The 52 Book Club: 2025 Challenge discussion

4. A title starting with the letter “H”

The second of our alphabet title prompts for this year is, “A title starting with the letter ‘H.'” Again, this could be the book title or the title of a series. You can decide whether or not you’ll count definite or indefinite articles like “The” or “A” as the first word in the title. (Example: Some readers might decide to use a book like “The Hobbit” for this prompt, even though it starts with the word The.)


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Hatchet Girls by Diana Rodriguez Wallach

House of Orphans by Helen Dunmore

Hidden Agenda by M.A. Comley

H2O by Virginia Bergin

Heart of Barkness by Spencer Quinn

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.

Heartstone by C.J. Sansom

Heartstoppers #3 by Alice Oseman or Howls moving castle by Diana Wynne Jones

Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger

Human acts by Han Kang

Just completed: How to be Famous by Caitlin Moran

Hope in Patience by Beth Fehlbaum

The House by the Cerulean Sea by T J Klune

Harry’s Trees

The Humans by Matt Haig

How to Live When you could be Dying

Deborah James

Finished this prompt. Very moving and thought provoking book about how to wring pleasure and meaning from each second of the 86,400 seconds we have each day.

Hoard it all before by Tammie Painter.

Hush Now, Don't You Cry by Rhys Bowen.

hester by laurie lico albanese

Hooked 4/5. Very different twist on Peter Pan and Hook. Pretty good.

Haven Point by Virginia Hume

Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute

Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)

How to kill your family by Bella Mackie

Harry Potter and the Cedarville Censors: Inside the Precedent-Setting Defeat of an Arkansas Book Ban

Harry Potter and the Cedarville Censors---short read about a rural town in Arkansas trying to pull Harry Potter off their library shelves.

I read Heretic by Jeanna Kadlec. In it a woman details her journey into queerness through the lens of an ex-fundamentalist Christian who's struggling to mesh her faith with her feminist ideals.

Heartburn by Nora Ephron

I choose High-Rise by Ballard

Hard Times by Charles Dickens

Here to Stay by Mark Edwards

Hell of a Book by Jason Mott

hyperbole and a half

Honor by Thrity Umrigar

The House on Mango Street or The Horse Whisperer... I'm not sure yet which book I will select for this prompt.

All on my TBR:

✔ Heartburn by Nora Ephron
Hester by Laurie Lico Albanese
Heresy by Melissa Lenhardt
Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead
A History of Loneliness by John Boyne
The History of the Siege of Lisbon by José Saramago
A History of Wild Places by Shea Ernshaw
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Homecoming by Kate Morton
A House Without Windows by Nadia Hashimi
How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them by Barbara F. Walter

I read Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo, the sequel to Ninth House. I loved Ninth House, found Hell Bent a bit disappointing.

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

The Hobbit

"Have I Told You This Already?: Stories I Don't Want to Forget to Remember" by Lauren Graham

Home Work by Julie Andrews

I read The Housemaid by Freida McFadden

I read "The Homecoming of Samuel Lake" and absolutely hated it.

How not to murder your adhd child by Sarah Templeton

I read Het loopt wel los

I read Hex

Haven by Emma Donoghue *****

My Book club selection for February is Horse by Geraldine Brooks. Amazing book 5 ⭐️‘s

Hard Way Home by Mike Nappa and Amy Nappa