Hello book lovers!
Are you looking for a fun reading challenge for the new year?
One of my newest yearly favorites has been the52bookclub's annual reading challenge, which includes 52 unique prompts and sometimes includes bonus prompts and giveaways!
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This is the 6th annual challenge and has garnered quite a following over at Facebook, Goodreads, and Instagram. They also share this reading challenge on Storygraph which has a fantastic way to keep track of what you may and do read for the challenge, as well as see what other participants are reading for each challenge in case you are having trouble with a prompt or two.
Without further ado, here are the prompts and a couple of hopefuls I have planned for each of them!
1. A book with a subtitle: 👍
Babel: An Arcane History
Miss Peregrine's Museum of Wonders: An Indispensable Guide to the Dangers and Delights of the Peculiar World for the Instruction of New Arrivals by Ransom Riggs
2. A book with an inheritance:
Thistlefoot
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
3. Title starts with the letter G:
Gallows Hill
Ghost Eaters
Ghost 19
4. Title starts with letter H:
Hidden Pictures
Hester
House of Hunger
5. Title starts with letter I:
I Must Betray You
6. Under 200 pages:
7. A city or country name in the title: 👍
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
A Gentleman in Moscow
Anne of Avonlea
An American Marriage
8. Dystopian fiction
9. A book with a dedication:
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
10. Takes place in the 'Roaring 20's':
11. A book about secrets
Aristotle & Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
The Secret History
12. High fantasy:
13. Published posthumously:
14. A survival story:
The Woman They Could Not Silence
15. Set in Australia:
The Dry
16. Featuring one of the Seven Deadly Sins:
Reader, I Murdered Him
The Grapes of Wrath
Ordinary Monsters
17. By a Caribbean author:
With the Fire On High
Jackal
18. Set during a war other than WWI or WWII:
Cold Mountain
Home Front
I Must Betray You
Dread Nation
Dread Nation
19. Typographic Cover:
The House on Mango Street
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
We Spread
20. A book about siblings: 👍
My Sister the Serial Killer
The Sisters of the Winter Wood
21. A secondhand book:
Before We Were Yours
The Snow Child
The Snow Child
22. A body-positive message:
The Vanishing Half
23. An alliterative title:
Spinning Silver
Daisy Darker
24. Nordic Noir:
The Tenant
The Lost Village
25. A fashionable character:
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
26. Has an epilogue:
The Secret History
27. A Newbery Medal Winner:
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
28. Includes a funeral:
Demon Copperhead
The House Across the Lake
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
A Tree Grows In Brooklyn
29. Sends you down a rabbit hole:
Alice in Wonderland
House of Leaves
30. An author with the same name as you:
I read Stacy Schiff last year, but they write nonfiction so I need recs for this one!
31. Set in a workplace:
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
Legends & Lattes
The Woman in the Library
Sign Here
32. Published by Macmillan:
Hell Bent
The Wilderwomen
Legends & Lattes
Middlegame
Seasonal Fears
The Atlas Six
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour
33. A banned book: 👍
Brave New World
Kindred
Cemetery Boys
All American Boys
All Boys Aren't Blue
How To Be Ace
Gender Queer
Melissa
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
34. Featuring mythology:
The Daughter of Doctor Moreau
The Sisters of the Winter Wood
The Witch's Heart
Legendborn
35. A book you meant to read last year:
An American Marriage
Ghost Story
The Last House on Needless Street
The Haunting of Leigh Harker
Out of the Easy
Middlegame
The Wolf and the Woodsman
36. Chapters have cliffhangers:
The Dry
The House Across the Lake
Killers Of A Certain Age
Daisy Darker
37. Written in the present tense:
The City We Became
Orphan Train
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Fairy Tale
38. An enemies-to-lovers plot:
39. The final book in a series:
For You and Only You by Caroline Kepnes
40. Written by a comedian:
Yearbook by Seth Rogan
41. A character who is a refugee 👍
My Sister's Bones
All My Rage
42. Time in the Title
The Night Shift
Confessions on the 7:45
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
43. A book "everyone" has read
The Secret History
Kindred
Vicious
A Little Life
Daisy Jones and the Six
44. A contemporary setting
45. First word in the book is "the"
The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
The House Across the Lake
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
The Fervor
46. Script font on the spine
47. Set in the city of Dublin
48. A book by Octavia E. Butler 👍
Kindred
49. Books on the cover
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
The Woman in the Library
Hell of A Book
The Bookwoman's Daughter
50. Related to the word murder
Reader, I Murdered Him
Killers of A Certain Age
My Sister, the Serial Killer
51. Doesn't fit any of the other 51 prompts
52. Published in 2023
Lost in the Moment and Found
How to Sell A Haunted House
A House With Good Bones
Hashtags
#the52bookclub
#the52bookclub2023
You can find out more about this challenge over at the52bookclub's website!
Want to keep up with what books I'm reading for which prompts, feel free to follow at Goodreads, Storygraph, and Bookstagram!
The Secret History
27. A Newbery Medal Winner:
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh
28. Includes a funeral:
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
A Tree Grows In Brooklyn
29. Sends you down a rabbit hole:
Alice in Wonderland
House of Leaves
30. An author with the same name as you:
I read Stacy Schiff last year, but they write nonfiction so I need recs for this one!
31. Set in a workplace:
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
The Woman in the Library
32. Published by Macmillan:
Hell Bent
Legends & Lattes
Middlegame
Seasonal Fears
The Atlas Six
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour
33. A banned book: 👍
Brave New World
How To Be Ace
Gender Queer
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
34. Featuring mythology:
The Daughter of Doctor Moreau
The Sisters of the Winter Wood
The Witch's Heart
Legendborn
35. A book you meant to read last year:
Ghost Story
The Last House on Needless Street
The Haunting of Leigh Harker
Out of the Easy
Middlegame
The Wolf and the Woodsman
36. Chapters have cliffhangers:
The Dry
Killers Of A Certain Age
Daisy Darker
37. Written in the present tense:
The City We Became
Orphan Train
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
38. An enemies-to-lovers plot:
39. The final book in a series:
40. Written by a comedian:
Yearbook by Seth Rogan
41. A character who is a refugee 👍
My Sister's Bones
42. Time in the Title
The Night Shift
Confessions on the 7:45
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
43. A book "everyone" has read
The Secret History
Vicious
A Little Life
Daisy Jones and the Six
44. A contemporary setting
45. First word in the book is "the"
The House Across the Lake
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
46. Script font on the spine
47. Set in the city of Dublin
48. A book by Octavia E. Butler 👍
49. Books on the cover
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
The Woman in the Library
Hell of A Book
The Bookwoman's Daughter
50. Related to the word murder
Reader, I Murdered Him
Killers of A Certain Age
My Sister, the Serial Killer
51. Doesn't fit any of the other 51 prompts
52. Published in 2023
Lost in the Moment and Found
A House With Good Bones
Hashtags
#the52bookclub
#the52bookclub2023
You can find out more about this challenge over at the52bookclub's website!
Want to keep up with what books I'm reading for which prompts, feel free to follow at Goodreads, Storygraph, and Bookstagram!
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