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Completed prompts continued�27. A book related to land
1- Dirt to Soil: One Family's Journey Into Regenerative Agriculture
2. Visitation by Jennie Erpenbeck
Birnam Wood
3- North Woods by Daniel Mason
Tom Lake - cherry orchard
�28. A book related to sea
1- The Seas by Samantha Hunt
2- Beyond That, the Sea by Laura Spence-Ash
Breath by Tim Winton
3- The Odyssey
Saint
The Tombs of Atuan
What Strange Paradise
Whale Fall
�29. A book related to air
1- The Calculating Stars
2- Untethered Sky by Fonda Lee
3- Etiquette & Espionage by Gail Carriger
The Huntress
Changeless
�30. A book set in a country bordering the Mediterranean Sea
2- Death at La Fenice
1- The Penelopiad
The Odyssey
3- Every Day in Tuscany: Seasons of an Italian Life
The Orphan's Tale
Call Me By Your Name by André Aciman
✴️What Strange Paradise
The Ardent Swarm
�31. A book related to “Going for the Gold�
1. Spinning Silver
2- The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
3- Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice by Bill Browder
The Glass Hotel
The Paris Library
Fable others in series
The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession crime
�32. A book with a number in the title
1- Babel-17
2- The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
3- Two Steps Forward by Graeme Simsion
�33. A book involving travel
1- Go, Went, Gone by Jenny Erpenbeck
The Odyssey by Homer
Every Day in Tuscany: Seasons of an Italian Life
What Strange Paradise by Omar El Akkad
2- Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing
3- Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands by Heather Fawcett
�34. A book related to the name of one of Snow White's seven dwarfs
1. The Perks of Being a Wallflower - bashful
2. While Justice Sleeps by Stacy Abrams - sleepy
3. Lady Tan’s Circle of Women by Lisa See - Doctor
The Island of Dr. Moreau - Doc
�35. A science or science fiction book
1- This is How You Lose the Time War
2- Lock In by John Scalzi
3- Brain Energy: A Revolutionary Breakthrough in Understanding Mental Health—and Improving Treatment for Anxiety, Depression, OCD, PTSD, and More
3. Darwin Comes to Town: How the Urban Jungle Drives Evolution by Menno Schilthuizen
The Nature of Nature: Why We Need the Wild
Sea of Tranquility
The Eyre Affair
�36. A book featuring a character in education
1- I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
2- Heavy
3- The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
�37. A book that is part of a series
1. A Perilous Undertaking
2. A Stitch in Time
3. Binti by Nnedi Okorafor
Cress
Scarlet
Home by Nnedi Okorafor
Stars Above
Barbarian Alien
�38. Two books with similar covers: Book 1- Fable by Adrienne Young
Orbiting Jupiter by by Gary D. Schmidt
The Selection by Kiera Cass
�39. Two books with similar covers: Book 2 -Namesake by Adrienne Young
My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
The Elite by Kiera Cass
�40. A book involving a wild animal or endangered species, in the content, title, or on the cover
1- Open Throat
2- Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid: The Fraught and Fascinating Biology of Climate Change
3- Eating to Extinction: The World's Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them
Darwin Comes to Town: How the Urban Jungle Drives Evolution by Menno Schilthuizen
North Woods
�41. A book with a chilling atmosphere
1. Barbarian Alien
2. Caressed by Ice by Nalini Singh
3. Blood on Snow
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
�42. A book with a sound-related word in the title
1- Ring Shout
2- Other Words for Home
3- Call Me By Your Name
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir
Babel-17
(Prophet Song)
�43. A book by an Edgar Award-winning Author
1- *The River We Remember by William Kent Krueger
3- Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
2- A Morbid Taste for Bones by Ellis Peters
Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds - Excellent, short YA novel.
Gone Fishin' by Walter Mosley - this is a prequel showing his life before he became a detective.
