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Book Review | Start Where You Are: The Beginner’s 5K Running Guide for Women by Sabrina Pace-Humphreys

Posted May 25, 2026 by Haze in Book Reviews / 0 Comments

Start Where You Are: The Beginner’s 5K Running Guide for Women by Sabrina Pace-Humphreys

A beginner’s guide to running for women. It challenges misconceptions and offers a positive and motivating guide to get you started.

Start Where You Are is a guide for women who are looking to run up to 5k distance. Whether you are at the start of your running journey, or resuming running after a break, Sabrina Pace-Humphreys has all the advice you need to get going.

In 2009 a GP recommended Sabrina try running to manage her post-natal depression. It transformed her life and she hasn’t stopped since. She is now a UK Athletics qualified Leader in Running Fitness, a Coach in Running Fitness and a qualified personal trainer with a passion for helping other women, wherever they are in their running journeys.

Sabrina offers motivational support, technique guidance, practical advice and strength and conditioning exercises to help complement your training. You can also find real-life runner testimonies and valuable tips about how to run during menopause, fueling and hydration, menstrual cycles, common injuries, how to run safely at night, finding the running community for you – and so much more.

Above all, this audiobook strips back the experience to the fundamentals – instilling freedom and finding joy in movement – making it the perfect starting point for all women, irrespective of age or running experience.

For the Reading Challenge(s):
2026 Nonfiction Reader Challenge
2026 52 Book Club Reading Challenge (Prompt #41: A guide to…)

The Reason

I came across this book while browsing in my local library and since I’ve started running, I thought I could learn something.

My Thoughts

As an ignorant beginner runner, there were a lot of things I got out of this book. I won’t be following along with the program laid out in the book because I’ve already been running for a while, but a lot of the advice in the book was still very helpful to me and in fact, I feel like I wouldn’t have understood some of the things the author shared if I hadn’t already been running and had come across some of those issues.

In my case, the advice about running techniques, cadence, gait, and nutrition were particularly helpful. I’ve switched up my posture and arm movements in my recent runs, and I’ve also been focusing more on how my body feels rather than what my smartwatch logs. Some of the warm-up exercises in the book has also been added to my previously sparser warm-up routine.

It’s notable that this book is aimed towards an audience of women runners; there are chapters that talk about running on periods, menopause, and how to keep yourself safe as a woman running on your own. All things that women need to take into account as compared to male runners. As the book states; women are not small men, and so many sporty advice and information have been based upon male bodies, capabilities, and needs, and aren’t necessarily applicable towards female bodies. We have a long way to go but I’m glad this book is available for women runners.

My Rating

⭐⭐⭐⭐/5 stars.

Have you read this book? Would you read this book? Did you like the book or do you think you would like it?

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Book Review | The Perfect Marriage by Jeneva Rose

Posted May 25, 2026 by Haze in Book Reviews / 0 Comments

The Perfect Marriage by Jeneva Rose

Would you defend your husband if he was accused of killing his mistress?

Sarah Morgan is a successful and powerful defense attorney in Washington D.C. At 33 years old, she is a named partner at her firm and life is going exactly how she planned.

The same cannot be said for her husband, Adam. He is a struggling writer who has had little success in his career. He begins to tire of his and Sarah’s relationship as she is constantly working.

Out in the secluded woods, at Adam and Sarah’s second home, Adam engages in a passionate affair with Kelly Summers.

Then, one morning everything changes. Adam is arrested for Kelly’s murder. She had been found stabbed to death in Adam and Sarah’s second home.

Sarah soon finds herself playing the defender for her own husband, a man accused of murdering his mistress.

But is Adam guilty or is he innocent?

For the Reading Challenge(s):
2026 52 Book Club Reading Challenge (Prompt #7: Title starts with the letter “P”)

The Reason

I was looking for books starting with the letter “P” for the prompt above and had been curious about Jeneva Rose for a while. This one was immediately available on Libby so I decided to try it.

