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X1. A book set in a location that begins with A, T, or Y - Demon Copperhead - Feb 17 - 5*
X2. A book by an author you read in 2022 - Tin Man - Jan 23 - 4*
X3. A book that fits a suggestion that didn’t make the 2023 list - The Trouble with Goats and Sheep - fits "a book with a child protagonist" - Aug 16 - 5*
X4. A book with an interracial relationship - Blues for Mister Charlie - Jan 2 - 3*
X5. A book with 4 or more colors on the cover - This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You This Is What It Sounds Like What the Music You Love Says About You by Susan Rogers - Jan 1 - 4*

X6. A book where books are important - Slippery Creatures main character owns a bookshop - Jan 27 - 4*
X7. A book with ONE of the five "W" question words in the title - Who Cries for the Lost - May 10 - 4* (every book in this series starts with such a word!)
X8. An author's debut book - A Woman Is No Man - Jan 27 - 4*
X9. A book nominated for an award beginning with W - Home Fire - won Women's Prize - Feb 23 - 3*

X10. A book related to one of the Spice Girls' "personalities" - Inventing the It Girl: How Elinor Glyn Created the Modern Romance and Conquered Early Hollywood - "Posh" - Feb 24 - 4*
X11. A book about a person/character with a disability - True Biz - Feb 10 - 3*
X12. A book connected to birds, bees, or bunnies - The Wallflower Wager - main character has multiple animals including a parrot - Jun 29 - 4*
X13. A book that has an object that is repeated on the cover The Weaver Takes a Wife The Weaver Takes a Wife (Weaver, #1) by Sheri Cobb South - Jul 14 - 3*

X14. A book with a con, deception, or fake - However Long the Day - Jan 28 - 2*
X15. Three books, each of which is set in a different century: Book 1 - Death and the Chapman - 15th century - Feb 17 - 3*
X16. Three books, each of which is set in a different century: Book 2 - The Old Wives' Tale - 19th century - Feb 10 - 4*
X17. Three books, each of which is set in a different century: Book 3 - Improbable Patriot: The Secret History of Monsieur de Beaumarchais, the French Playwright Who Saved the American Revolution - 18th century - Feb 16 - 4*

X18. A book related to science - Lessons in Chemistry - Mar 14 - 3*
X19. A book related to the arts - Everything Will Be All Right by Tessa Hadley - Jan 5 - 3* - character goes to art school
X20. A book with a cover or title that includes a route of travel - The Lincoln Highway - Jul 4 - 4*
X21. A book by an Asian diaspora author - Our Missing Hearts - Apr 24 - 3*
X22. A book with a faceless person on the cover - Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson - Jan 5 - 3*

X23. A book with a body of water in the title - Coromandel Sea Change - Mar 27 - 3*
X24. A character that might be called a Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, or Spy - Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II - Jan 17 -5*
X25. A book with a tropical setting - Kon-Tiki - Apr 18 - 5*
X26. A book related to pride - Heartstopper: Volume One - Jan 1 -4*

X27. A book by an author from continental Europe - Century in Scarlet - Hungary - Feb 6 - 4* -
X28. A book that is dark - The Crossing Places - Feb 8 - 4*
X29. A book that is light - The Unhoneymooners - Apr 24 - 4*
X30. A book related to a chess piece - A Knight's Duty - May 7 - 3*
X31. A book found by inputting a favorite author on - Richard Osman > Julian Fellowes
Past Imperfect - Aug 7 - 3*
X32. A book set in a UNESCO City of Literature- The Janus Stone - set in and around Norwich, UK - Aug 20 - 4*
X33. A book by an author with a first name popular in 1923 Along Came a Duke - Elizabeth Boyle - Feb 3 - 3*
X34. A novella - The Pearl - Jan 21 - 3*
35. A book with a school subject in the title - The French Art of Living Well Finding Joie de Vivre in the Everyday World by Cathy Yandell - 9/3 - 4*

X36. A book that has been translated from another language - The Red Notebook - Jan 27 - 4*
X37. A book with the theme of returning home - Strawberry Yellow - Feb 4 - 3*
X38. A book with the sun, moon, or stars on the cover - The Moon, the Stars, and Madame Burova - Feb 20 - 3* -
X39. A western - The Man Who Rode Midnight - May 5 - 4*

X40. A book with a full name in the title - A Visitor's Guide to Jane Austen's England - Feb 7 - 4*
X41. A book from the NPR “Books We Love” lists - The Old Woman with the Knife - Jan 12 - 3*
X42. A book related to a ghost, spirit, phantom, or specter - The Sentence - Jan 8 - 4*
X43. A book that involves a murder - A Gentleman's Murder - Jan 2 - 3*
X44. A book where the cover design includes text that is not completely horizontal - The Heirs The Heirs by Susan Rieger - Jan 3 - 3*

X45. A book whose author has published more than 7 books - Spinning Silver - Jan 15 - 4*
X46. A title that contains a word often found in a recipe - All Stirred Up: Suffrage Cookbooks, Food, and the Battle for Women's Right to Vote - Jun 11 - 4*
47. A book related to a geometric shape - Time Shelter Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov - cover has circles - Oct 26 -2.5*
X48. A book with an unusually large version of an animal in the story - The Constant Rabbit - Jan 20 - 2.5*

X49. A book posted in one of the ATY Best Book of the Month threads in 2022 or 2023 - Babel: An Arcane History - Mar 2 - 4*
X50. A second book that fits your favorite prompt - The Black Madonna - historical fiction - Mar 5 - 4*
X51. A book published in 2023 - The Terraformers - May 14 - 2*
X52. A book with an unusual or surprising title - Andrea Vernon and the Corporation for UltraHuman Protection - Apr 17 - 3*


message 2: by Robin P, Orbicular Mod (new)

Robin P | 3830 comments Mod
adding new msg so I can move up in the list! We have so many people that it is hard to get to the earliest pae.


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