2025 52 Books Reading Challenge

Host: Liz @ The 52 Book Club's
Progress: 12/52 (23%)
1 January, 2025 — 31 December, 2025
In Progress
In this challenge, the goal is to read 52 books, one for each prompt. Join the challenge and read the rules here!
- A pun in the title
- A character with red hair
- Title starts with letter “M”
- Title starts with letter “N”
- Plot includes a heist
Genre One: Set in Spring: After Life by Gayle Forman (magical realism)- Genre Two: Set in Summer
Genre Three: Set in Autumn: Storm Rising by Mercedes Lackey (fantasy)- Genre Four: Set in Winter
Author’s last name is also a first name: Frosting and Fairies by Danielle Garrett- A prequel
- Has a moon on the cover
- Title is ten letters or less
Climate fiction: Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir- Includes Latin American history
- Author has won an Edgar award
- Told in verse
- A character who can fly
- Has short chapters
- A fairy tale retelling
- Character’s name in the title
- Found family trope
A sprayed edge: A Bánh Mì for Two by Trinity Nguyen- Title is a spoiler
- Breaks the fourth wall
- More than a million copies sold
Features a magician: Happily Ever Afters by Melanie CellierA crossover (Set in a shared universe): Storm Warning by Mercedes Lackey- Shares universe with prompt 28
- In the public domain
- Audiobook has multiple narrators
- Includes a diary entry
A standalone novel: They’ll Never Catch Us by Jessica Goodman- Direction in the title
Written in third person: Reykjavík by Ragnar Jónasson & Katrín Jakobsdótrir- Final sentence is less than 6 words long
- Genre chosen for you by someone else
- An adventure story
- Has an epigraph
- Stream of consciousness narrative
- Cover font is in a primary color
- Non-human antagonist
Explores social class: The League of Lady Poisoners by Lisa PerrinA celebrity on the cover: Grimoire Girl by Hilarie Burton Morgan- Author releases more than one book a year
- Read in a “-ber” month
- “I think it was blue”
- Related to the word “puzzle”
- Set in a country with an active volcano
- Set in the 1940s
300-400 pages long: Storm Breaking by Mercedes Lackey- Published in 2025
- Storm Warning by Mercedes Lackey - ★★★★★
- Storm Rising by Mercedes Lackey - ★★★★★
- Storm Breaking by Mercedes Lackey - ★★★★★
- Grimoire Girl: Creating an Inheritance of Magic and Mischief by Hilarie Burton Morgan - ★★★★★
- A Bánh Mì for Two by Trinity Nguyen - ★★★★★
- Frosting and Fairies by Danielle Garrett - ★★★★½
- Happily Ever Afters: by Melanie Cellier - ★★★½
- Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir - ★★★★★
- Reykjavík: A Crime Story by Ragnar Jónasson, Katrín Jakobsdóttir - ★★★★½
- They'll Never Catch Us by Jessica Goodman - ★★★
- The League of Lady Poisoners: Illustrated True Stories of Dangerous Women by Lisa Perrin - ★★★★★
- After Life by Gayle Forman - ★★★★