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But we've been here before... (GenX brain, lol)

I was surprised to see that this will be my 9th year doing the ATY challenge! No really big plans, just hoping for a good reading year.

There are new books coming in several series I'm reading and I have got several re-reads scheduled. I don't traditionally include many re-reads in my ATY books, but a few may be on the list this year.

I'm also planning a chronological re-read of the October Daye series by Seanan McGuire. In fact, I've already started on the dozens of short stories that take place before the events of the first novel.

Here's to an exciting 2024!

Legend
Ownership - Owned/Pre-Ordered before 2024: 👍, Purchased: $, Received Free: 🆓, Borrowed: 👏
Format - Paper: 📖, Kindle/Electronic: 💻, Audio: 🔊
Re-Read: 🔁

27/52

[√] 1. A book with a title that ends in A, T or Y
What Feasts at Night ��💻$🔊

[ ] 2. A book connected to something you read in 2023

[√] 3. A book that fits a suggestion that didn’t make the final list
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (A book that features a child character) $💻👏🔊

[√] 4. A book related to something mentioned in the lyrics of What a Wonderful World by Louis Armstrong
Rose/House ('red roses too') 🆓💻

[√] 5. A book set in one of the 25 most beautiful cities in the world
The Seventh Sinner (Rome) 🔁🆓📖

[ ] 6. A book with wings on the cover

[ ] 7. A book with a pronoun in the title

[ ] 8. A book by an author from Canada, Australia or New Zealand

[ ] 9. A book with fewer than 2024 ratings on ŷ������

[ ] 10. A history or historical fiction book

[ ] 11. A book with an X connection

[ ] 12. A book that has been on your TBR for over a year

[ ] 13. A book that is on a Five Books List; reader’s choice of which list

[√] 14. A book with a main character who is Black, Indigenous, or a Person of Color
All the Sinners Bleed $💻🔊

[√] 15. A book whose author’s name includes one of the 4 least used letters in the alphabet (JQZX)
Better Living Through Algorithms (Naomi Kritzer) 🆓💻

[√] 16. A book related to the phrase "It's Raining Cats and Dogs"
Starter Villain (cats) $💻🔊

[√] 17. A book involving intelligence
Exit Strategy ��💻🔊

[ ] 18. A book with a botanical cover

[ ] 19. A book connected in some way to any of the flavors of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream

[ ] 20. A book with a single word title

[√] 21. A book with a title containing 6+ words
Abortion: Our Bodies, Their Lies, and the Truths We Use to Win $💻🔊

[ ] 22. A book by an author from an African country

[ ] 23. A book related to Boats, Beaches, Bars, Ballads, or Jimmy Buffett

[√] 24. A book with a secondary color on the cover (orange, green or purple)
Set Boundaries, Find Peace: A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself ��💻🔊

[√] 25. A book involving a crime other than a murder
Yellowface (plagiarism/theft) ��💻🔊

[ ] 26. A book by an author known by their initials

[ ] 27. A book related to land

[√] 28. A book related to sea
The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi (pirates!) $💻🔊

[ ] 29. A book related to air

[ ] 30. A book set in a country bordering the Mediterranean Sea

[ ] 31. A book related to “Going for the Gold��

[ ] 32. A book with a number in the title

[ ] 33. A book involving travel

[√] 34. A book related to the name of one of Snow White's seven dwarfs
A Sorceress Comes to Call (Bashful) ��💻🔊

[√] 35. A science or science fiction book
Rogue Protocol ��💻🔊

[ ] 36. A book featuring a character in education

[√] 37. A book that is part of a series
Aftermarket Afterlife ��💻$🔊

[√] 38. Two books with similar covers: Book 1
C is for Corpse ��💻

[√] 39. Two books with similar covers: Book 2
D is for Deadbeat ��💻

[√] 40. A book involving a wild animal or endangered species, in the content, title, or on the cover
Mammoths at the Gates (mammoths, of course 😉) ��💻🔊

