I finished the 52 Book Club’s 2024 challenge and really loved the prompts and how it made me read out of my comfort zone, so I’ll be doing it again in 2025! There were some books I loved, and some I didn’t like so much and only read because of the challenge, but that’s the fun of it and the reason I want to do it again! You can find a list of 2024’s prompts and the books I read for each of the prompts here.
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 2025. 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:
- A pun in the title
- A character with red hair
- Title starts with letter “M”
- Title starts with letter “N”
- Plot includes a heist
- Genre One: Set in Spring
- Genre Two: Set in Summer
- Genre Three: Set in Autumn
- Genre Four: Set in Winter
- Author’s last name is also a first name
- A prequel
- Has a moon on the cover
- Title is ten letters or less
- Climate fiction
- Includes Latin American history
- Author has won an Edgar award
- Told in verse
- A character who can fly
- Has short chapters
- A fairy tale retelling
- Character’s name in the title
- Found family trope
- A sprayed edge
- Title is a spoiler
- Breaks the fourth wall
- More than a million copies sold
- Features a magician
- A crossover (Set in a shared universe)
- Shares universe with prompt 28 *same list as prompt 28*
- In the public domain
- Audiobook has multiple narrators
- Includes a diary entry
- A standalone novel
- Direction in the title
- Written in third person
- Final sentence is less than 6 words long
- Genre chosen for you by someone else *No Goodreads list*
- An adventure story
- Has an epigraph
- Stream of consciousness narrative
- Cover font is in a primary color
- Non-human antagonist
- Explores social class
- A celebrity on the cover
- Author releases more than one book a year
- Read in a “-ber” month *No Goodreads list*
- “I think it was blue”
- Related to the word “puzzle”
- Set in a country with an active volcano
- Set in the 1940s (Books that do NOT include WWII) / Set in the 1940s (Books that includes WWII)
- 300-400 pages long
- Published in 2025