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. Set in an ancient civilization: Aristotle, Detective by Margaret Doody (2/3/26)
3. Written without quotation marks: Muscle & Bone by Paul-Victor Winters (8/4/26)
4. Has a dust jacket: Frederica by Georgette Heyer (2/22/26)
5. Featuring a conspiracy: A Conspiracy of Poisons by J. G. Jeffreys (6/28/26)
6. Title starts with letter O: Old Bones by Herman Petersen (1/20/26)
7. Title starts with letter P: (A) Particular Eye for Villainy by Ann Granger (6/17/26)
8. A three-syllable word in the title: The Division Bell Mystery by Ellen Wilkinson (1/12/26)
9. Featuring a natural disaster: Murder & Sullivan by Sara Hoskinson Frommer [tornado] (8/22/26)
10. Spans a decade or more: An Affair to Remember by Christopher Andersen (3/5/26)
11. Requires suspension of disbelief: High Marks for Murder by Rebecca Kent [has a real ghost] (1/22/26)
12. A genre-defining read: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie (3/22/26)
13. Bookface:
14. Includes a character list: A Pocket Full of Rye by Agatha Christie (1/25/26)
15. A subtitle with commas:
16. Deus Ex Machina: The Benson Murder Case by S. S. Van Dine [Vance declares himself Markham's deus ex machina] (8/1/26)
17. Author's bio mentions their dog: The Marlow Murder Club by Robert Thorogood
18.Provokes strong emotion:
20. Day of the week in title: Thursday's Folly by Judson Philips OR Death over Sunday by James Francis Bonnell
21. Written in the 1800s:
22. Spotted in a TV series or movie: The Saint in New York by Leslie Charteris [in Inglorious Basterds, 2009]
23.Grumpy/Sunshine trope:
24. Uneven number of chapters: The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Great War by Simon Guerrier (2/7/26)
25. Includes a red herring: The Avenging Chance by Anthony Berkeley (2/28/26)
26. Title in serif font: Death on the Slopes by Norma Schier [tiny but there] (1/9/26)
27. Two or more authors, one pseudonym: Spellbound by Francis Beeding [John Leslie Palmer & Hilary St. George Saunders] (6/13/26)
28. From a series at least eight books long: The Plumley Inheritance by Christopher Bush (2/13/26)
29. Set in the Arctic or Antarctic: Death in a Cold Climate by Robert Barnard
30. Author related to another author: A Dying Fall by Hildegarde Dolson (7/26/26)
31. Author related to author in prompt 30: Squire of Death by Richard Lockridge [married] (5/17/26)
32. Publisher starting with letter B: A Death for a Double by E. X. Giroux [10 books in Robert Forsythe series] (2/7/26) [Ballantine]
33. Standalone fantasy novel: The Ship of Ishtar by A. A. Merritt
34. Inspired by top-grossing movie the year you were born: Murder on the Line by John Creasey (train robbery; Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid)
35. Character with secret identity: The Fourth Postman by Craig Rice [one of the characters is secretly another character's mother & a former movie star] (2/25/26)
36. Award-winning book from last year:
37. Started on the 26th of the month: Masterpieces of Mystery: Amateurs & Professionals selected by Ellery Queen [started 1/26/26] (1/31/26)
38. Domestic fiction: Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives: Stories from the Trailblazers of Domestic Suspense by Sara Weinman, ed (2/18/26)
39. A book that cost you nothing: The Well House Reader by Donald J. Gray (7/13/26)
40. Author's first and last name start with same letter: Dangerous Crossing by Rachel Rhys (2/4/26)
41. A guide to...: A Lady's Guide to Mischief & Mayhem by Manda Collins (3/7/26)
42. Includes a handwritten interior font: Murder Enters the Picture by Willetta Ann Barber & R. F. Schabelitz [illustrations in the book have hand-written notes] (3/20/26)
43. Goodreads recommendation for you: A Case of Mice & Murder by Sally Smith (4/18/26)
44. Literary Device--Personification:
45. Biographical Fiction: The Case of Cabin 13 by Sam McCarver (6/15/26)
46. Non-fiction about character in prompt 45: Titanic Captain: The Life of Edward John Smith by G. J. Cooper (7/4/26)
47. A diacritical mark on cover: A Murder of Quality by John le Carré
48. Related to the word "Nemesis": Moriarty by Anthony Horowitz
49. From the 800s of the Dewey Decimal System:
50. Set in a castle: How to Solve Your Own Murder by Kristen Perrin [set in a village called Castle Knoll] (5/16/26)
51. Includes a map: The Murder Wheel by Tom Mead [2 maps of scenes in book] (4/1/26)
52. Published in 2026: When the Wolves Are Silent by C. S. Harris (4/26/26)
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