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1. A book related to “In the Beginning...��
2. A book by an author whose name doesn't contain the letters A, T or Y
3. A book related to the lyrics for the song "My Favorite Things" from The Sound of Music
4. A book with a monochromatic cover

5. A book by an author on USA Today's list of 100 Black Novelists You Should Read
6. A love story
7. A book that fits a prompt suggestion that didn't make the final list
8. A book set in a state, province, or country you have never visited

9. A book you associate with a specific season or time of year
10. A book with a female villain or criminal
11. A book to celebrate The Grand Egyptian Museum
12. A book eligible for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation
13. A book written by an author of one of your best reads of 2020

14. A book set in a made-up place
15. A book that features siblings as the main characters
16. A book with a building in the title
17. A book with a Muslim character or author

18. 3 books related to "Past, Present, Future" - Book 1
19. 3 books related to "Past, Present, Future" - Book 2
20. 3 books related to "Past, Present, Future" - Book 3
21. A book whose title and author both contain the letter "u"
22. A book posted in one of the ATY Best Book of the Month threads

23. A cross genre novel
24. A book about racism or race relations
25. A book set on an island
26. A short book (<210 pages) by a new-to-you author

27. A book with a character who can be found in a deck of cards
28. A book connected to ice
29. A book that you consider comfort reading
30. A long book

31. A book by an author whose career spanned more than 21 years
32. A book whose cover shows more than 2 people
33. A collection of short stories, essays, or poetry
34. A book with a travel theme
35. A book set in a country on or below the Tropic of Cancer

36. A book with six or more words in the title
37. A book from the Are You Well Read in World Literature list
38. A book related to a word given by a random word generator
39. A book involving an immigrant

40. A book with flowers or greenery on the cover
41. A book by a new-to-you BIPOC author
42. A mystery or thriller
43. A book with elements of magic

44. A book whose title contains a negative
45. A book related to a codeword from the NATO Phonetic Alphabet
46. A winner or nominee from the 2020 ŷ������ Choice Awards
47. A non-fiction book other than biography, autobiography or memoir
48. A book that might cause someone to react “You read what?!?��

49. A book with an ensemble cast
50. A book published in 2021
51. A book whose title refers to person(s) without giving their name
52. A book related to "the end"

(I will probably only read 1-2 books per topic, but I like to have a selection because I tend to be a mood reader)

January

1. A book related to “In the Beginning...��
o A Gentleman in Moscow [462]
o The Waves [279]
o Peter Pan [176]
o One Hundred Years of Solitude [417]
o Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas [204]

2. A book by an author whose name doesn't contain the letters A, T or Y
o Skagboys [548]
o The Woman in White [672]
o Catch-22 [453]
o One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest [325]
o The Odyssey [541]

3. A book related to the lyrics for the song "My Favorite Things" from The Sound of Music
o I Am a Cat (whiskers on kittens) [480]
o The Shining (Girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes) [659]
o I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (Raindrops on Roses) [288]
o Kissing the Bee (When the bee stings) [182]
o The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress (Wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings) [288]

4. A book with a monochromatic cover
o The Antichrist [88]
o The Devil All the Time [261]
o Nevernight [429]
o Suburra [488]
o Into the Wild [207]

February

5. A book by an author on USA Today's list of 100 Black Novelists You Should Read
o Giovanni's Room [159]
o Invisible Man [581]
o The Tragedy of Brady Sims [114]
o Not Without Laughter [299]
o Their Eyes Were Watching God [219]

6. A love story
o Anna Karenina [964]
o Gone with the Wind [1037]
o Women in Love [416]
o Rebecca [449]
o Les Liasons Dangereuses [448]

7. A book that fits a prompt suggestion that didn't make the final list
o A Man in Full (A bestseller from the year you were born) [704]
o Life of Pi (A book where characters are trapped together) [460]
o The Prince and the Pauper (A book you picked up because of an adaptation of it or a related work) [240]
o The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (A book closely related to what you wanted to be as a kid) [391]
o The Elephant Tree (A book recommended via the Readers Also Enjoyed feature on the ŷ������ page from a book you gave 5-stars in the past 3 years �� Clockwork Orange) [252]

