Around the Year in 52 Books 2018

As we start with a new year, so shall we start with a new list of challenges for the "Around the Year in 52 Books" challenge. You can find the challenges Here on their Goodreads page.

In 2016 I tried making a TBR that fulfilled these challenges, only to get frustrated at the books I felt I had to read. It was just too...."set in stone" for me despite knowing I could change it.

This last year (2017) I pretty much ignored the challenges and saw what fit each challenge at the end of the year.

2018 will be different. I still wont have a set TBR, but my hope is to track my through out the year and get at least a couple completed each month. I'll keep updating this list, as well as mention which ones I have been able to complete at the end of every month.

If it's separated and the challenge is in bold it's completed, if just the number of the challenge is bold, it's in progress.

Let's see how this goes

Around the Year in 52 Books 2018

1) A book with the letters A, T & Y in the title: Giant Days Vol. 2 by John Allison

2) A book from the first 10 books added to your To Be Read List: The Tales of Beedle the Bard by J.K. Rowling

3) A book from the 2017 Goodreads Choice Awards: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original Screen Play by J.K. Rowling

4) 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #1 Earth (in title, cover, content, setting, author...)

5) A book about or inspired by real events: Hearts of Resistance by Soraya M. Lane

6) A book originally written in a language other than English: Britt-Marie Was Here by Fredrik Bachman

7) A gothic novel: Interview with The Vampire by Anne Rice

8) An "own voices" book: This is Me: How to Love Yourself Today by Chrissy Metz

9) A book with a body part in the title (heart, bones, teeth, skin, blood, etc...): The Haunted Vagina by Carlton Mellick III

10) An author's debut book (their first book to be published): The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang

11) A literary fiction: Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward

12) A book set in Africa or South America

13) A book with a plot centered around a secret (forbidden love, spies, secret societies, etc...): Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie

14) 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #2 fire: Brisingr by Christopher Paolini

15) A book with a unique format/writing structure: The Loneliest Girl in the Universe by Lauren James

16) A narrative nonfiction: Consider the Fork: A History on How We Cook and Eat by Bee Wilson

17) A book you expect to make you laugh: Rat Queens Vol. 2: The Far Reaching Tentacles of N'rygoth by Kurtis J. Wiebe

18) A book with a location in the title: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams

19) A book nominated for the Edgar Award or by a Grand Master author (books & authors)

20) A book rated 5 stars by at least one of your friends: The Astonishing Color of After by Emily X.R. Pan

21) A book written in first person perspective: Sourdough by Robin Sloan

22) A book you have high expectations or hope for: The Secret Lives of Color by Kassia St. Clair

23) A medical or legal thriller

24) A book with a map: Eldest by Christopher Paolini

25) A book with an antagonist/villain point of view
26) A book with a text only cover

27) A book about surviving hardship (war, famine, major disasters, serious illness, etc...): Educated by Tara Westover

28) 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #3 water Everything is Teeth by Evie Wyld

29) A book with a "clue" weapon on the cover or title (lead pip, revolver, candlestick, dagger, wrench, rope)

30) A short book: Chilling Adventures of Sabrina #1 by Roberto Aguerre-Sacasa

31) A book set in a country you'd like to visit but have never been to
32) An alternate history book
33) A book connected (title, cover, content) to a word "born" in the same year as you (link)

34) A suggestion from the AtY 2018 polls, that didn't win but was polarizing or a close call (link): A book with a supernatural character: (vampire, werewolf, witch/wizard, zombie, ghost, etc.
Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman

35) A book featuring a murder: The Address by Fiona Davis

36) A book published in the last 3 years (2016, 2017, 2018) by an author you haven't read before: The Magic Misfits by Neil Patrick Harris

37) A Women's Prize for Fiction winner or nominee (link1, link2)

38) A science book or a science fiction book:
StarWars: Phasma by Delilah S. Dawson

39) A book with a form of punctuation in the title:
40) A book from Amazon's 100 books to Read in a Lifetime list

41) A book by an author with the same first and last initials: Circe by Madeline Miller

42) A book that takes place in, on or underwater
43) A book with a title that is a whole sentence

44) A ghost story: City of Ghosts by Victoria Schwab

45) A book that intimidates/scares you: Clean Room by Gail Simmone

46) 4 books linked by the 4 elements: Book #4 air

47) A book where the main character (or author is of a different ethnic origin, religion,  or sexual identity than your own: The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris

48) A book related to one of the 7 deadly sins (pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath, sloth): Horns by Joe Hill

49) A book from on of the of the Goodreads Best Books of the Month list

50) A book with a warm atmosphere (center on family, friendship, love or summer): Alex, Approximately by Jenn Bennett

51) An award-winning short story or short story collection

52) A book Published in 2018: Moonstruck Volume 1: Magic to Brew by Grace Ellis