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

• ✔ set in an ancient civilization: The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
• ✔ kangaroo word on the cover: The Secret of Orange Blossom Cake by Rachel Linden
• ✔ written without quotation marks: Vigil by George Saunders
• ✔ has a dust jacket: Canticle by Janet Rich Edwards
• ✔ featuring a conspiracy: Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera
• ✔ title starts with the letter "o": Our Share of Night by Mariana Enriquez
• ✔ title starts with the letter "p": Persephone's Curse by Katrina Leno
• ✔ a three-syllable word in the title: Diavola by Jennifer Thorne
• ✔ featuring a natural disaster: The Compound by Aisling Rawle
• ✔ spans a decade or more: Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
• ✔ requires suspension of disbelief: When the Museum Is Closed by Emi Yagi
• a genre-defining read:
  • The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
  • Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• ✔ bookface: Bog Queen by Anna North
• ✔ includes a character list: Fire Sword & Sea by Vanessa Riley
• 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: The Beheading Game by Rebecca Lehman
• ✔ author's bio mentions their dog: Clutch by Emily Nemens
• ✔ provokes strong emotion: Heart the Lover by Lily King
• ✔ a nosy neighbor character: The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
• ✔ day of the week in the title: The Saturday Night Ghost Club by Craig Davidson
• 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: Enter Ghost by Isabella Hammad
• ✔ includes a red herring: The Return of Ellie Black by Emiko Jean
• ✔ title in a serif font: Possession by A.S. Byatt
• ✔ two or more authors, one pseudonym: The Ending Writes Itself by Evelyn Clarke
• from a series at least eight books long: Still Life by Louise Penny
• ✔ set in the arctic or antarctic: Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy
• 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": Wives Like Us by Plum Sykes
• ✔ a standalone fantasy novel: The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water by Zen Cho
• ✔ inspired by the top-grossing movie the year you were born [1992: Aladdin ]: One Thousand and One Nights by Hanan Al-Shaykh
• ✔ character with a secret identity: The Square of Sevens by Laura Shepherd-Robinson
• ✔ award-winning book from last year: The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett
• ✔ started on the 26th of the month: Three Days in June by Anne Tyler
• ✔ domestic fiction: Intemperance by Sonora Jha
• ✔ a book that cost you nothing: The Dark Sisters by Kristin DeMeester
• ✔ author's first and last name start with the same letter: The Blueprint by Rae Gianna Rashad
• a guide to...:
  • A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson
• ✔ includes a handwritten interior font: Anatomy of an Alibi by Ashley Elston
• a Goodreads recommendation for you: The Everlasting by Alix Harrow
  • The Summer War by Naomi Novak
  • The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave
  • Book of Night by Holly Black
  • Lake Effect by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney
  • The Sufi's Nightengale by Sarbreet Singh
  • The King's Mother by Annie Garthwaite
  • The Lamb by Lucy Rose
• ✔ literary device: personification: The Catch by Yrsa Daley-Ward
• ✔ biographical fiction: Katherine of Aragon: The True Queen by Alison Weir
• ✔ non-fiction about character in prompt 45: Katharine of Aragon, Spanish Princess by Heather R. Darsie
• ✔ a diacritical mark on the cover: The Anthropologists by Ayşegül Savaş
• ✔ related to the word "nemesis": Hana Khan Carries On by Uzma Jalaluddin
• ✔ in the 800s of the Dewey Decimal System: Discontent by Beatriz Serrano
• ✔ set in a castle: Murder at World's End by Ross Montgomery
• ✔ includes a map: The Fox Wife by Yangsze Choo
• published in 2026: