��*Ginny Moon

The Rosie Project - fits other prompts

��18. A book by an author you've only read once before
��*Dance Hall of the Dead
��*Still Alice

We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler - experiment prompt
Dawn by Octavia Butler - ABE list
Case Histories ABE list
City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert others
The Nickel Boys awards

��19. A fantasy book
��*The Girl Who Drank the Moon
��*How to Cheat a Dragon's Curse and others in this series

The Bird and the Sword
Dawn by Octavia Butler - fits several prompts
This Is How You Lose the Time War - other prompts


��20. The 20th book [on your TBR, in a series, by an author, on a list, etc.]
🌟Yellow Crocus

Pending - Girl, woman, Other - Int list

Prompts 21-31

THE 2020 LIST = worksheet

��21. A book related to Maximilian Hell, the noted astronomer and Jesuit Priest who was born in 1720
*Stories of Your Life and Others - astronomy, philosophy
*To Be Taught, If Fortunate- space
Every Soul a Star (astronomy) also geo shape

��22. A book with the major theme of survival -
��*The Call of the Wild
*Station Eleven

Hollow Kingdom also xeno
Illuminae - 2 authors
A Closed and Common Orbit others
The Queen and the Cure
A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World
Mischling - also twins

��23. A book featuring an LGBTQIA+ character or by an LGBTQIA+ author
✨⭐Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic [bio] gay author, Won a Lambda Award - 2007]
[*book:Best New Artist|34727068] - M/M romance (a little outside my comfort zone) - guitar on cover
��* Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

Dear Evan Hansen
City of Girls
Will Grayson, Will Grayson
Better Nate Than Ever broadway
This Is How You Lose the Time War
by Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone - time others

��24. A book with an emotion in the title
�� *The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
��*Even Witches Get the Blues
*Love Among the Chickens

A Streetcar Named Desire
Wild and Crazy Guys: How the Comedy Mavericks of the '80s Changed Hollywood Forever
aMADeus

��25. A book related to the arts (performing or visual arts)
��*Amadeus Music
��*Roomies broadway
*Better Nate Than Ever broadway

Frida Kahlo - visual arts
City of Girls - off broadway
Evan Hansen - about a broadway show
On Broadway: From Rent to Revolution

��26. A book from the 2019 ŷ������ Choice Awards
✨⭐*Recursion winner (BIO)
*Ask Again, Yes
*Red at the Bone

Normal People t


��27. A history or historical fiction
��*Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers Who Helped Win World War II
Alice Paul and the Fight for Women's Rights: From the Vote to the Equal Rights Amendment - also suffrage
The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland -recommend
Before and After: The Incredible Real-Life Stories of Orphans Who Survived the Tennessee Children's Home Society
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
Conversations with RBG: Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Life, Love, Liberty, and Law
Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Seabiscuit: An American Legend
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
How to Be an Antiracist
The Kite Runner
The Nickel Boys
This Tender Land
Girl in Disguise
News of the World
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Yellow Crocus
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The Vanishing Half
The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared
No Other Will Do


��28. A book by an Australian, Canadian or New Zealand author
The Broken Girls - Simone St James, Canada
A Better Man - Louise Penny, Canada
Kingdom of the Blind - Louise Penny
All the Devils Are Here - Louis Penny
We Are Legion (We Are Bob) - Dennis Taylor, born in Canada
The Rosie Project - Graeme Simsion - Australia, born in New Zealand
Station Eleven - Emily st John Mandel - Canada
The Sun Down Motel - Simone St James, Canada

29. An underrated book, a hidden gem or a lesser known book
��*Nothing More Dangerous- historical fiction, race
��*Clayton Byrd Goes Underground

The Law of Moses magical realism, horse, romance
The Bird and the Sword fantasy, poetic (best on audio)
Girl in Disguise -historical fiction

A Closed and Common Orbit - used in family
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet - used in 24 - This was a great gateway to SCI-FI for me.
Lab Girl nature, earth day

��30. A book from the New York Times '100 Notable Books' list for any year. == See 31 also
She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement 2019
*Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom 2019
How to Be an Antiracist 2019
The Death and Life of the Great Lakes 2018
The Nickel Boys 2019
The Vanishing Half 2020
Normal People 2019
Exhalation: Stories 2019
Red at the Bone 2019
The Friend 2018

I read the non-fiction books for challenges and I'm going to pay more attention to the new list. The books on the 2020 list don't sound appealing but neither did most of these at first, but they were all great.