�44. A book with a touch of magic
2- Spells for Forgetting by Adrienne Young
1- When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
A Rip Through Time
The Glass Hotel
�45. A book that is not a novel
1- The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
2- Julius Caesar
3- They Called Us Enemy
�46. A book related to night
1- A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Shakespeare
2- A Torch Against the Night by Sabaa Tahir
3- Late Nights on Air by Elizabeth Hay
Fairest by Marissa Meyer
�47. A book with a two-word title beginning with THE
1- The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks
2- The Stonekeeper by Kazu Kibuishi
3- The Revisioners by author:Margaret Wilkerson Sexton|16336300]
The Spectacular
The Trees
The Colony
The Maid
Thr outsiders
The Lorax
the seas
The giver
The power
�48. A second book that fits your favorite prompt
==35. A science or science fiction book
You're Never Weird on the Internet
1-Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
Darwin Comes to Town: How the Urban Jungle Drives Evolution
3- Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid: The Fraught and Fascinating Biology of Climate Change
2- Lady of Devices by Shelley Adina
�49. A book with a senior citizen character
1- The Coroner's Lunch
2- An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good
3 - The Story of Arthur Truluv
A Palm for Mrs. Pollifax by Dorothy Gilman
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
�50. A book posted in one of the ATY Best Book of the Month threads in 2023 or 2024
1. Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett
2. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
3- The Giver
TheColony
The Berry Pickers
What You Are Looking For Is in the Library
The Poet X
�51. A book published in 2024
1. The Ministry of Time byKaliane Bradley
2. Whale Fall by Elizabeth O'Connor
3. After Annie by Anna Quindlen
Sanctuary byIlona Andrews magic
The Paris Novel byRuth Reichl
The Extinction of Irena Rey by Jennifer Croft
�52. A cozy mystery
1- The Elusive Mrs. Pollifax Dorothy Gilman
2- A Curious Beginning by Deanna Raybourn
3- Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree
REJECTED PROMPTS CHALLENGEBooks that didn’t make the list
Prepoll
✅A winner or nominee from the 2023 ŷ Choice Awards -The Seven Year Slip
✅A book you meant to read in 2023 - They Called Us Enemy, The Bear and the Nightingale
🔅A book from the NPR “Books We Love� lists. � 20+ books
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POLL 1
✅A book with a horse on the cover - Perestroika in Paris by Jane Smiley
✅A book related to the year of the wood dragon - How to Date Your Dragon
✅A book with girl, boy, man or woman in the titles - Girl Meets Boy by Ali Smith
✅A book set in Paris The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
✅A book from the Canada Reads Book list
What Strange Paradise byOmar El Akkad
✅A book that features a hobby. Now Is Not the Time to Panic by Kevin Wilson
✅🔅A biography, autobiography, or memoir - see February, Finding Me,
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End,
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness,
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban,
I'm Glad My Mom Died
✅A book involving pirates, maps, or treasure -
Saint by Adrienne Young
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POLL 2
A book related to or by an author we lost in 2023
✅A book with at least 247 pages
A book with gold on the cover
🔅A book related to We Didn't Start the Fire
✅A book about or featuring a landmark - The Spectacular
✅A sci-fi novel - Three Parts Dead
✅✅A book where a main character is a writer, a librarian or a bookseller - the red notebook Antoine Laurain
What You Are Looking For Is in the Library
✅✅A book related to masks or a masquerade - Home by Nnedi Okorafor
✅A book woth fruit on the cover - The Berry Pickers
✅A book involving magical realism - Spells for Forgetting
✅A book related to X marks the spot - The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
✅A book related to dragons - Magic Bites
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POLL 3
✅A book on a banned books list - Flight
🔅A book related to a sensory disability -
A book with a divided, or split, cover
�35. A book set mostly in or around a building - the Selection
✅A science fiction fantasy novel - Her Own Devices
✅A book related to Friends - Magnificent Devices
✅A book with a ranch or farm setting - Finlay Donovan Is Killing It
✅A book related to an invention or a discovery - The Invention of Hugo Cabret
✅🔅A book set in a new-to-you location - The Coroner's Lunch
✅🔅A book involving a STEM topic -
You're Never Weird on the Internet
✴️Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
Darwin Comes to Town: How the Urban Jungle Drives Evolution
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid: The Fraught and Fascinating Biology of Climate Change
✅🔅A book set in a different hemisphere than where you live -
The Dry, Mrs. Pollifax on Safari
✅A book related to a mountain - Spinning Silver,
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🔅POLL 4 - MULTIWEEK🔅
3 Weeks: Three books related to the lines in a Roses Are Red poem
🔅2 Weeks: A work of fiction and nonfiction that are related
🔅2 Weeks: Two books that are part of a series