The Quotes

“Even when you have nothing left in your life, hope is the one thing that can never be taken away.”

“That’s the thing about relationships, you never really know what’s going on in them, unless you’re a part of them.”

“Two women trying to make it in a man’s world. We work twice as hard as our male counterparts to make it just an inch ahead of them.”

“I’ve learned that everyone has skeletons in their closet and that the people who appear to be good are usually the worst of them all.”

The Narrator(s)

Andrew Eiden. Mozhan Navabi. Both the narrators were fine.

My Thoughts

The first thing I’d note is that this is not a legal thriller. I thought we’d see more courtroom scenes based on the book’s description but there’s almost none, which is fine. I hoped for a better story though, because from the beginning I felt like there was a big plot hole that wouldn’t fly in real life, but I let it go for the sake of suspension of belief. When it turned out to be the actual plot point of the story though… I don’t know, it felt almost comical.

Spoiler
The wife representing her husband in a murder case where his mistress is the victim; as they were investigating possibilities, it seemed obvious to me that the wife should be a suspect as well – it’s kind of a huge motive. Early on in the book, I felt like the murderer could easily be the wife and it would’ve been a huge conflict of interest for her to defend her husband, as she could’ve just let him take the fall for the murder. It was so ridiculously obvious that I was sure the story wouldn’t go that way, but it did!

I originally chose to suspend belief because if this happened in real life, there would be ethical issues with wife representing husband in the first place, and then if he lost, he could’ve appealed by stating bad representation because of the conflict of interest. It just never would’ve worked and I’m mad the author did this to her readers!

The characters were all so unlikeable too, I wanted to like Sarah but I didn’t connect to her at all. Her husband, Adam, was an idiot through and through. The writing itself wasn’t bad though and although I’m not happy with this book, I may consider giving the author’s books another chance some time down the road.

My Rating

⭐⭐/5 stars.

Have you read this book? Would you read this book? Did you like the book or do you think you would like it?

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Book Review | Horns by Joe Hill

Posted May 22, 2026 by Haze in Book Reviews / 2 Comments

Horns by Joe Hill

Ignatius Perrish spent the night drunk and doing terrible things. He woke up the next morning with a thunderous hangover, a raging headache . . . and a pair of horns growing from his temples.

At first Ig thought the horns were a hallucination, the product of a mind damaged by rage and grief. He had spent the last year in a lonely, private purgatory, following the death of his beloved, Merrin Williams, who was raped and murdered under inexplicable circumstances. A mental breakdown would have been the most natural thing in the world. But there was nothing natural about the horns, which were all too real.

Once the righteous Ig had enjoyed the life of the blessed: born into privilege, the second son of a renowned musician and younger brother of a rising late-night TV star, he had security, wealth, and a place in his community. Ig had it all, and more—he had Merrin and a love founded on shared daydreams, mutual daring, and unlikely midsummer magic.

But Merrin’s death damned all that. The only suspect in the crime, Ig was never charged or tried. And he was never cleared. In the court of public opinion in Gideon, New Hampshire, Ig is and always will be guilty because his rich and connected parents pulled strings to make the investigation go away. Nothing Ig can do, nothing he can say, matters. Everyone, it seems, including God, has abandoned him. Everyone, that is, but the devil inside. . . .

For the Reading Challenge(s):
2026 52 Book Club Reading Challenge (Prompt #31: Author related to author in prompt 30)

The Reason

I needed a book for the prompt above and I’d been thinking about trying Joe Hill again.

The Quotes

“The best way to get even with anyone is to put them in the rearview mirror on your way to something better.”

“It bewildered Ig, the idea that a person could not be interested in music. It was like not being interested in happiness.”

“There’s only room for one hero in this story-and everyone knows the devil doesn’t get to be the good guy.”

“Him and God are supposed to be at war with each other. But if God hates sin and Satan punishes the sinners, aren’t they working the same side of the street? Aren’t the judge and the executioner on the same team?”

