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. Kangare word on the cover: The Clue of the Broken Locket by Carolyn Keene (Clue/Cue)
3. Written without quotation marks: Sinai Tapestry by Edward Whittemore OR Ghost by Paul Aster [library]
4. Has a dust jacket:
5. Featuring a conspiracy:
6. Title starts with letter O:
7. Title starts with letter P: Pencil Points to Murder by Willetta Ann Barber & R. F. Schabelitz
8. A three-syllable word in the title:
9. Featuring a natural disaster:
10. Spans a decade or more:
11. Requires suspension of disbelief:
12. A genre-defining read:
13. Bookface:
14. Includes a character list:
15. A subtitle with commas:
16. Deus Ex Machina:
17. Author's bio mentions their dog: The Marlow Murder Club by Robert Thorogood
18.Provokes strong emotion:
19. A nosy neighbor character:
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:
25. Includes a red herring:
26. Title in serif font:
27. Two or more authors, one pseudonym: Murder by Prescription by Jonathan Stagge (Hugh Wheeler & Richard Webb)
28. From a series at least eight books long:
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
31. Author related to author in prompt 30: Squire of Death by Richard Lockridge (married)
32. Publisher starting with letter B: A Death for a Double by E. X. Giroux (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
36. Award-wining book from last year:
37. Started on the 26th of the month:
38. Domestic fiction:
39. A book that cost you nothing:
40. Author's first and last name start with same letter:
41. A guide to...: A Botanist's Guide to Parties & Poisons by Kate Khavari (library)
42. Includes a handwritten interior font: The Far Away Man by William Marshall (signed by author) OR The Prowler by Frances Rickett (signed by author)
43. Goodreads recommendation for you: The Highgate Cemetery Murder by Irina Shapiro
44. Literary Device--Personification:
45. Biographical Fiction: Murder on the Yellow Brick Road by Stuart Kaminsky
46. Non-fiction about character in prompt 45: Judy Garland, Clark Gable, Louis B. Mayer, etc.
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: Murder of a Lady by Anthony Wynne
51. Includes a map.
52. Published in 2026: When the Wolves Are Silent by C. S. Harris
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