The 52 Book Club's 2024 Reading Challenge

Each year, I take on different reading challenges as a way to get outside of my reading comfort zone. For 2024, I plan to read a total of 104 books by completing the 52 Book Club's 2024 reading challenge (consisting of 52 books) and the Booklist Queen's 2024 Reading Challenge (also consisting of 52 books.) 

If you'd like to participate in this 2024 reading challenge, visit www.the52bookclub.com/2024-reading-challenge.

Below is the list of reading prompts for the 2024 reading challenge which I'll start on January 1, 2024. After I finish each reading prompt, I'll update this list. If you want to see more of the books I've read this year and previous years, check out my Goodreads profile at: https://www.goodreads.com/user_challenges/15431036.

The 52 Book Club's 2024 Reading Challenge:

1. Locked-room mystery: The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
2. Bibliosmia: A smelly book: Scent of the Missing: Love & Partnership with a Search-and-Rescue Dog by Susannah Charleson 
3. More than 40 chapters: Dark Visions by Jonas Saul
4. Lowercase letters on the spine: It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time by Kylie Scott
5. Magical Realism: Shark Heart by Emily Habeck
6. Women in STEM:Wonder Women: 25 Innovators, Inventors, and Trailblazers Who Changed History by Sam Maggs
7. At least four different POV: The Candymakers by Wendy Mass
8. Features the ocean: Ocean Anatomy: The Curious Parts & Pieces of the World Under the Sea by Julia Rothman
9. A character-driven novel: Horseman, Pass By by Larry McMurty
10. Told in non-chronological order:
11. Title starting with the letter "K:" Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto
12. Title starting with the letter "L:" Last Dance by Hanna Schroy
13. An acdemic thriller:
14. A grieving character: Forget Prayers, Bring Cake: A Sinlge Woman's Guide to Grieving by Merissa Nathan Gerson
15. Part of a duology: Ravaged by Naima Simone
16. An omniscient narrator: Frog and Toad are Friends by Arnold Lobel
17.Nominated for The Booker Prize:
18. An apostrophe in the title: Your Heart's Desire by Melody Carlson
19. A buddy read:
20. A revenge story: The Lost Girls: A Vampire Revenge Story by Sonia Hartl
21. Written by a ghostwriter: The Answer Is... by Alex Trebek
22.A plot similar to another book: Vanessa Jared's Got a Man by LaQuette
23. The other book with the similar plot: The Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick
24. A cover without people on it: Recitatif by Toni Morrison
25. An author "everyone" had read except you: What I Know For Sure by Oprah Winfrey
26. Hybrid genre: The Book of Denial by Ricardo Chavez Castaneda
27. By a neurodivergent author: Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement by Ashley Shew
28. A yellow spine: Rizzio by Denise Mina
29. Published in a Year of the Dragon: Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan (published in 2012)
30. Picked without reading the blurb: Black People Breathe: A Mindfulness Guide to Racial Healing by Zee Clarke
31. Includes a personal phobia: The Miracle Worker by William Gibson
32. Timeframe spans a week or less: This Close to Okay by Leesa Cross-Smith
33. An abrupt ending: Stuart Little by E.B. White
34. Set in a landlocked country:
35. Title matches lyrics from a song: A Girl Like Her by Talia Hibbert
36. Has futuristic technology:
37. Palindrome on the cover: I Don't Want to Be a Mom by Irene Olmo
38. Published by Hachette: Freaks, Gleeks, & Dawson's Creek: How Seven Teen Shows Transformed Televison by Thea Glassman
39. Non-fiction recommended by a friend: Sign My Name to Freedom: A Memoir of a Pioneering Life by Betty Reid Soskin
40. Set during a holiday you don't celebrate: Archie Celebrates Diwali by Mitali Banerjee Ruths 
41. A sticker on the cover: Come & Get It by Kiley Reid
42. Author debut in second half of 2024:
43. About finding identity: That Kind of Guy by Talia Hibbert
44.Includes a wedding: My Wandering Warrior Existence by Nagata Kabi
45. Chapter headings have dates:
46. Featuring indigenous culture: Project 562: Changing the Way We See Native America by Matika Wilbur
47. Self-insert by an author: The Fate of the Artist & The Second Fake Death of Eddie Campbell by Eddie Campbell
48. The word "secret" in the title: The Secret to Superhuman Strength by Alison Bechdel 
49. Set in a city starting with "M:" The Boy with a Snake in His Schoolbag: A Memoir from Manila (or Something Like That) by Bob Ong
50. Musical instrument of the cover: Ada's Vilin: the story of the Recycled Orchestra of Paraguay by Susan Hood, Illustrated Sally Wern Comport 
51. Related to the word "Wild:" A Thousand Naked Strangers: A Paramedic's Wild Ride to the Edge and Back by Kevin Hazzard
52. Published in 2024: All You Need is Rhythm & Grit: How to Run Now - For Health, Joy, and a Body That Loves You Back by Cory Wharton-Malcolm