[√] 41. A book with a chilling atmosphere
The Book Eaters 🆓💻👏🔊

[ ] 42. A book with a sound-related word in the title

[√] 43. A book by an Edgar Award-winning Author
A Is for Alibi (Sue Grafton) 🔁��💻

[ ] 44. A book with a touch of magic

[√] 45. A book that is not a novel
Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier $💻🔊

[√] 46. A book related to night
The Seventh Bride $💻🔊

[√] 47. A book with a two-word title beginning with THE
The Reformatory $💻🔊

[ ] 48. A second book that fits your favorite prompt

[√] 49. A book with a senior citizen character
B is for Burglar 🔁��💻

[√] 50. A book posted in one of the ATY Best Book of the Month threads in 2023 or 2024
Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (February 2024) ��💻

[√] 51. A book published in 2024
The Answer Is No 🆓💻$🔊

[√] 52. A cozy mystery
The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles 👏💻

Books I own/pre-orders I might want to read - Fiction:

Family Lore
Children of Virtue and Vengeance
Americanah
Half of a Yellow Sun
Purple Hibiscus
Internment
Victories Greater Than Death
The Testaments
Into the Windwracked Wilds
Under the Smokestrewn Sky
Bookshops & Bonedust
If Beale Street Could Talk
Going to Meet the Man
The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy
The Sellout
Jane Eyre
Lilith's Brood: Dawn (re-read), Adulthood Rites, Imago
Parable of the Talents
Wild Seed
Bloodchild and Other Stories
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
A Closed and Common Orbit
Record of a Spaceborn Few
The Galaxy, and the Ground Within
The Dragon Stone Conspiracy: A Strowlers Novel
The Bone Witch
The Water Dancer
Leviathan Wakes
Vox
Bloodmarked
Parable of the Sower: A Graphic Novel Adaptation
Washington Black
Winter Tide
A Half-Built Garden
Girl, Woman, Other
We Hunt the Flame
Ardulum: First Don
Mythos
Heroes: Mortals and Monsters, Quests and Adventures
Magic for Liars
Upright Women Wanted
Anansi Boys
The Sleeper and the Spindle
Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances
An Untamed State
The Reanimation of Edward Schuett
Call Us What We Carry
Parasite (re-read)
Symbiont
Chimera
Fed
Feedback
Rise - The Complete Newsflesh Collection
In the Shadow of Spindrift House
Kingdom of Needle and Bone
Homegoing
The Once and Future Witches
When the Moon is Low
The Girl on the Train
Catch-22 (re-read)
The Fireman
Redemptor
Deathless Divide
Last Night in Twisted River
In One Person
The Inheritance Trilogy: The Broken Kingdoms, The Kingdom of Gods, The Awakened Kingdom
The Dreamblood Duology: The Killing Moon, The Shadowed Sun
The City We Became (re-read)
The World We Make
How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House
The Thirty Names of Night
Fairy Tale
The Hollow Places
What Feasts at Night (pre-order)
A Sorceress Comes to Call (pre-order)
Ophelia
Somewhere Beyond the Sea (pre-order)
The Poppy War
The Dragon Republic
Yellowface
The Heart of the Circle
The Merry Spinster: Tales of Everyday Horror
A Wizard of Earthsea
The Left Hand of Darkness
The Found and the Lost: The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin
Ancillary Justice
Weave The Lightning
Jade City
Pachinko
The Three-Body Problem
A Memory Called Empire
A Desolation Called Peace
Middlegame (re-read)
Seasonal Fears (re-read)
Tidal Creatures (pre-order)
Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (pre-order)
Aftermarket Afterlife (pre-order)
Reflections
Laughter at the Academy
Carniepunk: Daughter of the Midway, the Mermaid, and the Open, Lonely Sea
Any Way the Wind Blows
A Crown So Cursed
The Serpent of Venice
Shakespeare for Squirrels
Silver Nitrate
Gideon the Ninth
Harrow the Ninth
Nona the Ninth
1Q84
Like a Love Story
The Refugees
The Last Graduate
The Golden Enclaves
Hamnet
There There
The Astonishing Color of After
Detransition, Baby
The Color of Magic
Small Gods
Black Sun (re-read)
Fevered Star
Mirrored Heavens (pre-order)
Antony and Cleopatra
Coriolanus
The Taming of the Shrew
Love's Labor's Lost
The Merchant of Venice
The Winter's Tale
Richard II
Henry IV, Part 1
Henry IV, Part 2
Henry V
The Priory of the Orange Tree
The Truthseer and the Goose
The Signal Out of Space
On the Come Up
Mammoths at the Gates
The Brides of High Hill (pre-order)
On the Fox Roads
Sing, Unburied, Sing
Artemis
Rogue Protocol
Exit Strategy
Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory
Network Effect
Fugitive Telemetry
System Collapse
Witch King
The Underground Railroad
The Small Backs of Children

