52 Books Around the Year

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This list is a work in progress and subject to change.
last updated: may 2017

1. A book from the Goodreads Choice Awards 2016 (link)
✓Finders Keepers- Stephen King

2. A book with at least 2 perspectives (multiple points of view)
✓The Girl Who Fell From the Sky- Heidi W Durrow

3. A book you meant to read in 2016 
✓Pride and Prejudice- Jane Austen

4. A title that doesn't contain the letter "E" 
✓Final Girls- Riley Sager

5. A historical fiction 
✓City of Thieves- David Benioff

6. A book being released as a movie in 2017 
✓The Gunslinger- Stephen King

7. A book with an animal on the cover or in the title 
✓Six of Crows- Leigh Bardugo

8. A book written by a person of color 
✓The Hate U Give- Angie Thomas

9. A book in the middle of your To Be Read list
✓The Gallery of Unfinished Girls- Lauren Karcz

10. A dual-timeline novel 
✓Violent Ends (collaboration)

11. A category from another challenge

12. A book based on a myth
The

13. A book recommended by a favorite authors
✓ I See You- Clare Mackintosh (rec: Mary Kubica)

14. A book with a strong female character
✓ Dare Mighty Things- Heather Kaczynski

15. A book written or set in Scandinavia
TBA

16. A mystery
✓The Perfect Stranger- Megan Miranda

17. A book with illustrations
✓ Penguin Cover to Cover

18. A really long book (600+ pages)
✓The Goldfinch- Donna Tartt

19. A New York Times best-seller 

20. A book owned for a while & haven't gotten around to
The 

21. A book that is a continuation of a book you've already read
✓ Always & Forever, Lara Jean- Jenny Han

22. A book by an author you haven't read before
✓ Gem & Dixie- Sara Zarr

23. A book from the BBC "The Big Read" list (link)
✓Pride & Prejudice- Jane Austen

24. A book written by at least two authors
✓ Because You Love to Hate Me (Anthology)

25. A book about a famous historical figure 
✓Queer, There and Everywhere- Sara Prager

26. An adventure book


27. A book by one of your favorite authors
✓At the Edge of the Universe- Shaun David Hutchinson

28. A non-fiction
✓Hidden Figures- Margot Lee Shetterly

29. A book published outside the 4 major publishing houses
✓Beautiful Broken Girls- Kim Savage

30. A book from Goodreads Top 100 YA Books (link)
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31. A book from a sub-genre of your favorite genre
✓The Breakdown - BA Paris

32. A book with a long title (5+ words, excluding subtitle)
✓A House at the Bottom of a Lake- Josh Malerman

33. A magical realism novel
✓ Wild Beauty- Anna-Marie McLemore

34. A book set in or by an author from the Southern Hemisphere
 ✓Dear Ijeawele- Chimimanda Ngozi Adichie

35. A book where one of the main characters is royalty
✓Of Fire and Stars- Audrey Coulthurst

36. A Hugo Award winner or nominee (link)
The 

37. A book you choose randomly
✓The House on Mango Street- Sandra Cisneros

38. A novel inspired by a work of classic literature
✓A Million Junes- Emily Henry

39. An epistolary fiction 


40. A book published in 2017
✓Everything Beautiful is Not Ruined- Danielle Younge-Ullman

41. A book with an unreliable narrator
✓Dangerous Girls- Abigail Haas

42. A best book of the 21st century 
Me

43. A book with a chilling atmosphere (scary, unsettling, cold)
✓Whichwood- Tahereh Mafi

44. A recommendation from "What Should I Read Next" (link)
✓More Than This- Patrick Ness

45. A book with a one-word title
✓ Literally- Lucy Keating

46. A time travel novel
✓ The Ship Beyond Time- Heidi Heilig

47. A past suggestion that didn't win (link)  (# in title)
✓ First We Were IV- Alexandra Sirowy

48. A banned book 

49. A book from someone else's bookshelf
✓The Upside of Unrequited- Becky Albertalli

50. A Penguin Modern Classic
✓The Haunting- Shirley Jackson

51. A collection (e.g. essays, short stories, poetry, plays)
✓A Poem for Every Night of the Year

52. A book set in a fictional location
✓Down Among the Sticks and Bones- Seanan McGuire