* This one might have been a life saver for me. It led to important discussions with my doctor and pharmacist.

��31. A book inspired by a leading news story -

She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement

Black lives matter:
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
How to Be an Antiracist
Nothing More Dangerous
The Nickel Boys

Election related:
Targeted: My Inside Story of Cambridge Analytica and How Trump and Facebook Broke Democracy
Mindf*ck: Cambridge Analytica and the Plot to Break America

9/11
The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland
Come From Away: Welcome to the Rock: An Inside Look at the Hit Musical

prompts 32-40

THE 2020 LIST = worksheet

��32. A book related to the 2020 Olympic Summer Games in Japan
Convenience Store Woman

✅⭐33. A book about a non-traditional family
✨A Closed and Common Orbit [ BIO - A child is raised by an AI, plus a spaceship AI is loaded into a body and raised by a human. Awesome book (and I'm not really a sci-fi fan.)

Others
[book:This Tender Land|25813942] - orphans
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves -monkey is treated like a sibling
Julie of the Wolves - wolf family

34. A book from a genre or sub genre that starts with a letter in your name - N for nancy . Nature or Non-fiction.

N Nature - Lab Girl, 13 Creatures
A Adventure /Animals ✨Incredible Journey, 15 dogs, Call of the WIld
N Non-fiction - See list below
C Children /Classics �� The Secret Garden, The Little Princess
Y YA - Julies of the Wolves, Clayton Bird, Dessa Rose
J Journalism - The Weight of a Moment

Nature
Lab Girl, Language of Flowers, Flowers

Non-fiction
Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom
She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company


��35. A book with a geometric pattern or element on the cover
��*The Hidden Girl and Other Stories
��*Sold
Every Soul a Star
Recursion (used for goodreads choice)

��36. A book from your TBR/wishlist that you don't recognize, recall putting there, or put there on a whim. (Or bought it on a whim.)

The Authenticity Project
Red at the Bone
Even Witches Get the Blues - It was .99 (or free), it fit a tag, and I read it immediately.
Ask Again, Yes
Love Among the Chickens - Bought the kindle and didn't recognize it.
We Are Legion (We Are Bob) - bought the audio and didn't remember it. It was way outside my normal reading. (Probably concussion related.)

37 & 38. Two books that are related to each other as a pair of binary opposites:

��Tell Me Lies v Messenger of Truth

The Blessing Way v Cursed: An Anthology of Dark Fairy Tales (also used for rej prompt curse)

��Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls v Sworn to Silence



��39. A book by an author whose real name(s) you're not quite sure how to pronounce.

✨Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky (I had to listen several times - it sounds like Ee-rain, Neemeerovsky) [currently reading]
Diffenbaugh - I'm still not sure.
Picoult - I pronounced it incorrectly for years. It should sound more like Pea Coat (without the t) than Pick colt


��40. A book with a place name in the title
��The Lager Queen of Minnesota - real place
Iron Lake real lake in Minnesota
��Living Dead in Dallas

Before and After: The Incredible Real-Life Stories of Orphans Who Survived the Tennessee Children's Home Society
The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland
Wild and Crazy Guys: How the Comedy Mavericks of the '80s Changed Hollywood Forever
On Broadway: From Rent to Revolution
Brighty of the Grand Canyon

��41. A mystery.
[BIO read a classic.]
✨Death on the Nile, by Agatha Cristie (1937)

Kingdom of the Blind
A Better Man
All the Devils Are Here
The Late Show
Lost Light
Messenger of Truth
Sworn to Silence
Little Black Lies
The Girl Without a Name
The Secret Room

41-52
42-52

THE 2020 LIST = worksheet

42. A book that was nominated for one of the ��10 Most Coveted Literary Prizes in the World��

National Book Award = The Friend
Pulitzer = The Nickel Boys
Women's Prize =An American Marriage, Normal People
Booker = 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World

43. A book related to one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse
Dear Edward
A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World
Station Eleven
Hollow Kingdom

��44. A book related to witches
��Magic Lessons by Alice Hoffman
Dead to the World
Even Witches Get the Blues (also emotion)
The Witches


��45. A book by the same author who wrote one of your best reads in 2019 or 2018

The Law of Moses by Amy Harmon. A 2019 favorite was What the Wind Knows.

