The 52 Book Club Reading Challenge 2023 - Books List

Like last year, I am doing a running roundup of the 2023 - 52 book club challenge. I will add the titles to the appropriate prompts as and when I finish reading them.

I am also adding the review links so you can check them out on Instagram / the blog.

1. A book with a subtitle - The Warrior and the Sadhvi - A Transcendental Love - Prashanth Wankade
2. Featuring an inheritance -  Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
3. Title starting with the letter “G” - Grabber - Jehan Zachary & Nirmal Pulickal
4. Title starting with the letter “H” - Hunger for fur and fame - Sean Kanga
5. Title starting with the letter “I” - I hear you - Nidhi Upadhyay
6. Under 200 pages - Stream of happiness - Nagaraja Koodali [162 pages]
7. A city or country name in the title - The Karachi Deception - Shatrujeet Nath
8. Dystopian Fiction - Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro [DNF]
9. A book with a dedication - A Thing Called Destiny - iBharatiyaWriter
10. Takes place during the Roaring Twenties - Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
11. A book about secrets - Blue - Danielle Steel
12. High Fantasy - Avenging Angels - Blair Cahill
13. Published posthumously - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson / Persuasion /Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen.
14. A survival story - The Sun, the Moon, and everything in between - Faraz Kazi, Sahar Quaze
15. Set in Australia
16. Featuring one of the “seven deadly sins” - You are being watched - Diptendu Chakraborty [ All 7 sins are mentioned in the story]
17. By a Caribbean author - 
18. Set during a war other than WWI or WWII - Janya Bharata: The War - Manu Nellutla [ The Mahabaratha War]
19. Typographic cover
20. A book about siblings- The Stationary Shop of Tehran - Marjan Kamli
21. A second-hand book - 
22. A body-positive message - Encounters of a fat bride - Samah
23. An alliterative title - Socerry of Senses - Tanima Das
24. Nordic Noir - The Absent-minded Gentleman - Frank Heller [eBook]
25. A fashionable character - Ambapali - Tanushree Poddar
26. Has an epilogue - The Tattoo Trail - Gurucharan Singh Gandhi
27. Newbery Medal Winner - The Whipping Boy - Sid Fleischman
28. Includes a funeral - Before the storm - Jack Byrne
29. Sends you down a rabbit hole - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain
30. An author with the same name as you - Widows World in the East - Padma Edirisinghe
31. Set in a workplace - The Ex-Factor - Harini Srinivasan
32. Published by Macmillan - 
33. A banned book - One Part Woman - Perumal Murugan / The Little Prince - Antoine Saint - Exupery [All his books are banned in Vichy France]
34. Featuring mythology - Illustrated Ramayana for children - Shubha Vilas
35. A book you meant to read last year - Marriage Unarranged - Ritu Bhathal
36. Chapters have cliffhangers - Straight as a Jalebi - Ritu Bhathal
37. Written in the present tense - Queen and King - Nandini Gupta
38. An enemies-to-lovers plot - Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austin
39. The final book in a series - Prahlad - Kevin Missal [ The Narasimha Trilogy]
40. Written by a comedian - Mc Carthy's bar - Pete Mac Carthy
41. A character who is a refugee - Ladies' Tailor - Priya Hejula
42. Time in the title - Survival Weekend - Robert W Kirby
43. A book “everyone” has read - Fairy Tales - The Brothers Grimm 
44. A contemporary setting - Change Me - Jasmine Waldmann
45. The first word in the book is “The” - The Nanny
46. Script font on the spine - Friendship to Forevership
47. Set in the city of Dublin - Be careful what you wish for - Lorraine Murphy
48. A book by Octavia E. Butler - Blood Child [DNF]
49. Books on the cover- I Will Judge You By Your Bookshelf - Grant Snider
50. Related to the word “Murder” - Murder in the bylanes: Life and death in a divided city - Aloke Lal and Maanas Lal
51. A book that doesn’t fit any of the other 51 prompts - Digital Maths - Sharad Thakur
52. Published in 2023 - Who wants to marry Kai Juicewalla - Kainaz Jussawalla