The Narrator(s)

Fred Berman. I have no issues with the narration.

My Thoughts

I loved the concept and the story itself, but for some reason I just don’t like the author’s writing style. I found the book difficult to get into and the writing felt clunky, obvious, and disjointed to me. It’s difficult to get immersed into the book and forget I’m reading; I’m constantly aware of the story and standing outside of it.

The first book I read by the author was Heart-Shaped Box and I rated it two stars. I read it almost 20 years ago so I don’t remember why I didn’t like it but I thought I would give him another chance, because after all, I wasn’t a huge fan of Stephen King either back then like I am now. I do intend to reread Heart-Shaped Box again though because apparently it’s his best one. I’d like to give it one more try before deciding if he’s not for me.

I must say again that I do enjoy his stories themselves; I also loved the adaptation of NOS4A2 although I didn’t read the book, but maybe I just don’t enjoy his writing style. Hopefully I’ll prove myself wrong when I try him again.

My Rating

⭐⭐⭐/5 stars.

Have you read this book? Would you read this book? Did you like the book or do you think you would like it?

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Book Review | My Husband’s Wife by Alice Feeney

Posted May 22, 2026 by Haze in Book Reviews / 2 Comments

My Husband’s Wife by Alice Feeney

Eden Fox, an artist on the brink of her big break, sets off for a run before her first exhibition. When she returns to the home she recently moved into – Spyglass, an enchanting old house in Hope Falls – nothing is as it should be. Her key doesn’t fit. A woman, eerily similar to her, answers the door. And her husband insists that this stranger is his wife.

One house. One husband. Two women. Someone is lying.

Six months earlier, a reclusive Londoner named Birdy, reeling from a life-changing diagnosis, inherits Spyglass. This unexpected gift from a long-lost grandmother brings her to the pretty seaside village of Hope Falls. But then Birdy stumbles upon a shadowy London clinic that claims to be able to predict a person’s date of death, including her own.

For the Reading Challenge(s):
2026 52 Book Club Reading Challenge (Prompt #43: A Goodreads recommendation for you)

The Reason

It was already on my TBR and I was looking for a book that fit the above prompt, and this book turned up in my Goodreads recommendations!

The Quotes

“Your biggest enemy is always the person you see in the mirror.”

“People are grief vampires. They just want to suck on your sorrow, feed on your fear, and feast on your failures. It makes them feel better about themselves.”

“Some people love a good party; personally, I prefer a good book.”

“Accepting that things change and learning to navigate wrong turns is the secret to a happy life.”

The Narrator(s)

Bel Powley. Henry Rowley. Richard Armitage. It was a great cast and I enjoyed all of the narration.

My Thoughts

I’m not sure where to start with this book. I had very high hopes for it because it has been reviewed so highly and it started so well. It really devolved at the end, however, to the point where I wondered if I had been reading a completely different story and missed important details or imagined the whole first half of the book.

I get the concept of the unreliable narrator and that mystery fiction tend to hide the true story from us, but the way this story is presented and told is just sloppy, inconsistent, and undeveloped. The characters blatantly gaslight the reader in the weirdest ways and it makes me wonder what exactly are we reading on the page? Are we reading the character’s internal thoughts on the page? Are we reading their diaries? Are they writing down false information to mislead us? Who exactly is their audience? Because it doesn’t make sense for them to say the things they say throughout the whole book when we finally get to the reveals.

It’s just plot hole after plot hole after plot hole, and I have no idea what the story is trying to achieve. I don’t get it and I’m very disappointed.

My Rating

⭐⭐/5 stars.

Have you read this book? Would you read this book? Did you like the book or do you think you would like it?

