The 52 Book Club Challenge TBR 2024

The second one of my challenge TBRs, and I think I have finally realised just how big of an undertaking this is going to be. Hopefully though it drives me to prioritise my reading and I get to experience books I wouldn’t necessarily have picked up otherwise.

1. Locked-room mystery – No Exit by Taylor Adams
2. Bibliosmia: A smelly book – Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
3. More than 40 chapters – The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill
4. Lowercase letters on the spine – Ink by Alice Broadway
5. Magical Realism – Babel by R.F. Huang

6. Women in STEM – Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Grams
7. At least four different POV – The Shadow of the Gods by John Gwynn
8. Features the ocean – The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman
9. A character-driven novel – The Secret History by Donna Tartt
10. Told in non-chronological order – Wrong Place, Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister

11. Title starting with the letter “K” – Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
12. Title starting with the letter “L” – Legendborn by Tracy Deonn
13. An academic thriller – If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio
14. A grieving character – A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
15. Part of a duology – The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell

16. An omniscient narrator – Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
17. Nominated for The Booker Prize – The Narrow Road to the North by Richard Flanagan
18. An apostrophe in the title – Her Majesty’s Royal Coven by Juno Dawson
19. A buddy read – Killing Floor by Lee Child
20. A revenge story – Lore by Alexandra Bracken

21. Written by a ghostwriter – Nineteen Steps by Millie Bobby Brown
22. A plot similar to another book – A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes
23. The other book with the similar plot – Ithaca by Claire North
24. A cover without people on it – Hooked by Emily McIntire
25. An author “everyone” has read except you – Fall of Giants by Ken Follett

26. Hybrid genre – The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty
27. By a neurodivergent author – Wolfsong by T.J. Kline
28. A yellow spine – The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave
29. Published in a Year of the Dragon – A Dying Fall by Elly Griffiths
30. Picked without reading the blurb – The Hurricane Wars by Thea Guanzon

31. Includes a personal phobia – Silverwing by Kenneth Appel
32. Timeframe spans a week or less – Armada by Ernest Cline
33. An abrupt ending – Deviant King by Rina Kent
34. Set in a landlocked country – She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan
35. Title matches lyrics from a song – Somewhere Beyond the Sea by T.J. Kline

36. Has futuristic technology – Hail Mary by Andy Weir
37. Palindrome on the cover – Godkiller by Hannah Kane
38. Published by Hachette – 84k by Claire North
39. Non-fiction recommended by a friend – The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
40. Set during a holiday you don’t celebrate – The Holly Jolly Diwali by Sonya Lalli

41. A sticker on the cover – Murder in the Family by Cara Hunter
42. Author debut in second half of 2024 – Book needed
43. About finding identity – Perseopolis by Maryjane Satrapi
44. Includes a wedding – Four Aunties and a Wedding by Jesse Q. Sutanto
45. Chapter headings have dates – Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr

46. Featuring Indigenous culture – Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse
47. Self-insert by an author – Outlander by Diana Galbaldon
48. The word “secret” in the title – The Very Secret Society of Regular Witches by Sangu Mandanna
49. Set in a city starting with the letter “M” – The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin
50. A musical instrument on the cover – Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

51. Related to the word “Wild” – The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wild
52. Published in 2024 – Mirrored Heavens by Rebecca Roanhorse

If you have any ideas for the challenges I’m missing books for I would be thrilled for any recommendations! Let me know if you’re taking part in any challenges for 2024!