Around the Year in 52 Books discussion

Random Reading
Subject to change
10 / 52
✔ 1. A book with the letters A, T & Y in the title
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain 6 February
2. A book from the first 10 books added to your To Be Read list
3. A book from the 2017 카지노싸이트 Choice Awards (link)
From Sand and Ash
4. 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #1 Earth (in title, cover, content, setting, author...)
Journey to the Center of the Earth
5. A book about or inspired by real events
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective
✔ 6. A book originally written in a language other than English
Chess Story (German) 15 January
7. A gothic novel
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
8. An "own voices" book*
Twelve Years a Slave
9. A book with a body part in the title (heart, bones, teeth, skin, blood, etc)
10. An author's debut book (their first book to be published)
11. A literary fiction
12. A book set in Africa or South America
In the Shadow of the Tokolosh (Africa)
✔ 13. A book with a plot centered around a secret (forbidden love, spies, secret societies, etc)
Exposure by Helen Dunmore 11 February
14. 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #2 Fire
15. A book with an unique format/writing structure
Lady Susan (epistolatory)
16. A narrative nonfiction
17. A book you expect to make you laugh
18. A book with a location in the title
Duncton Wood
19. A book nominated for the Edgar Award or by a Grand master author (books & authors)
Endless Night by Grand Master Author Agatha Christie
20. A book rated 5 stars by at least one of your friends
21. A book written in first person perspective
✔ 22. A book you have high expectations or hope for
Death and Mr. Pickwick by Stephen Jarvis 8 January
✔ 23. A medical or legal thriller
The Rooster Bar (legal thriller) 20 January
24. A book with a map
25. A book with an antagonist/villain point of view
26. A book with a text only cover
27. A book about surviving a hardship (war, famine, major disasters, serious illness, etc)
Man's Search for Meaning
28. 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #3 Water
The Cruel Sea
29. A book with a "Clue" weapon on the cover or title (lead pipe, revolver, rope, candlestick, dagger, wrench)
30. A short book
31. A book set in a country you'd like to visit but have never been to
32. An alternate history book
33. A book connected (title, cover, content) to a word "born" in the same year as you (link)
Partitions (set in India, a word "born" in 1952)
✔ 34. A suggestion from the AtY 2018 polls, that didn't win but was polarizing or a close-call (link) - Nobel Prize Winner
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway 2 January
✔ 35. A book featuring a murder
The Dry by Jane Harper 14 January
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 (link1, link2)
The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri (nominee)
38. A science book or a science fiction book
A Short History of Nearly Everything
39. A book with a form of punctuation in the title
40. A book from Amazon's 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime list (link)
41. A book by an author with the same first and last initials
42. A book that takes place on, in, or underwater
Mutiny on the Bounty
43. A book with a title that is a whole sentence
The Time Is Noon
44. A ghost story
✔ 45. A book that intimidates/ scares you
The Hound of the Baskervilles 25 January
46. 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #4 Air
47. A book where the main character (or author) is of a different ethnic origin, religion, or sexual identity than your own
48. A book related to one of the 7 deadly sins (pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath, sloth)
The Grapes of Wrath
49. A book from one of the 카지노싸이트 Best Books of the Month lists (link)
News of the World
✔ 50. A book with a warm atmosphere (centered on family, friendship, love or summer)
Watership Down by Richard Adams 20 February
51. An award-winning short story or short story collection
✔ 52. A book published in 2018
A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea by Masaji Ishikawa 11 January

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