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Book Review | Bel Canto by Ann Patchett

Posted May 12, 2026 by Haze in Book Reviews / 2 Comments

Bel Canto by Ann Patchett

In an unnamed South American country, a world-renowned soprano sings at a birthday party in honor of a visiting Japanese industrial titan. His hosts hope that Mr. Hosokawa can be persuaded to build a factory in their Third World backwater. Alas, in the opening sequence, just as the accompanist kisses the soprano, a ragtag band of 18 terrorists enters the vice-presidential mansion through the air conditioning ducts. Their quarry is the president, who has unfortunately stayed home to watch a favorite soap opera. And thus, from the beginning, things go awry.

Among the hostages are not only Hosokawa and Roxane Coss, the American soprano, but an assortment of Russian, Italian, and French diplomatic types. Reuben Iglesias, the diminutive and gracious vice president, quickly gets sideways of the kidnappers, who have no interest in him whatsoever. Meanwhile, a Swiss Red Cross negotiator named Joachim Messner is roped into service while vacationing. He comes and goes, wrangling over terms and demands, and the days stretch into weeks, the weeks into months.

With the omniscience of magic realism, Ann Patchett flits in and out of the hearts and psyches of hostage and terrorist alike, and in doing so reveals a profound, shared humanity. Her voice is suitably lyrical, melodic, full of warmth and compassion.

For the Reading Challenge(s):
2026 52 Book Club Reading Challenge (Prompt #17: Author’s bio mentions their dog)

The Reason

It’s a reread, and the BOTM for my in-person bookclub.

The Quotes

“It was never the right time or it was always the right time, depending on how you looked at it.”

“Some people are born to make great art and others are born to appreciate it. Don’t you think? It is a kind of talent in itself, to be an audience, whether you are the spectator in the gallery or you are listening to the voice of the world’s greatest soprano. Not everyone can be the artist. There have to be those who witness the art, who love and appreciate what they have been privileged to see.”

“For a man to know what he has when he had it, that is what makes him a fortunate man.”

“If what a person wants is his life, he tends to be quiet about wanting anything else. Once the life begins to seem secure, one feels the freedom to complain.”

The Narrator(s)

Anna Fields. It was good, I find that the best narrators are the ones who make me forget I’m listening to an audiobook and just get me immersed in the story.

My Thoughts

I read this book for the first time many years ago and it has stuck with me. I didn’t remember a single detail about the story itself but I have always remembered how it made me feel. This time around I thought I was prepared for the feels, but honestly, I might have expected it but I was still not prepared for it.

A lot of the details of the story surprised me this time around, and there were parts where I wondered at how realistic a scenario like this could be. I did have to turn on my suspension of belief, but after that, focusing on the story and the characters, it was just beautiful writing. The way the author writes about the passion for music, the way passion for something brings people together, the ways people find connection with each other. I fell in love with all of it.

Reading it again objectively, I can see the flaws in the story and there are definitely parts that I don’t like and felt were unnecessary. However, it’s so easy to get lost in the story and the writing, and you can’t help but want to know more about the characters. It’s still a wonderful journey the second time around.

My Rating

⭐⭐⭐⭐/5 stars.

Have you read this book? Would you read this book? Did you like the book or do you think you would like it?

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Book Review | Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke

Posted May 12, 2026 by Haze in Book Reviews / 2 Comments

Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke

A traditional American woman, a beautiful wife and mother who sells her pioneer lifestyle of raw milk and farm-fresh eggs to her millions of social media followers, suddenly awakens cold, filthy, and terrified in the brutal reality of 1805—where she must unravel whether this living nightmare is an elaborate hoax, a twisted reality show, or something far more sinister in this sensational debut novel.

My name was Natalie Heller Mills, and I was perfect at being alive.

Natalie lives a traditional lifestyle. Her charming farmhouse is rustic, her husband a handsome cowboy, her six children each more delightful than the last. So what if there are nannies and producers behind the scenes, her kitchen hiding industrial-grade fridges and ovens, her husband the Republican equivalent of a Kennedy? What Natalie’s followers—all 8 million of them—don’t know won’t hurt them. And The Angry Women? The privileged, Ivy League, coastal elite haters who call her an antifeminist iconoclast? They’re sick with jealousy. Because Natalie isn’t simply living the good life, she’s living the ideal—and just so happens to be building an empire from it.

