The 52 Book Club: 2025 Challenge discussion

3) Choose your road trip TUNES A: Classical

What’s a road trip without music? For classical, you may choose a book that is considered a classic. You might also pick a book like Every Note Played about a famous concert pianist, or a book about a character who composes or plays classical music. It may also be a book somehow referencing classical music or art on its cover or in the title, like The Mozart Code.



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I read Ada's Violin: The Story of the Recycled Orchestra of Paraguay by Susan Hood, 3.5 Stars

I'm reading The Mozart Code by Rachel McMillan. It takes place in post-WWII Vienna and is partly about a woman's search for Mozart's death mask.

I read Hamlet by William Shakespeare.

I just finished The Cellist of Sarajevo for this prompt.

I read Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 5/5

The Music Shop by Rachel Joyce

I read Russian Winter by Daphne Kalotay for this one. It is a historical fiction novel about a Russian classical ballerina who danced with The Bolshoi in the 1950’s and defected and ended up in Boston.

Oscar Wilde – The Picture of Dorian Gray

If it had been earlier in the year, I would have picked The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocumb.