The 52 Book Club: 2025 / 2026 Challenge discussion

WEEKLY CHECK-IN
February 12, 2024 -- Week 7

We're starting week seven of our 2024 challenge! When it comes to books, what is your "last, now, next?"

(Meaning: Which book did you finish last, what are you currently reading, and what book are you planning on reading next?)

Last - The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope

Now - Lily and the Octopus

Next - Nadirs, which will hopefully be in my library pull in the next day or two

Last: Cattywampus by Ash Van Otterloo
Now: Mermaid's Justice by Jane Poller
Next: Tom Lake by Ann Patchett

Last: Lessons in Chemistry
Now: It
Next: Animal Farm

Last: Who to Believe
Now: The Angel of Indian Lake
Next: The Grace of Kings

Because I read both audiobooks and digital or print books, I decided to split them up.

Audio
Last: Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone
Now: Five Little Indians
Next: The Mystery Guest

Non-audio
Last: What You Are Looking For Is in the Library
Now: True Biz
Next: The House of Doors

Last: The Lost Van Gogh
Now: Gone Tonight
Next: The Fury

Last: Villains Are Destined to Die, Vol. 5
Now: This Spells Love
Next: Win Lose Kill Die

Last: If You Could Be Mine
Now: Behold the Dreamers (for a book club), Hostile Shores, The Perfume Collector (audio)
Next: The Ballad of Black Tom, The English Girl (both for Feb. mini-challenge)

Last: The Last Emperox by John Scalzi
Now: Silence in Hanover Close by Anne Perry
Next: ????? Not sure yet.

Last: Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
Now: Love and Other Words by Christina Lauren
Next: A Woman Is No Man by Etaf Rum!

Last
Ngaio Marsh – Artists in Crime

Now
Dorothy Sayers – Strong Poison

Next
Brian Jacques – Redwall, my 52 challenge, week 7 read.

Last- Seven Percent of Ro Devereux by Ellen O'Clover
Now- Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
Next- Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

Last - Curds of Prey by Korina Moss
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Now - The Midnight Witness by Sara Blaedel
Sandstorm by James Rollins
Next - Quantum Supremacy by Michio Kaku
An Ice Cold Grave by Charlaine Harris

Last : Hopeless
Now: The Seven Year Slip and Cold Hearted
Next : Alice

Last- Six of Crows
Now- Crooked Kingdom
Next-
Before you Leap. That’s the one lol
Not sure of all prompts lol

Last - Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
Now - Diva by Daisy Goodwin
Next - The Last White Rose by Alison Weir

Last: A Big Surprise for Valentine's Day
Now: Legends & Lattes
Next: In the Lives of Puppets

Last:Reminders of Him
Now: The House in the Cerulean Sea
Next: Ashes of You

last: The Girl Who Reads on the Metro

now: The Nickel Boys and West With Giraffes

next: Around the World in 80 Days

Last: What You Need to Be Warm by Neil Gaiman (February mini challenge, author born in Year of the Dragon)

Current: Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterley (Women in STEM)

Next: The Dawn of Everything by David Wengrow and David Graeber (not on my 52 Book Challenge list, but I'm way ahead on that and behind on my nonfiction targets)

Last: Just Stab Me Now (Self-insert by an author)
Current: Gwen & Art Are Not in Love (A character-driven novel) and The Count of Monte Cristo (A revenge story)
Next: Frostbitten (Published in 2024)

Last: The Woman in White
Now: Caraval
Next: The Double

Last: Kill for Love Lauren Picklesimer
Now: The Unmaking of June Farrow by Adrienne Young
Next:Mrs. S by K. Patrick

Last: Danske mordgåder by Ole Schierbeck

Now: Endnu flere konspirationsteorier: 40 gådefulde sammensværgelser by Lars Bugge, and Historiska kärlekspar: Passion och skandaler genom 2000 år by Sara Griberg for the mini-challenge Valentine

Next: Ungernrevolten by Artur Szulc for the mini-challenge Leap Year, and Krigarnas och helgonens tid : Västeuropas historia 400-800 e.Kr. by Dick Harrison

Last: Study for Obedience by Sarah Bernstein
Now: Sybil Exposed by Debbie Nathan
Next: The Color Purple by Alice Walker

Last: The Musical Child: Using the Power of Music to Raise Children Who Are Happy, Healthy, and Whole
Now: Aimée & Jaguar: A Love Story, Berlin 1943
Next: Beartown

Last: What Feasts at Night
Now: Legends & Lattes, Wasteland of Flint, Moon Witch, Spider King, Our Wives Under the Sea, and Clouds of Witness (a bunch of my holds all came in at once, we'll see how many I'm actually able to finish in 21 days).
Next: Towing Jehovah