Until one morning she wakes up in a life that isn’t hers. Her home, her husband, her children—they’re all familiar, but something’s off. Her kitchen is warmed by a sputtering fire rather than electricity, her children are dirty and strange, and her soft-handed husband is suddenly a competent farmer. Just yesterday Natalie was curating photos of homemade jam for her Instagram, and now she’s expected to haul firewood and handwash clothes until her fingers bleed. Has she become the unwitting star of a brutal reality show? Could it really be time travel? Is she being tested by God? By Satan? When Natalie suffers a brutal injury in the woods, she realizes two things: This is not her beautiful life, and she must escape by any means possible.

A gripping, electrifying novel that is as darkly funny as it is frightening, Yesteryear is a gimlet-eyed look at tradition, fame, faith, and the grand performance of womanhood.

For the Reading Challenge(s):
2026 52 Book Club Reading Challenge (Prompt #38: Domestic fiction)

The Reason

The hype. I’m sorry, but the hype got me! I’m seeing this book everywhere, and everything people are saying about it had gotten me so intrigued!

The Quotes

“The way some women so willingly compromised every ounce of themselves in the name of building a life for themselves that they didn’t enjoy.”

“All men wanted to become legends. It was so embarrassing.”

“The goal of an influencer is not to be lovable, and it is not to be unbearable. The goal is to be both at once. In other words: addicting.”

“And please give my husband a spine. I’m tired of him needing to borrow mine.”

My Thoughts

This book has gotten me so confused I don’t know if I loved it or hated it. I don’t know what to feel about the MC, Natalie, because she’s completely unrelatable for me and sort of encompasses everything in a person I dislike – she’s entitled, inconsiderate, smug, judgmental, delusional… But at the same time, I can’t help but feel a bit of compassion for her. How scared must you be inside, to be this kind of person outside.

To be fair, she’s had people fail her as well. Her mom, her husband, her in-laws, but she could’ve made a dozen different choices at different points in her life and she just kept choosing to pretend everything was all good on the outside. And at the end of it all, none of it excuses the person she chose to be.

This book was an absolutely fascinating character study. I don’t like Natalie, I don’t relate to her, I don’t understand her, I don’t want to know her, I can’t excuse any of the things she said, or did, or believe, but I do feel sorry for her and I wonder about what goes on inside her head and why. This book doesn’t give me any of those answers and I still don’t know if I liked it, but I do think it’s very well-written and well worth the read.

My Rating

⭐⭐⭐⭐/5 stars.

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Book Review | Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn

Posted April 27, 2026 by Haze in Book Reviews / 0 Comments

Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn

Ella Minnow Pea is a girl living happily on the fictional island of Nollop off the coast of South Carolina. Nollop was named after Nevin Nollop, author of the immortal pangram,* “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.”

Now Ella finds herself acting to save her friends, family, and fellow citizens from the encroaching totalitarianism of the island’s Council, which has banned the use of certain letters of the alphabet as they fall from a memorial statue of Nevin Nollop. As the letters progressively drop from the statue they also disappear from the novel.

The result is both a hilarious and moving story of one girl’s fight for freedom of expression, as well as a linguistic tour de force sure to delight word lovers everywhere.

*pangram: a sentence or phrase that includes all the letters of the alphabet

For the Reading Challenge(s):
2026 52 Book Club Reading Challenge (Prompt #3: Written without quotation marks)

The Reason

I’d been wanting to read this for a while but never got around to it. I saw that it fit one of the prompts for the 52 Book Club Reading Challenge, so I decided to finally read it.

The Quotes

“Today we queried, questioned, and inquired. Promise me that come tomorrow, we will not stop asking why.”

“The Council is wrong. Yet, observe that none of us will risk telling it so, for fear of the consequences.”

