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Fee's 2020 ATY

Books planned for 2020
Finished: 48/52 (4 to read)

�� 1. A book with a title that doesn't contain the letters A, T or Y
Wool by Hugh Howey

�� 2. A book by an author whose last name is one syllable
The Woman in Black by Susan Hill

�� 3. A book that you are prompted to read because of something you read in 2019
The Blood Mirror

�� 4. A book set in a place or time that you wouldn't want to live
Carmilla

�� 5. The first book in a series that you have not started
The Blade Itself

�� 6. A book with a mode of transportation on the cover
Our Man In Havana

�� 7. A book set in the southern hemisphere
The Bridge of San Luis Rey

�� 8. A book with a two-word title where the first word is "The"
L'Amant (The Lover)

�� 9. A book that can be read in a day
Emil und die Detektive / Emil und die drei Zwillinge

�� 10. A book that is between 400-600 pages
Magpie Murders

�� 11. A book originally published in a year that is a prime number
My Cousin Rachel

�� 12. A book that is a collaboration between 2 or more people
Les Trois Mousquetaires by Alexandre Dumas

�� 13. A prompt from a previous Around the Year in 52 Books challenge (Link)
2016: 50. A book originally written in a language other than English
A Simple Heart

�� 14. A book by an author on the Abe List of 100 Essential Female Writers (link)
The Age of Innocence

�� 15. A book set in a global city
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

�� 16. A book set in a rural or sparsely populated area
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

�� 17. A book with a neurodiverse character
Gray

�� 18. A book by an author you've only read once before
David Copperfield

�� 19. A fantasy book
Best Served Cold

�� 20. The 20th book [on your TBR, in a series, by an author, on a list, etc.]
Before They Are Hanged

�� 21. A book related to Maximilian Hell, the noted astronomer and Jesuit Priest who was born in 1720
2001: A Space Odyssey

�� 22. A book with the major theme of survival
Annihilation

�� 23. A book featuring an LGBTQIA+ character or by an LGBTQIA+ author
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

�� 24. A book with an emotion in the title
Pride and Prejudice

�� 25. A book related to the arts
Tea with the Black Dragon

�� 26. A book from the 2019 ŷ������ Choice Awards
The Burning White

�� 27. A history or historical fiction
The Girl with the Pearl Earring

�� 28. A book by an Australian, Canadian or New Zealand author
The Test

�� 29. An underrated book, a hidden gem or a lesser known book
Lud-in-the-Mist

�� 30. A book from the New York Times '100 Notable Books' list for any year
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke (2004)

�� 31. A book inspired by a leading news story
The Fatal Eggs

�� 32. A book related to the 2020 Olympic Summer Games in Japan
The Westing Game

�� 33. A book about a non-traditional family
Les Enfants terribles

�� 34. A book from a genre or sub genre that starts with a letter in your name
La Dame aux Camélias (R Romance)

�� 35. A book with a geometric pattern or element on the cover
The Call of CthulhuThe Nameless City and The Picture in the House and Ex Oblivione

�� 36. A book from your TBR/wishlist that you don't recognize, recall putting there, or put there on a whim
The Strange Library

�� 37. Two books that are related to each other as a pair of binary opposites: Book #1
Les Liaisons dangereuses

�� 38. Two books that are related to each other as a pair of binary opposites: Book #2
Luster

�� 39. A book by an author whose real name(s) you're not quite sure how to pronounce
La Carte et le Territoire

�� 40. A book with a place name in the title
A Passage to India by E.M. Forster

�� 41. A mystery
Un Avion sans elle (After the Crash)

�� 42. A book that was nominated for one of the ��10 Most Coveted Literary Prizes in the World�� (link)
A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories

�� 43. A book related to one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse
Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie

�� 44. A book related to witches
Last Argument of Kings (Witch Caurib)

�� 45. A book by the same author who wrote one of your best reads in 2019 or 2018
Le Roi s'amuse

�� 46. A book about an event or era in history taken from the Billy Joel song "We Didn't Start the Fire"
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos

�� 47. A classic book you've always meant to read
Dracula

�� 48. A book published in 2020
Piranesi

�� 49. A book that fits a prompt from the list of suggestions that didn't win (link) - Poll 6: Book that involves a vacation
You Should Have Left

�� 50. A book with a silhouette on the cover
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

�� 51. A book with an "-ing" word in the title
84, Charing Cross Road

�� 52. A book related to time
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

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January

Finished


L'Amant (The Lover)by Marguerite Duras
Date Read: 5. January 2019
Rating: ✩✩✩✩
Task: 8 two word title with the

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Date Read: 11. January 2019
Rating: ✩✩��
Task: 52 MC lives his life backwards. So "time" is an important but also a bit of a strange thing in this short-story

Les Trois Mousquetaires by Alexandre Dumas
Date Read: 22. January 2019
Rating: ✩✩✩✩��
Task: 12 Dumas has written this novel in collaboration with Auguste Maquet.

The Woman in Black by Susan Hill
Date Read: 27. January 2019
Rating: ✩✩✩✩
Task 2: Last name one syllable

Feburaury

Finished


My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier
Date Read: 26. February 2019
Rating: ✩✩��
Task: 11 Book published in 1951, which is a prime number.

March

Finished


David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Date Read: 1. March 2020
Rating: ✩✩✩✩
Task: 18 Only read one book by Dickens before

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Date Read: 3. March 2020
Rating: ✩✩��
Task: 50 silhouette on the cover

The Blood Mirror by Brent Weeks
Date Read: 6. March 2020
Rating: ✩✩✩✩
Task: 3 Promotet to read because I read the other books of the series in 2019

Un avion sans elle by Michel Bussi
Date Read: 24. March 2020
Rating: ✩✩
Task: 41 It's a mystery

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos
Date Read: 27. March 2020
Rating: ✩✩��
Task 46: The books was made into a movie, in which Marilyn Monroe played the main protagonist. Monroe is mentioned in the song.

Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie
Date Read: 31. March 2020
Rating: ✩✩✩✩
Task: 43 Death in the title

April

Finished


Wool by Hugh Howey
Date Read: 17. April 2020
Rating: ✩✩✩✩
Task: 1 ATY not in the title

A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
Date Read: 19. April 2020
Rating: ✩✩✩✩
Task: 40 Place name "India" in the title

Les Enfants terribles by Jean CocteauWashington Irving
Date Read: 22. April 2020
Rating: ✩✩��
Task 33: Brother and sister are living together without parents. Non-traditional family

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by
Date Read: 22. April 2020
Rating: ✩✩✩✩
Task 16: Sparsely populated area

May

Finished


The Burning White by Brent Weeks
Date Read: 03. May 2020
Rating: ✩✩✩✩��
Task 26: Nominated for ŷ������ Choice award in the category Fantasy

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Date Read: 11. May 2020
Rating: ✩✩✩✩��
Task: 24 I would say, Pride is an emotion.

The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie
Date Read: 16. May 2020
Rating: ✩✩✩✩��
Task: 5 First book in a series

Gray by Leonie Swann
Date Read: 31. May 2020
Rating: ✩✩✩✩
Task: 17 MC has OCD

July

Finished


Before They Are Hanged by Joe Abercrombie
Date Read: 08. July 2020
Rating: ✩✩✩✩
Task 20: 20th book I finished in 2020

Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu
Date Read: 19. July 2020
Rating: ✩✩✩✩
Task: 34. A book set in a place or time that you wouldn't want to live: Set in a very lonely and remote area. Beautiful but no, I would be scared all the time (and also, there are vampires)

Tea with the Black Dragon by R.A. MacAvoy
Date Read: 22. July 2020
Rating: ✩✩��
Task: 25. A book related to the arts - One MC is a musician

Last Argument of Kings by Joe Abercrombie
Date Read: 26. July 2020
Rating: ✩✩✩✩��
Task 44: One Charakter is a witch called Caurib)

