The 52 Book Club Reading Challenge (2021)

 

(image borrowed from the52book.club)

Hello readers! 

I'm joining in on a new challenge this year to go along with the PopSugar Reading Challenge in hopes that I will expand my TBR and 'books read' lists. I've been seeing this one shared and thought I'd give it a go! 

RULES/GOALS:

Push yourself to read more! 
Attempt to read one book to fit each prompt.
Enjoy.


THE PROMPTS:
(I'm using this as a sort of TBR list and will list recommendations I am interested in or own for that prompt and will cross them out once I read them.)

1. Set in a school
The Broken Girls by Simone St. James
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Class Act by Jerry Craft

2. Featuring the legal profession
The Night Swim by Megan Goldin
Miracle Creek by Angie Kim

3. A dual timeline
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell
The Broken Girls by Simone St. James
The Vanishing Half by Britt Bennett
*The Invisible Life of Addie Larue
Thornhill by Pam Smy


4. An author that is deceased
Beverly Cleary - Ramona and Beezus

5. Published by Penguin
Ready Player Two
The Broken Girls
A Sky Beyond the Storm
The Vanishing Half
The Light in Hidden Places

6. A character with the same name as a male family member


7. An author with only 1 published book
Black Beauty
My Dark Vanessa
The Year of the Witching

8. A book set in the 900's in the Dewey Decimal system
A Promised Land by Barack Obama

9. Set in a Mediterranean country
Circe

10.  Related to the word "fire"
Brain On Fire

11. Book with discussion questions inside
The Deep by Rivers Solomon

12. Title starting with the letter "D"
The Deep by Rivers Solomon
Dread Nation
Dune
The Dollhouse by Charis Cotter

13. Includes an exotic animal
The One and Only Ivan

14. Written by an author over 65 (when published)

15. Mentioned in another book
The One and Only Ivan (mentioned in The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise)

16. Set before the 17th century
Circe

17. A character on the run
Embassy of the Dead

18. Author with a 9-letter last name
Jim Ottaviani (T.Minus)

19. Book with a deckled edge
Willa of the Wood
Kill Creek

20. Made into a tv series
Firefly Lane
Drums of Autumn
(in future) Willa of the Wood

21. Book by Kristin Hannah
The Four Winds
Firefly Lane

22. A family saga

23. An ending that surprises you
Layla by Colleen Hoover
Final Girls

24. A book you think they should read in schools
Animal Barn

25. Book with multiple pov
Gods of Jade and Shadow
A Little Life
Thornhill
The Hideaway

26. An author of color
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
The Deep by Rivers Solomon
The Girl With the Louding Voice by Abi Dare
Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
Stamped: Remix by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X Kendi
Ophie's Ghost 

27. First chapter ends on an odd number
Dark Waters

28. Includes a historical event you know nothing about
The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah

29. Featuring the environment
The Four Winds
Animal Barn
Fable by Adrienne Young

30. Watch out for dragons!

31. Shares a similar title to another book
The One and Only Bob similar to The One and Only Ivan
The Collectors

32. A selfish character
Firefly Lane
Verity
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

33. Featuring adoption
The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell
The House in the Cerulean Sea
The Home For Unwanted Girls

34. A book you'd rate 5 stars
The Poison Thread by Laura Purcell

35. Set in a country starting with the letter "S"
Heidi (Switzerland)

36. A nameless narrator

37. An educational read
Stamped: Remix

38. Recommended on BookBub
The Night Swim

39. An alternative history novel
The Once and Future Witches
11/22/63
Elatsoe

40. Found via bookstagram
Later by Stephen King
The Home for Unwanted Girls
The Haunting of Alma Fielding

41. An endorsement by a famous author on the cover
The Invisible Life of Addie Larue

42. An epistolary
An American Marriage
Go Ask Alice
Thornhill

43. A character with a pet cat
The Midnight Library
The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise

44. Includes a garden
Thornhill

45. A coming of age novel

46. Winner of a national book award
Inside Out and Back Again
The Poet X

47. A character with a disability

48. A cover with a woman who is facing away

49. A flavour in the title

50. A shoe on the cover

51. Published in 2021
Across the Green Grass Fields

52. Re-do one of the previous 51 categories

Want to participate in this challenge? 
Check out the 52 Book Club website for more info!