The 52 Book Club: 2025 / 2026 Challenge discussion

What's a book that's left you thinking? What are you "thinking" for this category?

All the Wrong Places by Philip Connors

Just finished Small Great Things that has me thinking about racism and white privilege in America.

Checking off my first category while I ponder this book.

I read Better Than Before: Mastering the Habits of our Everyday Lives by Gretchen Rubin for the prompt of “Leaves you Thinking”. I thought that it would leave me considering my own habits, how to improve them etc. and that I would consider the self-help aspects of the books for a while. There are some components that left me thinking but overall it hasn’t stayed with me as long as I expected (and it’s only been a week!).

The Affairs of the Falcóns left me thinking about the realities of being an undocumented migrant.

The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern finished on January 2nd. It left me thinking, 'what did I just read?' and not in a good way. LOVED The Night Circus, and had been waiting for her to write a new book for years. The characters were great, the writing was beautiful, but it really left me disappointed.

The End of Loneliness, Benedict Wells, translated from the German by Charlotte Collins.

I just finished 101 Ways to Go Zero Waste by Kathryn Kellogg. It gave me great ideas and now I’m looking for more ways I can cut things out. So... it made me think!

For my Picture Book challenge: What Do You Do with an Idea? by Kobi Yamada. (4 Stars)
For my Novel challenge: A Single Swallow by Ling Zhang (4 Stars)

I'm Afraid of Men by Vivek Shraya
Completed: January 24, 2020

The Mothers by Brit Bennett. Race, abortion, church culture, suicide...this book really brings it all. Leaves you thinking for sure!

Lock Every Door by Riley Sager.