August

Finished


Les Liaisons dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
Date Read: 14. August 2020
Rating: ✩✩✩✩��
Task 37: An old and a new book (binary opposite) linked by the topic affaires (old book)

Luster by Raven Leilani
Date Read: 26. August 2020
Rating: ✩✩��
Task: 38 An old and a new book (binary opposite) linked by the topic affaires (new book)

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Date Read: 27. August 2020
Rating: ✩✩✩✩��
Task: 30 Book is on the list

September

Finished


2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
Date Read: 4. September 2020
Rating: ✩✩✩✩
Task 21: Hell was an astronomer. This book takes place in space.

Dracula byBram Stoker
Date Read: 15. September 2020
Rating: ✩✩✩✩
Task 47: Classic book I always meant to read

La carte et le territoire by Michel Houellebecq
Date Read: 20. September 2020
Rating: ✩✩��
Task 39: Did not know how to pronounce the author's name

Lud-in-the-Mist by Hope Mirrlees
Date Read: 25. September 2020
Rating: ✩✩✩✩
Task 29: book has only 5203 ratings on ŷ������

A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'Connor
Date Read: 17. September 2020
Rating: ✩✩✩✩
Task 42: So, I'm cheating a little bit here. The author won the National Book Award 1927 for her complete short stories. I only read a collection with some of her stories. I think it's good enough. I'm counting it. ;)

October

Finished


Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
Date Read: 3. October 2020
Rating: ✩✩✩✩��
Task 48: Book was published in 2020

Emil und die Detektive by Alexandre Dumas fils
Date Read: 12. October 2020
Rating: ✩✩��
Task 9: Short children's book that can be read in a day

La Dame aux Camélias by Erich Kästner
Date Read: 21. October 2020
Rating: ✩✩��
Task 34: Genre Romance starts with an R which is a letter in my name

The Call of Cthulhu, The Nameless City, Ex Oblivione, The Picture in the House by H.P. Lovecraft
Date Read: 26. October 2020
Rating: ✩✩✩✩
Task 34: I read 4 short stories by Lovecraft. All four of them have an geometrical object or pattern on the cover

November

Finished


The Fatal Eggs by Mikhail Bulgakov
Date Read: 1. November 2020
Rating: ✩✩✩✩
Task 31: It a satirical story about the Russian Revolution, which surly was a leading news story at its time

84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
Date Read: 7. November 2020
Rating: ✩✩✩✩
Task 51: ing-word in title

You Should Have Left by Daniel Kehlmann
Date Read: 7. November 2020
Rating: ✩✩✩✩
Task 49: Poll 6 Book involves a vacation

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
Date Read: 13. November 2020
Rating: ✩✩✩✩
Task 23: LGBTQ-characters

The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
Date Read: 15. November 2020
Rating: ✩✩✩✩
Task 7: Set in Peru

Our Man In Havana by Graham Greene
Date Read: 25. November 2020
Rating: ✩✩✩✩
Task 6: Car on the cover

December

Finished


The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Date Read: 7. December 2020
Rating: ✩✩✩✩
Task 14: on the list

Un coeur simple by Gustave Flaubert
Date Read:15. December 2020
Rating: ✩✩��
Task 13 : A prompt from a previous Around the Year in 52 Books challenge (Link) 2016: 50. : Written in French

The Test by Sylvain Neuvel
Date Read: 17. December 2020
Rating: ✩✩✩✩
Task 28: Canadian author

The Strange Library by Haruki Murakami
Date Read: 20. December 2020
Rating: ✩✩✩✩
Task 36: didn’t remember putting it on the list

Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz
Date Read: 22. December 2020
Rating: ✩✩✩✩
Task 10: 498 pages

Le Roi s'amuse by Victor Hugo
Date Read: 25. December 2020
Rating: ✩✩✩✩
Task 45: author wrote Notre-Dame de Paris, on of my favourite books in 2019

The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
Date Read: 27. December 2020
Rating: ✩✩✩✩��
Task 32: One character won the olympic gold medal twice.