🔅3 Weeks: Three books whose titles create a sentence or short poem
🔅3 Weeks: One book for each of the three forms of water - solid, liquid, gas
🔅2 Weeks: A book with "life" in the title, and a book with "death" in the title
🔅3 Weeks: Three books from a series
✅✅🔅2 Weeks: A book involving Lost family and a book involving Found family - The Lost Wife, Beverly, Right Here
🔅2 Weeks: 2 books related to "truth or dare"
🔅3 Weeks: Three books related to music (Specifically: A book with a musical instrument on the cover, A book with a music genre in the title, and A book with a music theme)
🔅4 Weeks: Four books where each cover is related to a different season (fall, winter, spring, summer)
🔅2 Weeks: Two books by authors with names the rhyme
🔅2 Weeks: A classic and its
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POLL 5
✅✅A book set in BCE. The Red Tent, The Odyssey, Penelopiad
✅✅A retelling of a familiar tale - Lunar chronicles or P&P
Ayesha at Last
A book with a hidden object on the cover
✅✅61 . A book related to “soul�- Soulless
A book with a person on the cover and you can’t see their whole face
🔅A fiction book with a real person as a character - Alienst,
✅✅65. A book involving Immigration, migration or relocation to another country - �Go, Went, Gone, What Strange Paradise
🔅A book by an author from a Southeast Asian country
A book featuring a "First Responder"
A book related to something you take for granted
✅✅ 68 A book related to athletics in honor of the Summer Olympics - Akata Witch :Nnedi Okorafor
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POLL 6
A book with twins in it - The Giver
A book relating to a catchphrase
✅A book with a character who is neurodiverse. The Rosie Project, The Rosie Effect
🔅A book related to left or right
🔅A book related to one of the traditional full moon names
A book with a lock and/or a key on the cover
🔅A book related to summertime blues
A book with a timepiece on the cover
✅🔅A book from the NPR “Books We Love� lists
🔅A book with an author OR character whose first name is considered gender neutral
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POLL 7
🔅A book set in one of the countries competing in the 2024 Eurovision Song Contest
A book related to the British rhyme about Henry VIII's six wives: "Divorced, beheaded, died; divorced, beheaded, survived"
✅An Audie award winner (in any format)
✅A book with a main character who is in "domestic service" - butler, maid, cook, chauffer, etc.The Maid
A book where something on the cover is tilted or upside down
A book related to a bridge
🔅A book found on the TBR of a ŷ "Friend�
✅A book told from multiple character POVs
A book with a musical instrument on the cover or in the title
🔅A book with a relative in the title
🔅A book with a body part in the title
A book involving some type of intelligence
🔅A book related to fire
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POLL 8
🔅A book recommended for or related to your zodiac sign lunar chronicles
✅✅🔅A book that was the basis for an Academy Award (Oscar) winning movie- Call Me By Your Name, Q&A, accidental tourist, sense and sensibility
A book featuring a person who works in one the jobs that Barbie has had
A book recommended by an independent bookseller - magicians
A book that takes place in one of the world's 100 smallest countries
A book with a great first line
🔅A book related to "civil rights" or "human rights"
✅✴�When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir
They Called Us Enemy
What Strange Paradise
✅A book about or related to technology - Cress
🔅A book to fit a prompt from a past ATY challenge
🔅A book with a word in the title related to reading
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POLL 9
A book with a character who could appear on the X-Files
A book where a dream plays a role
A book that has a character with a non-traditional name
✅A book that plays with perceptions of reality. Ali Smith - winter and Companion piece
A book with rock, paper or scissors on the cover
🔅A book with more than one main character
✅A book with a chair on the cover - The Magician's Assistant,
✅A book on a summer reading list
A book connected to Anne of Green Gables
🔅A book featuring creatures of the night
🔅A book related to a musical
A book over 500 pages
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✅A book with a cover design that reminds you of one of the four seasons - Companion Piece
A book involving a wild animal or endangered species, in the content, title, or on the cover -
✴️✅A book shelved as literary fiction - Ali Smith - Girl meets boy, Winter
✅A book from the Are You Well Read in World Literature list -
Chess Story, Akata Witch, The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Go Went Gone
✅A book that features a child character - Esperanza, Pullman, see coming of age tag
Where Wolves Don't Die
Flight
✅🔅A book for leap day/year - seven year
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POLL 11
Nightmare before Christmas - Neil Gaiman book
✅A book that’s a collection of short stories or essays -
The Office of Historical Corrections
🔅A book with a main character who is a bookseller, writer, journalist or librarian - The Red Notebook by Antoine Laurain , writers�-
✅✅🔅A book with a character who works in an eating establishmen.