Still Alice by Lisa Genova. A 2018 favorite was Every Note Played.

Planning to read Anxious People in Dec 20 or Jan 21. Beartown was a favorite in 2019

Persuasion by Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice was a favorite in 2018.


��46. A book about an event or era in history taken from the Billy Joel song "We Didn't Start the Fire"

*City of Girls
*The Kite Runner- "Afghanistan"
A Streetcar Named Desire - "Brando"
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You civil rights
If Beale Street Could Talk - race


✅⭐47. A classic book you've always meant to read
✨BIO- Macbeth by William Shakespeare published 1606 - before 1700

others:
Persuasion by Jane Austen 1818
Death on the Nile - mystery
The Secret Garden 1910 - Children/classic
The Phantom of the Opera 1909 (French, translated)
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof LGBTQ
A Streetcar Named Desire - 1947 brando


48. A book published in 2020.
In 2020, I read 20 books that were published in 2020 - See list

49. A book that fits a prompt from the list of suggestions that didn't win . See next page for extra prompts

17th Mini-Poll Polarizing
A book where a character spends time in jail or prison:
If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin by James Baldwin
An American Marriage

"Xenofiction - a book with an animal/non-human POV character"
The Art of Racing in the Rain -dog
Hollow Kingdom by Kira Jane Buxton -crow
15 Dogs

��50. A book with a silhouette on the cover

Case Histories by Kate Atkinson
Big Lies in a Small Town by Diane Chamberlain
Stamped Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds
Hollow Kingdom


��51. A book with an "-ing" word in the title

As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride
Merle's Door: Lessons from a Freethinking Dog
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Reboot: Leadership and the Art of Growing Up
Where the Crawdads Sing
Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging
Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology religion
Tuck Everlasting


��52. A book related to Time

��10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World
A very short period of time

and

��This Is How You Lose the Time War - Spans thousands of years (time travel).

Extra prompts - rejected prompts

A book related to 20/20 (eg. vision, sight, eyes, blindness, viewpoints, insights, hindsight)
Kingdom of the Blind
The Friend
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know

A book with more than 20 letters in the title - The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires

(Variation) - A book with 20 words in the title - -How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence

A book that inspires you- The Day the World Came to town
A book based on a true story -The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland

A story you are already familiar with, but in a different format - Come From Away: Welcome to the Rock: An Inside Look at the Hit Musical [Similar to The Day the World Came to town.]
Also - Belle: A Retelling of Beauty and the Beast
and The Beast Within (from the beast's pov)
In honor of the 100th anniversary of a Women's right to Vote (in the US), a book about women's suffrage (1920 - 2020) �� Alice Paul and the Fight for Women's Rights: From the Vote to the Equal Rights Amendment

Xenofiction - a book with an animal/non-human POV character
-Hollow Kingdom
-The Art of Racing in the Rain
-Fifteen Dogs

A book with a heart on the cover or in the title �� Rosie Project

A book originally written in a language other than English or your mother tongue ��
-The Phantom of the Opera
-Suite Française
Anxious People (not finished yet)

A book with horses in the story or a horse on the cover ��
-Seabiscuit: An American Legend
-The Law of Moses
-News of the World

A Western
News of the World
An Easy Death

A book by an Irish author - Normal People

A dystopian novel -
A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World
Station Eleven

A book with a main character's name in the title .
Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg

A book that has a road trip as part of the plot �� station eleven

A book with a mathematical term in the title ��
Infinity + One

A book with a weather element in the title - art of racing in the rain

A book that is a retelling of a fairy tale ��
Fairest of All
Belle: A Retelling of Beauty and the Beast
The Beast Within
Also = the same story told from different character's pov in different books - Belle and the Beast Within.

A book with a Transgender character -
A Closed and Common Orbit

A book from a child's perspective �� This Tender Land

A book in which one of the main characters is involved in an experiment ��We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

A book with a musical instrument on the cover- Best new Artist
A book that takes you out of your comfort zone -Best New Artist

A humorous fiction book - Heidi's Guide to Four Letter Words

*A book about friendship - Dear Edward

A book from an American Library Association’s Notable Books List �� Girl woman other, Nickel Boys, Normal People, an American marriage

A debut novel by a person of color

A book involving a betrayal - KiteRunner

A book with water on the cover = The Death and Life of the Great Lakes

A book with beautiful writing ��The Bird and the Sword
This Is How You Lose the Time War

A dark humored novel or satire - Constant Rabbit
A book with a rabbit Constant rabbit

A book about social media The Witches Are Coming
A collection of essays �� The Witches Are Coming

A book related to Earth Day (for the 50th anniversary of Earth Day) �� Great Lakes, Grand Canyon, or Lab Girl

- A book that has illustrations or pictures that isn't a picture book or graphic novel ��
On Broadway: From Rent to Revolution
Hamilton: The Revolution
The Hidden Canyon: A River Journey

- A story with a curse - CURSED

**A book with a theme of discrimination, persecution or prejudice (eg. race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, disability, ethnicity) -
She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement
The Witches Are Coming
Just Mercy (Adapted for Young Adults): A True Story of the Fight for Justice
Nothing More Dangerous
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
How to Be an Antiracist
The Constant Rabbit

- A book from a TED summer reading list �� Station Eleven, How to Change your mind, normal people, Exhalation

- A book published in the last three years (2018, 2019, 2020) that had a lot of buzz ��
Dear Edward
Normal People
Jane Austen Society
Southern Book Club’s guide
Beach Read

- A book on the longlist for the Women's Prize in Fiction for any year


- A book whose title is a reference to, or pun on, another work of literature/book �� Hamnet

- A book that involves a vacation/holiday ��The Unhoneymooners Unhoneymoon

- A book set in Egypt = Book of two ways

- A book related to floriography (the language of flowers) - Language of Flowers, plus non-fiction

- A fiction and non-fiction book about the same topic
(3 grand canyon - Colorado river trips) -
The Hidden Canyon: A River Journey
Canyon Solitude: A Woman's Solo River Journey Through the Grand Canyon
In the Heart of the Canyon


A short story collection or book of essays
Exhalation: Stories
Stories of Your Life and Others
Death's Excellent Vacation

- A book with man, woman, boy or girl in the title - many with "girl"

A book about books = Jane Austen Society

A book related to Earth Day - Lab Girl
The Death and Life of the Great Lakes

A book with sad, depressing or dark elements - Dear Edward,
Mischling,

A book with at least a 4.4 average rating on ŷ������

Any book by a winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature


A book featuring a scientist, fiction or non-fiction ��Lab Girl

a book about an immigrant
A book centered on a diaspora experience -Paper Wife

A book nominated for the Lambda Literary Award �� Fun Home won

A book with or about twins - Mischling

A collection of short stories or essays - Witches are coming

A book about/involving social media or technology = Witches are coming
Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are

A book that has a character with an addiction -The Authenticity Project

A book that you obtained in a non traditional way �� A book I won - Dear Edward

An "up lit" fiction with an optimistic character or storyline - Better Nate Than Ever

A book in diary or journal form - Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

A book where a character spends time in jail or prison �� If Beale Street Could Talk
An American Marriage

An atmospheric book �� Crawdads, Station Eleven, sun down motel, lose the time war, broken girls, first frost, little fires everywhere, southern book club, dark matter, this tender land, bird and the sword. Secret garden, iron lake, howls moving castle phantom of the opera

A book where the main character is in another
age category than you -
All the Bright Places
Illuminae
Normal People
A Little Princess
The Secret Garden
This Tender Land
Better Nate Than Ever
Dear Edward

A book outside of your comfort zone - Best New Artist

Read a book on a topic we've been told to avoid: sex, politics or religion - Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man

A domestic fiction novel - Verity

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I read at least 2- 5 books for each prompt, and I'm pretty sure I covered each prompt (maybe twice) without overlapping. I read more than 250 books so it was hard to make a clean list. Cutting and pasting without a good mouse was getting frustrating.

I never did find the right spreadsheet, but it was a really fun exercise nonetheless. I'm ready to start 2021!