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Making reading plans is the best! Giving myself four options for each week, and hoping to knock off two of them most weeks.

#1. A book with the letters A, T & Y in the title
Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley by Hannah Tinti
The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich



#2. A book from the first 10 books added to your To Be Read list
Daughter of Smoke & Bone by Laini Taylor
The Diviners by Libba Bray
The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally



#3. A book from the 2017 ŷ������ Choice Awards
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Without Merit by Colleen Hoover
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original Screenplay by J.K. Rowling
What Happened by Hillary Rodham Clinton



#4. 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #1 Earth (in title, cover, content, setting, author...)
The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel (Earth's Children series)
2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson (Earth on the cover)
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution by Richard Dawkins
The World Without Us by Alan Weisman



#5. A book about or inspired by real events
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
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Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders by Vincent Bugliosi



#6. A book originally written in a language other than English
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende



#7. A gothic novel
The Monk by Matthew Lewis
Vathek by William Beckford
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Woman in Black by Susan Hill



#8. An "own voices" book
A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
The Star-Touched Queen by Roshani Chokshi
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon



#9. A book with a body part in the title (heart, bones, teeth, skin, blood, etc)
The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne
Under the Skin by Michel Faber
Payment in Blood by Elizabeth George
Sour Heart by Jenny Zhang



#10. An author's debut book (their first book to be published)
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
The Leavers by Lisa Ko
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
The Secret History by Donna Tartt



#11. A literary fiction
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
The Known World by Edward P. Jones
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen



#12. A book set in Africa or South America
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
In a Free State by V.S. Naipaul
Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann



#13. A book with a plot centered around a secret (forbidden love, spies, secret societies, etc
The Untouchable by John Banville
The Alice Network by Kate Quinn
The Unlikely Spy by Daniel Silva
Ill Will by Dan Chaon



#14. 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #2 Fire 
The Burning Girl by Claire Messud
The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard
Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury



#15. A book with an unique format/writing structure
One On One by Craig Brown
Illuminae by Amie Kaufman
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf



#16. A narrative nonfiction
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee
The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin's Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World - And Us by Richard O. Prum
Columbine by Dave Cullen



#17. A book you expect to make you laugh
Thank You, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse
How to Be a Woman by Caitlin Moran
We Are Never Meeting In Real Life by Samantha Irby
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris



#18. A book with a location in the title
The Witches of Eastwick by John Updike
A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka
The Rise of Athens: The Story of the World's Greatest Civilization by Anthony Everitt



#19. A book nominated for the Edgar Award or by a Grand master author
Before the Fall by Noah Hawley
Morgue by Vincent DiMaio
Indemnity Only by Sara Paretsky
Stalking the Angel by Robert Crais



#20. A book rated 5 stars by at least one of your friends
The Diamond Age: or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer by Neal Stephenson
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
The Wars of the Roses by Alison Weir



#21. A book written in first person perspective
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
The Martian by Andy Weir
Legend by Marie Lu

#22. A book you have high expectations or hope for
Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld
American War by Omar El Akkad
The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari



#23. A medical or legal thriller
The Bone Garden by Tess Gerritsen
The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus by Richard Preston
The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton
Defending Jacob by William Landay

#24. A book with a map
A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
Eragon by Christopher Paolini
Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay
The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch


#25. A book with an antagonist/villain point of view
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
I Am Not A Serial Killer by Dan Wells
Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy
The Collector by John Fowles


#26. A book with a text only cover

The Mother of All Questions by Rebecca Solnit
The Book of Daniel by E.L. Doctorow
The Silent Corner by Dean Koontz
Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give by Ada Calhoun


#27. A book about surviving a hardship (war, famine, major disasters, serious illness, etc)
The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
The Story of My Life by Helen Keller
Wonder by R.J. Palacio
Inside the O'Briens by Lisa Genova


#28. 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #3 Water
The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy by Heather Ann Thompson
At the Water's Edge by Sara Gruen
The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi


#29. A book with a "Clue" weapon on the cover or title (lead pipe, revolver, rope, candlestick, dagger, wrench)
Girl Waits with Gun by Amy Stewart
The Ipcress File by Len Deighton
Injury Time: A Novel by Beryl Bainbridge
Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook by Christina Henry


#30. A short book
Bliss by Katherine Mansfield
The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy
The Testament of Mary by Colm Tóibín
The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells


#31. A book set in a country you'd like to visit but have never been to
Empress Orchid by Anchee Min
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
Our Kind of Traitor by John le Carré
Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene


#32. An alternate history book
Fatherland by Robert Harris
The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson
The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon


#33. A book connected (title, cover, content) to a word "born" in the same year as you
"crack house"
Requiem for a Dream by Hubert Selby Jr.
High Society by Ben Elton
Drama City by George Pelecanos
How to Murder Your Life by Cat Marnell


#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 uses initials
Empire of the Sun by J.G. Ballard
Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow
A Passage to India by E.M. Forster


#35. A book featuring a murder
The Alienist by Caleb Carr
Life or Death by Michael Robotham
Gorky Park by Martin Cruz Smith
E is for Evidence by Sue Grafton


#36. A book published in the last 3 years (2016, 2017, 2018) by an author you haven't read before
Today Will Be Different by Maria Semple
Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys
The Leavers by Lisa Ko
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman


#37. A Women's Prize for Fiction winner or nominee
Small Island by Andrea Levy
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels
On Beauty by Zadie Smith


#38. A science book or a science fiction book
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
Blackout by Connie Willis


#39. A book with a form of punctuation in the title
Super-Cannes by J.G. Ballard
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex by Mary Roach
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
Who Do You Think You Are? by Alice Munro


#40. A book from Amazon's 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime list
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
The World According to Garp by John Irving


#41. A book by an author with the same first and last initials
The Mothers by Brit Bennett
Falling Man by Don DeLillo
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga



#42. A book that takes place on, in, or underwater
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
Fatal Voyage: The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis by Dan Kurzman
The North Water by Ian McGuire
The Drowned World by J.G. Ballard


#43. A book with a title that is a whole sentence
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb
John Dies at the End by David Wong

Great start to your plan. I love that you are giving yourself choices. I am whenever I am not certain which book I want to read for each topic.

Are you planning on doing any other reading challenges?

#44. A ghost story
A Stir of Echoes by Richard Matheson
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places by Colin Dickey
Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz


#45. A book that intimidates/ scares you
Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski


#46. 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #4 Air
Bomber by Len Deighton
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders
Airframe by Michael Crichton


#47. A book where the main character (or author) is of a different ethnic origin, religion, or sexual identity than your own
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Moon Called by Patricia Briggs
The Danish Girl by David Ebershoff
Wild Seed by Octavia E. Butler



#48. A book related to one of the 7 deadly sins (pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath, sloth)
The Middlesteins by Jami Attenberg
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
The Godfather by Mario Puzo
Money by Martin Amis



#49. A book from one of the ŷ������ Best Books of the Month lists
The Passage by Justin Cronin
Turtles All the Way Down by John Green
The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman
The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton



#50. A book with a warm atmosphere (centered on family, friendship, love or summer)
The Wangs vs. the World by Jade Chang
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Possession by A.S. Byatt
The Shark Club by Ann Kidd Taylor



#51. An award-winning short story or short story collection
The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter by Katherine Anne Porter
Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories by Flannery O'Connor
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout




#52. A book published in 2018
Iron Gold by Pierce Brown
Circe by Madeline Miller

Oh man...you have so many good books to choose from. I have several of your selections on my 2018 list and read many of your other picks in 2017. Happy reading in the new year!

Lots of great choices read quite a number of them and liked most of them loved a couple ( The fact of the Body & The Poisonwood Bible) hated a couple too. But just my opinion. Hope you have a great time with the ones you pick!!!

Great choices, all of ‘em. I love your list.