The 52 Book Club: 2025 / 2026 Challenge discussion

WEEKLY CHECK-IN
November 4, 2024 -- Week 45

It's week forty-five and a new month. (If you haven't yet seen our November mini challenge, it's on the website now!)

So tell us, what book (or books) did you start out this new month with?

Lost at Sea- Finished
Sword Catcher- Finished
The Outsider- Finished
The Lost Heir- Reading with kids
The Alchemist- audio
Fear the Flames- visual

I’m still reading a book I started in October, Heirs of the Blade by Adrian Tchaikovsky. When I finish that, my first “new” book of November will be The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin, Book of the Month for one of the Goodreads groups to which I belong.

I also am listening to Circling the Drain by Lisa Unger, part 3 of her 4 part serial, House of Crows.

Completed November reads:
1. Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race - audio started in October, completed last 4 hours today.
2. The Mango Tree: A Memoir of Fruit, Florida, and Felony - completed

Favorite October reads:
* Killer Underwear Invasion!: How to Spot Fake News, Disinformation & Conspiracy Theories, written for children and middle grade
* Late Nights on Air

Planned November reads are:
* How to Pronounce Knife: Stories by Souvankham Thammavongsa
* Son of a Trickster by Eden Robinson
* Where Wolves Don't Die by Anton Treuer
* Existentialism is a Humanism by Jean-Paul Sartre

My favorite book from October was A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher.
The books I'm starting November with are: Easy Prey by John Sandford, Open Season by C.J. Box, and Spirit and Dust by Rosemary Clement-Moore.

1. Say you're one of them by Uwem Akpan
2. Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
3. The man who mistook his wife for a hat by Oliver Sacks
4. The only way is the steady way

I'm starting The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear by Kate Moore

Dead Silence by S.A. Barnes
Disturbing the Dead by Kelley Armstrong
The Chase by Clive Cussler
I Heard There Was a Secret Chord: Music as Medicine by Daniel Levitin

Someone Else's Shoes - Jojo Moyes
Misery - Stephen King (audio)
The Secret Keeper - Kate Morton
Summer's Child - Diane Chamberlain
Death By Didgeridoo - Barbara Venkataraman
Mad Honey - Jodi Picoult & Jennifer Finney Boylan
The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
A Spool of Blue Thread - Anne Tyler

My favorite book of the month was Mad Honey, followed closely by The Secret Keeper and Summer's Child

My first book in November was The Rose Code - Kate Quinn

Spøkelseshistorier fra Sápmi og andre fortellinger - etter Aslak Somby by Anders Somby

Kongerekka- blot svette og tårer by Are Sende Osen

Nye kamper om Norges trone: Slekta er verst! by Anders Somby

Den siste viking: Motgang, fremgang og undergang by Anders Somby

Ravnen: fakta og myter by Bengt-Erik Engholm

All five library books.