Welcome to my page for my 2021 52 Books in 52 Weeks Challenge! I’m so excited to get started. This challenge is hosted at the 52 Book Club and it looks like a fun way to expand my reading. Below, you’ll see the list of tasks & I’ll link to the reviews for the books I read as I go! I’ve listed some of my anticipated reads, but TBRs are always loose constructs for me & I tend to make lists of options, rather than choose 1 ahead of time. If it’s not linked, then it’s not set in stone!
- Set in a school: Truly Devious
- Featuring the legal profession: The New Jim Crow, You Have the Right to Remain Innocent, Ballot Battles, Sisters in Law, The Run of His Life
- A dual timeline: The Clockmaker’s Daughter
- An author that is deceased: Dr. Zhivago
- Published by Penguin: The Office of Historical Corrections
- A character with the same name as a male family member
- An author with only one published book: Raintree County
- A book in the 900s of the Dewey Decimal System: SPQR, Last Boat out of Shanghai, The Plaza, In the Garden of Beasts, How the Irish Saved Civilization, Sapiens, The Woman Who Would Be King
- Set in a Mediterranean country: Silence of the Girls
- Related to the word “fire”: Fahrenheit 451
- Book with discussion questions inside
- Title starting with the letter D: I have too many options to list for this one!
- Includes an exotic animal: More than a Zookeeper: The People Behind Exotic Animals
- Written by an author over 65 (when published): The Children’s Book, A Mercy, When I Was a Child I Read Books, If You Ask Me, In Pieces
- A book mentioned in another book: Over the Woodward Wall (mentioned in Middlegame)
- Set before the 17th century: World Without End
- A character “on the run”: Ill Wind, The Dragon Republic, The Shadowglass, Watership Down, Written in Red
- An author with a 9-letter last name
- A book with a deckled edge
- Made into a TV series: Outlander
- Book by Kristin Hannah: The Nightingale
- A family saga: Pachinko, The House of Spirits, Cutting for Stone, Gilead, A Place for Us
- An ending that surprises you
- A book you think they should read in schools: Juliet Takes a Breath, Dear Justyce
- A book with multiple character POV: Girl, Woman, Other
- An author of color (so many on my TBR!)
- First chapter ends on an odd page
- Includes a historical event you know little about: American Spy
- Featuring the environment: Gathering Moss, The Story of More
- Watch Out for Dragons!: His Majesty’s Dragons, A Natural History of Dragons, Tooth & Claw
- Shares a similar title to another book: Life After Life
- A selfish character: The Picture of Dorian Gray (will this be the year?!)
- Featuring adoption: That Kind of Mother
- A book you’d rate 5 stars (remains to be seen!)
- Set in a country that starts with the letter S: Island of a Thousand Mirrors (Sri Lanka)
- A nameless narrator: Rebecca, Invisible Man, You Exist Too Much, The Memory Police
- An educational read: Salt, Tea (both microhistories)
- Recommended on BookBub: East of Eden, Luster, Washington Black, The Shadow of the Wind, A Little Life
- An alternate history novel: Everfair, Cold Magic, The Relentless Moon
- Found via #bookstagram
- An endorsement by a favorite author on the cover
- An epistolary novel: Persuasion, Lady Susan, Dracula, The Screwtape Letters, Possession, Gilead, Gabi: A Girl in Pieces, To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before, Texts from Jane Eyre, The Devourers, Sleeping Giants
- A character with a pet cat: The Master & Margarita, Luminous Mysteries, The Guest Cat, Midnight Crossroad
- Includes a garden: Rooted in the Earth, The Good Food Revolution
- A coming of age novel: On the Come Up, American Street, The Girl Who Fell From the Sky, The Beekeeper’s Apprentice, The Goblin Emperor, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
- Winner of the National Book Award–any year: Salvage the Bones
- A character with a disability: Laughing at My Nightmare, A Girl Like Her, Akata Witch, Five Feet Apart, Six Wakes, Anger is a Gift
- A cover with a woman who is facing away: The Glittering Hour, The Fountains of Silence, The Golden Hour, The Air You Breathe
- A flavor in the title: Georgia Peaches & Other Forbidden Fruit, The Map of Salt & Stars, Salt Houses, Sour Heart, The Grapes of Wrath, The Priory of the Orange Tree, Notes on a Banana
- A shoe on the cover
- Published in 2021: The Gilded Ones, One Last Stop, Aru Shah & the City of Gold, Empire of the Vampire, The 22 Murders of Madison May, Leaving isn’t the Hardest Thing, The Chosen and the Beautiful, The Bride Bet, Concrete Rose, The Infinity Courts, The World Between Blinks, Lore, What Monstrous Gods, An Emotion of Great Delight
- Re-do one of the previous 51 categories from the 2021 challenge (currently undecided!)