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Prompts 14-27� - Finished ➡️ - Currently reading ⭐⭐⭐⭐� - Rating
14. A book with fewer than 5000 ratings on ŷ
Jenny Wren - E.H. Young
On Forsyte 'Change - John Galsworthy
Pierrette - Honore de Balzac
�Two-Way Murder - E.C.R. Lorac⭐⭐⭐⭐
15. A book without a person on the cover
Me Talk Pretty One Day - David Sedaris
Fire in the Thatch: A Devon Mystery - E.C.R. Lorac
One by One - Ruth Ware
�The Sentence - Louise Erdrich ⭐⭐�
16. A book related to Earth Day
Greenwood - Michael Christie
Once There Were Wolves - Charlotte McConaghy
A Sand County Almanac: With Essays on Conservation from Round River - Aldo Leopold
�Upstream: Selected Essays - Mary Oliver ⭐⭐⭐⭐�
17. A book from NPR's Book Concierge
The House Girl - Tara Conklin
The Lying Life of Adults - Elena Ferrante
Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio - Derf Backderf
�Lost Lake - Sara Addison Allen ⭐⭐⭐⭐
18. A book by an Asian or Pacific Islander author
The Chosen and the Beautiful - Nghi Vo
�The Henna Artist - Alka Joshi ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Crazy Rich Asians - Kevin Kwan
19. A book that involves alternate reality, alternate worlds, or alternate history
The Ten Thousand Doors of January - Alix Harrow
�The Midnight Library - Matt Haig ⭐⭐⭐⭐�
A Magical Inheritance - Krista D. Ball
20. A fiction or nonfiction book that is set during 1900 -1951
Miss Mapp (Mapp and Lucia #2) - E. F. Benson
Sunset Song (A Scots Quair #1) - Lewis Grassic Gibbon
Now in November - Josephine Winslow Johnson
�The Giver of Stars - Jojo Moyes ⭐⭐⭐⭐
21. A book with one of the Monopoly tokens on the cover
Dumb Witness - Agatha Christie (dog)
The Old Curiosity Shop - Charles Dickens (dog)
Her Royal Spyness(Her Royal Spyness #1) - Rhys Bowen (car)
�The Mating Season (Jeeves #9) - P.G. Wodehouse (shoe) ⭐⭐⭐⭐
22. A book with a Jewish character or author
The Saturday Wife - Naomi Ragen
Goodbye, Columbus and Five Short Stories - Philip Roth
The Weight of Ink - Rachel Kadish
�The First Mrs. Rothschild - Sara Aharoni ⭐⭐⭐⭐
23. A book that features loving LGBTQIA+ relationship
Tipping the Velvet - Sarah Waters
Red, White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston
Cantoras - Carolina de Robertis
�Clap When You Land - Elizabeth Acevedo ⭐⭐⭐⭐�
24. A book related to inclement weather
A Hundred Summers - Beatriz Williams
Salt to the Sea - Ruth Sepetys
Murder in the Snow: A Cotswold Christmas Mystery (Mrs. Bradley #23) - Gladys Mitchell
�One by One - Ruth Ware ⭐⭐�.5
25. A book less than 220 pages OR more than 440 pages
Over 440 pages
Portrait of a Lady - Henry James 548p
Consuelo: A Romance of Venice - George Sand 868p
Cutting for Stone - Abraham Verghese 541p
Fewer than 220 pages
Dubliners - James Joyce 207p
Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont - Elizabeth Taylor 193p
Infinite Country - Patricia Engel 191p
�Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe - George Eliot 206p ⭐⭐�.5
26. 2 books with the same word in the title - Book 1
life
�The Life of Charlotte Brontë - Elizabeth Gaskell ⭐⭐⭐⭐
The Overdue Life of Amy Byler - Kelly Harms
daughter
The Bonesetter's Daughter - Amy Tan
Call Your Daughter Home - Deb Spera
27. 2 books with the same word in the title - Book 2
life
A Start in Life - Honore de Balzac
A Homemade Life: Stories and Recipes from My Kitchen Table - Molly Wizenberg
�A Rogue's Life - Wilkie Collins
daughter
The Memory Keeper's Daughter - Kim Edwards
The Daughter of Time - Josephine Tey
Prompts 28-39� - Finished ➡️ - Currently reading ⭐⭐⭐⭐� - Rating
28. A book that won an award from Powell's list of book awards
Interior Chinatown - Charles Yu (National Book Award)
The Great Believers - Rebecca Makkai (Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence)
Tidal Flats - Cynthia Newberry Martin (Independent Book Publishers)
�Beast in View - Margaret Millar ⭐⭐⭐⭐ (Edgar Award for Best Novel 1956)
29. A book set on or near a body of water
Sunrise by the Sea (Little Beach Street Bakery #4) - Jenny Colgan
The Unhoneymooners - Christina Lauren
The Island of Sea Women - Lisa See
�The House at Sea's End - Elly Griffiths ⭐⭐⭐⭐
30. A book related to mythology
The Silence of the Girls - Pat Barker
Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes - Edith Hamilton
�Medea - Euripides ⭐⭐⭐⭐
31. A book published at least 10 years ago
1980-1999
For the Sake of Elena (Inspector Lynley #5) - Elizabeth George
The Bingo Palace - Louise Erdrich
Booked to Die (Cliff Janeway #1) - John Dunning
�Miss Mapp - E.F. Benson ⭐⭐�
32. A book where the main character is a female detective/private eye/police officer
Naked in Death (In Death #1) - J.D. Robb
The Postscript Murders (Harbinder Kaur #2) - Elly Griffiths
The House at Sea's End (Ruth Galloway #3) - Elly Griffiths
�The Likeness (Dublin Murder Squad #2) - Tana French ⭐⭐⭐⭐
33. The next book in a series
The Long Way Home (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #10) - Louise Penny
Axeman's Jazz(Skip Langdon #2) - Julie Smith
Moonflower Murders (Susan Ryeland #2) - Anthony Horowitz
�Love in a Cold Climate - Nancy Mitford ⭐⭐⭐⭐
34. A book with an academic setting or with a teacher that plays an important role
On Beauty - Zadie Smith
An Academic Question - Barbara Pym
Disgrace - J.M. Coetzee
�Goodbye Mr. Chips - James Hilton ⭐⭐�
35. 2 books related to flora and fauna - Book 1
Greenwood - Michael Christie
�The Botanist's Daughter - Kayte Nunn ⭐⭐⭐⭐
The Sea, The Sea - Iris Murdoch (iris)
36. 2 books related to flora and fauna - Book 2
I Heard the Owl Call My Name- Margaret Craven
How the Penguins Saved Veronica- Hazel Prior
H is for Hawk - Helen Macdonald
�The Fallen Stones: Chasing Blue Butterflies, Mayan Secrets, and Happily Ever After in Belize - Diana Marcum ⭐⭐⭐⭐
37. A book that uses all five vowels in the title and/or author's name
Anything Is Possible - Elizabeth Strout
A Study in Murder (A Victorian Book Club Mystery #1) - Callie Hutton
The Moons of Jupiter - Alice Munro
�The Eustace Diamonds - Anthony Trollope ⭐⭐⭐⭐�
38. A book by a Latin American author
Krik? Krak!- Edwidge Danticat
Clap When You Land - Elizabeth Acevedo
Bless Me, Ultima - Rudolf Anaya book
�Violeta - Isabel Allende ⭐⭐⭐⭐
39. A book from the TIME list of 100 Best YA Books of All Time
The Marrow Thieves - Cherie Dimaline
March: Book Two - John Lewis
A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle #1) - Ursula K. Le Guin
�Firekeeper's Daughter - Angeline Boulley ⭐⭐⭐⭐�
Prompts 40-52� - Finished ➡️ - Currently reading ⭐⭐⭐⭐� - Rating
40. A book related to one of the 22 Tarot Major Arcana cards
Devil, Pope, High Priestess - chosen by generatorland.com 9/4/21
Devil's Cub - Georgette Heyer
Pope Joan - Donna Woolfolk Cross
Zelda Fitzgerald: The Tragic, Meticulously Researched Biography of the Jazz Age's High Priestess - Sally Kline
�The Cartographers - Peng Shepherd (The World) ⭐⭐⭐⭐
41. A book with a theme of food or drink
An Appetite for Murder (Key West Food Critic) - Lucy Burdette
A Year in Provence - Peter Mayle
Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise - Ruth Reichl
�Kitchens of the Great Midwest - J. Ryan Stradal ⭐⭐⭐⭐�
42. A book with a language or nationality in the title
The House on an Irish Hillside - Felicity Hayes-McCoy
The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje
American Spy - Lauren Wilkinson
�An American Marriage - Tayari Jones ⭐⭐⭐⭐.5
43. A book set in a small town or rural area
�Far From the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy ⭐⭐⭐⭐�
These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901 - Nancy E. Turner
A Light in the Window - Jan Karon
44. A book with gothic elements
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
Touch Not the Cat - Mary Stewart
The Secret Keeper - Kate Morton
�The Lifted Veil - George Eliot ⭐⭐�
45. A book related to a game
Beartown - Fredrick Backman
Chess Story - Stefan Zweig
�The Unfinished Clue - Georgette Heyer ⭐⭐⭐⭐
46. A book with a non-human as one of the main characters
The Golem and the Jinni - Helene Wecker
All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries #1) - Martha Wells
The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
�Dumb Witness - Agatha Christie ⭐⭐�
47. A book with handwriting on the cover
The Barbizon: The Hotel That Set Women Free - Paulina Bren
The Lido - Libby Page
The Summer of Impossible Things - Rowan Coleman
�Death Comes as the End - Agatha Christie ⭐⭐�
48. A book posted in one of the ATY Best Book of the Month threads in 2021 or 2022
Last Christmas in Paris: A Novel of World War I - Hazel Gaynor
Our Souls at Night - Kent Haruf
The Girl with the Louding Voice - Abi Dare
�The Island of Sea Women - Lisa See ⭐⭐⭐⭐
49. A book connected to the phrase "Here (There) Be Dragons"
Here Be Dragons (Welsh Princes #1) - Sharon Kay Penman
The Map of Salt and Stars - Zeyn Joukhadar
Circe - Madeline Miller
�The Tea Dragon Society - Kay O'Neill ⭐⭐⭐⭐
50. A book that involves aging, or a character in their golden years
Quartet in Autumn- Barbara Pym
The Tempest - William Shakespeare
The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot - Marianne Cronin
�The Sea, The Sea - Iris Murdoch ⭐⭐⭐⭐
51. A book published in 2022
�The Magnolia Palace - Fiona Davis ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Devotion - Hannah Kent
One Italian Summer - Rebecca Serle
52. A book with a time-related word in the title
Six Months in the Sandwich Islands: Among Hawaii's Palm Groves, Coral Reefs and Volcanoes - Isabella Lucy Bird
Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil - John Berendt
�Sunrise by the Sea - Jenny Colgan ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Rejects Challenge� - Finished ➡️ - Currently reading ⭐⭐⭐⭐� - Rating
10/10 Finished 7/7/22
1. A winner or nominee from the 2021 ŷ Choice Awards (Poll 16+)
The Comfort Book - Matt Haig
The Last Thing He Told Me - Laura Dave
Broken - Jenny Lawson
�The Road Trip - Beth O'Leary ⭐⭐�
2. A retelling with a BIPOC main character (Poll 10)
Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors - Sonali Dev
Ayesha at Last - Uzma Jalaluddin (Pride and Prejudice)
Sex and Vanity - Kevin Kwan (homage to A Room With a View)
�A Conspiracy in Belgravia - Sherry Thomas ⭐⭐⭐⭐
3. A book involving an ancient artifact or structure (Poll 11)
The Shadowy Horses - Susanna Kearsley
Lion in the Valley (Amelia Peabody #4) - Elizabeth Peters
The Visitors - Sally Beauman
�The Antiquary - Sir Walter Scott ⭐⭐�
4. A book by an indigenous author (Poll 2)
The Night Watchman - Louise Erdrich
Ceremony - Leslie Marmon Silko
Apple: Skin to the Core - Eric Gansworth
�The Painted Drum - Louise Erdrich ⭐⭐�.5
5. A book mentioned on the Reading Women podcast (Poll 9)
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet - Becky Chambers
Salvage the Bones - Jessmyn Ward
The Other Einstein - Marie Benedict
�Broken - Jenny Lawson ⭐⭐⭐⭐�
6. A book about healing (Poll 9)
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed - Lori Gottlieb
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma - Besel van der Kolk
You Can Heal Your Life - Louise L. Hay
�The Comfort Book - Matt Haig ⭐⭐⭐⭐�
7. A locked room or closed circle mystery (Poll 17)
One by One - Ruth Ware
�The Three Coffins (Dr. Gideon Fell #6) - John Dickson Carr⭐⭐�
Thirteen Guests - J. Jefferson Farjeon
8. A book published by an independent publisher (Poll 16)
Whiskey & Ribbons - Leesa Cross-Smith
Across the Great Lake - Lee Zacharias
�Quilters of the Door - Ann Hazelwood ⭐⭐�.5
9. A book within the first 22 listed on your TBR list (Poll 12)
�Sunset Song (A Scots Quair #1) - Lewis Grassic Gibbon ⭐⭐⭐⭐�
Daughter of Fortune - Isabel Allende book
Dubliners - James Joyce book
10. A book related to “soul� (Poll 12)
Four Souls - Louise Erdrich
Our Souls at Night - Kent Haruf
�Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life - Anne Lamott ⭐⭐�.5
January UpdateI've finished fifteen books in January, eleven for ATY Prompts.
10 classics, 5 contemporary
5 stars
Kitchens of the Great Midwest - J. Ryan Stradal
#41, a book with a theme of food or drink
The Small House at Allington - Anthony Trollope
#1, a book with a main character whose name starts with A, T, or Y (Adolphus Crosbie, Amelia Roper)
Angle of Repose - Wallace Stegner
Re-read for IRL book club; didn't use for ATY. But fits rural, historical fiction and probably more)
Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont - Elizabeth Taylor
#3 book with 22 or more letters in the title; would also fit elderly character
Far From the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
#43 small town or rural area
4 stars
The Life of Charlotte Brontë - Elizabeth Gaskell
#26 two books with same word in title (life)
The Great Poets: Robert Burns
A side listen
Love in a Cold Climate - Nancy Mitford
#33 Next book in a series
The Henna Artist - Alka Joshi
#18 book by an Asian or Pacific Islander author
The Personal Librarian - Marie Benedict
#11 historical fiction
Thérèse Raquin - Emile Zola
#6 Light source on cover
The Mating Season - P.B. Wodehouse
#21 Monopoly token on cover (shoes)
The Giver of Stars - Jojo Moyes
#20 Set between 1900-1950
3 stars
Quilters of the Door - Ann Hazelwood
Reject challenge - book by an independent publisher
The Three Coffins - John Dickson Carr
Reject challenge - a locked door mystery
February UpdateI've finished twenty-two books in February (thanks to the Readathon), 13 for the ATY Challenge, 1 for my Rejects Challenge, others for the Readathon or my Classics group.
11 classics, 11 contemporary
5 stars
Can You Forgive Her? - Anthony Trollope
#2 connected to a book read in 2021 (Dr. Thorne by Trollope)
Sunset Song Lewis Grassic Gibbon
Rejects: a book from the first 22 on TBR
The Weight of Ink - Rachel Kadish
#7 related to psychology, neuroscience or the mind
This also has Jewish characters and author.
