The 52 Book Club: 2025 / 2026 Challenge discussion

Prompt three on our 2024 May mini-challenge is, "An interrogative word in the title." Each of the prompts on this May mini corresponds with a letter in the word, "May" and this prompt is for our "Y" (or our "Why?") ;)

Interrogative words are used to ask questions: who, what, where, when, why, whose, which, and how? They are sometimes called “wh-words” or “question words.” For this prompt, choose any book with an interrogative word in the title or subtitle.

The title does not have to be a question, it just has to have an interrogative word in it. (For example: I am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban.)

Books may have alternate titles based on regions or translations but as long as at least one edition has an interrogative word in the title, it will work for this prompt. Interrogative words in any language can be used to fit this prompt.

You can add suggestions or your book choices to our Goodreads list, "An interrogative word in the title" here.

What books immediately spring to mind for this prompt? What will you be choosing to read?

I am using Where You Once Belonged by Kent Haruf.

I'm going to read What Would the Spice Girls Do by Lauren Bravo

I have several to choose between, but my first choice will be one of these two:

Why I Hate Canadians by Will Ferguson

or

How to Be a Canadian by Will Ferguson

Any of the Sebastian St. Cyr mysteries by C.S. Harris would fit in this prompt, and Why Kings Confess is the next one on my list.

Love this series! I will wait until the end of the month, hoping my library hold comes in for the latest “What Cannot Be Said” but if it doesn’t I will do a reread of another in the series.

I'm doing the mini in picture books, so I've chosen There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Moose by Chrissy Bozik

The first thing that popped into my head was “Where the Wild Things Are”

I’m reading The Cat Who Saved Books

I planned on reading The Cat who Saved Books for another challenge I’m doing, so I will be reading that one as well.

I chose Home is Where the Bodies Are by Jeneva Rose.

I went with I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

I am reading How to Stop Time by Matt Haig.

Going to be reading When We Lost Our Heads by Heather O'Neill for this one!

I am going to read Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law by Haben Girma.

Either What You Are Looking For Is in the Library by Michiko Aoyama or But What Can I Do? by Alastair Campbell, depending on how I'm feeling! Somewhat disillusioned by British politics...

I read The Cat Who Saved Books by Sosuke Natsukawa. This was surprisingly a 1 star read for me. I just really didn't like the language, it felt very stilted and childish. I don't know if that was a culture clash (this is the first Japanese non-manga book I've read in translation) or an issue with the translation itself. I stuck with it because it was so short but I don't think I'd read anything else written by this translator.

The interrogative is implied in (What) If Cats Disappeared From the World by Genki Kawamura. I finished the book and it definitely addresses the What if?

I read That's Why the Lady is a Tramp by Merry Farmer

Melissa wrote: "I read That's Why the Lady is a Tramp by Merry Farmer"

Missed this prompt for May! Sounds fun!

I read How to Solve Your Own Murder

I read Leg: The Story of a Limb and the Boy Who Grew from It by Greg Marshall. Thank goodness for that grammatically rigid subtitle!

I read Why Didn't They Ask Evans? by Agatha Christie for this one.

I read What Is the What

An amazing book. Highly recommend.

Not as difficult to find as I'd thought.

Steven Levitsky & Daniel Ziblatt – How Democracies Die

I read When You Are Mine by Michael Robotham. https://cdnbookworm.blogspot.com/2024...

I read What the Cat Dragged In by Kate McMurray. It was just a fine romance.

I am Malala by Malala Yousafzai