Around the Year in 52 Books discussion

Since I’m working on my plan for AtY 2020, I thought I’d gather together all the other challenges I’m currently working on or planning for 2020.

Ongoing challenge - lists

I decided to only count a book as completed if I read it since I started this challenge in 2017 because I wanted an incentive to re-read a bunch of classics I read in school or university.

BBC:
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1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling
6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
8. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis
10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
13. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
15. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
16. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
19. Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
20. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
21. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
22. Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, JK Rowling
23. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling
24. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling
25. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
26. Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
27. Middlemarch, George Eliot
28. A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
29. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
30. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
31. The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
32. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
33. The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
34. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
35. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
36. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
37. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
38. Persuasion, Jane Austen
39. Dune, Frank Herbert
40. Emma, Jane Austen
41. Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
42. Watership Down, Richard Adams
43. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
44. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
45. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
46. Animal Farm, George Orwell
47. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
48. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
49. Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
50. The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher
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The Guardian:
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The Guardian:
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New challenge - Disney animated films

Thank you to Sarah who wrote this fun and very creative challenge. :-)

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1. The first in a series (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs)

2. The title is a character’s name (Pinocchio)

3. A book featuring music (Fantasia)

4. A story set at the circus (Dumbo)

5. A sad story (Bambi)

6. A book originally published in Spanish (Saludos Amigos)

7. A book with a number in the title (The Three Caballeros)

8. A book with alliteration in the title (Make Mine Music)

9. A short story collection (Fun and Fancy Free)

✔️ 10 .A book with a tree on the cover (Melody Time)
Anne of the Island by L.M. Montgomery

Completed: 6 November 2019

11. A scary story (The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr Toad)

12. A book featuring royalty (Cinderella)

13. A novel set in a fictional world (Alice in Wonderland)

14. A book featuring pirates (Peter Pan)

15. A romance (Lady and the Tramp)

16. A book featuring a dragon (Sleeping Beauty)

✔️ 17. A book with a black and white cover (101 Dalmatians)
Reasons to Stay Alive by Matt Haig [8.11.19]

18. A book set in medieval times (The Sword in the Stone)

19. A book set in India (The Jungle Book)

20. A book set in France (The Aristocats)

21. A book featuring a thief (Robin Hood)

22. A childhood classic (The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh)

23. A book featuring a prisoner (The Rescuers)

24. A book about best friends (The Fox and the Hound)

25. A high fantasy (The Black Cauldron)

✔️ 26. A detective story (The Great Mouse Detective)
Hide and Seek by Ian Rankin [8.11.19]

27. A Victorian novel (Oliver and Company)

28. A book with a blue cover (The Little Mermaid)

29. A book set in Australia (Rescuers Down Under)

✔️ 30. An Award-Winning book (Beauty and the Beast)
The Dressmaker by Beryl Bainbridge
Completed m: 1 November 2019

31. A book turned into a musical or play (Aladdin)

32. A Shakespeare play (The Lion King)

33. A book about a real person (Pocahontas)

34. A Gothic novel (The Hunchback of Notre Dame)

35. A book based of mythology (Hercules)

36. A book written by a woman using a male pseudonym (Mulan)

37. A book set in Africa (Tarzan)

38. A sequel (Fantasia 2000)

39. A book set BC (Dinosaur)

40. A book set in Latin America (Emperor’s New Groove)

41. A book with a scientist as protagonist (Atlantis: The Lost Empire)

42. A book about family (Lilo and Stitch)

43. A book set in space (Treasure Planet)

44. A book set in a forest (Brother Bear)

45. A book set on a farm (Home on the Range)

46. A book with a bird in the title (Chicken Little)

47. A book featuring time travel (Meet the Robinsons)

48. A book about an actor (Bolt)

49. A book set in the 1920s (Princess and the Frog)

50. A book with a one word title (Tangled)

51. A retelling (Winnie the Pooh)

52. A book about a villain or anti-hero (Wreck it Ralph)

53. A book with weather in the title (Frozen)

54. A book featuring superheroes (Big Hero 6)

55. A book with an animal protagonist (Zootopia)

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Possible 2020 challenge - Popsugar
Progress: 6/50

I’m using only books that are already on my TBR for this challenge so I will use a wildcard for any prompts that I can’t complete without adding a book to my TBR.