“Any one of us could have come up with such a sentence. We are, when it comes right down to it, all of us: mere monkeys at typewriters.”

My Thoughts

This book surprised me; I thought it was middle-grade, and it sort of is suitable for younger readers, but it was deeper and darker than I expected. I thought it was going to be a fun and light-hearted take on the idea of letters falling off the alphabet and only being able to use the letters that were left, but it turned out to be quite a serious exploration on the absurdity of going along with ridiculous ideas because people are too afraid to fight back. The result of losing your “voice”, losing the ability to communicate clearly, because of those missing letters, is such a strong metaphor for being censored and silenced by the powers that be. It’s very well-written and such a powerful story, especially for impressionable young readers, and I wish I had read this book a long time ago!

My Rating

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐/5 stars.

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Book Review | The Christie Affair by Nina de Gramont

Posted March 16, 2026 by Haze in Book Reviews / 2 Comments

The Christie Affair by Nina de Gramont

Nina de Gramont’s The Christie Affair is a beguiling novel of star-crossed lovers, heartbreak, revenge, and murder—and a brilliant re-imagination of one of the most talked-about unsolved mysteries of the twentieth century.

Every story has its secrets.
Every mystery has its motives.

“A long time ago, in another country, I nearly killed a woman. It’s a particular feeling, the urge to murder. It takes over your body so completely, it’s like a divine force, grabbing hold of your will, your limbs, your psyche. There’s a joy to it. In retrospect, it’s frightening, but I daresay in the moment it feels sweet. The way justice feels sweet.”

The greatest mystery wasn’t Agatha Christie’s disappearance in those eleven infamous days, it’s what she discovered.

London, 1925: In a world of townhomes and tennis matches, socialites and shooting parties, Miss Nan O’Dea became Archie Christie’s mistress, luring him away from his devoted and well-known wife, Agatha Christie.

The question is, why? Why destroy another woman’s marriage, why hatch a plot years in the making, and why murder? How was Nan O’Dea so intricately tied to those eleven mysterious days that Agatha Christie went missing?

For the Reading Challenge(s):
2026 52 Book Club Reading Challenge (Prompt #45: Biographical fiction)

The Reason

I needed a book for the 52 Book Club challenge prompt and I’d been curious about Agatha Christie’s mysterious disappearance.

The Quotes

“Sometimes a life is so entirely disrupted, on such a large and ungraspable scale, all one can do is face the ruined day.”

“Obedience seemed the safest plan. I hadn’t learned yet. In this world it’s the obedient girls who are most in danger.”

“I see the kind of determination you only recognize if you’ve felt it yourself. Determination born of desperation transformed into purpose.”

“We both know you can’t tell your own story without exposing someone else’s.”

The Narrator(s)

Lucy Scott. It was pretty good.

My Thoughts

This is a work of fiction so I know it’s not what actually happened with Agatha Christie’s disappearance, but even just taking it as a work of fiction, I find it very hard to suspend my belief because the whole “reveal” is such a reach. I wish I could talk about it more without spoiling it, and to be fair, I’m not sure it’s an actual spoiler because it’s quite obvious throughout the book that it was leading us there. However, it’s not Nan’s reason itself that doesn’t make sense to me, it’s Christie’s reaction to it, and perhaps just the way the story was told. The vibes are great, the story not so much.

I am still very curious about Agatha Christie in general though, and I’m glad I chose this book for the corresponding prompt, because there’s another prompt for a nonfiction book related to the character in this book and I get to read something real about Christie!

My Rating

⭐⭐⭐/5 stars.

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The 52 Book Club’s 2026 Reading Challenge

Posted December 29, 2025 by Haze in Reading Challenges / 0 Comments

I have loved and completed The 52 Book Club Reading Challenge in 2024 and 2025 on the blog these last couple of years, and I see no reason to stop participating for 2026 too! I’m excited for these prompts and looking forward to seeing what books I end up reading for them.

