The 52 Book Club 2025 Challenge
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 1: Set In Spring
Genre 2: Set In Summer
Genre 3: Set In Autumn
Genre 4: 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 A Universe With 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
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
"I Think It Was Blue"
Related To The Word Puzzle
Set In A Country With An Active Volcano
Set In The 1940's - Includes WWII
Set In The 1940's - Not Including WWII
A Book With 300-400 Pages
Published in 2025
En flom av faktalitteratur søker å forklare hva som skiller europeere og amerikanere. En annen stor kategori handler om hvordan immigranter tilpasser seg sine nye omgivelser i Nord-Amerika. Bøkene på denne listen handler derimot om mer flyktige møter og kulturkollisjoner mellom europeere og amerikanere. Flere av romanene finnes i norsk utgave. (Skrevet 27.8.24).
Dette er en leseutfording med Olympisk tema for Juni, Juli og August, med 24 prompts med sportstema knyttet til OL i Paris iår (2024)
Lest 2/24
The Summer 2024 Prompts are:
OPENING CEREMONIES
1) Set in Paris
2) Flame on the cover
3) Going for Gold
ATHLETICS:
4) 100M SPRINT: A short story collection
5) LONG JUMP: Audiobook is 15+ hours
6) STEEPLECHASE: Character is a spiritual leader
INDIVIDUAL SPORTS:
7) BOXING: A strong opening hook
8) WRESTLING: A heavy read
9) FENCING: Dialogue with witty banter! Touche!
GYMNASTICS:
10) BALANCE BEAM: About finding balance in life
11) UNEVEN BARS: Series with uneven number of books
12) RINGS: Jewelry on cover
WATER SPORTS
13) SYNCHRONIZED DIVING: A sports romance novel
14) WATER POLO: A book that made a splash
15) BUTTERFLY: Plot featuring “butterfly effect”
CYCLING:
16) ROAD CYCLING: Time period without modern transportation - LEST
17) TEAM PURSUIT: Featuring a group of friends
18) CROSS-COUNTRY: Related to word “endurance”
TEAM SPORTS:
19) HANDBALL: Author shares same last name as an Olympian
20) VOLLEYBALL: Set in a country that wins a 2024 Olympic gold in Volleyball
21) FOOTBALL/SOCCER: Double letter word in title - LEST
CLOSING CEREMONIES:
22) At least four Olympic ring colors on cover - LEST
23) An author who hasn’t released a book in the past four years
24) Memoir / Biography about an Olympian
Verdt å lese foran USAs presidentvalg 2024
Amerikansk politikk og samfunnsliv virker til tider uforståelig - ikke bare for utlendinger, men også amerikanerne selv. Flommen av bøker som lover oss innsikt synes bare å vokse. Noen av dem innfrir faktisk, men ingen av dem gir etter min mening det fullstendige bildet. I beste fall utfyller bøkene i denne listen hverandre.
Noen av bøkene har sterkt fokus på enkeltpersonen Donald Trump. Som tidligere president skiller han seg så mye fra sine forgjengere at han får ekstra mye oppmerksomhet selv etter bare fire år i embetet. Siden verken amerikanerne eller resten av verden er ferdige med ham, har framstillingene fra årene 2016 til 2020 fortsatt interesse.
Bøkene her tar også for seg brede politiske strømninger og utfordringer som det amerikanske samfunnet står midt oppe i. Norske og andre utenlandske forfattere har bidratt med bøker som gir oversikt. Klikk på den enkelte boka for å få en fyldigere omtale. (Skrevet 28.3.24).
Blant kommentarene nederst på lista har andre bokelskere nevnt bøker som de har funnet nyttige, men som jeg ikke har lest selv.
Her er bøkene jeg leser for årets leseutfordring hos Sarpsborg bibliotek.
Lest ferdig 17 av 52
Jeg prøver å ligge unna leseutfordringer, men...
2023 Challenge
1. A book with a subtitle
2. Featuring an inheritance
3. Title starting with the letter “G”
4. Title starting with the letter “H”
5. Title starting with the letter “I”
6. Under 200 pages
7. A city or country name in the title
8. Dystopian Fiction
9. A book with a dedication
10. Takes place during the roaring twenties
11. A book about secrets
12. High Fantasy
13. Published posthumously
14. A survival story
15. Set in Australia
16. Featuring one of the “seven deadly sins”
17. By a Caribbean author
18. Set during a war other than WWI or WWII
19. Typographic cover
20. A book about siblings
21. A second-hand book
22. A body-positive message
23. An alliterative title
24. Nordic Noir
25. A fashionable character
26. Has an epilogue
27. Newbery Medal Winner
28. Includes a funeral
29. Sends you down a rabbit hole
30. An author with a same name as you
31. Set in a workplace
32. Published by Macmillan
33. A banned book
34. Featuring mythology
35. A book you meant to read last year
36. Chapters have cliffhangers
37. Written in present tense
38. An enemies-to-lovers plot
39. The final book in a series
40. Written by a comedian
41. A character who is a refugee
42. Time in the title
43. A book “everyone” has read
44. A contemporary setting
45. First word in the book is “The”
46. Script font on the spine
47. Set in the city of Dublin
48. A book by Octavia E. Butler
49. Books on the cover
50. Related to the word “Murder”
51. A book that doesn’t fit any of the other 51 prompts
52. Published in 2023
https://www.the52book.club/2023-reading-challenge/