Friday, November 18, 2022

The 52 Book Club’s 2023 Reading Challenge

 Another favorite is now up.

1. Book with a subtitle: Taste: My Life Through Food--Stanley Tucci

2. Featuring an inheritance: Kidnapped--Robert Louis Stevenson

3. Title starting with the letter "G": The Green Ember--S.D. Smith

4. Title starting with the letter "H": Her Body and Other Parties--Carmen Maria Machado

5. Title starting with the letter "I": I Kissed Shara Wheeler--Casey McQuiston

6. Under 200 pages: Ellen Foster--Kaye Gibbons

7. A city or country name in the title: Midnight in Chernobyl--Adam Higginbotham

8. Dystopian fiction: Aurora Burning--Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff

9. A book with a dedication: Dear Edward--Ann Napolitano

10. Takes place during the Roaring Twenties: Dead Dead Girls-Nekesa Afia

11. A book about secrets: Red--Alison Cherry

12. High fantasy: Blood Like Magic--Liselle Sambury

13. Published posthumously: The Silmarillion--J.R.R. Tolkien

14. A survival story: The Long Winter--Laura Ingalls Wilder [re-read]

15. Set in Australia: Lost Autumn--Mary-Rose MacColl 

16. Featuring one of the 7 deadly sins: Lust & Wonder--Augusten Burroughs

17. By a Caribbean author: Olga Dies Dreaming--Xochitl Gonzalez

18. Set during a war other than WWI or WWII: The Undertaker's Assistant--Amanda Skenandore

19. Typographic cover: The Astonishing Color of After--Emily X.R. Pan

20. A book about siblings: Three Sisters, Three Queens--Philippa Gregory

21. A second-hand book: The Peddler's Grandson--Edward Cohen

22. A body-positive message: Big Summer--Jennifer Weiner

23. An alliterative title: Odd One Out--Nic Stone

24. Nordic noir: Macbeth--Jo Nesbo

25. A fashionable character: Sheila Levine is Dead and Living in New York--Gail Parent

26. Has an epilogue: Memoirs of an Addicted Brain--Marc Lewis

27. Newbery Medal winner: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry--Mildred D. Taylor

28. Includes a funeral: Aristotle and Dante Dive Into the Waters of the World--Benjamin Alire Saenz 

29. Sends you down a rabbit hole: Abby in Wonderland--Sarah Mlynowski

30. An author with the same name as you: Famous Father Daughter--Jamie Bernstein

31. Set in a workplace: The Clue in Blue--Betsy Allen

32. Published by Macmillan: The Path Made Clear--Oprah Winfrey

33. A banned book: The Best Man--Richard Peck

34. Featuring mythology: Oh My Gods!--Stephanie Cooke

35. A book you meant to read last year: This is Where We Live--Janelle Brown

36. Chapters have cliffhangers: The Da Vinci Code--Dan Brown

37. Written in the present tense: The Ex Talk--Rachel Lynn Solomon

38. An enemies-to-lovers plot: Queerly Beloved--Susie Dumond

39. The final book in a series: Sunflower Sisters--Martha Hall Kelly

40. Written by a comedian: Limericks--Michael Palin

41. A character who is a refugee: The House of Broken Angels--Luis Alberto Urrea

42. "Time" in the title: Timeless Depths--Erica Varela

43. A book "everyone" has read: Verity--Colleen Hoover

44. A contemporary setting: The Hotel Nantucket--Elin Hilderbrand

45. First word in the book is "The": Blueprints--Barbara Delinsky

46. Script font on the spine: Secrets of the Tulip Sisters--Susan Mallery

47. Set in the city of Dublin: Irish Gold--Andrew M. Greeley

48. A book by Octavia E. Butler: Parable of the Talents

49. Books on the cover: Checked Out For Murder--Allison Brook

50. Related to the word "murder": Death of an Italian Chef--Lee Hollis

51. Doesn't fit any of the other 51 prompts: So-Called Normal--Mark Henick

52. Published in 2023: Once More With Feeling--Elissa Sussman


Challenge completed on November 9

2 comments:

Beverley Baird said...

One of my favourites. Will be doing this one for sure.

Sandra Cox said...

Have fun.