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. 9/52
1. Set in a school: Three Hours by Rosamund Lipton
2. Featuring the Legal Profession: The Good Daughter by Karin Slaughter
3. A dual timeline: An American in Paris by Siobhan Curham (2020-01-06)
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, 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
10. Related to the word “fire”: Smoke Screen by Terri Blackstock
11. Book with discussion questions inside: Of Literature and Lattes by Katherine Reay 2020-01-16
12. Title Starting with the Letter “D”: (A) Dog Called Valentine by Roxanne Snopek
14. Written by an author over 65 (when published): Legacy by Nora Roberts
15. A book mentioned in another book
16. Set Before the 17th Century
17. A Character “on the run”: The German Girl by Lily Graham 2020-01-13
18. Author with a nine-letter last name: The Traitor by V.S. Alexander (READING NOW)
19. Book with a deckled edge: The Hiding Place by C.J. Tudor
20. Made into a TV series: Shelter Mountain (Virgin River #2) by Robyn Carr
21. Book by Kristin Hannah: The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
22. A family saga
23. An ending that surprises you: The Single Mother (2020-01-08)
24. A book you think they should read in schools
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 Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep by H.G. Parry
28. Includes a historical event you know little about: The Paris Library by Janet Skeslien Charles
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 2020-01-14
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
35. Set in a country that starts with the letter “S”: The Stolen Letter (A Scottish Bookshop Mystery_ by Paige Shelton
38. Recommended on BookBub: Blink by KL Slater
39. An alternate history novel: Fallout by Todd Strasser
40. Found via #bookstagram: The Wrong Family by Tarryn Fisher (2020-01-07)
41. An endorsement by a famous author on the cover.
42. An epistolary: Dear Justyce by Nic Stone
43. A character with a pet cat: The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune
44. Includes a garden: Seasons of an Amish Garden by Amy Clipston (2020-01-09)
45. A coming of age novel: All the Ugly and Wonderful Things by Bryn Greenwood
46. Winner of the National Book Award – any year: Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
47. A character with a disability: The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen Year Old Boy with Austism by Naoki Higashida
48. A cover with a woman who is facing away: The Bookstore on the Beach by Brenda Novak
49. A book with a flavour in the title: Death by Chocolate Frosted Doughnut by Sarah Graves
50. A book with a shoe on the cover: Bride on the Run: A Clean Romance by Anna J. Stewart
52. Re-do one of the previous 51 categories from this 2021 challenge
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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