Around the Year in 52 Books discussion

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✔ 1. A book with the letters A, T & Y in the title :
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

✔ 2. A book from the first 10 books added to your To Be Read list :
Le Silence de la mer (The Silence of the Sea ) by Vercors

✔ 3. A book from the 2017 카지노싸이트 Choice Awards (link) :
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid

✔ 4. 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #1 Earth (in title, cover, content, setting, author...) :
My Ántonia by Willa Cather

✔ 5. A book about or inspired by real events :
Les derniers jours de Stefan Zweig (The Last Days) by Laurent Seksik

✔ 6. A book originally written in a language other than English :
Chroniques de Jérusalem (Jerusalem: Chronicles from the Holy City) by Guy Delisle

7. A gothic novel :
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

8. An "own voices" book :

9. A book with a body part in the title (heart, bones, teeth, skin, blood, etc) :
Le coeur blanc by Catherine Poulain

✔ 10. An author's debut book (their first book to be published) :
The Luck of the Weissensteiners by Christoph Fischer

✔ 11. A literary fiction :
Vierundzwanzig Stunden aus dem Leben einer Frau (Twenty Four Hours in the Life of a Woman ) by Stefan Zweig

✔ 12. A book set in Africa or South America :
MADAM 1ST LADY by Ellen Banda-Aaku

✔ 13. A book with a plot centered around a secret (forbidden love, spies, secret societies, etc) :
Die Schuld der Anderen by Gila Lustiger

✔ 14. 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #2 Fire :
Transparent City by Ondjaki

[✔ 15. A book with an unique format/writing structure :
[book:Exercices de style|957691] (Exercises in Style) by Raymond Queneau

16. A narrative nonfiction :
The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss

17. A book you expect to make you laugh :
Frill-Necked Frenzy by Kenneth Cook

✔ 18. A book with a location in the title :
Lumières de Pointe-Noire (The Lights of Pointe-Noire) by Alain Mabanckou

✔ 19. A book nominated for the Edgar Award or by a Grand master author (books & authors):
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie

✔ 20. A book rated 5 stars by at least one of your friends :
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling

✔ 21. A book written in first person perspective :
The Possessed: Adventures With Russian Books and the People Who Read Them by Elif Batuman

✔ 22. A book you have high expectations or hope for :
Educated by Tara Westover

23. A medical or legal thriller :
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese

✔ 24. A book with a map :
Contes et légendes du Bénin

✔ 25. A book with an antagonist/villain point of view :
The Jew of Malta by Christopher Marlowe

✔ 26. A book with a text only cover :
soft magic. by Upile Chisala

27. A book about surviving a hardship (war, famine, major disasters, serious illness, etc) :

✔ 28. 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #3 Water :
The Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma

✔ 29. A book with a "Clue" weapon on the cover or title (lead pipe, revolver, rope, candlestick, dagger, wrench) :
The Hangman by Louise Penny

✔ 30. A short book :
En Pleine Lucarne by Philippe Delerm

✔ 31. A book set in a country you'd like to visit but have never been to :
La forêt millénaire by Jirō Taniguchi (set in Japan)

32. An alternate history book :
The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick

33. A book connected (title, cover, content) to a word "born" in the same year as you (link) :
My Absolute Darling by Gabriel Tallent (survivalism)

✔ 34. A suggestion from the AtY 2018 polls, that didn't win but was polarizing or a close-call :
Non à la discrimination des femmes by Elsa Solal (about feminism)

✔ 35. A book featuring a murder :
Hallowe'en Party by Agatha Christie

✔ 36. A book published in the last 3 years (2016, 2017, 2018) by an author you haven't read before :
Born Trump: Inside America’s First Family by Emily Jane Fox

37. A Women's Prize for Fiction winner or nominee :
Brick Lane by Monica Ali

✔ 38. A science book or a science fiction book :
The Power by Naomi Alderman

✔ 39. A book with a form of punctuation in the title :
Osons la fraternité !- Les écrivains aux côtés des migrants by Michel Le Bris, Patrick Chamoiseau, etc.

40. A book from Amazon's 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime list :
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon

✔ 41. A book by an author with the same first and last initials :
The Mothers by Brit Bennett

✔ 42. A book that takes place on, in, or underwater :
Les Enfants du large by Sophie de La Rochefoucauld

✔ 43. A book with a title that is a whole sentence :
Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue

✔ 44. A ghost story :
Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay

45. A book that intimidates/ scares you :
Sophie's Choice by William Styron

✔ 46. 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #4 Air :
The Conference of the Birds by Peter Sís and Attar of Nishapur

✔ 47. A book where the main character (or author) is of a different ethnic origin, religion, or sexual identity than your own :
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

✔ 48. A book related to one of the 7 deadly sins (pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath, sloth) :
Othello by William Shakespeare

49. A book from one of the 카지노싸이트 Best Books of the Month lists :

✔ 50. A book with a warm atmosphere (centered on family, friendship, love or summer) :
Etta and Otto and Russell and James by Emma Hooper

✔ 51. An award-winning short story or short story collection :
Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling

✔ 52. A book published in 2018 :
Dealer du Tout-Paris by Gérard Fauré

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