2018 Around the Year in 52 Books

• A book with the letters A, T & Y in the title
  The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society – Mary Ann Shaffer
• A book from the first 10 books added to your To Be Read list
  Six of Crows – Leigh Bardugo
• A book from the 2017 Goodreads Choice Awards
  My Favorite Thing Is Monsters – Emil Farris
• Four books linked by the four elements: Earth
  The Darkest Part of the Forest – Holly Black
• A book about or inspired by real events
  March (Books 1-3) – John Lewis
• A book originally written in a language other than English
  The Last Wish (The Witcher #1) – Andrzej Sapkowski
• An “own voices” book*
  Love, Hate, and Other Filters – Samira Ahmed
• A book with a body part in the title (heart, bones, teeth, skin, blood, etc)
  Children of Blood and Bone – Tomi Adeyemi
• An author’s debut book (their first book to be published)
  Shadow and Bone – Leigh Bardugo
• A literary fiction
  Pachinko – Min Jin Lee
• A book set in Africa or South America
  Stay With Me – Ayobami Adebayo
• A book with a plot centered around a secret
  A Separate Peace – John Knowles
• Four books linked by the four elements: Fire
  Fire Sermon – Jamie Quatro
• A book with an unique format/writing structure
  Dear Aaron – Mariana Zapata
• A book you expect to make you laugh
  Heart and Brain – Nick Seluk
• A book with a location in the title
  Island of the Blue Dolphins – Scott O’Dell
• A book rated 5 stars by at least one of your friends
  Whatever After: Fairest of All – Sarah Mlynowski
• A book written in first person perspective
  Uprooted – Naomi Novik
• A book you have high expectations or hope for
  Assassin’s Apprentice – Robin Hobb
• A book with a map
  Throne of Glass – Sarah J. Maas
• A book with an antagonist/villain point of view
  The Female of the Species – Mindy McGinnis
• A book with a text only cover
  Women & Power – Mary Beard
• A book about surviving a hardship
  On the Island – Tracey Garvis Graves
• Four books linked by the four elements: Water
  Daughter of the Pirate King/Daughter of the Siren Queen – Tricia Levenseller
• A book with a “Clue” weapon on the cover or in the title
  Falling Kingdoms – Morgan Rhodes
• A short book
  A Court of Frost and Starlight – Sarah J. Maas
• A book set in a country you’d like to visit but have never been to
  The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue -Mackenzi Lee
• An alternate history book
  Dread Nation – Justina Ireland
• A book connected to a word “born” in the same year as you (lookism or eye candy)
  The Belles – Dhonielle Clayton
• A polarizing or a close-call suggestion from the AtY 2018 polls that didn’t win
  (A book that is set during the winter or in a snowy environment)
  The Snow Child – Eowyn Ivey
• A book featuring a murder
  The Cutting Season – Attica Locke
• A book published in the last three years by a new-to-you author
  Salt Houses – Hala Alyan
• A science book or a science fiction book
  Illuminae – Ami Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
• A book with a form of punctuation in the title
  Alex, Approximately – Jenn Bennett
• A book from Amazon’s 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime list
  The Complete Persepolis – Marjane Satrapi
• A book by an author with the same first and last initials
  The Kiss Quotient – Helen Hoang
• A book that takes place on, in, or underwater
  To Kill a Kingdom – Alexandra Christo
• A book with a title that is a whole sentence
  Some Girls Bite – Chloe Neill
• A ghost story
  The Astonishing Color of After – Emily X. R. Pan
• A book that intimidates or scares you
  Mistborn – Brandon Sanderson
• Four books linked by the four elements: Air
  We Are the Ants – Shaun David Hutchinson
• A book whose main character or author has a different ethnic origin, religion, or sexual identity than you
  Educated – Tara Westover
• A book related to one of the seven deadly sins (Wrath and Envy)
  It Ends With Us – Colleen Hoover
• A book from one of the Goodreads Best Books of the Month lists (Sept 2018)
  Silence of the Girls – Pat Barker
• A book with a warm atmosphere (centered on family, friendship, love or summer)
  Foolish Hearts – Emma Mills
• A book published in 2018
  The Cruel Prince – Holly Black
• A Women’s Prize for Fiction winner or nominee
  Stay with Me – Ayobami Adebayo
• An award-winning short story or short story collection
• A gothic novel
• A narrative nonfiction
• A book nominated for the Edgar Award or by a Grand master author
• A medical or legal thriller

List created by the group members, after suggestions and votes. Thanks to all!

*an own voice novel is a book about marginalised protagonists (by ethnic group, religion, sexual orientation, mental illness, etc) written by an author who shares that same identity.