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: 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: A Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J. Maas
• 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: 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:
• 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: Still Life by Louise Penny
• 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": 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
  • 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: Three Days in June by Anne Tyler
• ✔ domestic fiction: Intemperance by Sonora Jha
• a book that cost you nothing:
• ✔ 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 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
  • 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: The Catch by Yrsa Daley-Ward
• 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: 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: