The 52 Book Club: 2025 Challenge discussion

Which book are you going to pick for this category? Which exotic animal does it contain?

The Life of Pi, this has been on my TBR list for ages, so when i saw this prompt it was an easy choice, plus i love Tigers so really keen for this read.

That's the one I chose as well.

Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus

Water for Elephants

I have already read this one but might have to re-read if I can't find anything else to fill this prompt.

Pride of Eden by Taylor Brown

"Running with Sherman" by Christopher McDougall

I hope a donkey is exotic enough

Sharpe's Tiger

The Elephant Whisperer

Does the animal have to be in the book, or could it just be in the title or on the cover? I have a couple in mind, but I am not sure if they stories are about them (well, one is nonfiction and more of a psychology book but Gorilla is in the title and there is one on the cover).

Gorillas in the Mist is my choice for this prompt.

This was one of the categories I was dreading (I just don't like stories about animals because I have no soul) but I found a few options that were appealing:

Carrying Albert Home by Homer Hickam (featuring a bathtub alligator!)
Mitz: The Marmoset of Bloomsbury by Sigrid Nunez (About Virginia Woolf's PET MARMOSET!?)

The Tiger's Wife

I'm considering The Jungle Book or Gorillas In The Mist

Jurassic Park

The Penguin Lessons by Tom Michell

Raphael by Laurell K. Hamilton (releasing February 2021) - full of exotic animals - I’m counting shapeshifters for this one.

The Good, the Bad, and the Emus by Donna Andrews. A cozy mystery about an emu rescue group.

Piranesi- Susanna Clarke

The Life She Was Given by Ellen Marie Wiseman has elephants.

In a Sunburned Country

Ice Planet Barbarians by Ruby Dixon
Completed: January 18, 2021

I'm thinking I'll either read The Zookeepers Wife or The Elephant Keeper's Daughter.

Melissa wrote: "Water for Elephants

I have already read this one but might have to re-read if I can't find anything else to fill this prompt."

In Drums of Autumn (Outlander #4), they have a half wolf/half dog named Rollo. Using that for this prompt.

The Essex Serpent
by Sarah Perry

I read It's the End of the World As I Know It by Matthew Landis - https://www.goodreads.com/review/edit...

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea read in January

Completion Post:

Just finished reading: "Little & Lion" by Brandy Colbert (★★★★☆), it is a contemporary young adult, which centers on sixteen-year-old Suzette was sent to boarding school when her bookish older brother, Lionel, was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, but now she’s back in Los Angeles for the summer.

Colbert's narrative powerfully depicts the difficulties that mental illness presents not just for those diagnosed but for the people around them, and her characters reflect the diversity of Los Angeles.

Sleeping Beauties by Stephen and Owen King suits this category just fine. Evie is most definitely an exotic being. There's also a tiger and a snake.

I’ve gone with The Mermaid of Black Conch.

I used The Midnight Library by Matt Haig for this as it has a section about Polar Bears I really enjoyed this book after having no idea of the topic when I started it. So fun to find happy surprises




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I listened to The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate.

The Woman in the Green Dress features a white kangaroo, among other animals that are exotic to this American. I enjoyed the book, but it had significant pacing issues, and I wanted more cursed opal action.

The Elephant Keeper's daughter

Zoo
Zoo 2

A fast paced quick read, with a whole lot of action. Definitely a good read during a pandemic lol

The Tourist Attraction by. Sarah Morgenthaler

Trouble on the Trail by Miralee Ferrell. It had a cougar.

I have two that I considered in this category... the best was

Once Upon a Goat.... Exotic is surely in the eye of the reader!!!

I mean, after all, a royal goat... and for those of you that don't have a goat.. I do feel sorry for you!!

The other is Elephant Company: The Inspiring Story of an Unlikely Hero and the Animals Who Helped Him Save Lives in World War II

Ended up reading Prairie Ostrich by Tamai Kobayashi got this prompt. Set in a rural Alberta town on an ostrich farm.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...

I used Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley because she mentions a panther. 5 Stars

The Speed of Falling Objects by Nancy Richardson Fischer.
A teen novel set around a plane crash in the Amazon jungle, there are plenty of strange creatures. https://cdnbookworm.blogspot.com/2021...

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis 🦁
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2

hide and seek little chameleon by Anita Bijsterbosch

The Littlest Dinosaur by Michael Foreman

I read The Book of Eels: Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World by Patrik Svensson. Who knew eels were so interesting?!

I read "Remote Control" by Nnedi Okorafor

Any of the Kenya Kanga Mystery series

Done: Rhino Charge (Kenya Kanga Mystery, #3) by Victoria Tait