The 52 Book Club: 2025 Challenge discussion
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Good morning Kristine, glad you got the update to work. We do have a discussion thread for each prompt that you're welcome to use, and at the end of the year we do a "post all of your books here" thread. At this time we do not have just one place to post your list as you're working on them. As for the discord server, I'm not sure why it won't work. It's the one thing run by a member and not one of the admins, but I was able to get through when I clicked on it. I believe it still has the 2020 challenges up anyways and hasn't been updated for 2021.
I am a bit confused as to how this works. Do I add the books I want to read for the challenge to my shelf and then they "check off" as I read them? Or do I add the books to the shelf after I read them and put my ideas for books in the comments?
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That part is up to you, the challenge is self-tracking and it's not automatic. If you have a shelf designated for The 52 Book Club I choose to only add books when I've completed them, but you're welcome to fill the shelf then mark each one read as you've gone through them. There is no way to link a prompt to a book other than putting it in your note/review, so some people choose to use a Word or Excel document.
Thanks. I'm new to doing challenges and have only used Goodreads to track want to read versus read. So its good to get some feedback.
I have a question. I want to add a book title link in my comment. how do I do that?
Kara wrote: "I have a question. I want to add a book title link in my comment. how do I do that?"When you make a comment, if you look above the box, there is a place that says "add book/author." If you click on that, it will take you to a search where you can add a link to either the book or the author. You can also choose to leave a link or the cover. Most people leave a link because the cover can be hard to see.
Can 1 book be used for multiple prompts?
Brittany wrote: "Can 1 book be used for multiple prompts?"No, only one book per prompt.
Can I use a book that I read for my book club if it matches one of the prompts (although I was not the one who picked it)?
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Depends on your reading goal. If you plan to read 52 books or more than only use 1 per prompt, but if your goal is fewer then feel free to double up. The goal is just to challenge yourself, however that looks.
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All books count, doesn't matter where you find them or why you read them. I read a lot from Reese Witherspoon's book club that I then fit into a prompt.
Besides adding the book to shelf we created when we signed up, do we also make a comment with what we chose and what prompt we matched it with somewhere else?
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We do have individual discussion threads available for each prompt that you're welcome to mention your book in, but it's not mandatory.
Will there be mini challenges this year?
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Yes! We will probably have 5 or 6 this year.
Relatively new to the group. Are the mini challenges meant to be books you read beyond 52? Or are they to double up with the original prompts, like a book with an egg on the cover that takes place in Dublin? I know this is meant to be completed "our" way with no hard and fast rules, but what was the original intent? Thanks
Denise wrote: "Relatively new to the group. Are the mini challenges meant to be books you read beyond 52? Or are they to double up with the original prompts, like a book with an egg on the cover that takes place ..."From the 52 Book Club website:
“Mini-challenges are related to our full 52 books in 52 weeks challenge but they’re also completely optional. You can choose to add it to your main challenge or not. If fifty-two books already feels like a stretch, feel free to skip the mini-challenges or double up the prompts. (Some members use one book to cross off a 52 prompt and a mini-challenge prompt. Your challenge, your rules!)”
So I think the original intent is for these mini-challenge books to be in addition to the books you read for the original 52 prompts. However, for now, I am doubling up. I’ll see how things look by the end of the year. I am tracking my books in a spread sheet with multiple books for many of the prompts and I plan to sort them out later and choose one book per prompt.
Thank you Kathi for finding the quoted info. I’m super competitive even with myself so if I take on the challenges in any form and don’t achieve it I will beat myself up. Though I did read 60 books last year, this is my first time in a challenge and I started late so like you I think I will double up this year
Anyone have a suggestion for a book by a Caribbean author I’m on my third attempt and getting frustrated
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Have you checked in our discussion post for Caribbean author? There's 40 comments of ideas in there, along with our suggestions list.
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Courtney wrote: "Anyone have a suggestion for a book by a Caribbean author I’m on my third attempt and getting frustrated"I read To Sir, With Love and enjoyed it.
Question: New to the challenge. How do I add books to my shelf and how do I designate the category they belong to?
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After you create a shelf for the 2024 challenge you can add books to it the same way you add to any shelf, below "read, to-read, currently reading" should be all of your other shelf options. There is no way in Goodreads to mark a specific book for a specific prompt though.
Hi! I'll be joining the challenge in 2024 and I'm from Brazil. I can read in English perfectly well, but I mostly read in Portuguese. My question would be: some prompts are hard to accomplish using translated pt-br titles. Is it ok if I use the titles in both English version and /or portuguese? Or prompts about book titles must be only in English?
Michelle, you can read/translate in any language you want! I don’t see any reason to restrict yourself reading for this challenge to English-only.
Michelle wrote: "Hi! I'll be joining the challenge in 2024 and I'm from Brazil. I can read in English perfectly well, but I mostly read in Portuguese. My question would be: some prompts are hard to accomplish using..."There are several others who are joining from other non-English speaking countries. Welcome! There is no rules about which language must be read. Some prompts may be easier to fill with English books but you can use what you want. Also, if a prompt is fulfilled with an English title (starts with the letter K for example) but you read the translation in Portuguese that works. Or you can use a book that starts with K in Portuguese but the English translation would be something else. If you think it meets the prompt then it works.
For the 2024 challenge do we make another shelf?
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You're welcome to if you want to. The option to link a shelf to our challenge will open on Jan 1st when the challenge starts
It is great how many people have posted to the Yearly Wrap-up for 2024 to track their progress. Is there a way to flag our individual post so we don’t have to scroll through pages of posts to find our post to update? Thanks!
Carol wrote: " Is there a way to flag our individual post so we don’t have to scroll through pages of posts to find our post to update?"I just wrote down the number of my comment so I’d know where to find it.
Carol wrote: "It is great how many people have posted to the Yearly Wrap-up for 2024 to track their progress. Is there a way to flag our individual post so we don’t have to scroll through pages of posts to find ..."Yes, in this page on your right just below the different topics like Group Home, Bookshelf, Discussions ---> search discussion posts. That's a way to find yours quickly.
Good afternoon, just registered with the book shelf reads for 2024 but it's still for 2023 and I 'm 52 books behind . is there any possibility to register for 2024 so my read books count.? I'm new to all this registrations and get lost
hello again. just saw the message from the 16th. Thanks
Hello, this is my first year doing a challenge and I want to read this book Human Acts , but I don’t know under which list it could go. Does anyone have any suggestions?
Hello, I wish to add a book that I read on 31 December 2023 to the 2024 challenge. I count the inbetween time after Christmas as belonging to 2024. How can I add this book without changing my 'read' date? Thank you.
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Hi, your challenge is self-tracked so you can include whatever books you want. Unless you're referring to the challenge page hosted by Goodreads, in which case the only way to have it show is to change your read date.
Lily wrote: "Hello, this is my first year doing a challenge and I want to read this book Human Acts , but I don’t know under which list it could go. Does anyone have any suggestions?"
Hi, never read this book but basing just off the Goodreads for it, my recommendations are Prompt 14 (Grieving Character) or 24 (Cover without people on it, which I think is particularly cheeky). Hope this helps!
Would there be any objections if I worked on previous years lists? I only found the group recently, but I'm having so much fun working on the 2024 list that I got curious and looked at the previous ones and now I want to do them all :D
I would not use books for multiple prompts, and I'd just 'quietly' set up a thread in the previous years 'share your list' sections. I promise you won't even know I'm there LOL :) If you'd rather me not do this though, just let me know, (and then I shall do it with paper and pencil buwahaha)
Just thinking it would be a fun on-going personal challenge for myself :)
I would not use books for multiple prompts, and I'd just 'quietly' set up a thread in the previous years 'share your list' sections. I promise you won't even know I'm there LOL :) If you'd rather me not do this though, just let me know, (and then I shall do it with paper and pencil buwahaha)
Just thinking it would be a fun on-going personal challenge for myself :)
Saravzee wrote: "Would there be any objections if I worked on previous years lists? I only found the group recently, but I'm having so much fun working on the 2024 list that I got curious and looked at the previous..."Many of us are working at previous lists. So go for it.
Anna wrote: "Saravzee wrote: "Would there be any objections if I worked on previous years lists? I only found the group recently, but I'm having so much fun working on the 2024 list that I got curious and looke..."
Great, thanks :)
Great, thanks :)
Hi, I read books both in French and English. Some of the French books are not translated yet into English. Can I use them to match a prompt? Thank you :)
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Absolutely! All books in all languages count.
How do we add the check marks and/or green boxes with check marks?
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It would probably be easier using the website and not the app, and I think people either use HTML to add the graphic or possibly copy/paste it from elsewhere?
Carol wrote: "How do we add the check marks and/or green boxes with check marks?"If you have a Mac you hit the option key then "v".
Can't help with non-Macs sorry...
Lindsey wrote: "Carol wrote: "How do we add the check marks and/or green boxes with check marks?"It would probably be easier using the website and not the app, and I think people either use HTML to add the graph..."
Okay, i guess I'll live with the old school. On Facebook a lot of people post fun images.
Carol wrote: "How do we add the check marks and/or green boxes with check marks?"Got the info from a PC person......alt key then 251. This will make a check mark/tick mark
Carol wrote: "How do we add the check marks and/or green boxes with check marks?"On Apple products, I use the emoji keyboard.
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ETA: I figured out how to get it to update. I cannot open the link to the discord server. I have the app but it won't let me log in via a web browser.