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This year's list:


Reading
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1. A book with the letters A, T & Y in the title
week 6
Le Meurtre de Roger Ackroyd - Agatha Christie


★★★★ - My review

5. A book about or inspired by real events
Week 2
Une larme m'a sauvée - Angèle Lieby


★★ - My review

6. A book originally written in a language other than English
Week 4
La jeunesse mélancolique et très désabusée d'Adolf Hitler - Michel Folco


★★�� - My review

9. A book with a body part in the title (heart, bones, teeth, skin, blood, etc)
Week 2
Les Cadavres n'ont pas froid aux yeux - Andrea H. Japp


★★ - My review

10. An author's debut book (their first book to be published)
Week 4
When God Was a Rabbit - Sarah Winman


★★★★ - My review

16. A narrative nonfiction
Week 13
Les nouvelles chroniques d'un médecin légiste - Michel Sapanet


★★�� - My review

17. A book you expect to make you laugh
Week 17
Dico Dingo - Pascal Garnier


★★ - My review

19. A book nominated for the Edgar Award or by a Grand master author (books & authors)
Week 4
The Old Wine Shades - Martha Grimes


★★★★ - My review

21. A book written in first person perspective
Week 23
Zanzara - Paul Colize


★★★★�� - My review

25. A book with an antagonist/villain point of view
week 10
Les Quatre fins dernières - Andrew Taylor


★★★★ - My review

26. A book with a text only cover
Week 15Lucky You - Carl Hiaasen


★★�� - My review

27. A book about surviving a hardship (war, famine, major disasters, serious illness, etc)
Week 5
La petite fille qui aimait Tom Gordon - Stephen King


★★ - My review

30. A short book
Week 2
La tectonique des sentiments - Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt


�� - My review

31. A book set in a country you'd like to visit but have never been to
Week 5
Le Loup dans la bergerie - Gunnar Staalesen


★★�� - My review

35. A book featuring a murder
week 11
Cuisine sanglante - Minette Walters


★★★★�� - My review

41. A book by an author with the same first and last initials
week 12
Vanity Dies Hard - Ruth Rendell


★★�� - My review

42. A book that takes place on, in, or underwater
week 12
Novecento : pianiste - Alessandro Baricco


★★ - My review

43. A book with a title that is a whole sentence
Week 3
Les cafards n'ont pas de roi - D. E. Weiss


★★ - My review

44. A ghost story
Week 22
Ring - Kōji Suzuki


★★★★ - My review

45. A book that intimidates/ scares you
week 6
The Godfather - Mario Puzo


★★★★�� - My review

47. A book where the main character (or author) is of a different ethnic origin, religion, or sexual identity than your own
L'étrange voyage de Monsieur Daldry - Marc Levy


★★�� - My review

50. A book with a warm atmosphere (centered on family, friendship, love or summer)
week 2
Le Voleur d'ombres - Marc Levy


★★★★�� - My review

51. An award-winning short story or short story collection
week 8
Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales - Stephen King


★★★★ - My review

52. A book published in 2018
Week 18
La Disparition de Stephanie Mailer - Joël Dicker


★★★★�� - My review

****

34. A suggestion from the AtY 2018 polls, that didn't win but was polarizing or a close-call
=>A book by an author who has published at least 30 fiction books or 10 non-fiction books
Week 1
The Husband - Dean Koontz


****

4. 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #1 Earth (in title, cover,
content, setting, author...)
On the Road - Jack Kerouac


13. A book with a plot centered around a secret (forbidden love, spies, secret societies, etc)
Le Procès - Franz Kafka


14. 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #2 Fire
B comme brûlée - Sue Grafton


15. A book with an unique format/writing structure
Chapitre 57 - Franck Thilliez
I'd Kill For That - various authors (one per chapter)


18. A book with a location in the title
Les délices de Tokyo - Durian Sukegawa


38. A science book or a science fiction book
The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements - Sam Kean


39. A book with a form of punctuation in the title
Que Le Spectacle Commence! - Ann Featherstone


48. A book related to one of the 7 deadly sins (pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath, sloth)
Greed
American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis


****

2. A book from the first 10 books added to your To Be Read list


3. A book from the 2017 ŷ������ Choice Awards (link)


7. A gothic novel


8. An "own voices" book*


11. A literary fiction


12. A book set in Africa or South America


20. A book rated 5 stars by at least one of your friends



22. A book you have high expectations or hope for


23. A medical or legal thriller


24. A book with a map


28. 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #3 Water


29. A book with a "Clue" weapon on the cover or title (lead pipe, revolver, rope, candlestick, dagger, wrench)


32. An alternate history book


33. A book connected (title, cover, content) to a word "born" in the same year as you


36. A book published in the last 3 years (2016, 2017, 2018) by an author you haven't read before


37. A Women's Prize for Fiction winner or nominee


40. A book from Amazon's 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime list


46. 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #4 Air


49. A book from one of the ŷ������ Best Books of the Month lists

Possible replacement prompts:

A. A Canada read nominee


B. A fiction book by an author famous for something other than writing


C. A book written in second person (point of view is a you)


D. A book with a mind blowing twist


E. A book (fiction or nonfiction) about a subject that made headlines
A L'Ombre de Ma Vie: Prisonniere de L'Etat Mexicain - Florence Cassez


F. A book that won or was nominated for the PEN Translation Prize


G. A book suggested by a Booktuber


H. A book from BookRiot's 100 Must-Read Latin American Books


I. A microhistory


J. A book you discovered on Whichbook


K. A book recommended in Good Minds Suggest


L. A book from the 10 best top 100 book lists


M. A book recommended by one of ŷ������' 100 Most Popular Reviewers


N. A book set in the 22nd Century (2101-2202)


O. A book whose title or author's last name starts with Q, X, Y, or Z


P. A book with a 'made up' word in the title