4 stars
The Sea, The Sea - Iris Murdoch
#50 character in their golden years
Lisa and Lottie - Erich Kastner
Children's Classic, Translated Classic
The Star-Crossed Sisters of Tuscany - Lori Nelson Spielman
#9 a book set in Europe
The Month of Borrowed Dreams - Felicity Hayes-McCoy
#4 prompt that didn't make it: Author with three names
Small Victories: Spotting Improbable Moments of Grace - Anne Lamott
#5 author with two sets of double letters in name
Music in the Hills - D.E. Stevenson
Classic Scottish author
The Kiss Quotient - Helen Hoang
#13 woman in STEM
The Fallen Stones: Chasing Blue Butterflies, Mayan Secrets, and Happily Ever After in Belize - Diana Marcum
#36 related to fauna
3.5 stars
Silas Marner - George Eliot
#25 less that 220 pages
One by One - Ruth Ware
#24 inclement weather
The Lifted Veil - George Eliot
#44 gothic elements
An Appetite for Murder - Lucy Burdette
#8 set in North America (Florida)
3 stars
Death Comes As the End - Agatha Christie
#47 handwriting on cover
So You Think You're a Bookworm - Jo Hoare
Gift
Don't Tell Alfred - Nancy Mitford
Side read
Harry's Bar: The Life & Times of the Legendary Venice Landmark - Arrigo Cipriani
#12 related to glass (glasses on cover, talk about glass making)
Love Among the Chickens - P.G. Wodehouse
Readathon
The Sour Lemon Score - Richard Stark
Readathon
2 stars
Inspector French’s Greatest Case - Freeman Wills Crofts
Reading the Detectives group
March UpdateI've finished fifteen books and one short story, nine of which were for ATY, 1 for my Reject challenge, and the rest for other groups
7 classics, 9 contemporary
8 audiobooks, 6 hardcover books, 2 ebooks
5 stars
Firekeeper's Daughter - Angeline Boulley
#39 a book from the TIME list of 100 Best YA Books
Persuasion - Jane Austen
Never Too Late to Read Classics group; re-read
4 stars
Lost Lake - Sarah Addison Allen
#17 a book from NPR's Book Concierge
Anne's House of Dreams - L.M. Montgomery
A Year With L.M. Montgomery group
The House at Sea's End - Elly Griffiths
#29 a book set on or near a body of water
Violeta - Isabel Allende
#38 a book by a Latin American author
Rain - W. Somerset Maugham
Never Too Late to Read Classics group; Short story
Sunrise by the Sea - Jenny Colgan
#52 a book with a time related word in the title
Othello - William Shakespeare
Trying to read more Shakespeare plays
The Tea Dragon Society - Kay O'Neill
#49 a book connected to the phrase "Here (There) Be Dragons"
Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion, and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson - S.C. Gwynne
Nonfiction
Fires of Change - Sarah Lark
#10 a book set on the continent of Oceania
3 stars
The Landscapes of Anne of Green Gables - Catherine Reid
A Year With L.M. Montgomery group
Dumb Witness - Agatha Christie
#46 a book with a non-human as one of it's main characters
Miss Mapp - E.F. Benson
#31 a book published at least 10 years ago (1922)
2.5 stars
The Antiquary - Walter Scott
Rejects challenge: a book involving an ancient artifact or structure
April UpdateI've finished thirteen books, six of which were for ATY, two for my ATY Rejects challenge, and the rest for other groups
5 classics, 8 contemporary
6 audiobooks, 6 books, 1 ebook
5 stars - Quite a few this month, all very moving in some way. Oliver, Lawson, Haig, Harjo - all authors putting "themselves" out there for us.
Upstream: Selected Essays by Mary Oliver
ATY #16 related to earth day
Broken - Jenny Lawson
ATY Rejects: a book mentioned in the Reading Women podcast
Poet Warrior: A Memoir - Joy Harjo
IRL Book Club
The Comfort Book - Matt Haig
ATY Rejects: a book related to healing
The Magician - Colm Toibin
Tarot: The Magician
4 stars
Two-Way Murder - E.C.R. Lorac
ATY #14 a book with fewer than 5,000 ratings
A Rogue's Life - Wilkie Collins
ATY 27 two books with the same word in the title (Life) (read The Life of Charlotte Bronte earlier for #26)
The Island of Sea Women - Lisa See
ATY 48 a book from the ATY Best Books of the Month
Phineas Finn - Anthony Trollope
I'm reading all of Trollope's Palliser novels.
Anne of Ingleside - L.M. Montgomery
I'm reading many Montgomery books this year also.
3.5 stars
The Sentence - Louise Erdrich
ATY 15 a book without a person on the cover
2 stars
Indiana - George Sand
Classics group
May UpdateI've finished a whopping 27 books (thanks to the Readathon), seven of which were for ATY, one for my ATY Rejects challenge, and the rest for other groups or the Readathon
11 classics, 16 contemporary
11 audiobooks, 10 books, 6 ebook
5 stars
Love & Saffron: A Novel of Friendship, Food, and Love - Kim Fay
Published in 2022. Trying to read several new books.