The 52 Book Club’s annual reading challenge is made up of 52 unique prompts. The goal is to match one book to each prompt, for a total of fifty-two books over the course of the year. Prompts are related to everything from specific titles, to cover designs, authors, genres, settings, themes, characters, etc. (Think of it like a giant bookish scavenger hunt!) We encourage participants to try books outside of their regular reading comfort zones and push themselves to read more, read differently, and get creative with it!

Visit The 52 Book Club to find out more and join the challenge!

Below is the 52 Book Club’s list of prompts for 2026. These prompts are linked to Goodreads Lists of books that fit each prompt. I copy and pasted them from here, for easy access, and so I can link to each prompt with the books I finish.

The 2025 Goodreads Lists:

  1. Set in an ancient civilization
  2. Kangaroo word on the cover – The Heavens May Fall by Allen Eskens
  3. Written without quotation marks – Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn
  4. Has a dust jacket – The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
  5. Featuring a conspiracy – The Will of the Many by James Islington
  6. Title starts with the letter “O” – Operation Bounce House by Matt Dinniman
  7. Title starts with the letter “P” – The Perfect Marriage by Jeneva Rose
  8. A three-syllable word in the title – The Guise of Another by Allen Eskens
  9. Featuring a natural disaster
  10. Spans a decade or more – The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones
  11. Requires suspension of disbelief – Replay by Ken Grimwood
  12. A genre-defining read – Sherlock Holmes: The Definitive Audio Collection by Arthur Conan Doyle
  13. Bookface
  14. Includes a character list – The Strength of the Few by James Islington
  15. Subtitle with a comma – The Mind-Gut Connection by Emeran Mayer, MD
  16. Deus Ex Machina
  17. Author’s bio mentions their dog – Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
  18. Provokes strong emotion – Educated by Tara Westover
  19. A nosy neighbour character – The Good Sister by Sally Hepworth
  20. Day of the week in the title
  21. Written in the 1800s – Sherlock Holmes: The Definitive Audio Collection by Arthur Conan Doyle
  22. Spotted in a TV series or movie – Sherlock Holmes: The Definitive Audio Collection by Arthur Conan Doyle
  23. Grumpy sunshine trope – My Friends by Fredrik Backman
  24. Uneven number of chapters – Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennett
  25. Includes a red herring – The Heiress by Rachel Hawkins
  26. Title in a serif font – Brigands & Breadknives by Travis Baldree
  27. Two or more authors, one pseudonym
  28. From a series at least eight books long – A Parade of Horribles by Matt Dinniman
  29. Set in the Arctic or Antarctic
  30. Author related to another author – Never Flinch by Stephen King
  31. Author related to author in prompt 30 – Horns by Joe Hill
  32. Publisher starting with the letter “B” – The Dead Romantics by Ashley Poston
  33. A standalone fantasy novel – The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi
  34. Inspired by the top-grossing movie the year you were born
  35. Character with a secret identity
  36. Award-winning book from last year – Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green
  37. Started on the 26th of the month
  38. Domestic fiction – Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke
  39. A book that cost you nothing – We Met Like This by Kasie West
  40. Author’s first and last name start with same letter – Cover Story by Mhairi McFarlane
  41. A guide to… – Start Where You Are by Sabrina Pace-Humphreys
  42. Includes a handwritten interior font
  43. A Goodreads recommendation for you – My Husband’s Wife by Alice Feeney
  44. Literary Device: Personification – Strange Houses by Uketsu
  45. Biographical fiction – The Christie Affair by Nina de Gramont
  46. Non-fiction about character in prompt 45
  47. A diacritical mark on the cover – Dare to Lead by Brené Brown
  48. Related to the word “Nemesis” – Better Than Revenge by Kasie West
  49. From the 800s of the Dewey Decimal System – The Hummingbird by Stephen P. Kiernan
  50. Set in a castle
  51. Includes a map – Dolores Claiborne by Stephen King
  52. Published in 2026

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