https://www.the52book.club/2026-challenge-guide/

• set in an ancient civilization:
  • The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
  • The Temple of Fortuna by Elodie Harper
• kangaroo word on the cover:
  • Alone With You in the Ether by Olivie Blake
  • The Reef by Iain McCalman
  • The Secret of Orange Blossom Cake by Rachel Linden
• written without quotation marks:
  • The Road by Cormac McArthy
  • The Other Valley by Scott Alexander Howard
  • Pure Color by Sheila Heti
  • Autumn by Ali Smith
• has a dust jacket:
• featuring a conspiracy:
• title starts with the letter "o":
  • Our Share of Night by Mariana Enriquez
  • Ordinary Human Failings by Megan Nolan
  • The Odyssey by Lara Williams
  • The Overstory by Richard Powers
• title starts with the letter "p":
  • Persephone's Curse by Katrina Leno
  • Panenka by Ronan Hession
  • The Possession of Alba Diaz by Isabel Cañas
  • The Phoenix Pencil Company by Allison King
• a three-syllable word in the title:
• featuring a natural disaster:
• spans a decade or more:
• requires suspension of disbelief:
• a genre-defining read:
  • The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
  • Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• bookface:
  • Oona Out of Order by Margarita Montimore
  • Bog Queen by Anna North_
  • Perspective by Laurent Binet
• includes a character list:
  • One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
• subtitle with a comma:
  • The Sea Captain's Wife: A True Story of Mutiny, Love, and Adventure at the Bottom of the World by Tilar J. Mazzeo
  • Born to Be Hanged: The Epic Story of the Gentleman Pirates Who Raided the South Seas, Rescued a Princess, and Stole a Fortune by Keith Thomson
  • Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
  • Women of Means: The Fascinating Biographies of Royals, Heiresses, Eccentrics and Other Poor Little Rich Girls by Marlene Wagman-Geller
• deus ex machina:
• author's bio mentions their dog:
  • The Names by Florence Knapp
  • The Briar Club by Kate Quinn
  • Catalina by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
  • Betty by Tiffany McDaniel
  • Hag by Kathleen Kaufman
• provokes strong emotion:
• a nosy neighbor character:
• day of the week in the title:
  • The Saturday Night Ghost Club by Craig Davidson
  • Five Tuesdays in Winter by Lily King
  • The Girl Who Was Saturday Night by Heather O'Neill
• written in the 1800s:
• spotted in a tv series or movie:
  • The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
  • The House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
  • This Is How You Lose the Time War
  • The Name of the Rose by Umberto Ecco
• grumpy/sunshine trope:
  • Assistant to the Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer
• uneven number of chapters:
• includes a red herring:
• title in a serif font:
• two or more authors, one pseudonym:
  • Ellery Lloyd
  • Audrey Blake, Christina Lauren, Carolyn Keene, James S. A. Corey, Charles Todd, Sydney Croft, Lewis Padgett, Erin Hunter, Nicci French, P. J. Tracy, Perri O’Shaughnessy, P.J. Parrish, Lars Kepler, Ilona Andrews, Ambrose Parry, Franklin W. Dixon
• from a series at least eight books long:
  • Louise Penny
  • Maas
  • Agatha Chrisie
• set in the arctic or antarctic:
  • The Sea Captain's Wife: A True Story of Mutiny, Love, and Adventure at the Bottom of the World by Tilar J. Mazzeo
  • Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy
  • The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Leguin
  • The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
  • Deception Point by Dan Brown
• author related to another author:
  • Brontë sisters
  • Maria, Or the Wrongs of Woman by Mary Wollestonecraft and Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
  • Elizabeth Gilbert and Catherine Gilbert Murdock
• author related to author in prompt 30:
• publisher starting with the letter "b":
  • Weyward by Emilia Hart
  • People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry
  • Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix
  • What She Saw by Mary Burton
  • The Resort by Sara Ochs
• a standalone fantasy novel:
• inspired by the top-grossing movie the year you were born [1992: Aladdin ]:
  • Arabian Nights & Days by Naguib Mahfouz
  • One Thousand and One Nights by Hanan Al-Shaykh
  • The Wrath and the Dawn by Renée Ahdieh
• character with a secret identity:
• award-winning book from last year:
  • The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett
  • Butter by Asako Yuzuki
  • Best Offer Wins by Marisa Kashino
  • Flesh by David Szalay
  • We Were the Universe by Kimberly King Parsons
  • The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden
• started on the 26th of the month:
• domestic fiction:
  • The Vegetarian by Han Kang
• a book that cost you nothing:
• author's first and last name start with the same letter:
• a guide to...:
  • A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson
• includes a handwritten interior font:
• a Goodreads recommendation for you:
  • The Summer War by Naomi Novak
  • The Everlasting by Alix Harrow
  • The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave
  • Book of Night by Holly Black
  • Lake Effect by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney
  • Hemlock and Silver by T. Kingfisher
  • The Sufi's Nightengale by Sarbreet Singh
  • Clutch by Emily Nemens
  • The King's Mother by Annie Garthwaite
  • The Lamb by Lucy Rose
• literary device: personification:
• biographical fiction:
  • Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII by David Starkey (non-fiction) and Katherine of Aragon: The True Queen by Alison Weir
• non-fiction about character in prompt 45:
• a diacritical mark on the cover:
• related to the word "nemesis":
  • Nemesis by Agatha Christie
• in the 800s of the Dewey Decimal System:
• set in a castle:
  • How to Cheat Your Own Death by Kristen Perrin
• includes a map:
• published in 2026: