Tamaranth's Creative Reading: 52 In 52 Challenge (2025)

About the 52 In 52 Challenge (2025)

1. A pun in the title : Copper Script by KJ Charles

2. A character with red hair : The Shock of the Fall by Nathan Filer

3. Title starts with letter “M” : The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley

4. Title starts with letter “N” : number9dream by David Mitchell

5. Plot includes a heist: The Girl from Everywhere by Heidi Heilig

6. Genre One: Set in Spring: The Masquerades of Spring by Ben Aaronovitch (fantasy)

7. Genre Two: Set in Summer: Levitation for Beginners by Suzannah Dunn (lit fic)

8. Genre Three: Set in Autumn: The Nature of the Beast by Louise Penny (thriller / crime)

9. Genre Four: Set in Winter: Yule Island by Johana Gustawsson (horror)

10. Author’s last name is also a first name: The Surfacing by Cormac James

11. A prequel:

12. Has a moon on the cover: When the Moon Hits Your Eye by John Scalzi

13. Title is ten letters or less: The Fox Wife by Yangsze Choo

14. Climate fiction: A Line You Have Traced by Roisin Dunnett

15. Includes Latin American history: Daughter of Fire: A Novel by Sofia Robleda

16. Author has won an Edgar Award: Knave of Diamonds by Laurie R. King

17. Told in verse: The Golden Gate by Vikram Seth

18. A character who can fly: Stateless by Elizabeth Wein

19. Has short chapters: Mr. Mustachio Sings Like a Canary by Dawn MacKinnon

20. A fairy tale retelling: Hemlock & Silver by T. Kingfisher

21. Character’s name in the title: Mr. Mustachio Is Falsely Accused by Dawn MacKinnon

22. Found family trope: Mr. Mustachio Gets Collared by Dawn MacKinnon

23. A sprayed edge: Pagans by James Alistair Henry

24. Title is a spoiler: The Gentleman and His Vowsmith by Rebecca Ide

25. Breaks the fourth wall: Endling by Maria Reva

26. More than a million copies sold: The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa ("The uplifting million-copy bestselling Japanese translated story!" ... I never thought I would appreciate Amazon's habit of appending descriptions / sales pitches to the title!)

27. Features a magician: A Declaration of the Rights of Magicians by H.G. Parry

28. A crossover (set in a shared universe): Marvel's Jessica Jones: Playing with Fire by Zoë Quinn, Lauren Beukes, Sam Beckbessinger, Elsa Sjunneson, Fryda Wolff, Vita Ayala

29. Shares universe with prompt 28: Breaking the Dark: A Jessica Jones Marvel Crime Novel by Lisa Jewell

30. In the public domain: Kif by Josephine Tey

31. Audiobook has multiple narrators: Stone and Sky by Ben Aaronovitch

32. Includes a diary entry: A Language of Dragons by S.F. Williamson

33. A standalone novel: Maurice by E.M. Forster

34. Direction in the title: Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer

35. Written in third person: Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wiswell

36. Final sentence is less than 6 words long: The Last Dragoners of Bowbazar by Indra Das ("Yes, it is," I laugh.)

37. Genre chosen for you by someone else: The Glow by Alistair McDowall (N picked 'a play': this is the script of a play I saw at the Royal Court Theatre)

38. An adventure story: Sir Hereward and Mister Fitz: Three Adventures by Garth Nix

39. Has an epigraph: And The Ocean Was Our Sky by Patrick Ness

40. Stream of consciousness narrative: 1983 by Tom Cox

41. Cover font is in a primary color: Oracle by Thomas Olde Heuvelt

42. Non-human antagonist: The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett

43. Explores social class: The Expensive Halo by Josephine Tey

44. A celebrity on the cover: Every Valley: The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times that Made Handel's Messiah by Charles King

45. Author releases more than one book a year: Bee Speaker by Adrian Tchaikovsky

46. Read in a -ber month: The Long Way Home by Louise Penny

47. “I think it was blue”: The Hymn to Dionysus by Natasha Pulley

48. Related to the word “puzzle” : The Enigma Game by Elizabeth Wein

49. Set in a country with an active volcano: The Mask of Apollo by Mary Renault (partly set in Sicily, which has Mt Etna)