The 52 Book Club: 2021 Challenge
I was invited to join this Goodreads group and challenge for 2021. If you click on the link above, it will take you to the webpage. Anyone can join in. I have done the Popsugar Challenge for the last three years and although I have been getting closer to completing it each year, I was looking for a change. This Challenge looks like it could be the one. Of course, if I read one a week, technically I should have no problem completing this challenge. What I need to do is try and complete the hardest prompts in the first couple of months so I will finish, but I shall see. Here goes, I am going to select some of the books I want to read, some will fulfill challenges as I read them (i.e. Book I rate 5 stars) and some I will keep searching for. 36/52
1. Set in a school: The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead (2021-02-18)
2. Featuring the Legal Profession: Twenty by James Grippando (2021-01-31)
3. A dual timeline: An American in Paris by Siobhan Curham (2021-01-06)
4. An author that is deceased: Heartbreak Bay (Stillhouse Lake #5) by Rachel Caine
5. Published by Penguin: Darling Rose Gold by Stephanie Wrobel
6. A character with the same name as a male family member (Ray, Darryl, Mark, Graham, Peter, Bill, Don, Duane, Nicholas/Nick, Daniel, Devan, Brian, Carl, Albert/Bert/Al – Some good opportunities here
7. An author with only 1 published book: The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Daré
8. A book in the 900’s of the Dewey Decimal System: Three Ordinary Girls: The Remarkable Story of Hannie Schaft and the Oversteegen Sisters, Teenaged Saboteurs and Nazi Assassins by Tim Brady
9. Set in a Mediterranean country: The Book of Lost Names by Kristin Harmel (2021-01-19)
10. Related to the word “fire”: Smoke Screen by Terri Blackstock (2021-03-20)
11. Book with discussion questions inside: Of Literature and Lattes by Katherine Reay (2021-01-16)
12. Title Starting with the Letter “D”: (The) Doctor’s Lady by Jody Hedlund (2021-02-12)
13. Includes an exotic animal (tiger): Tracking Game by Margaret Mizushima (2021-01-01)
14. Written by an author over 65 (when published): Legacy by Nora Roberts
15. A book mentioned in another book (The Paris Library): Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Thruston (2021-02-27)
16. Set Before the 17th Century: Forgetting the Scot (The Highlanders of Balforss #3) by Jennifer Trethewey (2021-01-24)
17. A Character “on the run”: The German Girl by Lily Graham (2021-01-13)
18. Author with a nine-letter last name: The Traitor by V.S. Alexander (2021-01-17)
19. Book with a deckled edge: The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep by H.G. Parry
20. Made into a TV series: Shelter Mountain (Virgin River #2) by Robyn Carr (2021-01-18)
21. Book by Kristin Hannah: The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah (2021-03-29)
22. A family saga
23. An ending that surprises you: The Single Mother (2021-01-08)
24. A book you think they should read in schools – The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas (2021-02-19)
25. A book with multiple character POV: Sunflower Sisters by Martha Hall Kelly
26. An author of color: Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero by Kelly J. Baptist (2020-01-10)
27. First chapter ends on an odd page number (The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry)
28. Includes a historical event you know little about: The Paris Library by Janet Skeslien Charles (2021-02-19)
30. Watch Out For Dragons: What We Found in the Corn Maze and How It Saved a Dragon by Henry Clark
31. Book that shares a similar title to another book: I See You (Criminal Profiler #4) by Mary Burton (2021-01-14)
32. A character who is selfish: Cress (Lunar Chronicles #3) by Marissa Meyer (2021-01-02)
33. Featuring adoption: The Haunting at Bonaventure Circus by Jaime Jo Wright
34. A book you’d rate 5 stars: Night Bird Calling by Cathy Gohlke (2021-02-12)
35. Set in a country that starts with the letter “S”: The Stolen Letter (A Scottish Bookshop Mystery) by Paige Shelton
36. A nameless narrator: Milkman by Anna Burns (2021-03-11)
38. Recommended on BookBub: Blink by KL Slater
39. An alternate history novel: Marion Lane and the Midnight Murder by T.A. Willberg (2021-01-12)
40. Found via #bookstagram: The Wrong Family by Tarryn Fisher (2021-01-07)
41. An endorsement by a famous author on the cover (Heather Gudenkauf): The Monsters We Make by Kali White (2021-03-15)
42. An epistolary: Dear Justyce by Nic Stone (2021-01-18)
43. A character with a pet cat: The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune (2021-01-20)
44. Includes a garden: Seasons of an Amish Garden by Amy Clipston (2021-01-09)
45. A coming of age novel: The Unwilling by John Hart (2021-01-15)
46. Winner of the National Book Award (2014): Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson (2021-02-08)
47. A character with a disability: Butterfly Bayou by Lexie Blake (2021-02-03)
48. A cover with a woman who is facing away: The Girl From the Channel Islands by Jenny Lecoat (2021-01-25)
49. A book with a flavour in the title: Death by Chocolate Frosted Doughnut by Sarah Graves (2021-02-26)
50. A book with a shoe on the cover: Bride on the Run: A Clean Romance by Anna J. Stewart
51. Published in 2021: The Vineyard at Painted Moon by Susan Mallery (2021-02-11)
52. Re-do one of the previous 51 categories from this 2021 challenge (Published in 2021): The Jigsaw Man by Nadine Matheson (2021-03-31)
January 21, 2021 at 10:27 pm
Good luck with this challenge Carla. I’m certain you will ‘ace’ it. I would never attempt such a difficult one.
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January 21, 2021 at 10:30 pm
Thanks Lynne, I am finding it relatively easy for some reason. I have already read 15 of the 52 without really trying. Of course, I always leave the hard ones to the end, then don’t finish. We shall see.
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January 2, 2021 at 4:54 pm
Good luck with this one Carla! What an awesome list of books!!👍📚💜
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January 2, 2021 at 6:18 pm
Thanks Susan. Not sure if I will finish it, but I will give it a good try. I have already finished one, and hopefully finish a second one tomorrow. Of course, I always start off strong and audiobooks help. 😃📚🎧
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January 2, 2021 at 8:46 am
Certainly a challenging, creative list!! I know you’ll do a great job working on this one, Carla. 😉
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January 2, 2021 at 10:12 am
It took a few hours to try and find books already on my TBR to fulfill the prompts. I hope I can do them all, but only time will tell.
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January 1, 2021 at 9:43 pm
Good luck, Carla!
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January 1, 2021 at 9:53 pm
Thanks Michelle.
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January 1, 2021 at 7:40 pm
Good luck Carla! ❤📚
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January 1, 2021 at 7:40 pm
Thanks Sandy,
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January 1, 2021 at 1:45 pm
Be the Bridge is a book with discussion questions at the end of every chapter. The Lost and Found Bookshop is one that lists other books (also The Paris library would fit the category). Did you read The Salt Path…that would work for environment. Did you read The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto? Music is the narrator…does that count as nameless? Transcendent Kingdom would work for family saga. The fun might be in making the list! 😂😍
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January 1, 2021 at 1:51 pm
Thanks Carol. I will check some of these out. I have not read Frankie Presto and it has been on my TBR for quite awhile. I would say that should fit for sure. I spent a few hours trying to come up with which books I will use, and I know I will probably change some of them along the way.
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January 1, 2021 at 1:55 pm
Also Braiding Sweetgrass for environment!
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January 1, 2021 at 1:43 pm
That list looks great, good luck! 😊
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January 1, 2021 at 1:45 pm
Thanks Lucy. I hope I can do this one, but only time will tell.
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January 1, 2021 at 12:46 pm
Wow! That’s some list! Go you! 😲
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January 1, 2021 at 12:48 pm
This is my major challenge for this year. I hope I can complete it. I always start strong, then peter out in the last half of the year, but I will see what I can do.
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