2020 Challenge - Regular prompts

1. A book that's published in 2020
🌟 If I Never Met You by Mhairi McFarlane

2. A book by a trans or nonbinary author

3. A book with a great first line
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

4. A book about a book club
🌟 The Inaugural Meeting of the Fairvale Ladies Book Club by Sophie Green

5. A book set in a city that has hosted the Olympics

6. A bildungsroman
The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford

7. The first book you touch on a shelf with your eyes closed

8. A book with an upside-down image on the cover
This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar ♾

9. A book with a map

10. A book recommended by your favorite blog, vlog, podcast, or online book club

11. An anthology
Wayward Girls and Wicked Women by Angela Carter
A Manual for Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin

12. A book that passes the Bechdel test
The Alice Network by Kate Quinn

13. A book with the same title as a movie or TV show but is unrelated to it
The Holiday by T.M. Logan
The Good Girl by Mary Kubica
Rosewater by Tade Thompson

14. A book by an author with flora or fauna in their name
🌟 Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss

15. A book about or involving social media
The Circle by Dave Eggers
Selfie: How We Became So Self-Obsessed and What It's Doing to Us by Will Storr

16. A book that has a book on the cover
The Secret Life of Books: Why They Mean More Than Words by Tom Mole

17. A medical thriller
The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides

✔️ 18. A book with a made-up language
Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers
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19. A book set in a country beginning with "C"
The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See

20. A book you picked because the title caught your attention
🌟 The Wonder Approach: Rescuing Children's Innate Desire to Learn by Catherine L'Ecuyer

21. A book published the month of your birthday
The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes

22. A book about or by a woman in STEM
Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms by Hannah Fry

23. A book that won an award in 2019
🌟 The Confessions of Frannie Langton by Sara Collins

24. A book on a subject you know nothing about
Infinite Powers: The Story of Calculus by Steven H. Strogatz

25. A book with only words on the cover, no images or graphics
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life by Mark Manson

✔️ 26. A book with a pun in the title
On What Grounds by Cleo Coyle
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27. A book featuring one of the seven deadly sins

28. A book with a robot, cyborg, or AI character
Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Max Tegmark

29. A book with a bird on the cover

🎧 30. A fiction or nonfiction book about a world leader
Becoming by Michelle Obama

31. A book with "gold," "silver," or "bronze" in the title

32. A book by a WOC
🌟 Patsy by Nicole Y. Dennis-Benn

✔️ 33. A book with at least a four-star rating on 카지노싸이트
Recovery: Freedom from Our Addictions by Russell Brand
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34. A book you meant to read in 2019

✔️ 35. A book with a three-word title
🌟 Allez Allez Allez by Simon Hughes (23.2.20)
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✔️ 36. A book with a pink cover
Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams
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37. A Western

38. A book by or about a journalist
How to Fail: Everything I’ve Ever Learned From Things Going Wrong by Elizabeth Day

39. Read a banned book during Banned Books Week

40. Your favorite prompt from a past POPSUGAR Reading Challenge

2020 Challenge - Advanced prompts
1. A book written by an author in their 20s
2. A book with "20" or "twenty" in the title

3. A book with a character with a vision impairment or enhancement (a nod to 20/20 vision)
The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri

4. A book set in the 1920s
5. A book set in Japan, host of the 2020 Olympics
6. A book by an author who has written more than 20 books
7. A book with more than 20 letters in its title
8. A book published in the 20th century
9. A book from a series with more than 20 books
✔️ 10. A book with a main character in their 20s
Room by Emma Donoghue

Possible but unlikely 2020 challenge - Book Riot

Probable 2020 challenge - Modern Mrs Darcy

Modern Mrs Darcy 2020 Reading Challenge

1. A book published the decade you were born
✔️2. A debut novel
Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams
3. A book recommended by a source you trust
4. A book by a local author
5. A book outside your (genre) comfort zone
6. A book in translation
7. A book nominated for an award in 2020
8. A re-read
9. A classic you didn’t read in school
10. Three books by the same author (1)
11. Three books by the same author (2)
12. Three books by the same author (3)

And reserved for anything I’ve forgotten!