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Sarah | 3 comments So excited to do this! It's the 2nd here in NZ and I've set out the whole list, but I will substitute as or if I need to...I'm already using a wildcard for number 39 (a form of punctuation in the title) but we'll see if we can change that ;)



1. A book with the letters A, T & Y in the title - Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher

2. A book from the first 10 books added to your To Be Read list - Like I Can Love by Kim Lock

3. A book from the 2017 Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ Choice Awards - This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel

4. 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #1 Earth - Stuck On Earth by David Klass

5. A book about or inspired by real events - No Easy Answers: The Truth Behind Death At Columbine by Brooks Brown

6. A book originally written in a language other than English - The Dinner by Kerman Koch

7. A gothic novel - The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters

8. An "own voices" book - The Colour Purple by Alice Walker

9. A book with a body part in the title - Bone By Bone by Sanjida Kay

10. An author's debut book - The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides

11. A literary fiction - Atonement Ian McEwan

12. A book set in Africa or South America - Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

13. A book with a plot centered around a secret (forbidden love, spies, secret societies, etc) - Cries From The Deep by Anthony Hulse

14. 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #2 Fire - How To Start a Fire Lisa Lutz

15. A book with an unique format/writing structure - Mozart and the Wolf Gang by Anthony Burgess

16. A narrative nonfiction - Beautiful Affliction by Lene Fogelberg

17. A book you expect to make you laugh - As I Was Saying�: The World According To Clarkson Volume 6 by Jeremy Clarkson

18. A book with a location in the title - Looking For Alaska by John Green

19. A book nominated for the Edgar Award or by a Grand master author - Bent Road by Lori Roy

20. A book rated 5 stars by at least one of your friends - Attachments by Rainbow Rowell

21. A book written in first person perspective - The Choices We Make by Karma Brown

22. A book you have high expectations or hope for - The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Attwood

23. A medical or legal thriller - Gridlock by Alvin Ziegler

24. A book with a map - The Girl of Ink and Stars by Karen Millwood Hargrave

25. A book with an antagonist/villain point of view - Wicked: The Life and Times of The Wicked Witch of The West by Gregory Maguire

26. A book with a text only cover - Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock by Matthew Quick

27. A book about surviving a hardship (war, famine, major disasters, serious illness, etc) - Nine Minutes, Twenty Seconds: The Tragedy and Triumph of ASA Flight 529 by Gary Pomerantz

28. 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #3 Water - The Light On The Water by Olga Lorenzo

29. A book with a "Clue" weapon on the cover or title (lead pipe, revolver, rope, candlestick, dagger, wrench) - I Love You More by Jennifer Murphy

30. A short book - Sex and Sushi: Great Married Sex by Tessa DeSalada

31. A book set in a country you'd like to visit but have never been to - How I Became a Nun by Cesar Aira

32. An alternate history book - 11/22/63 by Stephen King

33. A book connected (title, cover, content) to a word "born" in the same year as you - Kill The Boy Band by Goldy Moldavsky

34. A suggestion from the AtY 2018 polls, that didn't win but was polarizing or a close-call - The Slap Christos Tsiolkas (a book that has been controversial)

35. A book featuring a murder - People Who Eat Darkness: The Fate Of Lucie Blackman by Richard Lloyd Parry

36. A book published in the last 3 years (2016, 2017, 2018) by an author you haven't read before - When I’m Gone by Emily Bleeker

37. A Women's Prize for Fiction winner or nominee - 26a by Diana Evans

38. A science book or a science fiction book - The Ghost Map: The Story of London’s Most Terrifying Epidemic - And How It Changed Science, Cities and the Modern World by Steven Johnson

39. A book with a form of punctuation in the title WILDCARD - Truly Madly Guilty Liane Moriarty

40. A book from Amazon's 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime list - Life After Life by Kate Atkinson

41. A book by an author with the same first and last initials - Saving Francesca by Melina Marchetta

42. A book that takes place on, in, or underwater - Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Luisitania by Erik Larson

43. A book with a title that is a whole sentence - Did You See Melody? by Sophie Hannah

44. A ghost story - Beloved by Toni Morrisson

45. A book that intimidates/ scares you - 1984 by George Orwell

46. 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #4 Air - Love In Mid Air by Kim Wright

47. A book where the main character (or author) is of a different ethnic origin, religion, or sexual identity than your own - Lies My Girlfriend Told Me by Julie Anne Peters

48. A book related to one of the 7 deadly sins (pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath, sloth) - Wish You Were Mine by Tara Sivec

49. A book from one of the Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ Best Books of the Month lists - Love Letters to the Dead by Ava Dellaira

50. A book with a warm atmosphere (centered on family, friendship, love or summer) - In Twenty Years by Allison Winn Scotch

51. An award-winning short story or short story collection - Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

52. A book published in 2018 - Fire Sermon Jamie Quatro


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