Around the Year in 52 Books discussion

ATY 2022
Books Read: 18/52
T= Tarot Major Arcana Challenge: 13/22

2022 Goals:
1) Focus on books I own and group reads
2) Catch up on classics plus keep current with a few new releases

ATY List
1. A book with a main character whose name starts with A, T, or Y
2. A book connected to a book you read in 2021
3. A book with 22 or more letters in the title
Travels with Charley: In Search of America by John Steinbeck
4. A book that fits your favorite prompt that did not make the list
5. A book by an author with two sets of double letters in their name
6. A book with an image of a source of light on the cover
The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart
7. A book related to psychology, neuroscience or the mind
8. 3 books set on three different continents - Book 1
Life in a Frozen World: Wildlife of Antarctica by Mary Batten
9. 3 books set on three different continents - Book 2
The Cat Who Saved Books by Sōsuke Natsukawa (Japan)
10. 3 books set on three different continents - Book 3
The Immortal Irishman: The Irish Revolutionary Who Became an American Hero by Timothy Egan (Europe, Australia, and the US)
11. A book from historical fiction genre
12. A book related to glass
13. A book about a woman in STEM
14. A book with fewer than 5000 ratings on 카지노싸이트
15. A book without a person on the cover
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
16. A book related to Earth Day
17. A book from NPR's Book Concierge
18. A book by an Asian or Pacific Islander author
19. A book that involves alternate reality, alternate worlds, or alternate history
20. A fiction or nonfiction book that is set during 1900 -1951
21. A book with one of the Monopoly tokens on the cover
22. A book with a Jewish character or author
The Betrayers by David Bezmozgis (131 pages)
23. A book that features loving LGBTQIA+ relationship
24. A book related to inclement weather
25. A book less than 220 pages OR more than 440 pages
Nives by Sacha Naspini
26. 2 books with the same word in the title - Book 1
27. 2 books with the same word in the title - Book 2
28. A book that won an award from Powell's list of book awards
The Trumpeter of Krakow by Eric P. Kelly (Newberry Award 1929)
29. A book set on or near a body of water
Maigret on the Riviera by Georges Simenon
30. A book related to mythology
31. A book published at least 10 years ago
32. A book where the main character is a female detective/private eye/police officer
Reading: Midnight at Malabar House by Vaseem Khan
33. The next book in a series
The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper
34. A book with an academic setting or with a teacher that plays an important role
35. 2 books related to flora and fauna - Book 1
36. 2 books related to flora and fauna - Book 2
37. A book that uses all five vowels in the title and/or author's name
The Aviator by Eugene Vodolazkin (All vowels in author's name)
38. A book by a Latin American author
Reading: Short Stories in Spanish: New Penguin Parallel Text
39. A book from the TIME list of 100 Best YA Books of All Time
40. A book related to one of the 22 Tarot Major Arcana cards
The Magician by Colm Tóibín
41. A book with a theme of food or drink
42. A book with a language or nationality in the title
43. A book set in a small town or rural area
Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
44. A book with gothic elements
45. A book related to a game
46. A book with a non-human as one of the main characters
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
47. A book with handwriting on the cover
48. A book posted in one of the ATY Best Book of the Month threads in 2021 or 2022
49. A book connected to the phrase "Here (There) Be Dragons"
50. A book that involves aging, or a character in their golden years
A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
51. A book published in 2022
I Must Betray You by Ruta Sepetys
52. A book with a time-related word in the title
Don't Look Now by Daphne du Maurier

Ideas for Prompts 1-13

1. Main character whose name starts with A, T, or Y
*Use letter A: The Winter Station, The Knight of Maison-Rouge, Guns of Navarone, The Adventures of Augie March, Albert of Adelaide, Anna Karenina. We the Living (Andrei)
*Use letter Y: I'll be Right There by Kyung-Sook Shin (character- Yoon)