Beverly, Right Here
✅🔅🔅A book by an author from a country bordering the Indian Ocean - Age of Vice,
A book with a real person as a character - the alienist
🔅A book where a character is a musician
🔅A book with character who is a fish-out-of-water - time travel, immigrant
🔅A book with an ex
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POLL 12
🔅A book with a poem in it
🔅A book related to mushrooms - Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
🔅A book from the 2023 ŷ Choice Awards (winner or nomination)
🔅A book set in autumn
✅✅🔅A book with a character who works with animals -Winter
✅A book with a family member in the title
Watchmakers daughter
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POLL 13
A book another ATY group member gave 5 stars
🔅A book with a warm or heated atmosphere
A book with a bilingual character
A book nominated for a ŷ Choice Award
✅🔅A book set in a group living situation - Comfort Me with Apples: More Adventures at the Table
A book for a prompt that was used in a previous year
✅A book longlisted for a Booker Prize
✅🔅A historical fiction book that takes place before the 20th Century
A Stitch in Time
A Morbid Taste for Bones
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POLL 14
✴️✅A book adapted by Masterpiece Theatre - The Chaperone
🔅A book that has an X in the title
🔅A book by an author born between 1965-1980 (Generation X)
🔅A book with a strong sense of place
✅✅A book with an anti-hero as a main character - Fairest
✅A book over 500 pages - Winter 827 pages
✅A book with more than one main character An Ember in the Ashes
A book with an insect in the title or on the cover
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POLL 15
✅A character that is a fish out of water- The Mermaid of Black Conch, [book:Go, Went, Gone|36217818
I'm reading Shrines of Gaiety as my "Y" book as well. :)
SIDE CHALLENGE - Completed �2024 Mini Rejects Challenge: Lists & Awards
1. A book from the NPR “Books We Love� lists (PP, Poll 6)
(23 books completed)
✅North Woods
✅S
✅The Trees
✅Razorblade Tears
✅I'm Glad My Mom Died
✅Stardust by Neil Gaiman
✅Hell of a Book
✅Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
✅Spinning Silver
✅Long Bright River
✅The Alienist
✅Riot Baby
✅Ayesha at last
✅Hell of a book
✅Other words for home
✅Spinning Silver
✅Nothing to see here
✅this is How you lose the time war
2. A book from the Canada Reads Book list (Poll 1)
�What Strange Paradise
3. A book on a banned books list (Poll 3)
�Heartstopper: Volume One
�The Outsiders
4. An Audie award winner (Poll 7, Poll 17)
�Finding Me
�Clean Sweep
�The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
5. A book on a summer reading list (Poll 9)
�Lady Tan’s Circle of Women by Lisa See
� Birnam Wood
� Tom Lake
�The Paris Novel
6. A book from the Are You Well Read in World Literature list (Poll 10)
�Chess Story
�A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea
�The Elegance of the Hedgehog
How went gone
Purple Hibiscus
The Name of the Rose, The Bone People, My Brilliant Life, The Summer Book, Midnight's Children, Waiting for the Barbarians
Hunger
Vegetarian
Akata witch
7. A book nominated for a ŷ Choice Award (Poll 13)
�Now Is Not the Time to Panic, January 2024 irl book club pick.
�Birnam Wood
�The Connellys of County Down
✅North woods
✅Seven year slip
✅The art thief
✅DDZäԲ
8. A book longlisted for a Booker Prize (Poll 13)
�The Colony
�The Trees
�Elena Knows
✴️For 2025✴️
The House of Doors by Tan Twan Eng, Washington Black
Profit song
Wandering Stars
Wild Houses
Held
Creation Lake
This Strange Eventful History
Playground
Enlightenment
Orbital
James
The Safekeep
My Friends
Headshot
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9. A middle grade book that was nominated for or won an award (Poll 15)
✅Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
✅Other Words for Home by Jasmine
✅The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
✅The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
✅Orbiting Jupiter by Gary D. Schmidt
✅Akata Witch
✅My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
�Mockingbird, National Book Award for young person’s literature
✅Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan
✅When Life Gives You Mangos by Kereen
The giver
10. A book by a female or non-binary author which won an award that's also open to male authors (Poll 16)
✅Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout, Pulitzer Prize
✅The Dry by Jane Harper, Barry Award for Best First novel , Ned Kelly award
�The Giver by Lois Lowry,
�The Red Tent by Diamanté, Book Sense Book of the Year Award
✅Water for Elephants, ALA Alex award
�The Gods of Tango - Stonewall Book Award for Literature (2016)
✅Chemistry - Pen Hemingway award for debut novel
11. A book featured on a list for a media or celebrity book club (Poll 17) Obama’s list or TED.
�The Power by Naomi Alderman
�Birnam Wood
�The Ministry of Time
12. A book adapted by Masterpiece Theatre. Using the original list.
�The Chaperone
It took a lot longer this year, but I finished 3 rounds and two rejects challenges.
