The 52 Book Clubs 2025 Challenge: Completed

This was a fun, yet hard at times, reading challenge. I really enjoyed it for the most part and I read some books that wouldn’t have been on my radar. I didn’t even really plan any of my reads around the challenge. I mostly read what I wanted and when I was done I matched it up to one of the prompts. This worked for probably 75% of the prompts. There were a few that I really had to think about and go looking for a book to match, but otherwise there wasn’t a lot agonizing over any of the prompts. If you want to know more about any particular prompt you can check out their 2025 Challenge page here.

I pretty much finished this prompt by the summer, so most of these books were from the first half of the year. Many of the prompts had more than one book to choose from, so I just went with either my favorite or the one that fit the best. The highlighted titles are linked to my reviews.

1) A pun in the title: The Crime Brulee Bake Off
2) A character with red hair: Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
3) Title starts with letter “M” : Midnight in Soap Lake
4) Title starts with letter “N” : Not Quite Dead Yet
5) Plot includes a heist: To Clutch a Razor

6) Genre One: Set in Spring: A Case of Mice and Murder – Historical Mystery
7) Genre Two: Set in Summer: A Brush with Death – Cozy Mystery
8) Genre Three: Set in Autumn: Holy Terrors – Fantasy Mystery
9) Genre Four: Set in Winter: A Long Time Gone – Police Procedural

10) Author’s last name is also a first name: A Drop of Corruption
11) A prequel: Sunrise on the Reaping
12) Has a moon on the cover: When the Moon Hits Your Eye
13) Title is ten letters or less: Alibi

14) Climate fiction: The Vanishing Kind
15) Includes Latin American history: The Summer I Ate the Rich
16) Author has won an Edgar award: Girl Forgotten
17) Told in verse: Alone

18) A character who can fly: Emberclaw
19) Has short chapters: Holmes is Missing
20) A fairy tale retelling: Cinder House
21) Character’s name in the title: Finlay Donovan Digs Her Own Grave

22) Found family trope: Rogue Community College
23) A sprayed edge: A Language of Dragons
24) Title is a spoiler: Five Found Dead
25) Breaks the fourth wall: This Book Will Bury Me

26) More than a million copies sold: Onyx Storm
27) Features a magician: The Magician of Tiger Castle
28) A crossover (Set in a shared universe): The Geographer’s Map to Romance
29) Shares universe with prompt 28: The Ornithologist’s Field Guide to Love

30) In the public domain: The Seven Dials Mystery
31) Audiobook has multiple narrators: Graveyard Shift
32) Includes a diary entry: How to Solve Your Own Murder
33) A standalone novel: The Queen of Fives

34) Direction in the title: Don’t Let Him In
35) Written in third person: A Captured Cauldron
36) Final sentence is less than 6 words long: The Grimoire Grammar School PTA
37) Genre chosen for you by someone else: Soulgazer

38) An adventure story: I’m Starting to Worry About this Black Box of Doom
39) Has an epigraph: Sword Catcher
40) Stream of consciousness narrative: Machine
41) Cover font is in a primary color: First Time Caller

42) Non-human antagonist: The Fourth Consort
43) Explores social class: The Ragpicker King
44) A celebrity on the cover: The Wedding People (Read with Jenna)
45) Author releases more than one book a year: Hemlock & Silver

46) Read in a “-ber” month: The Everlasting
47) “I think it was blue”: A Fate So Cold
48) Related to the word “puzzle”: The Bletchley Riddle
49) Set in a country with an active volcano: Death on the Island

50) Set in the 1940s: The Listeners
51) 300-400 pages long: Accomplice to the Villain
52) Published in 2025: Everything is Tuberculosis

I am actually still working on this challenge as there are bonus prompts that are sent out each month. Once I am done with those, I will probably do another recap.

The organizers of this reading challenge have already announced next years prompts. Some of them are tricky, but will still be fun to find a book to fit. I might not have as easy of a time if I decide to do it. If you want to check out next year’s prompts you can find them here.

Well I hope you enjoyed reading this post, and hopefully you found a book or two to add to your endless TBR list. Until next time…