2. Connected to a book you read in 2021
*Use a book or author mentioned in another book:
-2021 book "I am a Japanese Writer"- Kafka (The Trial), Kerouac, Yasunari Kawabata, Borges, The Godfather, Catcher in the Rye, Steppenwolf, One Hundred Years of Solitude, The Narrow Road to the Interior by Basho, The Prophet
-2021 book "Distrust that Particular Flavor"- Books: City of Darkness, Phantom Shanghai, Labyrinths, Snow Crash. Authors: Kafka, Samuel Delaney, Gene Wolfe, Brian Aldiss, Robert Heinlein, Henry Miller, William Burroughs, Kerouac. Books by this author: Neuromancer, Pattern Recognition, Idoru, Zero History
2021 book "Last Night at the Telegraph Club Martian Chronicles

3. 22 or more letters in the title
*How to Live Safely in a 카지노싸이트 Fictional Universe; Around the World in Seventy-Two Days and Other Writings (also #4 & 52); The Crimson Petal and the White; The Metamorphosis and Other Stories

4. Favorite prompt that did not make the list
*Beatles song or lyric: On the Road by Jack Kerouac, The Road, The Winter Station, The Blue Guitar
*Clouds on cover: The Invention of Exile, The Frenchman's Creek

5. Author with two sets of double letters in their name
*2 sets of consonants in one name: Troubles by J. G, Farrell, Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett

6. Image of a source of light on the cover
*Lighthouse: Beacons, The Light Between Oceans

7. A book related to psychology, neuroscience or the mind
*Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver

8. 3 books set on three different continents - Book 1
*Australia: The Survivors by Jane Harper

9. 3 books set on three different continents - Book 2
*Europe: Poland- Trumpeter of Krakow; Czech- The Good Soldier Svejk

10. 3 books set on three different continents - Book 3
*Asia- China by Edward Rutherfurd

11. Historical fiction genre
*The Gift of Rain by Tan Twan Eng, Claudius the God by Robert Graves, The Girl at the Lion D'or by Sebastian Faulks, The Leopard by Giuseppe Di Lampedusa

12. Related to glass
*Glass Bead Game by Herman Hesse; The Glassblower by Petra Durst-Benning; The Glass-Blowers by Daphne du Maurier; Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator

13. About a woman in STEM
*Enchantress by Jennifer Chiaverini

Ideas for Prompts 14-27

14. Fewer than 5000 ratings on GR
*Last Translations Three Stories by Vsevolod Garshin (0 ratings!)

15. No person on the cover
*The Gift of Rain; Sweetland

16. Earth Day
*Overstory or Bewildered by Richard Powers

17. NPR's Book Concierge

18. Asian or Pacific Islander author
*Frangipani by Celestine Vaite (Tahitian), I'll Be Right There by Kyung-Sook Shin (Korean); The Gift of Rain, Lenin's Kisses

19. Alternate reality, alternate worlds, or alternate history
* The Yiddish Policemen's Union - Need to finally read this one!; A Tale for the Time Being

20. Set during 1900 -1951
* White Rose, Black Forest; Babbitt; Magic Mountain; To the Lighthouse: Cheri by Colette; The Secret Agent; We the Living

21. Monopoly token on the cover
* Cat (?) - Space Cat

22. Jewish character or author
*All Other Nights by Dara Horn; World of Yesterday by Stefan Zweig; The Russian Debutante's Handbook by Gary Shteyngart

23. Features loving LGBTQIA+ relationship
???

24. Inclement weather
*Isaac's Storm

25. Less than 220 pages OR more than 440 pages
* Guinevere, The Legend in Autumn (510 pp); Roadside Picnic (less than 220pp)

26. Same word in the title - Book 1
*Use: Black, Friend, or Killing
- Friend of my Youth & My Brilliant Friend
- Killing Lincoln, Killing Jesus
- The Red and the Black, The Black Book, White Rose, Black Forest

27. Same word in the title - Book 2

Ideas for Prompts 28-39

28. Won an award from Powell's list of book awards
*The Lacuna, The Dispossessed, Bud Not Buddy, The Stone Diaries, Cloud Atlas, Let the Great World Spin, and Kavalier & Clay. Don't own: Larry's Party

29. Set on or near a body of water
*At Waves End by Patricia Perry Donovan

30. Mythology
*The Odyssey

31. Published at least 10 years ago

32. Main character is a female detective/private eye/police officer

33. Next in a series
* The Death of Achilles by Boris Akunin

34. Academic setting or with a teacher that plays an important role
*Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis

35. 2 books related to flora and fauna - Book 1
*Prodigal Summer, Krik?Krak! (butterfly on cover)

36. 2 books related to flora and fauna - Book 2
* Albert of Adelaide, Coal Black Horse, Tales form Watership Down

37. A book that uses all five vowels in the title and/or author's name
*Use author only: Talent by Juliet Lapidos, The Burgess Boys by Elizabeth Strout, Accordion Crimes by Annie Proulx, Frined of My Youth by ALice Munro

38. Latin American author
* Gabriel Garcia Marquez

39. TIME list of 100 Best YA Books of All Time

Ideas for Prompts 40-52

40. Related to one of the 22 Tarot Major Arcana cards
*Use Priestess:

41. Theme of food or drink
*Like Water for Chocolate; Delicious Foods

42. Language or nationality in the title
*Zorba the Greek; The Russian Debutante's Handbook, The Quiet American, Yiddish Policemen's Union

43. Set in a small town or rural area

44. Gothic elements

45. Related to a game

46. Non-human as one of the main characters

47. Handwriting on the cover
*The Seine by Elaine Sciolino

48. One of the ATY Best Book of the Month threads in 2021 or 2022

49. Phrase "Here (There) Be Dragons"
*The City We Became by N. K. Jemison

50. Aging, or a character in their golden years
*Sweetland by Michael Crummey

51. Published in 2022
Dune the Graphic Novel #2

52. Time-related word in the title
*Friday Black, Space Odyssey 2001, Tuesday Nights in 1980

Favorite Book of the Month

Jan: Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
Feb: A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
March: I Must Betray You by Ruta Sepetys
April: Nives by Sacha Naspini
May:
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Dec:

Tarot Major Arcana
Total of 22 cards. Match one book to each of the cards! My 2 decks have some minor differences in the names of a few cards, which I indicated in parentheses.
Read: 13/22 (noted by *)
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*O- The Fool - vulnerable, naïve, adventurous, open, purity, innocence, risk
I must Betray You by Ruta Septys
*I- The Magician - beginning, creation
The Magician by Colm Toibin
*II- The High Priestess - secret knowledge, immobility, trust, ability to see through deceit
The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart
III- The Empress - feminine power, fertility, abundance, nurture, love of home and family
IV- The Emperor - patriarchy, material power, protection
V- The Hierophant - the Pope, authority, convention, strict lifestyle
*VI- The Lovers - love, strong relationship, crossroads
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
VII- The Chariot - victory, conquest and control
*VIII- Strength (Adjustment) - courage, confidence, passion, good over evil
The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper
IX- The Hermit - intelligence, education, quest for knowledge, enlightenment, self-reflection
*X- (Wheel of) Fortune - luck, chance, change
The Immortal Irishman by Timothy Eagan
*XI- Justice (Lust) - hard work, sacrifices, balance, fairness, consequences
The Betrayers by David Bezmozgis
*XII- The Hanged Man - letting go of the past, sacrifice
Nives by Sach Naspini
*XIII- Death - spiritual transformation, new beginnings, death
Cat;s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
XIV- Temperance (Art) - time, patience, self-control
*XV- The Devil - temptation, indulgence in sensual pleasures
Don't Look Now by Daohne du Maurier
*XVI- The (Falling) Tower - unforeseen and traumatic events
Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
XVII- The Star - creativity, hope, optimism, art, keep faith
*XVIII- The Moon - present, future, changes
A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
XIX- The Sun - hope, energy, optimism, accomplishment
*XX- Judgment (The Aeon) - trial, consequences, rebirth, self-reflection
The Aviator by Eugene Volodozkin
XXI- The World (The Universe) - perfect, success, accomplishment

Finally updated my post for the first time this year! I had this plan for how I would select books for my Major Arcana challenge but decided to scrap it and just fit books in as I read them. Why make it more difficult than it needs to be? I'm always so ambitious in December. I'm going to have to start thinking more about my next reads as far as fitting them into the challenge.