The Painted Veil - W. Somerset Maugham
Tarot - Chariot, Classics group
The Midnight Library - Matt Haig
ATY 19 Alternate works, reality, history
Clap When You Land - Elizabeth Acevedo
ATY23 LGBTQIA+ relationship
4 stars
The Magnificent Ambersons - Booth Tarkington
Pulitzer Prize Winner
The Betrothed - Allesandro Manzoni
Classics group
Medea - Euripides
ATY30 mythology
The Botanist's Daughter - Kayte Nunn
ATY 35 related to flora
The Magnolia Palace - Fiona Davis
ATY51 published in 2022
The Citadel - A.J. Cronin
Classics group
Beast in View - Margaret Millar
ATY 28 Powell's list
The Cartographers - Peng Shepherd
ATY40 Tarot - The World
Goldenrod: Poems - Maggie Smith
NPR Concierge - reading several off this list
Moonflower Murders - Anthony Horowitz
NPR Concierge and Tarot - The Moon
One Italian Summer - Rebecca Serle
Readathon and published in 2022
The Eyes - Edith Wharton
Short story for Classics group
Matilda - Roald Dahl
Readathon
Sourdough - Robin Sloan
Readathon
3.5 stars
The Aspern Papers - Henry James
Readathon
Every Heart a Doorway - Seanan McGuire
Readathon
3 stars
The Painted Drum by Louise Erdrich
ATY Rejects: indigenous author
Towards Zero - Agatha Christie
Reading all of Agatha Christie
Goodbye, Mr. Chips - James Hilton
Classics group
Memories from Limón - Edo Brenes
Readathon
The Rector - Mrs. Oliphant
Short story for Classics group
Winter in Sokcho - Elisa Shua Dusapin
Readathon
Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist - Rachel Cohn
Readathon
2 stars
Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
Classics group
June UpdateI've finished 17 books in June, four of which were for ATY, two for my ATY Rejects challenge, and several for the Summer Reading Challenge. The rest are for other Classics groups I'm in.
I finished the ATY 2022 Challenge today, since I moved Goodbye Mr. Chips to ATY 46.
9 classics, 8 contemporary
11 audiobooks, 4 books, 2 ebook
5 stars
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents - Isabel Wilkerson
IRL Book Club
A Mixture of Frailties - Robertson Davies
Summer - 3e - Set in more than one country, Classics
Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family - Thomas Mann
Classics, Nobel Prize, Summer - 5a - More than 500 pages
The Eustace Diamonds - Anthony Trollope
ATY 37 all five vowels used, Summer - 2d - CANT TOUCH THIS, Classics
A Wreath for the Enemy - Pamela Frankau
Summer - 1e - person on cover, Classics
4.5 stars
An American Marriage - Tayari Jones
ATY 42 nationality in title, ABE, Summer - 1d - book with hype, USA Today 100 Black authors
4 stars
A Conspiracy in Belgravia - Sherry Thomas
Rejects - BIPOC retelling, Summer - 3c - more than one genre
The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
Classic, Summer - 4c - cover has water on it
The Unfinished Clue - Georgette Heyer
ATY 45 related to a game, Classic
The Likeness - Tana French
ATY 32 main character female police officer, Summer 3b - part of a series
We Need New Names - NoViolet Bulawayo
ABE author, USA Today black authors
3.5 stars
Cloud Howe, The Second Book of A Scots Quair - Lewis Grassic Gibbon
Summer 5e - book with fewer than 5000 ratings, Classic
3 stars
Deconstructed - Liz Talley
Summer 2e author's initials in THE FINAL COUNTDOWN
The Road Trip - Beth O'Leary
Rejects - ŷ Choice 2021 nominee, Summer 1b romance
Rainbow Valley - L.M. Montgomery
Classic, L.M. Montgomery books
Matrix - Lauren Groff
Summer 2b - author's initials in LET'S GET PHYSICAL
Dubliners - James Joyce
Classics, Summer 1c - author you've been meaning to try
I'm going to do a second round of ATY, hoping to do at least 26 prompts.EDIT: I guess I'm continuing past 26. 8/26/22
Around the Year Challenge, Round 2
� - Finished ➡️ - Currently reading 🔺 top choice ⭐⭐⭐⭐�
35/26
�1. A book with a main character whose name starts with A, T, or Y
This Time Tomorrow - Emma Straub ⭐⭐�
�2. A book connected to a book you read in 2021
The Heart of Summer - Felicity Hayes-McCoy ⭐⭐⭐⭐
�3. A book with 22 or more letters in the title
The Man Who Went Up in Smoke - Maj Sjwall and Per Wahloo ⭐⭐�.5
�4. A book that fits your favorite prompt that did not make the list: A book whose title includes the word “Around� or “Year�
Year of Wonders - Geraldine Brooks ⭐⭐�.5
5. A book by an author with two sets of double letters in their name
Grey Granite - Lewis Grassic Gibbon
�6. A book with an image of a source of light on the cover
Phineas Redux - Anthony Trollope ⭐⭐⭐⭐�
�7. A book related to psychology, neuroscience or the mind
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves - Karen Joy Fowler ⭐⭐⭐⭐�
8. 3 books set on three different continents - Book 1 Asia
The Bastard of Istanbul - Elif Shafak (Turkey)
�9. 3 books set on three different continents - Book 2 Europe
Our Last Days in Barcelona - Chanel Cleeton ⭐⭐⭐⭐
�10. 3 books set on three different continents - Book North America
The Brighter the Light - Mary Ellen Taylor
�11. A book from historical fiction genre
Haven Point - Virginia Hume ⭐⭐⭐⭐
12. A book related to glass
The Pickwick Papers - Charles Dickens
13. A book about a woman in STEM
Lessons in Chemistry - Bonnie Garmus
