The 52 Book Club: 2025 / 2026 Challenge discussion

13. Includes A Club


What is a club? A club is a group of people who gather together to discuss or participate in a particular interest or activity. Examples of clubs include: book clubs, cooking clubs, photography club, chess club, etc. Any hobby or interest can potentially be a club! But there are also lots of other types of clubs: golf clubs, night clubs, club sandwich, a weapon, playing card suit of clubs, etc.

There are so many ways to interpret this prompt! Here are a few fun ideas to get you started:

* A book with the word “club” in the title
* A book that features any type of club within the story
* Set in a nightclub or a character who likes to go clubbing
* A book that you’re reading in a book club
* A popular book club pick
* A golf club on the cover or a character who golfs
* A playing card on the cover (suit of clubs)
* A Three Leaf Clover on the cover
* A weapon used by one of the characters / someone who gets “clubbed” on the head

Check out our Goodreads List for examples

The Witness by Nora Roberts involves a dance club

If you consider a coven of witches a club, this book counts! :) The Lighthouse Witches

The Thursday Murder Club

The Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club by Thomas McKlevey Cleaver. It’s the story of US naval aviation during the Vietnam War.

I read The Hunting Party

The Final Girl Support Group

The Shadow Box by Luanne Rice

The Thursday Murder Club
4⭐️ from me. I read it in 2 days (would’ve been one if only work, kids and life didn’t get in the way!). I found it a really easy, quick read which had me chuckling and guessing throughout. I’m a big Agatha Christie fan and while it’s not on a par with her books in terms of cleverness and twists, it was a thoroughly enjoyable read in my opinion!

The Overnight by R.L. Stine.

It features the Outdoors Club of Shadyside High.

Been on a kick of re-reading Fear Street. Loved the series when I was a kid and loving it all over again as an adult.

The Witch Haven by Sasha Peyton Smith

The Fifth Avenue Story Society Could not have picked a better book for this prompt.

I will be reading The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix.

I read The Neil Gaiman Library Volume 2 by Neil Gaiman, 3 Stars

The Smitten Book Club by Colleen Coble is one I’m about to start.

The Bright Side Running Club by Josie Lloyd

The Bromance Book Club series by Lyssa Kay Adams

The Rose Society by Marie Lu.

The Thursday Murder Club was a book that lived up to the hype for me

the Cancer Ladies' Running Club by Josie Lloyd

The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix

Beartown by Fredrik Backman

The Hunting Wives by May Cobb

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

I read Real Murders, the first Aurora Teagarden book.

I'm toying between four and five stars for this excellent group memoir. The Toni Morrison Book Club

I have read Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. Doesn't have playing cards on the cover but in the illustrations. So I think it counts, even if I streched a little.

The Forgetting Moon

I read The Bette Davis Club by Jane Lotter

I would have never found this book if it was not for this challenge and I am very thankful I did because it was such a nice read, it's sad the author died right after self publishing. I really love her voice! A big loss to think all the great stories she could have written!

The Taliban Cricket Club by Timeri N. Murari

The Old Man & The Sea by Hemingway

I read The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (it mentions several clubs the characters frequent).

I read The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley for this one. I know many people who didn’t like this one but I loved it! It was a fast read and I didn’t see the twists coming (I’m not one to try to figure them out as I go). I loved that the chapters went from one POV to another.

I read In a book club, far away. It's about three women who are army wives and best friends and they start a book club! Very good read! I highly recommend if you are looking for a book for this prompt!

I read Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. Loved this book and what was I think my first adult foray into books written as letters.

I read The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman

I read In A Book Club Far Away

I’m reading The Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club about the US Navy’s air operations during the Vietnam War.

The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman. The second in his Thursday Murder Club series.

I used this prompt to put a book from my book club that was not fitting in other categories (or fit in ones that had already been used). So my read for this is Dark Matter by Blake Crouch.

Read The Appeal by Janice Hallett (featuring an am dram club!)

Read Murder Most Unladylike - also could be read for #22 An Unlikely Detective?

A book club is involved heavily in this cozy

Murder at the Taffy Shop - Maddie Day 1/9/22

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I read "Mean Girls Club: Pink Dawn" by Ryan Heshka

The action in Band of Sisters by Lauren Willig happens because of a speech at the Smith College Club. I just started it, but I'm liking what I've read so far.

The Recipe Club by Andrea Israel & Nancy Garfinkel

The Pallbearers Club by Paul Tremblay

I read Cult Classic by Sloane Crosley XD

I read "The Johnstown Flood," by David McCullough. Very well-written (of course).

I read the Thursday Murder Club (Book One)