8. A book set in a state, province, or country you have never visited
o Naomi (Japan) [237]
o King Stakh's Wild Hunt (Belarus) [293]
o The Romance of the Three Kingdoms (China) [617]
o Vilnius Poker (Lithuania) [498]
o The Good Life Elsewhere (Moldova) [197]

March

9. A book you associate with a specific season or time of year
o The Vurdulak's Family: A Russian Vampire Tale (Halloween) [29]
o Sweet Bird of Youth (Spring) [179]
o The Nutcracker (Christmas) [112]
o Hercule Poirot's Christmas (Christmas) [335]
o A Long Way Down (New Years Eve) [368]

10. A book with a female villain or criminal
o Macbeth [249]
o East of Eden [601]
o We Have Always Lived in the Castle [146]
o Girls on Fire [368]
o Coraline [162]

11. A book to celebrate The Grand Egyptian Museum
o Anthony and Cleopatra [400]
o Aphrodite - Moeurs Antiques [416]
o The Curse of the Pharaohs [307]
o The Goldfinch [771]
o Dark Museum [366]

12. A book eligible for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation
o Things We Lost in the Fire [208]
o Notes of a Crocodile [242]
o The Door [262]
o Aetherial Worlds: Stories [256]
o Umami [240]

13. A book written by an author of one of your best reads of 2020
o The Master and Margarita [335]
o Slaughterhouse-Five [275]
o The Garin Death Ray [344]
o From Hell [576]
o Laughter in the Dark [292]

April

14. A book set in a made-up place
o The Fellowship of the Ring [527]
o Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There [228]
o Rumo & His Miraculous Adventures [688]
o Tag der Geister [512]
o The Riddle-Master of Hed [578]

15. A book that features siblings as the main characters
o The Makioka Sisters [530]
o Atonement [351]
o The Brothers Karamazov [796]
o Little Women [449]
o The Bad Beginning [176]

16. A book with a building in the title
o The Dreams in the Witch House [43]
o The House of Mirth [351]
o The Teahouse Fire [391]
o House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films [360]
o To the Lighthouse [209]

17. A book with a Muslim character or author
o The Weight of Our Sky [288]
o The Love & Lies of Rukhsana Ali [336]
o Ayesha at Last [368]
o The Henna Wars [400]
o 99 Nights in Logar [288]

May

18. 3 books related to "Past, Present, Future" �� The Past
o Emma [474]
o Dubliners [207]
o All Quiet on the Western Front [296]
o The Tin Drum [580]
o The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyŏng: The Autobiographical Writings of a Crown Princess of Eighteenth-Century Korea [372]

19. 3 books related to "Past, Present, Future" - The Present
o American Psycho [399]
o A Little Life [720]
o My Dark Vanessa [373]
o Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? [258]
o The Disaster Tourist [208]

20. 3 books related to "Past, Present, Future" �� The Future
o Moscow 2042 [444]
o Brave New World [288]
o The Minority Report [103]
o The Handmaid's Tale [314]
o Never Let Me Go [288]

21. A book whose title and author both contain the letter "u"
o Justine, or The Misfortunes of Virtue [264]
o Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter [359]
o Sanctuary [317]
o Die dunkle Seite des Mondes [315]
o The Wonderful Wizard of Oz [154]

22. A book posted in one of the ATY Best Book of the Month threads
o Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family [400]
o Memoirs of a Geisha [503]
o These Violent Delights [494]
o In the Distance [256]
o Murder on the Red River [208]

June

23. A cross genre novel
o If on a Winter's Night a Traveler [260]
o Inter Ice Age 4 [228]
o Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World [400]
o 2666 [1128]
o Neuromancer [1004]

24. A book about racism or race relations
o The Underground Railroad [306]
o The Color Purple [304]
o Things Fall Apart [209]
o The Bluest Eye [216]
o Passing [122]

