Almost done with my ATY 2021 reading challenge list. Still need books for #6 (a love story) and #29 (a book you consider comfort reading), but those should be easy to decide on, whether I do it now or during the coming year.
If you've seen the post with my 2021 PopSugar reading challenge list, you will notice lots of duplicate entries here. That is totally intentional on my part. I want to try to finish both challenges this coming year (I came within 3 books on PopSugar and 5 on ATY this year and could have done it, but just did not want to read any of the books I had chosen for the prompts I had left).
Even though both lists are supposedly made independently from one another, they often have so many common themes or elements that I start to wonder if their creators are checking in with each other as they compile their respective lists. Anyway, doing different books for each prompt would total 102 books. That number doesn't concern me. I usually read around 160 books a year (this year I think I am at 174 with a few days left). I just want to have more freedom to see something random and feel like I have time to read it, or reread an old favorite if the mood strikes. I love to read, but I know that if I feel restricted in my choices because of the reading challenges, I will just stop doing both.
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Around the Year in 52 Books 2021 Reading Challenge:
1. A book related to “In the Beginning...” 📕 Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
2. A book by an author whose name doesn't contain the letters A, T or Y 📘 The Round House
3. A book related to the lyrics for the song "My Favorite Things" from The Sound of Music 📙 The Notebook
4. A book with a monochromatic cover 📗 Know My Name
5. A book by an author on USA Today's list of 100 Black Novelists You Should Read 📕 If Beale Street Could Talk
6. A love story
7. A book that fits a prompt suggestion that didn't make the final list 📙 Untamed
8. A book set in a state, province, or country you have never visited 📗 Q is for Quarry
9. A book you associate with a specific season or time of year 📕 Winter Garden
10. A book with a female villain or criminal 📘 Little Fires Everywhere
11. A book to celebrate The Grand Egyptian Museum 📙 The Book of Two Ways
12. A book eligible for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 📕 Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
13. A book written by an author of one of your best reads of 2020 📙 One True Loves
14. A book set in a made-up place 📘 Kindred
15. A book that features siblings as the main characters 📗 Educated
16. A book with a building in the title 📕 Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
17. A book with a Muslim character or author 📙 A Very Large Expanse of Sea
18. 3 books related to "Past, Present, Future" - Book 1 📘 The Silent Wife
19. 3 books related to "Past, Present, Future" - Book 2 📗 Things You Save in a Fire
20. 3 books related to "Past, Present, Future" - Book 3 📕 The Maze Runner
21. A book whose title and author both contain the letter "u" 📙 Ninth House
22. A book posted in one of the ATY Best Book of the Month threads 📘 Cilka's Journey
23. A cross genre novel 📙The Time Traveler's Wife
24. A book about racism or race relations 📕 Dear Justyce
25. A book set on an island 📗 Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
26. A short book (<210 pages) by a new-to-you author 📘 Night
27. A book with a character who can be found in a deck of cards 📙 The Shining
28. A book connected to ice 📗 Between Shades of Gray
29. A book that you consider comfort reading
30. A long book 📘 A Little Life
31. A book by an author whose career spanned more than 21 years📕 20th Victim
32. A book whose cover shows more than 2 people 📗 Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family
33. A collection of short stories, essays, or poetry 📙 Bad Feminist
34. A book with a travel theme 📘 Eat, Pray, Love
35. A book set in a country on or below the Tropic of Cancer 📗 Bel Canto
36. A book with six or more words in the title 📕 In Extremis: The Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin
37. A book from the Are You Well Read in World Literature list 📙 The Reader
38. A book related to a word given by a random word generator 📘 The Authenticity Project (word: debut)
39. A book involving an immigrant 📗 Every Note Played
40. A book with flowers or greenery on the cover 📘 The Stationery Shop
41. A book by a new-to-you BIPOC author 📙 Becoming
42. A mystery or thriller 📕 The Whisper Man
43. A book with elements of magic 📗 Recursion
44. A book whose title contains a negative 📘 Not My Father's Son
45. A book related to a codeword from the NATO Phonetic Alphabet 📙 Ballad of the Whiskey Robber: A True Story of Bank Heists, Ice Hockey, Transylvanian Pelt Smuggling, Moonlighting Detectives, and Broken Hearts
46. A winner or nominee from the 2020 Goodreads Choice Awards 📘 Anxious People
47. A non-fiction book other than biography, autobiography or memoir 📗 The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11
48. A book that might cause someone to react “You read what?!?” 📕 Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
49. A book with an ensemble cast 📙 Wonder
50. A book published in 2021 📘 Every Last Fear
51. A book whose title refers to person(s) without giving their name 📗 Girl, Stop Apologizing: A Shame-Free Plan for Embracing and Achieving Your Goals
52. A book related to "the end" 📕 The Last Song
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