2021 reads for 52 Club Reading Challenge

I had made a list of books for the 52 book club reading challenge and that list underwent a lot of changes through the months. These are the books that were finally read for this wonderful challenge.And here is what happened in the year of books....

Initially I had planned to read books that I had or purchased just to suit the prompts. But later when I had a lot of books coming in for review, I matched most of them for the prompts and the rest were read to fit into the time I had to finish off the remaining prompts.

I played around with intrepeting the prompts and the 52 book club reading challenge group members thought it was a fun way of reading between the lines!

Read on and you will see what I meant!

Click on the title to take you to the review. The ones not highlighted are those that I wanted to read but couldn't finish on time...

1. Set In A School - Nutritive cooking for children - Shaila Santhanam

2.Featuring The Legal Profession - Certain Prey - John Stanford [Re-read]

3.A Dual Timeline - The Krishna Key - Ashwin Sanghi [Re-read]

4.An Author That Is Deceased - Emma - Jane Austin

5.Published By Penguin - The great Gatsby - F.Scott Fitzgerald

6.A Character With The Same Name As A Male Family Member - A castle with two Doors - Dilip Jayarama. [Character and family member name - Siddharth / Sidhart]

7.An Author With Only 1 Published Book -  The Lonely Castaway - Pushpa B Voddi

8.A Book In The 900's Of The Dewey Decimal System - Pedelling Journey - Deccan Cliffhanger - Dr. Ravinder Singal, Dr. Vaishali Balajiwale

9.Set In A Mediterranean Country - Easy everyday Mediterranean Cookbook - Larry Williams

10.Related To The Word "Fire" - Inferno - Dan Brown

11.Book With Discussion Questions Inside - A Regal Man - Life and Lessons of Vasu Shroff - Priya Kumar

12.Title Starting With The Letter "D" - De-Void - Deepak Kaul

13.Includes An Exotic Animal - How to train your dragon- Cressida Cowell

14.Written By An Author Over 65 [When published] - Here, there and everywhere - Sudha Murthy

15.A Book Mentioned In Another Book - Wuthering Heights

16.Set Before The 17th Century - The Vizard Mask - Diana Mask

17.A Character "On The Run" - Discerning Grave - Emma Lombard [Audio Book]

18.Author With A 9-Letter Last Name - The Chocolate Log - Cheryl Kumar Templeton

19.Book With A Deckled Edge - Jewel - Danielle Steel

20.Made Into A TV Series - Malgudi Days - R.K. Narayan

21.Book By Kristen Hannah - Angel Falls

22.A Family Saga - Climbing the Mango Tree - Madhur Jaffrey

23.An Ending That Surprises You - The Silent Patient - Alex Michaelides [Completed but review not written yet]

24.A Book You Think They Should Read In Schools - The Little Saint - Swathi

25. Book with multiple character POV - Everything Led Me To You - Sara Kate

26.An Author Of Color - Zikora - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

27.First chapter ends in the odd number page  - Club you to Death - Anuja Chauhan

28.Includes A Historical Event You Know Little About -The Tattooist of Auschwitz - Heather Morris. [Completed but review not written yet]

29.Featuring The Environment - My favorite nature stories - Ruskin Bond

30.Watch Out For Dragons! - Dealing with dragons - Praticia C. Wrede

31.Shares A Similar Title To Another Book-  A house Full of Men - Parinda Joshi [ Same title by another author - Pauline Marrington]

32.A Selfish Character - Once Upon a Bharata Desham - Mahesh Kotakere [ selfish character - Kripalaya]

33.Featuring Adoption - Sheru - A Loving Dog - Sudhanshu Mohanty

34.A Book You'd Rate 5 Stars - The Help - Kathryn Stockett

35.Set In A Country That Starts With The Letter "S" - Solo in Singapore - Tanushree Podar

36.A Nameless Narrator - 2050 - Deepak Kaul

37.An Educational Read - The subtle art of dealing with people - Aruna Joshi

38.Recommended on BookBub - To kill a mocking Bird - Harper lee

39.An Alternate History Novel - 1984 - George Orwell

40.Found Via #Bookstagram - Reasonable Lies - T.A.Rosewood

41.An Endorsement By A Famous Author On The Cover - Unforseen Desires - Anil Chopra [Ruskin Bond]

42.An Epistolary - Let Love Take Over - Tomson Robert

43.A character with a pet cat - The girl with a dragon tatoo - Stieg Larsson

44. Includes a garden - The secret Garden -Frances Hodgson Burnett

45.Coming of age novel - Mohini - Ramender Kumar

46.Winner of National book award , any year - Joy luck club - Amy Tan

47.A Character With A Disability - This too shall pass - Elango Thambiah

48.A Cover With A Woman Who Is Facing Away - Daughter of the Night - Nandini Gupta

 

49.A Flavor In The Title - Low salt Cookbook - Sanjeev Kapoor

50.A Shoe On The Cover - Devil Wears Prada -Lauren Weisberger [ Completed but review not written]

51.Published in 2021 - My Little Book of Love by Priya Kumar [1/1/2021]

52.Re-Do One Of The Previous 51 Categories From This 2021 Challenge -  Back Ender - Udayan Mukerji [ Prompt 51. Published - May - 2021]