The 52 Book Club 2025

 

I'm back for another round of Liz's reading challenge at The 52 Book Club. Hers is a low-key challenge, so there is no pressure to fulfill all 52 categories I'm setting a personal goal of 26. I may read more that fit the categories, but at 26 I can claim my challenge goal fulfilled. Several times in the past I've managed to pull off all 52--so who knows, maybe I'll get there again. I'll list some tentative selections below and update as needed.

1. Pun in the Title: No Police Like Holmes by Dan Andriacco

2. Character with Red Hair: The Corpse with the Red-Headed Friend by R. A. J. Walling

3. Title starts with Letter "M":

4. Title starts with Letter "N":

5. Plot Includes a Heist: Still as Death by Sarah Stewart Taylor

6. Genre 1 Set in Spring:

7. Genre 2 Set in Summer:

8. Genre 3 Set in Autumn:

9. Genre 4 Set in Winter:

10. Author's Last Name is a First Name: Dangerous Davies: The Last Detective by Leslie Thomas

11. A Prequel: Death Cloud: Sherlock Holmes the Legend Begins by Andrew Lane (library)

12. Moon on Cover:

13. Title Is Ten Letters or Less: Mortal Term by John Penn

14. Climate Fiction: The Crow Trap by Ann Cleeves OR The Last Resort by Michael Kaufman (library)

15. Includes Latin American History

16. Author Has Won an Edgar: The Cipher Garden (or other book) by Martin Edwards

17. Told in Verse:

18. Character Who Can Fly: The Man Who Didn't fly by Margot Bennett 

19. Has Short Chapters

20. Fairy Tale Retelling: Poisoned Apples: Poems For You, My Pretty by Christine Heppermann (library)

21. Character's Name in Title: Dead Mrs. Stratton by Anthony Berkeley

22. Found Family Trope

23. Sprayed Edge

24. Title Is a Spoiler: The Death of Lucy Kyte by Nicola Upson

25. Breaks the Fourth Wall: 

26. More Than a Million Copies Sold: The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco (over 50 million sold)

27. Features a Magician: Death from a Top Hat by Clayton Rawson

28. Crossover (Set in Shared Universe):

29. Shares Universe with Prompt 28:

30. In the Public Domain:

31. Audiobook Has Multiple Narrators:

32. Includes a Diary Entry:

33. Standalone Novel

34. Direction in the Title:

35. Written in the Third Person:

36. Final Sentence Less Than Six Words Long:

37. Genre Chosen for You by Someone Else:

38. Adventure Story:

39. Has an Epigraph:

40. Stream of Consciousness Narrative (YIKES): Tarantula by Bob Dylan (library)

41. Cover Font In Primary Color:

42. Non-Human Antagonist: 

43. Explores Social Class: 

44. Celebrity on Cover:

45. Author Releases More Than One Book a Year: The Feathered Serpent by Edgar Wallace

46. Read During a "-Ber" Month:

47. "I Think It Was Blue":

48. Related to Word Puzzle: Puzzle in Porcelain by Robin Grey (Elizabeth Gresham)

49. Set in Country With Active Volcano:

50.  Set in the 1940s

51.  300-400 Pages Long:

52. Published in 2025: Who Will Remember by C. S. Harris