The 52 Book Club: 2025 / 2026 Challenge discussion

A deckled edge is an unfinished or ruffled look to the book pages. It can be found in older books but may also be used as a specific printing style for newer books too. If you prefer ebooks, you can search for what is available as deckled in print then read the ebook version of that title.

The Witching Hour

Most Richard Paul Evans books have a deckled edge.

I believe most mitch Albom books are deckled edge

Cocoa Beach by Beatriz Williams

"These Things Hidden" by Heather Gudenkauf

A Secret History of Witches

Magic Lessons

"Loki: Where Mischief lies" by Mackenzi Lee

The Gilded Wolves

The Weight of Ink by Rachel Kadish

My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell

Victoria by Daisy Goodwin

It turns out I have two books here that I am planning to read in Jan/Feb that have deckled pages, and I wasn't even looking for them for this. One is an older copy of The Sun Also Rises (not the one in the photo, but a hard cover) and the other is in the paperback edition shown.

However, those could also be used for other things and it will depend on which of those will be harder to complete--I may end up having to use a different deckled edge book.

Euphoria

I'll have a look in a charity shop for something once they reopen

My copy of Transcendent Kingdom has deckled edges.

Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman

Completion Post:

Just finished reading: "If We Were Villains" by M.L. Rio (★★★★☆), it is a contemporary mysterious thriller, which centers on a clique of aspiring Shakespearean actors at an elite arts academy, where the line between performance and reality dissolves, with disastrous results.

Rio's narrative uses flashbacks to disclose what led up to the death of one of the students in 1997 and the tensions observed among classmates before and after. Rio manages to cleverly weave a whole new story from the poetry and plots of Macbeth, Caesar, Romeo and Juliet, and King Lear.

Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
Completed: February 15, 2021

Washington Black by Esi Edugyan.

The Things We Cannot Say by Kelly Rimmer, also has a woman facing away on the cover. I gave it 5 stars!

I read "Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City" by Matthew Desmond.

The Ten Thousand Doors of January seems to have a copy with deckled edges. Mine was a regular one.

I plan on using The Woman With the Blue Star by Pam Jenoff.

If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio

The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot by Marianne Cronin

Sparks Like Stars by Nadia Hashimi

Lily and the Octopus

I noticed When the Apricots Bloom by Gina Wilkinson has a deckled edge. It's on my tbr list.

The Dutch House by Ann Patchett

The Last Romantics by Tara Conklin

I read The Jigsaw Man by Nadine Matheson, 3 Stars

I plan on reading Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver.

Update: I finished it and it was wonderful. Terrific characters, and a place I just loved hanging out in.

Done: Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz