The 52 Book Club: 2025 / 2026 Challenge discussion
2024 Challenge
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3 -- More Than 40 Chapters
For this prompt, I'll be reading Now You See Her by James Patterson. I'll also be listening to Lessons in Chemistry.
I am going to read Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo. It has 45 chapters and as I read the first book very recently, I can't wait to finish the second part.
I've just finished the 53 chapters of WeywardThey are pretty short though. I might move it to another prompt, let's see.
I’m rereading the Beartown series by Fredrik Backman, I just finished book 2 Us Against You, it has 49 chapters. I gave it fives stars, which is something I do pretty much never. I will be reading the final book (The Winners next, which has 105 chapters. The entire series is available on Kindle Unlimited, and HBO has created a series based on the books.It also could satisfy the following prompts: character-driven, grieving character, omniscient narrator, cover without people, finding identity
UnWholly by Neil Schusterman (mainly I already started the series and want it to fit into one of these lol)
An Anonymous Girl Works perfectly with this prompt, has 60+ chapters and it my bookclub's pick for this month. Talk about killing two birds with one stone ;-D
For this one I am doing The Locked Door by Freida McFadden - have been reading some heavier books and it is fun to do an easy thriller!
I just completed “The Book That Wouldn’t Burn” by Mark Lawrence. 70 chapters and a total of 559 pages. But I enjoy his books so am glad it’s first in a trilogy.
Most of the Jack Reacher books (by Lee Child) would be good for this prompt. I am reading 'Past Tense' for this one, which has 45 chapters.
I finished Apeirogon by Colum McCann. It had 1,001 chapters, but some of them were pictures, or just one sentence. He wanted a connection to The Arabian Nights. It's about an unlikely alliance between an Israeli and a Palestinian man united by the grief of losing their daughters to random acts of violence common to their homes.
At long last, I have read Crime and Punishment. I included the Prologue and Epilogue for the challenge.
The People We Keep by Allison Larkin. Fills other prompts like yellow spine, features the ocean, character driven.
I read Black River Orchard by Chuck Wendig for this. It was a great book and it has over 80 chapters.
I read The Last Green Valley - 41 chapters, just made it! Historical Fiction set before, during, and after WW2 era.
Jaklin wrote: "Iron Flame finished 01/09"I’m reading Iron Flame for this prompt as well! I’m just about a third of the way through it but it’s fun so far!
Fellowship Pointe by Alice Elliot Dark. Great book, didn’t want it to end .
Could count for many categories - dated chapters, ocean.
and others.
Rhonda wrote: "Fellowship Pointe by Alice Elliot Dark. Great book, didn’t want it to end .
Could count for many categories - dated chapters, ocean.
and others."
This is such an underrated book, I never see anyone talking about it. I loved it also.
I just finished Black Beauty by Anna Sewall. I also need a refresher since my students will be reading it this semester. Double duty!
In The House Across the Lake by Riley Sager, the chapters aren't numbered, but there is enough of a page break that they could be, and there are more than 40 of them. I'm only about 2/3ds of the way through, but this is A LOT like The Girl on the Train, in that an alcoholic voyeur spies on a couple and bad things seem to happen to the wife (I say seems because I'm not through with it).
Books mentioned in this topic
Crown of Midnight (other topics)Yumi and the Nightmare Painter (other topics)
Too Wicked to Kiss (other topics)
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Sarah J. Maas (other topics)Stuart Turton (other topics)
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