Around the Year in 52 Books discussion

The 2018 List

1. 📘 A book with the letters A, T & Y in the title
Katja Millay - The Sea of Tranquility


2. 📘 A book from the first 10 books added to your To Be Read list
E. Lockhart - We Were Liars


3. 📘 🎧 A book from the 2017 Goodreads Choice Awards
Neil deGrasse Tyson - Astrophysics for People in a Hurry


4. 📘 🎧 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #1 Earth (in title, cover, content, setting, author...)
Janet Edwards - Earth Girl


5. 📘 🎧 A book about or inspired by real events
Amy Schumer - The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo


6. 📘 A book originally written in a language other than English
Han Kang - The Vegetarian


7. 📘 A gothic novel
Shirley Jackson - We Have Always Lived in the Castle


8. 📘 An "own voices" book*
Sherman Alexie - The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian


9. 📘 A book with a body part in the title (heart, bones, teeth, skin, blood, etc)
Rosalie Lario- Blood of the Demon


10. 📘 An author's debut book (their first book to be published)
Mark Haddon - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time


11. 📘 A literary fiction
Lisa See - Snow Flower and the Secret Fan


12. 📘 A book set in Africa or South America
Akwaeke Emezi - Freshwater


13. 📘 A book with a plot centered around a secret (forbidden love, spies, secret societies, etc)
Kelli Clare - Hidden


14. 📘 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #2 Fire
Kay Honeyman - The Fire Horse Girl


15. 📘 A book with an unique format/writing structure
Amie Kaufman - Illuminae


16. 📘 🎧 A narrative nonfiction
Hope Jahren - Lab Girl


17. 📘 🎧 A book you expect to make you laugh
Carrie Fisher - Wishful Drinking


18. 📘 🎧 A book with a location in the title
Heather Morris - The Tattooist of Auschwitz


19. 📘 🎧 A book nominated for the Edgar Award or by a Grand master author
William Kent Krueger - Ordinary Grace


20. 📘 A book rated 5 stars by at least one of your friends
Julie Otsuka - The Buddha in the Attic


21. 📘 🎧 A book written in first person perspective
Jeff VanderMeer - Annihilation



22. 📘 A book you have high expectations or hope for
Justin Cronin - The Passage


23. 📘 🎧 A medical or legal thriller
John Scalzi - Lock In


24. 📘 A book with a map
Brandon Sanderson - The Well of Ascension


25. 📘 A book with an antagonist/villain point of view
John Fowles - The Collector

26. 📘 A book with a text only cover
Oliver Sacks - The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales


27. 📘 A book about surviving a hardship (war, famine, major disasters, serious illness, etc)
Tom Perrotta - The Leftovers


28. 📘 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #3 Water
Karen White - The Memory of Water


29. 📘 A book with a "Clue" weapon on the cover or title (lead pipe, revolver, rope, candlestick, dagger, wrench)
Neil Gaiman - Coraline


30. 📘 A short book
Alessandro Baricco - Silk


31. 📘 A book set in a country you'd like to visit but have never been to
Kevin Kwan - Crazy Rich Asians


32. 📘 An alternate history book
R.F. Kuang - The Poppy War


33. 📘 A book connected (title, cover, content) to a word "born" in the same year as you (body double)
Paul Guest - Notes for My Body Double


34. 📘 A suggestion from the AtY 2018 polls, that didn't win but was polarizing or a close-call
Milena Agus - From the Land of the Moon


35. 📘 A book featuring a murder
Lindsay Cummings - The Murder Complex


36. 📘 A book published in the last 3 years (2016, 2017, 2018) by an author you haven't read before
Amie Kaufman - Gemina


37. 📘 🎧 A Women's Prize for Fiction winner or nominee
Jhumpa Lahiri - The Lowland


38. 📘 A science book or a science fiction book
Justin Cronin - The City of Mirrors


39. 📘 🎧 A book with a form of punctuation in the title
Mindy Kaling - Why Not Me?


40. 📘 A book from Amazon's 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime list
Rainbow Rowell - Eleanor & Park


41. 📘 A book by an author with the same first and last initials
Melissa Marr - One Blood Ruby


42. 📘 A book that takes place on, in, or underwater
Alexandra Christo - To Kill a Kingdom


43. 📘 🎧 A book with a title that is a whole sentence
Gail Honeyman - Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine


44. 📘 🎧 A ghost story
Stephen King - Joyland


45. 📘 A book that intimidates/ scares you
Guillermo del Toro - The Strain


46. 📘 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #4 Air
Rhoda Belleza - Empress of a Thousand Skies


47. 📘 🎧 A book where the main character (or author) is of a different ethnic origin, religion, or sexual identity than your own
Jesmyn Ward - Sing, Unburied, Sing


48. 📘 A book related to one of the 7 deadly sins (pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath, sloth)
Justin Cronin - The Twelve


49. 📘 A book from one of the Goodreads Best Books of the Month lists
B A Paris - Bring Me Back


50. 📘 A book with a warm atmosphere (centered on family, friendship, love or summer)
Cindy Anstey - Love, Lies and Spies


51. 📘 An award-winning short story or short story collection
Banana Yoshimoto - Kitchen


52. 📘 A book published in 2018
Amie Kaufman - Obsidio

📘 - finished
📗 - in progress
🎧 - audiobook

Nice list! I loved The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. enjoy!