3 -- More Than 40 Chapters

[Lindsey]

3. More Than 40 Chapters

For this prompt, the book must contain more than forty chapters. The chapters can be any length or style, as long as there are at least forty-one of them. It is up to you whether or not you decide to include epilogues or afterwords into this count.


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[Meredith!]

I'm going to do The Man Who Laughs by Victor Hugo

[Nancy]

I’m going to read The Thursday Murder Club, by Richard Osman.

[Angela Y]

No One Can Know by Kate Alice Marshall

[Nicole Brown]

I'm going to read The Only One Left by Riley Sager :)

[Nikaiba]

Can anyone tell me how many chapters Babel by R F Kuang has? I will buy it on Audible if it has more than 40. Thanks

[Jessica]

I’m assuming Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros would work but I could be very wrong.

[Aquaria]

I chose Who Is Maud Dixon by Alexandra Andrews.

[Aquaria]

Nikaiba wrote: "Can anyone tell me how many chapters Babel by R F Kuang has? I will buy it on Audible if it has more than 40. Thanks"

Sorry, that one has 33 chapters.

A good way to check things like that with a book you don't have yet is to look for the kindle copy on Amazon and access the sample. It will usually give access to the Table of Contents.

[Steven and Jessica Stewart]

The Rose Code by Kate Quinn

[Barbara]

I plan to read The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese

[MC]

Belladonna by Adalyn Grace

[Coyney]

Confessions of a forty-something f**k up by Alexandra potter

[Natasha]

Since this book is rising in popularity: A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas.

[Charlotte]

I plan to read The Thursday Murder Club.

[Denise]

I plan to read Apeirogon by Colum McCann. It has 1,001 very short chapters

[Shoshanah]

I plan to read Once Upon A Broken Heart by Stephanie Garber! I plan to finish the Caraval series in the next few weeks so it will be a nice build up

[Rebecca]

I’m reading Where the Crawdads Sing for this one.

[Mia]

My book for prompt 3 is The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo!

[Lisa]

I plan to read “The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm. All 250 of them.

[Valeriia Diop]

I'm going with The Only One Left for this prompt.

[Lauren]

I want to take up another Sarah J. Maas book, so possibly finishing out ACOTAR or start her new series.

[amelia]

Nikaiba wrote: "Can anyone tell me how many chapters Babel by R F Kuang has? I will buy it on Audible if it has more than 40. Thanks"

it looks like it only has 33 chapters plus an epilogue

[Taylor]

I’m going to do the tandem read of Empire of Storms/Tower of Dawn in the Throne of Glass series by Sarah J. Maas

[Luisa]

Jessica wrote: "I’m assuming Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros would work but I could be very wrong."

Yes, Iron Flame has 66 cliff-hanger-filled chapters!

[Luisa]

Thank you to everyone who mentioned Sarah J. Maas. I am going to finish A Court of Mist and Fury as I am only on Chapter 16 and I stopped there for a while. It has 69!

[Therese]

I haven't found a particular book for this prompt yet, but James Patterson's books have tons of chapters. Many of them over 100.

[Carol]

I am finishing up Inheritance by Dani Shapiro. If anyone is looking for an interesting memoir, this book is only 250 pages with 50 chapters. Lots to think about.

[Erin *Proud Book Hoarder*]

Going for My Sister's Grave

[Suzanne]

Hi all! I'm new here and this will be my first read of 2024. Hang the Moon by Jeannette Walls.

[Debbie]

This will be one of my first prompts for 2024... I am reading The River We Remember by William Kent Krueger

[BookswithLydscl |]

I'm going to use The Gathering by CJ Tudor for this prompt but also have Prophet by Helen Macdonald/Sin Blaché and Drowning by TJ Newman in my backpocket in case I can't hold off reading it before the end of the month (have a review copy).

[Diana S]

I plan on reading The River We Remember by William Kent Krueger

[Charlotte]

I'm doing My name is Barbra by Barbra Streisand for this prompt

[Liana]

I’m planning on reading Captain by Will Wight

[Carla]

It’s finally time to read The Rose Code by Kate Quinn; not sure why it has taken me so long…..

[book_bear]

Middlemarch by George Elliot

[Emma]

A Flicker in The Dark, or The Once & Future Witches

[Felicia Thompson]

Unravel Me & Ignite Me both have over 40 chapters. By Tahereh Mafi I believe.

[Paula]

I am going to double dip with this one. The Game of Tomes book club is reading Count of Monte Cristo for January-February. It is 117 chapters, Let's see if I can cram it into a week.

[Laura]

I’m going to read The Running Grave by Robert Galbraith. 136 chapters! I’m starting it tonight and in very excited about it.

[April]

My book choice is You Are Not Alone by Greer Hendricks

[Claire Helen Basham]

I am reading The Messiah Secret by James Becker for this one. Started this morning.

[Crystal]

I’m reading The Writing Retreat by Julia Bartz for this prompt

[Lisa Marie]

I will be reading The Book of Cold Cases by Simone St. James

[Laurie (Kwiltreader)]

I’m reading The Silent Corner by Dean Koontz for another book club and it has over 50 chapters. Granted some are short but they’re labeled as chapters so I’ll take it for this prompt.

[Tynka]

Im reading Good girl bad blood

[Orlaith]

Just finished War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy - well over 40 chapters! The rest of my choices will be shorter for sure 🫠

[Angela]

I just finished Our Souls at Night- a short book with more than 40 chapters.

[Kylie]

I am going to read Shogun by James Clavell but feeling overwhelmed to start this one as it is a monster of a book! By far the highest wordcount of anything I have ever read!