1) Locked-room mystery
2) Bibliosmia: A smelly book
3) More than 40 chapters
4) Lowercase letters on the spine
5) Magical Realism
6) Women in STEM
7) At least four different POV
8) Features the ocean
9) A character-driven novel
10) Told in non-chronological order
11) Title starting with the letter “K”
12) Title starting with the letter “L”
13) An academic thriller
14) A grieving character
15) Part of a duology
16) An omniscient narrator
17) Nominated for The Booker Prize
18) An apostrophe in the title
19) A buddy read
20) A revenge story
21) Written by a ghostwriter
22) A plot similar to another book
23) The other book with the similar plot
24) A cover without people on it
25) An author “everyone” has read except you
26) Hybrid genre
27) By a neurodivergent author
28) A yellow spine
29) Published in a Year of the Dragon
30) Picked without reading the blurb
31) Includes a personal phobia
32) Timeframe spans a week or less
33) An abrupt ending
34) Set in a landlocked country
35) Title matches lyrics from a song
36) Has futuristic technology
37) Palindrome on the cover
38) Published by Hachette
39) Non-fiction recommended by a friend
40) Set during a holiday you don’t celebrate
41) A sticker on the cover
42) Author debut in second half of 2024
43) About finding identity
44) Includes a wedding
45) Chapter headings have dates
46) Featuring Indigenous culture
47) Self-insert by an author
48) The word “secret” in the title
49) Set in a city starting with the letter “M”
50) A musical instrument on the cover
51) Related to the word “Wild”
52) Published in 2024