Around the Year in 52 Books
Books mentioned in this topic
The Berry Pickers (other topics)Spells for Forgetting (other topics)
The Seven Year Slip (other topics)
Three Parts Dead (other topics)
Mrs. Pollifax on Safari (other topics)
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Authors mentioned in this topic
Nicholas Sparks (other topics)Kazu Kibuishi (other topics)
Frans de Waal (other topics)
Gabrielle Zevin (other topics)
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COMPLETED BOOKS (with overlaps for now)
Goal: to read 3+ books per prompt
�1. A book with a title that ends in A, T or Y
1- Lucy by the Sea , A
2 - The Last House on the Street. T
3 - Shrines of Gaiety, Y
�2. A book connected to something you read in 2023
2- The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters - 4 stars
1- The Magician's Assistant - - 🌟5 stars
3- Chemistry by Weike Wang- 4 stars
The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel - - 🌟5 stars
�3. A book that fits a suggestion that didn’t make the final list
1- A book involving Immigration, migration or relocation to another country -
Go, Went, Gone - - 🌟5 stars
What Strange Paradise - - 🌟5 stars
2- A biography, autobiography, or memoir - Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness, - - 🌟5 stars
3- NPR Books We Love- side challenge (23 total)- I'm Glad My Mom Died, 4 stars
Hell of a Book. 3 stars
�4. A book related to something mentioned in the lyrics of What a Wonderful World by Louis Armstrong
1. Heartstopper: Volume Two - 4 stars
2.Esperanza Rising. - 4 stars
3. Mockingbird - 4 stars
Tom Lake by Ann Patchett -5 stars
�5. A book set in one of the 25 most beautiful cities in the World
1. The Red Notebook - Paris - - 🌟5 stars
2. The Gods of Tango - Buenos Aires - - 🌟4.5 stars
3. A Rip Through Time -London - 4 stars
The Astonishing Color of After - Tai Pei
The Spectacular by Fiona Davis - New York
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox - Edinburgh
The Paris Novel by Ruth Reichl- Paris - - 🌟5 stars
The Paris Library - Paris
A Curious Beginning -London
Soulless, Changeless - London
The Elegance of the Hedgehog- Paris
�6. A book with wings on the cover
1. A Curious Beginning - Deanna Raybourne
2. This is How You Lose the Time War - - 🌟5 stars
3. The Astonishing Color of After Taipei
The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Untethered Sky
The Ardent Swarm - - 🌟5 stars
�7. A book with a pronoun in the title
1- If Ever I Return, Pretty Peggy-O
2- You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories about Racism
3-I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death by Maggie O'Farrell - - 🌟5 stars
Call Me By Your Name
Always Be My Banshee
�8. A book by an author from Canada, Australia or New Zealand
1- The Edible Woman by Margaret Atwood - Canada
2- Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow by Jessica Townsend - Australia
3 - The Dry by Jane Harper - Australia
Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton - New Zealand
Breath by Tim Winton - Perth Australia (fits Sea prompt)
A Rip Through Time - Canada
The Maid
A Stitch in Time
Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters - Canada
�9. A book with fewer than 2024 ratings on ŷ
1- Plastic: A Toxic Love Story by Susan Freinkel
2- The Day the River Caught Fire: How the Cuyahoga River Exploded and Ignited the Earth Day Movement
3 - About Time: 12 Short Stories by Jack Finney
One Plastic Bag: Isatou Ceesay and the Recycling Women of the Gambia
Darwin Comes to Town: How the Urban Jungle Drives Evolution - - 🌟5 stars
Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid: The Fraught and Fascinating Biology of Climate Change
�10. A history or historical fiction book
1- Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History
2- The Orphan's Tale
3- Lady Cop Makes Trouble
They Called Us Enemy
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
Women Talking
The Paris Library
A Perilous Undertaking
The Gods of Tango
The Alienist
�11. A book with an X connection (Gen X authors)
1. The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
2- Sea of Tranquility by author:Emily St. John Mandel|2786093] - - 🌟4,5 stars
3- Remote Control Nnedi Okorafor - - 🌟4.5 stars
The Poet X
Binti by Nnedi Okorafor
Akata Witch Nnedi Okorafor
The Glass Hotel byEmily St. John Mandel
�12. A book that has been on your TBR for over a year - since 2017-2018
1- A Test of Wills
