52 Books in 52 Weeks
“I cannot live without books.”
― Thomas Jefferson
Doesn’t this sound like such a fun but simple concept? For the 3rd year Mommy Mannegren has put together a challenge that is doable for just about anyone that enjoys books. Obviously you could just leave it with 52 books in 52 weeks but she gives us 52 guidelines to make it just that much more fun.
If you decide to join me in this challenge make sure you go to Mommy Mannegren‘s site here and her Facebook group here – set up just for this challenge.
Check out these amazing prompts:
A book with the letter “W” in the title
From Lukov with Love by Marian Zapata
A Hardcover
By an indigenous author
Empire of Wild by Cherie Dimaline
Set in winter
Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
A character who is a senior
The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult
Written in the 1970’s
An author local to you
Mr. Murder by Dean Koontz – Koontz lives in Orange County, here in Southern California.
Orange on the cover
The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
Set in space
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
A bestseller
The Testaments by Margaret Atwood – NYT Bestseller 9/10/2019
A book that leaves you thinking
The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin
A “guilty pleasure”
The Hating Game by Sally Thorne
Written by a female author
One Day in December by Josie Silver
Book in a series
The Lady of the Rivers by Philippa Gregory – The 1st book of the Plantagenet and Tudor Novels
Book with romance
A Cowboy’s Reunion by Carolyne Aarsen – I had a difficult time choosing this book. So I just made it easy and grabbed one of the first books on my romance TBR list. FYI – If you go to Aarsen’s website you can get a free book which is always a good thing.
Borrowed from a friend – my oldest daughter, Kristin loaned me this
Written by more than one author
The Royal We by Heather Cocks & Jessica Morgan
Published in 2020
A Stephen King novel
An author whose last name starts with the same initial as yours
Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers
Written by a blogger or journalist
Everything but the Posts by Becca Ludlum
A character that frustrates you
I will have to read some books to do this prompt
Title beginning with A
Title beginning with B
Title beginning with C
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
A strong “friendship” theme
A comic book
The Walking Dead, Vol. 1: Days Gone Bye by Robert Kirkman – So I love The Walking Dead television show (both of them). Comic books… not so much. So I guess we’ll see how the two of these combine.
Literary fiction
The Girls in the Picture by Melanie Benjamin
An award-winning novel
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead– this book has won so many awards it’s almost unbelievable. It was selected for Oprah’s Book Club. NBD. It also won the 2016 fiction for the National Book Foundation. AND… drum roll please… It even won Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2017. Does that make you want to read this book? Cuz it does me.
A book with recipes inside
The Baker’s Daughter by Sarah McCoy
A book featuring royalty
The White Queen by Philippa Gregory
A spy novel
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
A book containing poetry
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
A book with illustrations
Bad Girls Throughout History by Ann Shen
An author’s debut book
Something Borrowed by Emily Giffin
Written in first person
A book featuring the medical profession
My Name is Mary Sutter by Robin Oliveira
Set in the future
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
A book used in a celebrity book club
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng – Reese Witherspoon has a book club called Hello Sunshine that focuses on books written by female authors. This book was one of their book club reads in 2017. Witherspoon is one of my favorite actresses so I had to pick her book club. Also less than an hour ago me and a sweet friend of mine were just talking about this book. She was saying how much she liked it. When I saw it on the Hello Sunshine list I knew it would be perfect for this prompt.
A book on the Mensa reading list for grades 9-12
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Published when you were 20
Dragonfly in Amber by Diana Gabaldon
Reuse a prompt from a past year
September Sky by John A. Heldt – The prompt is from last year (2019): A book about time-travel
Set in a country you’ve never visited before
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
“Recommended” to you by Amazon
A book that cost you less than $5
What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty – I paid $2.99 for this on my Kindle
By an author used in an earlier category
Drums of Autumn by Diana Gabaldon
Story takes place on a form of transportation
A Night to Remember by Walter Lord
Character who wears glasses
Gather the Stars by Kimberly Cates
About a World Leader
The Romanovs: 1613-1918 by Simon Sebag Montefiore
An author you previously disliked
A genre you don’t normally care for
The Walking Dead, Vol. 2: Miles Behind Us by Robert Kirkman – I’m not normally a big fan of comics or graphic novels.
A book with a Foreword
Animal Farm by George Orwell – Forward by Ann Patchett
I can’t wait to see what your choices are.
