The 52 Book Club Reading Challenge 2024 - Books List

This is the only challenge that I finish each year. For 2024, the prompts were interesting and challenging and I got around to picking a few for the prompts.

But, as always, I am unsure if I will stick with my list or change them as I go. So, I will update as and when I find a book that fits a prompt.

The prompts for the 52 Book Club’s 2024 Reading Challenge:

1. Locked-room mystery  - 
2. Bibliosmia: A smelly book- The Book of Everlasting Things - Anchal Malhotra [ Scent / Smell / Perfumes]
3. More than 40 chapters - 
4. Lowercase letters on the spine
5. Magical Realism- The Legend of Triquetra - Tara Rewa
6. Women in STEM - Mother to Elephants - The Story of Daphne Sheldrick
7. At least four different POV - Right Across the Bay- Quinn Avery
8. Features the ocean
9. A character-driven novel- the 7 Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
10. Told in non-chronological order - Navapashanam - Nitya Neelakantan
11. Title starting with the letter “K” - Kalee and the Mysterious Twins - Sunita Lad Bhamray
12. Title starting with the letter “L” - Late Blooming Cherries - Haiku Poetry from India
13. An academic thriller - Angels and Demons
14. A grieving character - One More - T.A.Rosewood
15. Part of a duology- Game of Fire - Nanak Singh
16. An omniscient narrator - Acts of God - Kannan Gil
17. Nominated for The Booker Prize
18. An apostrophe in the title - Dante's Paradox - Dante M Slater Sr.
19. A buddy read - Maybe you should talk to someone - Lori Gottlieb
20. A revenge story - The Midnight Feast - Lucy Foley
21. Written by a ghostwriter - Nancy Drew
22. A plot similar to another book -Baby Steps to Big Dreams: Essential Conversations for Modern Parents. - Dr Manjula Pooja Shroff

23. The other book with the similar plot - Imperfect Parenting- Honest stories from Global Parents
24. A cover without people on it - iParent - Neha Hiranandani
25. An author “everyone” has read except you
26. Hybrid genre-Varaha's Vengeance - Arun Krishnan - Historical Fiction
27. By a neurodivergent author
28. A yellow spine - Bootcamp Murder - Matthew Ross
29. Published in a Year of the Dragon - 
30. Picked without reading the blurb - Quiet Whispers - T.A.Rosewood
31. Includes a personal phobia - Great expectations
32. Time frame spans a week or less
33. An abrupt ending - Girl on the train
34. Set in a landlocked country - Heidi
35. Title matches lyrics from a song
36. Has futuristic technology - Acts of God - Kanan Gill
37. Palindrome on the cover
38. Published by Hachette - Woebegone Warehouse of Words- Payal Kapadia
39. Non-fiction recommended by a friend 
40. Set during a holiday you don’t celebrate
41. A sticker on the cover
42. Author debut in the second half of 2024 - The Ideal Entrepreneur - Rahul Agarwal
43. About finding identity - Eat Pray Love
44. Includes a wedding - Within - Adithi Vardhan Singh
45. Chapter headings have dates - Guns and Almond milk - Mustafa Marwan
46. Featuring Indigenous culture - A Long Season of Ashes- Siddhartha Gigoo
47. Self-insert by an author - Jane Eyre
48. The word “secret” in the title - Shadows and Secrets - Harini Srinivasan
49. Set in a city starting with the letter “M” - Missing in Mumbai - Kirki Akrivou
50. A musical instrument on the cover- The Waitress and the Singer - Mark Laming
51. Related to the word “Wild” - 
52. Published in 2024- Vigil Aunties - Richa Mukherjee