�14. A book with fewer than 5000 ratings on ŷ
Bodies in a Bookshop - R.T. Campbell ⭐⭐�
15. A book without a person on the cover
16. A book related to Earth Day
17. A book from NPR's Book Concierge
Great Circle - Maggie Shipstead
18. A book by an Asian or Pacific Islander author
19. A book that involves alternate reality, alternate worlds, or alternate history
�20. A fiction or nonfiction book that is set during 1900 -1950
Abigail - Magda Szabo (WWII Hungary) ⭐⭐⭐⭐�
21. A book with one of the Monopoly tokens on the cover
�The Lincoln Highway - Amor Towles (car) ⭐⭐�.75
�22. A book with a Jewish character or author
The Dovekeepers - Alice Hoffman ⭐⭐⭐⭐.5
�23. A book that features loving LGBTQIA+ relationship
Days Without End - Sebastian Barry ⭐⭐⭐⭐�
�24. A book related to inclement weather
Salvage the Bones - Jesmyn Ward
�25. A book less than 220 pages OR more than 440 pages
Cecilia - Fanny Burney (1004p)
�26. 2 books with the same word in the title - Book 1
The Daughter of Time - Josephine Tey
�27. 2 books with the same word in the title - Book 2
Gunnar's Daughter - Sigrid Undset
28. A book that won an award from Powell's list of book awards
Hamnet - Maggie O'Farrell
�29. A book set on or near a body of water
The Girl on the Boat - P.G. Wodehouse ⭐⭐⭐⭐
�30. A book related to mythology
The Clouds - Aristophanes
�31. A book published at least 10 years agoBerlin Stories - Robert Walser (1956) ⭐⭐�
�32. A book where the main character is a female detective/private eye/police officer
Death in the Sunshine by Stephanie Broadribb ⭐⭐⭐⭐
�33. The next book in a series
The Nature of the Beast (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #11) - Louise Penny ⭐⭐⭐⭐
�34. A book with an academic setting or with a teacher that plays an important role
For the Sake of Elena - Elizabeth George
35. 2 books related to flora and fauna - Book 1 Flora
The Seed Keeper - Diane Wilson
36. 2 books related to flora and fauna - Book 2 Fauna
Books of a Feather - Kate Carlisle
�37. A book that uses all five vowels in the title and/or author's name
The Diary of a Bookseller - Shaun Bythell ⭐⭐⭐⭐
38. A book by a Latin American author
39. A book from the TIME list of 100 Best YA Books of All Time
The Astonishing Color of After - Emily X.R. Pan
�40. A book related to one of the 22 Tarot Major Arcana cards
Austerlitz - W.G. Sebald (The Devil - Hitler) ⭐⭐⭐⭐�
41. A book with a theme of food or drink
Meet Me at the Cupcake Cafe - Jenny Colgan
�42. A book with a language or nationality in the title
Frenchman's Creek - Daphne du Maurier ⭐⭐⭐⭐
�43. A book set in a small town or rural area
These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901- Nancy E. Turner ⭐⭐⭐⭐.5
�44. A book with gothic elements
The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell ⭐⭐⭐⭐
�45. A book related to a game
The Tempest - William Shakespeare (chess) ⭐⭐⭐⭐
�46. A book with a non-human as one of the main characters
Five Children and It - E. Nesbit ⭐⭐⭐⭐
�47. A book with handwriting on the cover
The Last Thing He Told Me - Laura Dave ⭐⭐⭐⭐
�48. A book posted in one of the ATY Best Book of the Month threads in 2021 or 2022
Our Souls at Night - Kent Haruf ⭐⭐⭐⭐
�49. A book connected to the phrase "Here (There) Be Dragons"
The Map of Salt and Stars - Zeyn Joukhadar
�50. A book that involves aging, or a character in their golden years
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead - Olga Tokarczuk ⭐⭐⭐⭐
�51. A book published in 2022
An Island Wedding - Jenny Colgan ⭐⭐⭐⭐
52. A book with a time-related word in the title
Midnight at the Blackbird Café - Heather Webber
July UpdateI read/listened to 18 books in July, 8 of which were classics (published 50 or more years ago). Thirteen books were for my 2nd round of ATY.
5 stars
Phineas Redux
ATY 6 - light source on a cover
4.5 stars
The Dovekeepers
ATY22 - Jewish character or author
These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901
ATY43 - set in a rural area or small town
4 stars
Five Children and It
ATY46 - non-human character
The Last Thing He Told Me
ATY47 - handwriting on cover
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
ATY 50 - elderly character
Our Souls at Night
ATY48 - Best Book of Month thread
The Tempest
ATY45 - related to a game (characters play chess)
A Hundred Summers
side read
The Heart of Summer
ATY2 - connected to book read in 2021
The Diary of a Bookseller - Shaun Bythell
ATY37 - all five vowels in title and author
This Time Tomorrow
ATY1 - character name starting with ATY - Alice
The Girl on the Boat
ATY29 - set near water
Frenchman's Creek
ATY42 - nationality in title
3.5 stars
Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
side read
The Man Who Went Up in Smoke
ATY3 - 22 or more letters in title
3 stars
When We Were Very Young
side read
Cat Among the Pigeons
side read
August UpdateI read/listened to 21 books and 5 short stories/poetry/essays
With these, I've completed 28 or 52 prompts for my second round of the ATY Challenge. I'm stopping here to concentrate on books set in U.S. States, Canadian Provinces, Countries of the World. I'll also continue with Classic challenges. I'm doing the Fall Reading Challenge also.