Last: Lazy Genius Way by Kendra Adachi
Now: Italian for Beginners by Kristin Harmel
Next: Green Embers by S.D. Smith

Last: by
Now: by
Next: by

Last: The Mystery Horse by Gertrude Chandler Warner
Now: The Mystery at the Dog Show by Gertrude Chandler Warner; Prince Caspian by C.S. Lewis; and The Holy Bible: King James Version.
Next: The Castle Mystery by Gertrude Chandler Warner

Last book read: Rock Paper Scissors by Alice Feeney


Current read: Metro Girl by Janet Evanovich


Next read: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

Last: Death Comes To Marlow by Robert Thorogood.
Now: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank.
Next: The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat by Oliver Sacks

Audio:
Last - Why I am Catholic by Brendan Vogt
Now - Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery
Next - Harry Potter and the Halfblood Prince by J. K. Rowling

Paper book:
Last - The Promise by Damon Galgut
Now - Confessions of a Sociopath by M. E. Thomas
Next - Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

Ebook:
Last - Bluebells season at the Potting Shed by Jenny Kane
Now - My bondage and my freedom by Frederick Douglass
Next - probably Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

Last: On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, now: Madly, Deeply, next: Into the Water

last: The Rachel Incident - Caroline O'Donoghue
now: Poor Deer - Claire Oshetsky
next: There There - Tommy Orange

Apparently I'm in my "authors whose last names start with O" era.

last: Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner
now: A Council of Dolls by Mona Susan Power-print and
(The Mystery of the Blue Train) By (author) Agatha Christie published on - audio
next: Seeing People Off by Jana Beňová

Last: The Chicken Sisters by K.J. Dell'Antonia. (for the fun of it)

Now: The Gun Guys:A Road Trip by Dan Baum (to expand my mind beyond my opinion of guns and gun owners)

Next: The Librarian of Burned Books by Brianna Labuskes (this month's choice in my book club)

Last: Unmarriageable

Now: Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

Next: There There

I haven’t checked whether these tick off any of the prompts here. But this month’s theme for my main GR group (Play Book Tag) is “Authors of Color”.

Last: Girl in the Blue Coat by Monica Hesse

Now: The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride and Mad Honey (book club read) by Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan

Next: The Neighbor Favor by Kristina Forest.

Audio
Last: Of Hoaxes and Homicide by Anastasia Hastings

Now: The Detective's Assistant by Kate Hannigan

Next: Ghostly Echoes by William Ritter or The Wild Robot by Peter Brown

Digital/Print
Last: The Big Redhead Book: Inside the Secret Society of Red Hair by Erin La Rosa

Now: Mexikid: A Graphic Memoir by Pedro Martin

Next: Nell of Gumbling: My Extremely Normal Fairy-Tale Life by Emma Steinkellner

Last: The Couple on Maple Drive by Sam Carrington (prompt 3 more than 40 chapters)

Now: We Were Liars by E. Lockhart (prompt 4 lowercase letters on the spine)

Next: Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman (prompt 5 magical realism)

Last: If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
Now: (do not judge me)
Print Memphis, The Maidens
Digital: The Taking of Jake Livingston
Audio: Grafas Montekristas, 2 knyga
The Perfect Ruin
Next:
Legendborn The Color Purple

I finished Hidden Figures and changed my mind about Next. The Famished Riad, by Ben Okri, is my choice for February bonus read, Black author in your favorite genre (magic realism) and I want to finish it before the end of February!

Famished Road. Wish I could edit posts.

Last-Love Lettering (Print) last night and The Gatekeepers: How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency(audiobook)
Now-The Knockout Queen(Print) for Prompt 9
Next-Station Eleven for Prompt 10

Anitra wrote: "Famished Road. Wish I could edit posts."You can edit posts on the website, but not the app. I had the same issue until I started using the website.

Last: The Frozen River
Current: The Goodbye Man
Next: The Women

Last ~ In Control: Dangerous Relationships and How They End in Murder by Jane Monckton-Smith a different Valentine's Day read

Current ~ One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway by Åsne Seierstad

Next ~ The Cloisters by Katy Hays

Although I've added a few more to my TBR pile after reading other posts. Am I the only one who does this?

Jenny wrote: "Last ~ In Control: Dangerous Relationships and How They End in Murder by Jane Monckton-Smith a different Valentine's Day read

Current ~ [book:One of Us: The Story ..."

Nope....I am a junkie for adding books from other's posts. These threads kill me, lol.