2- The Bear and the Nightingale
3- The Red Tent
The Story of Arthur Truluv
Death at la Fenice
The giver
�13. A book that is on a Five Books List; reader’s choice of which list
1- Birnam Wood - - 🌟5 stars
2- The Alienist
3- Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
�14. A book with a main character who is Black, Indigenous, or a Person of Color
1- When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors - - 🌟5 stars
2- Gone Fishin' by Walter Mosley
3- Erasure by Percival Everett - - 🌟5 stars
Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby
Finding Me by Viola Davis
Other words for home
Heavy
Remote Control
Long Way Down
You’ll never believe what happened to Lacey
Modern Romance
The Poet X
�15. A book whose author’s name includes one of the 4 least used letters in the alphabet (JQZX)
1- An Incomplete Revenge by Jacqueline Winspear
2. My Name Is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
3. Ice Planet Barbarians by Ruby Dixon
Other Words for Home by Jasmine Warga
�16. A book related to the phrase "It's Raining Cats and Dogs"
1- A Girl Named Zippy
2- The Tombs of Atuan
3- Because of Winn-Dixie
�17. A book involving intelligence
1- You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How Artificial Intelligence Works and Why It's Making the World a Weirder Place
2 - A Palm for Mrs. Pollifax
3- Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? by Frans de Waal - - 🌟4 stars
The Huntress
The Elusive Mrs. Pollifax
�18. A book with a botanical cover
1- The Nature of Nature: Why We Need the Wild by Enric Sala
2- The Extinction of Irena Rey
The Berry Pickers
3- The Connellys of County Down
Tom lake
�19. A book connected in some way to any of the flavors of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream
1- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - Dublin Mudslide
2- When Life Gives You Mangos - Jamaican me crazy, Mango mango sorbet
3- Naked in Death - New York Fudge Chunk
Visions of Heat - Hunka Burnin Fudge
Nonfiction:
Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice - White Russian
Darwin Comes to Town: How the Urban Jungle Drives Evolution - Urban Jumble
The Berry Pickers - Berry Berry Extraordinary,
When Life Gives You Mangos- Jamaican me Crazy and Mango Mango sorbet
Beyond That, the Sea - Wild Maine Blueberry
Chemistry
New York Fudge Chunk :
The Seven Year Slip, The Spectacular, The Alienist, The Poet X, The Glass Hotel, The Chaperone, Naked in Death
�20. A book with a single word title
Visitation
1- Orlando by Virginia Woolf
Soulless
2- Stardust by Neil Gaiman
Fairest by Marissa Meyer
Winter by Marissa Meyer - - 🌟5 stars
3- Winter by Ali Smith
Scarlet
Heavy
�21. A book with a title containing 6+ words
3- Darwin Comes to Town: How the Urban Jungle Drives Evolution - 🌟5 stars
1- What You Are Looking For Is in the Library
2- You're Never Weird on the Internet
Eating to Extinction: The World's Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them
Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice
�22. A book by an author from an African country
1- Stay with Me by Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀
2- Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi
3. The Ardent Swarm by Yamen Manai - 🌟5 stars
Remote Control by Nnedi Okorafor
Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor
Binti
Home
What Strange Paradise by Omar El Akkad - - 🌟5 stars
�23. A book related to Boats, Beaches, Bars, Ballads, or Jimmy Buffett
1- The Mermaid of Black Conch
2 - Float Plan by Trish Doller
3- Breath by Tim Winton - Perth Australia (fits Sea prompt)
Saint
The Tombs of Atuan
What Strange Paradise
Beyond That, the Sea
�24. A book with a secondary color on the cover (orange, green or purple)
1- Slave to Sensation
2- I Capture the Castle
3- Interpreter of Maladies
The Odyssey
The Astonishing Color of After
Winter
The Island of Dr. Moreau
Off the Map
�25. A book involving a crime other than a murder
1- The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession by Michael Finkel
2- The Case of the Missing Marquess byNancy Springer
3- The Case of the Left-Handed Lady byNancy Springer
The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel - 🌟5 stars
�26. A book by an author known by their initials
1- Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher
2- Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby - 🌟5 stars
3- The Outsiders by SE Hinton - 🌟5 stars