2025 52 Books Reading Challenge

2025 52 Books Reading Challenge

2025 52 Books Reading Challenge

Host: Liz @ The 52 Book Club's
Progress: 12/52 (23%)
1 January, 2025 — 31 December, 2025
In Progress

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In this challenge, the goal is to read 52 books, one for each prompt. Join the challenge and read the rules here!


  1. A pun in the title
  2. A character with red hair
  3. Title starts with letter “M”
  4. Title starts with letter “N”
  5. Plot includes a heist
  6. Genre One: Set in Spring: After Life by Gayle Forman (magical realism)
  7. Genre Two: Set in Summer
  8. Genre Three: Set in Autumn: Storm Rising by Mercedes Lackey (fantasy)
  9. Genre Four: Set in Winter
  10. Author’s last name is also a first name: Frosting and Fairies by Danielle Garrett
  11. A prequel
  12. Has a moon on the cover
  13. Title is ten letters or less
  14. Climate fiction: Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
  15. Includes Latin American history
  16. Author has won an Edgar award
  17. Told in verse
  18. A character who can fly
  19. Has short chapters
  20. A fairy tale retelling
  21. Character’s name in the title
  22. Found family trope
  23. A sprayed edge: A Bánh Mì for Two by Trinity Nguyen
  24. Title is a spoiler
  25. Breaks the fourth wall
  26. More than a million copies sold
  27. Features a magician: Happily Ever Afters by Melanie Cellier
  28. A crossover (Set in a shared universe): Storm Warning by Mercedes Lackey
  29. Shares universe with prompt 28
  30. In the public domain
  31. Audiobook has multiple narrators
  32. Includes a diary entry
  33. A standalone novel: They’ll Never Catch Us by Jessica Goodman
  34. Direction in the title
  35. Written in third person: Reykjavík by Ragnar Jónasson & Katrín Jakobsdótrir
  36. Final sentence is less than 6 words long
  37. Genre chosen for you by someone else
  38. An adventure story
  39. Has an epigraph
  40. Stream of consciousness narrative
  41. Cover font is in a primary color
  42. Non-human antagonist
  43. Explores social class: The League of Lady Poisoners by Lisa Perrin
  44. A celebrity on the cover: Grimoire Girl by Hilarie Burton Morgan
  45. Author releases more than one book a year
  46. Read in a “-ber” month
  47. “I think it was blue”
  48. Related to the word “puzzle”
  49. Set in a country with an active volcano
  50. Set in the 1940s
  51. 300-400 pages long: Storm Breaking by Mercedes Lackey
  52. Published in 2025

  1. Storm Warning by Mercedes Lackey - ★★★★★
  2. Storm Rising by Mercedes Lackey - ★★★★★
  3. Storm Breaking by Mercedes Lackey - ★★★★★
  4. Grimoire Girl: Creating an Inheritance of Magic and Mischief by Hilarie Burton Morgan - ★★★★★
  5. A Bánh Mì for Two by Trinity Nguyen - ★★★★★
  6. Frosting and Fairies by Danielle Garrett - ★★★★½
  7. Happily Ever Afters: by Melanie Cellier - ★★★½
  8. Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir - ★★★★★
  9. Reykjavík: A Crime Story by Ragnar Jónasson, Katrín Jakobsdóttir - ★★★★½
  10. They'll Never Catch Us by Jessica Goodman - ★★★
  11. The League of Lady Poisoners: Illustrated True Stories of Dangerous Women by Lisa Perrin - ★★★★★
  12. After Life by Gayle Forman - ★★★★
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