⭐⭐⭐⭐� stars
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
ATY 7: psychology, neuroscience, mind - ATY7 psychology, neuroscience, mind
Austerlitz
ATY40 tarot card - The Devil
Days Without End
ATY 23 lgbtq
Abigail
ATY20 set 1900-1950
⭐⭐⭐⭐ stars
The Nature of the Beast
ATY33 next book in a series
Haven Point
ATY11 historical fiction
Stillhouse Lake
read for States of the U.S. - Tennessee
Death in the Sunshine
ATY 32, woman police
The Daughter of Time
ATY26, same word in title (daughter)
The Family Upstairs
ATY44 gothic elements
Knulp
Back To the Classics Title begins with K
An Island Wedding
ATY51 published in 2022
Our Last Days in Barcelona
ATY9, a book set in Europe
The Brighter the Light
ATY10, a book set in North America
⭐⭐� stars
The Lincoln Highway
ATY21 monopoly token - car
Year of Wonders
ATY4 prompt not selected, book with year or around in title
Berlin Stories
ATY31 older than 10 years
One, Two, Buckle My Shoe
reading all Agatha Christie's books
Bodies in a Bookshop
ATY14 fewer than 5000 ratings
Clouds
ATY30 mythology
Joy in the Morning
Back to the Classics Title starts with J
Short Stories
The Signal - Vsevolod Garshin
BTC Author V
The District Doctor - Ivan Turgenev
BTC Author I
The Queen of Spades - Alexander Pushkin -
BTC Author X
Poetry - Quiller-Couch, Arthur
BTC Author Q
The Wild Swans at Coole - Yeats
BTC Author Y, Nobel Prize
Audio - 12 books, 2 short stories/poems/essays
Book - 7 books
Ebook - 2 books, 3 short stories/poems/essays
September UpdateI read 21 books, 10 were classics, 11 were contemporary. I'm reading for the ATY Fall Challenge, my Classics group challenges, Reading the World, and States of the U.S. I read several books for the Readathon.
Audio - 11, Book - 8, ebook - 2
Cecilia - Fanny Burney ⭐⭐�
Classics Challenge
Gunnar's Daughter - Sigrid Undset ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Translated Classic Challenge
ATY Fall: features family drama
Reading the World: Iceland
Dead Man's Folly - Agatha Christie ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Classic Authors
The Prime Minister (Palliser #5) - Anthony Trollope ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Pallisers Challenge
The Map of Salt and Stars - Zeyn Joukhadar ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Reading the World: Syria
ATY Fall: magical realism
The Doctor's Family - Mrs. Oliphant ⭐⭐�.5
Scottish Buddy Reads
ATY Fall: red
The Girls of Slender Means - Muriel Spark ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Scottish Buddy Reads
ATY Fall: Historical Fiction
The Woman on the Orient Express - Lindsay Jayne Ashford ⭐⭐⭐⭐
ATY Fall: published in Sept
Reading The World: Iraq;
Two Old Women: An Alaskan Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival - Velma Wallis ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Readathon
States: Alaska
ATY Fall: Set in autumn
The School of Essential Ingredients - Erica Bauermeister ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Readathon
So Long a Letter - Mariama Ba ⭐⭐�.5
Reading the World: Senegal
ATY Fall: pumpkin spice
As Close As Sisters - Colleen Faulkner ⭐⭐⭐⭐
States: Delaware
ATY Fall: last summer read
The Truth According to Us - Annie Barrows ⭐⭐�.5
States: W. Virginia
Booked - Kwame Alexander ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Readathon
ATY Fall: features sports
The Ghost and Mrs. McClure - Cleo Coyle ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Readathon
ATY Fall: set in a small town
The Cat Who Smelled a Rat - Lilian Jackson Braun ⭐⭐�.5
Readathon
Long Day's Journey into Night - Eugene O’Neill ⭐⭐⭐⭐
States: Connecticut
Drama - Raina Telgemeier ⭐⭐⭐⭐
ATY Fall: banned book
Full Moon (Blandings #7) - P.G. Wodehouse ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Side read
The Speed of Light - Elissa Grossell Dickey ⭐⭐⭐⭐
States: South Dakota
ATY Fall: I’m Falling for You
The Lottery - Shirley Jackson ⭐⭐⭐⭐
States: Vermont
October UpdateI finished 14 books and 2 short stories
Books
Salvage the Bones - Jesmyn Ward ⭐⭐⭐⭐�
U.S. States: Mississippi
Excellent, heart-felt book about a poor, black family and their experiences leading up to and during Hurrican Katrina.
The Great Believers - Rebecca Makkai ⭐⭐⭐⭐�
U.S. States: Illinois
Set in Chicago, Illinois during the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s and also set in 2015. I loved the characters.
Bloomsbury Girls - Natalie Jenner ⭐⭐⭐⭐�
ATY Fall Challenge: leaf on cover
Loved this book about strong working women in the London bookstore, Bloomsbury Books, in 1950.
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne ⭐⭐⭐⭐
IRL Book Club
Grey Granite Book Three Of A Scots Quair: Grey Granite Bk. 3 - Lewis Grassic Gibbon ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Classic Scottish Authors
The Christmas Bookshop - Jenny Colgan ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Axeman's Jazz - Julie Smith ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Book 2 of the Skip Langdon series. This series is pretty good! Set in New Orleans.
The Moviegoer - Walker Percy ⭐⭐⭐⭐
National Book Award 1962. Also set in New Orleans.
The Reading List - Sara Nisha Adams ⭐⭐⭐⭐
ATY Fall Challenge: reminds you of homecoming. I cheated on this one, thinking that books and reading feel like home to me.
For the Sake of Elena - Elizabeth George ⭐⭐⭐⭐
ATY Fall Challenge: tree
Another good mystery series: Inspector Lynley #5
Rilla of Ingleside - L.M. Montgomery ⭐⭐⭐⭐
A Year With L.M. Montgomery. I'm almost done with the Anne of Green Gables series.
The Beautiful and Damned - F. Scott Fitzgerald ⭐⭐⭐⭐
The Watsons - Jane Austen
Lifetime List ⭐⭐�.5
Death Bee Comes Her (Oregon Honeycomb Mystery #1) - Nancy CoCo ⭐⭐�
U.S. States: Oregon
Short stories
The Voyage: Short Story - Katherine Mansfield ⭐⭐⭐⭐
How It Happened - Arthur Conan Doyle ⭐⭐�
Around the Year in 52 Books
Books mentioned in this topic
Grey Granite (other topics)Bloomsbury Girls (other topics)
Salvage the Bones (other topics)
The Great Believers (other topics)
How It Happened (other topics)
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Authors mentioned in this topic
P.G. Wodehouse (other topics)Émile Zola (other topics)
52/52 Finished 6/30/22
Prompts 1-13
� - Finished ➡️ - Currently reading ⭐⭐⭐⭐� - Rating
1. A book with a main character whose name starts with A, T, or Y
The Dovekeepers - Alice Hoffman (Yael)
Persuasion - Jane Austen (Anne)
Midnight at the Blackbird Café - Heather Webber (Anna Kate)
�The Small House at Allington - Anthony Trollope ⭐⭐⭐⭐�
2. A book connected to a book you read in 2021
In the Shadow of Agatha Christie: Classic Crime Fiction by Forgotten Female Writers: 1850-1917 - Leslie S. Klinger (read many Agatha Christie novels in 2021)
Meet Me at the Cupcake Cafe - Jenny Colgan (read Colgan in 2021)
Ashenden - W. Somerset Maugham (read Of Human Bondage in 2021)
�Can You Forgive Her? - Anthony Trollope (read Dr. Thorne and Framley Parsonage in 2021) ⭐⭐⭐⭐�
3. A book with 22 or more letters in the title
The School of Essential Ingredients - Erica Bauermeister
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet - Becky Chambers
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress - Dai Sijie
�Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont - Elizabeth Taylor ⭐⭐⭐⭐�
4. A book that fits your favorite prompt that did not make the list
A book by an author with 3 names (Poll 3)
My Dark Vanessa - Kate Elizabeth Russell
Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
�The Month of Borrowed Dreams (Finfarren #4) - Felicity Hayes McCoy ⭐⭐⭐⭐
5. A book by an author with two sets of double letters in their name
Nathan Coulter - Wendell Berry
Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life - Anne Lamott
Thirty-Three Teeth (Dr. Siri Paiboun #2) - Colin Cotterill
�Small Victories: Spotting Improbable Moments of Grace - Anne Lamott ⭐⭐⭐⭐
6. A book with an image of a source of light on the cover
Firekeeper's Daughter- Angeline Boulley
Last Night at the Telegraph Club - Melinda Lo
The Bedlam Stacks - Natasha Pulley
�Thérèse Raquin - Émile Zola (lamp) ⭐⭐⭐⭐
7. A book related to psychology, neuroscience or the mind
The Astonishing Color of After - Emily X.R. Pan
Broken - Jenny Lawson
10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World - Elif Shafak
�The Weight of Ink - Rachel Kadish ⭐⭐⭐⭐�
8. 3 books set on three different continents - Book 1: North America
Canada, Mexico, Central America, Caribbean
Lives of Girls and Women - Alice Munro (Canada)
The Stone Diaries - Carol Shields (Canada)
The Most Beautiful Girl in Cuba - Chanel Cleeton
�An Appetite for Murder - Lucy Burdette (U.S.A. - Florida) ⭐⭐�
9. 3 books set on three different continents - Book 2: Europe
Not Great Britain
The Gray Notebook - Josep Pla (Italy)
The Land of Spices- Kate O’Brien (Ireland)
Love and Ruin - Paula McLain (Spain)
�The Star-Crossed Sisters of Tuscany - Lori Nelson Spielman ⭐⭐⭐⭐
10. 3 books set on three different continents - Book 3: Australia and New Zealand
Vintage Murder - Ngaio Marsh (New Zealand)
A Town Like Alice- Nevil Shute (Australia)
�Fires of Change (The Fire Blossom Saga #2) - Sarah Lark (New Zealand) ⭐⭐⭐⭐
11. A book from historical fiction genre
The Other Bennet Sister - Janice Hadlow
The Last Train to Key West - Chanel Cleeton
Letters from Yellowstone - Diane Smith
Fires of Change (The Fire Blossom Saga #2) - Sarah Lark
�The Personal Librarian - Marie Benedict ⭐⭐⭐⭐
12. A book related to glass
Franny and Zooey - J.D. Salinger (Glass family)
A Pint of Murder (Madoc Rhys #1) - Alisa Craig (wineglass on cover)
The Likeness (Dublin Murder Squad #2) - Tana French (mirror on cover)
�Harry's Bar: The Life & Times of the Legendary Venice Landmark - Arrigo Cipriani (glasses drawn on cover) ⭐⭐�
13. A book about a woman in STEM
Year of Wonders - Geraldine Brooks
Remarkable Creatures - Tracy Chevalier
Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors - Sonali Dev
�The Kiss Quotient - Helen Hoang ⭐⭐