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September 2025 Mini-Challenge

September 2025 Mini-Challenge For this month’s mini-challenge, we’ve only got one prompt… but rest assured, it’s a BIG one. So, grab a book and come smash your 2025 record with us! I’m new here! What are mini-challenges? Mini-challenges are smaller month-long reading challenges, usually comprised of three prompts built around a specific theme. Mini-challenges are […]

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Vote for a 2026 Prompt: Week One

Okay, bibliophiles, September is upon us, and you know what that means… The 52 Book Club polls are officially open, and we’ll be spending the next four weeks voting on prompts for our 2026 Challenge! Each year, we invite you to help us pick prompts for next year’s challenge, and it is once again time

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The Society of Unknowable Objects

Book Review The Society of Unknowable Objects by Gareth BrownFantasy | Mystery | Magical Realism ★★★ I’ve heard nothing but good things about Brown’s previous book, The Book of Doors, so I was excited to receive a copy of The Society of Unknowable Objects from Harper Collins Canada. Enter a world in which select everyday objects

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The Book of Lost Hours

Book Review The Book of Lost Hours by Hayley GelfusoHistorical Fiction | Fantasy | Time Travel | Science Fiction | Romance ★★★★ “You won’t lose me,” he said, his voice barely a whisper. “We’re linked, you and me. No matter where we end up, be it a country, an era, or an alternative version of

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Guess Again

Book Review Guess Again by Charlie DonleaThriller | Mystery ★★★★ When you pick up a Donlea thriller, you know you are in for a wild and twisty ride, and Guess Again absolutely live up to those expectations. This is a fast-paced, edge-of-your-seat sort of read with short and snappy chapters that keep you flipping pages

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Spitfires

Book Review Spitfires by Becky AikmanHistory | Non-Fiction | WWII ★★★★★ Spitfires by Becky Aikman dives into a group of twenty-five aviators who were denied the right to fly for the US during WWII, and headed to England to join the ATA (Air Transport Auxiliary), becoming the first US women to command military aircraft. This was

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Welcome to Murder Week

Book Review Welcome to Murder Week by Karen DukessCozy Mystery | Fiction ★★★★★ Cozy mysteries are a go-to, relaxing read for me. So, give me a story about a faux murder mystery set in a small English village, and I’m all in. But what I didn’t expect was the beautifully layered emotional elements of this

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Connections Challenge Journal

Connections Challenge Journal This post contains affiliate links; as an Amazon associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. We’ve just released a brand new reading challenge — our 52 Book Club Connections Challenge! This challenge has been released for our summer 2025 season (but can be completed at any time), and we’re very excited as it’s

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Connections Challenge

Connections Reading Challenge We’re very excited to offer you an entirely different sort of reading challenge for Summer 2025 — The 52 Book Club’s Connections Reading Challenge! How does this Connections Challenge work? This challenge is all about finding the connections between our reads. It is also our first linear challenge, meaning that the challenge

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