25. A book set on an island
o The Island of Doctor Moreau [153]
o The Most Dangerous Game [48]
o Shutter Island [369]
o Our Man in Havana [220]
o The Tempest [218]

26. A short book (<210 pages) by a new-to-you author
o Brokeback Mountain [55]
o Breakfast at Tiffany's and Three Stories [142]
o The Driver's Seat [107]
o The Ballad of the Sad Café [141]
o Mrs. Caliban [128]

July

27. A book with a character who can be found in a deck of cards
o Ella Enchanted [232]
o The Other Boleyn Girl [661]
o Hamlet [289]
o Days of Infamy [520]
o Anna and the King of Siam [416]

28. A book connected to ice
o Doctor Zhivago [592]
o Misery [370]
o Girl in Snow [369]
o 1222 [320]
o Child 44 [509]

29. A book that you consider comfort reading
o Moise and the World of Reason [214]
o Song of the Crimson Flower [288]
o The Rise of Kyoshi [442]
o Descendant of the Crane [416]
o The Guinevere Deception [352]

30. A long book
o Don Quixote [1023]
o War and Peace [1392]
o In Search of Lost Time [4211]
o Les Misérables [1463]
o Underworld [827]

August

31. A book by an author whose career spanned more than 21 years
o Solaris [204]
o House of Incest [72]
o Chess Story [104]
o The Wayward Bus [261]
o Haunted [419]

32. A book whose cover shows more than 2 people
o Music for Chameleons [262]
o Ivanhoe [496]
o Peer Gynt [144]
o Brideshead Revisited [351]
o Emancipation Day [336]

33. A collection of short stories, essays, or poetry
o The Atrocity Exhibition [136]
o The Essays of Oscar Wilde... [144]
o The Orwell Reader: Fiction, Essays, and Reportage [169]
o In a Glass Darkly [384]
o Under a Glass Bell [101]

34. A book with a travel theme
o On the Road [307]
o The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test [416]
o The Innocents Abroad [560]
o The Rings of Saturn [296]
o Tintin in the Land of the Soviets [120]

35. A book set in a country on or below the Tropic of Cancer
o The Bad Girl [276]
o Galapagos [302]
o Heart of Darkness [188]
o Heartbreak Tango [224]
o The Invisible Mountain [384]

September

36. A book with six or more words in the title
o After Ninety Years: The Story of Serbian Vampire Sava Savanović [78]
o The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore [72]
o Roadside Picnic / Tale of the Troika [254]
o The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick [336]
o William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Mean Girls [176]

37. A book from the Are You Well Read in World Literature list
o Grand Hotel [288]
o Spaceman of Bohemia [277]
o The Hole [198]
o Death and the Penguin [228]
o The Ghost Bride [368]

38. A book related to a word given by a random word generator
o The Train Now Departing (Depart) [192]
o Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery (Decoration) [256]
o A First-Rate Madness: Uncovering the Links Between Leadership and Mental Illness (Leadership) [340]
o Time's Arrow (Arrow) [165]
o Strapless: John Singer Sargent and the Fall of Madame X (Singer) [262]

39. A book involving an immigrant
o Americanah [477]
o America Is Not the Heart [408]
o Native Speaker [349]
o The Beast: Riding the Rails and Dodging Narcos on the Migrant Trail [275]
o Pachinko [496]

October

40. A book with flowers or greenery on the cover
o The Woman in the Dunes [239]
o Fathers and Sons [244]
o Revolutionary Road [355]
o The Jungle Book [277]
o Watership Down [478]

41. A book by a new-to-you BIPOC author
o A Raisin in the Sun [162]
o I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter [344]
o The Vanishing Half [343]
o The Nickel Boys [213]
o My Sister, the Serial Killer [226]

42. A mystery or thriller
o A Simple Favor [304]
o Fingersmith [592]
o Gone Girl [415]
o Red Dragon [454]
o The Talented Mr. Ripley [320]

43. A book with elements of magic
o Forest of Souls [400]
o The Final Empire [544]
o Foundryside [512]
o A Wizard of Earthsea [205]
o Howl's Moving Castle [329]