Books I own/pre-orders I might want to read - Non-Fiction:

One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy
The Origins of Totalitarianism
Things No One Will Tell Fat Girls: A Handbook for Unapologetic Living
Notes of a Native Son
I Am Not Your Negro
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
My Life as a Goddess: A Memoir through (Un) Popular Culture
I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
High Performance Habits: How Extraordinary People Become That Way
Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement
Grant
Washington: A Life
Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle
Women, Race & Class
A Heart That Works
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America
What Truth Sounds Like: Robert F. Kennedy, James Baldwin, and Our Unfinished Conversation About Race in America
How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking
Save Yourself
Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life
War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence
And Don't F&%k It Up: An Oral History of RuPaul's Drag Race
A Short History of Reconstruction Updated Edition
Somebody's Daughter
Naturally Tan
Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture
Bad Feminist
Surviving Autocracy
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers
In the Country We Love: My Family Divided
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That Actually Works
Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars
We Are Never Meeting in Real Life.
Wow, No Thank You.
This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America
This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do the Work
All Boys Aren't Blue
How We Can Win: Race, History and Changing the Money Game That's Rigged
When Breath Becomes Air
Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks
How to Be an Antiracist
The View from Flyover Country: Dispatches from the Forgotten America
They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir
Red Paint: The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk
Wild Faith: How the Christian Right Is Taking Over America
Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir
Heavy: An American Memoir
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America
Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
The Theory That Would Not Die: How Bayes' Rule Cracked the Enigma Code, Hunted Down Russian Submarines, and Emerged Triumphant from Two Centuries of Controversy
Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
Be a Revolution: How Everyday People Are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World--And How You Can, Too
Figuring
Crash Override: How Gamergate (Nearly) Destroyed My Life, and How We Can Win the Fight Against Online Hate
The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl
Citizen: An American Lyric
The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo
The World As It Is: Inside the Obama White House
Make Trouble: Standing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding the Courage to Lead
Everything's Trash, But It's Okay
Please Don't Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes: Essays
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor
Cosmos
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
Journey to Portugal: In Pursuit of Portugal's History and Culture
Every Tool's a Hammer: Life Is What You Make It
Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
Set Boundaries, Find Peace: A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself
You Are Here: Discovering the Magic of the Present Moment
Hand to Mouth: Living in Bootstrap America
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
Why We Swim
The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South
Abortion: Our Bodies, Their Lies, and the Truths We Use to Win
Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love
The End of Policing
Beautiful Country
The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race
The Little Book of Hygge: The Danish Way to Live Well
Brown Girl Dreaming
Fluent Forever: How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It
What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays

So, not my best reading year ever. I did some rereading that I didn't count in my ATY books, but still the first year in a while that I didn't read at least 52 books. But sometimes that happens 🤷‍♀��

I found that I just wasn't as motivated to read in 2024.
Additionally, the last quarter of the year was quite difficult, personally.

In any event, on to the new year!