The 52 Book Club's 2022 Reading Challenge

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What is the 52 Book Club Challenge?

This is an annual reading challenge made up of 52 unique prompts hosted by The 52 Book Club.  

MY PROGRESS UPDATE:
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The Prompts:


1. A 2nd-person narrative
The Tiger's Wife
Stolen by Lucy Christopher  
The Night Circus
The Fifth Season
Three Women

2. Featuring a library or bookstore
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd


3. Title starting with letter "E"
Entangled Life
Emlyn's Moon
Empty Smiles


4. Title starting with letter "F"
The Final Girl Support Group
The Firekeeper's Daughter
Fly By Night by Tara OConnor

5. Chapters have titles
The Eye of the World
The Guest List
The Thirteenth Tale
Sleepwalk
Lore Olympus

6. Household object on cover
The Bird Eater (fork)


7. A nonfiction bestseller
Caste
Educated
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
The Radium Girls
How To Be An AntiRacist
Brief Answers to the Big Questions
Maid

8. Involving the art world
The Silent Patient
A Little Life

9. A book that sparks joy
(I will choose at my discretion)

10. A book based on a real person
Wolf Hall
The Alice Network
The Redhead of Auschwitz

11. A book with less than 2022 ratings on Goodreads
Graceling (Graphic Novel) 

12. Set on at least two continents
The Alice Network
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
The Huntress
The Book of Magic 
The Lost Apothecary

13. Includes a club
The Final Girl Support Group

14. A character with a superhuman ability
Circe
Carrie
Firestarter

15. A five-syllable title

Velvet Was the Night
The Children's Blizzard
Daisy Jones & the Six
The Last Time I Lied
The Shape of Darkness
Tender Is the Flesh
The Book of Cold Cases


16. A book you've seen someone reading in a public place


17. A book picked based on its spine
On A Sunbeam

18. Jane Austen-inspired
The Wife Upstairs
The Reading List

19. A book that has an alternate title
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's/Philosopher's Stone
George / Melissa

20. Related to the word "Gold"
Cat's Cradle: The Golden Twine

21. Published by Simon & Schuster
One By One
Such A Quiet Place
State of Terror
The Night She Disappeared
Tender Is the Flesh
Ugly Love
Verity

22. An unlikely detective
The Lost Apothecary
The Curious Dog in the Night-Time
The Silent Patient
The Firekeeper's Daughter
Hope Never Dies

23. An author with an "X", "Y", or "Z" in their name
Grady Hendrix
Hanya Yanagihara 
Nizrana Farook
Molly Knox Ostag

24. Addresses a specific topic
Notes On A Nervous Planet

25. A wealthy character
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
The Ex Hex
The Guest List

26. Has an "author's note"
The Last House On Needless Street
The Water Dancer
The Alice Network
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

27. Includes a map
The Hunger
Circe
Fable
The Cartographers

28. An award-winning book from your country
The Underground Railroad
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Cafe

29. Over 500 pages long
A Little Life
Inkheart
On A Sunbeam

30. Audiobook is narrated by the author
A Promised Land
How To Be AntiRacist
The Neil Gaiman Reader
The Bluest Eye
Notes On A Nervous Planet
Will by Will Smith

31. Technology themed
Mr. Penumbra's
This Is How You Lose the Time War

32. A book that intimidates you


33. A bilingual character
Cemetery Boys
Lobizona
I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
Pachinko
The Last Cuentista

34. An author's photo on the back cover
A Promised Land
Local Woman Missing
Call Us What We Carry
The Girl From the Sea


35. From the villains perspective
Circe
Nimona
Perfume
Alias Grace
The Silent Patient

36. Recommended by a favorite author


37. Set in a rural area
The Dry
Educated
The Firekeeper's Daughter
The Hacienda
The Night She Disappeared

38. Don't judge a book by its cover! 
The Viscount Who Loved Me

39. A middle-grade novel
The Bookwanderers
Fly By Night
Northwind
Took: Graphic Novel
Amari and the Night Brothers


40. A book with photographs inside
The Dressmaker of Auschwitz
The Radium Girls

41. Involves a second chance
A Little Life
Before We Were Yours
Deacon King Kong
Under the Whispering Door
A History of Wild Places

42. An indie read
The Forest of Stolen Girls

43. Author who's published in more than one genre


44. An anthology


45.  A book with illustrated people on cover
Gideon the Ninth
Cemetery Boys
Pachinko
This One Summer

46. A job title in the title 
The Dressmakers of Auschwitz
The Maid
Maid
The Firekeeper's Daughter
The Guide

47. Read during the month of November 
nonfiction? We shall see. 

48. Re-do one of this year's prompts but w/ a different genre


49. Book title starts with the same letter as your first name
Sorrowland
Shuggie Bain
The Shape of Darkness
Sorceline


50.  A POC as the MC
A Promised Land
An American Marriage
The Vanishing Half
Dread Nation
Concrete Rose
The Poet X
Ghost Boys
Roll of Thunder, Hear Me Cry

51. The word "Game" in the title
Middlegame

52. Published in 2022
Where the Drowned Girls Go
Northwind
Amari and the Night Brothers
The Cartographers
Nettle and Bone
Lore Olympus Vol 2




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