The 52 Book Club: 2026 Challenge discussion

4 -- Has A Dust Jacket

A dust jacket is a removable outer cover, usually made of paper, that protects a book’s cover and spine from dirt and damage. Dust jackets typically include all the standard cover information, and the side flaps may feature the book blurb or biographical information about the author. Dust jackets are found primarily on hardcover editions.

For this prompt, choose any book that has a dust jacket. You do not have to read the edition with the dust jacket. As long as at least one edition has a dust jacket, feel free to read that book in any format.

Some readers enjoy wrapping their books in paper to protect them. As a creative interpretation, you may choose any book that you’ve personally wrapped in a dust jacket or book sleeve.



Here is our Goodreads List for this prompt

My Husband’s Wife by Alice Feeney

I plan on visiting my library for this prompt, as most library books have a dust jacket.

Anna wrote: "I plan on visiting my library for this prompt, as most library books have a dust jacket."

Same here

I have a lot on my physical bookshelves, in case it helps people who are on an ereader to know if the physical book has it:

Live from New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live by Tom Shales
The Runaway Jury by John Grisham
In Pieces by Sally Field
Disney High: The Untold Story of the Rise and Fall of Disney Channel's Tween Empire by Ashley Spencer
Here We Go Again: My Life in Television by Betty White
All of the Twisted Tale books (A Twisted Tale Anthology, Part of Your World by Liz Braswell, etc.)
Dinner for Vampires: Life on a Cult TV Show by Bethany Joy Lenz
Impostors by Scott Westerfeld (this whole series)
Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros (this whole series)
The Imagineering Story: The Official Biography of Walt Disney Imagineering by Leslie Iwerks

Books I've read and recommend:
The Recovery Agent by Janet Evanovich
Disney War by James B. Stewart
Women of Walt Disney Imagineering: 12 Women Reflect on their Trailblazing Theme Park Careers by Mel Malmberg
The Third Gilmore Girl: A Memoir by Kelly Bishop
Have I Told You This Already?: Stories I Don’t Want to Forget to Remember by Lauren Graham
Look Out For The Little Guy! by Scott Lang
Ruby by V.C. Andrews (this whole series)
Abdication by Juliet Nicolson
To the Last Breath: A Memoir of Going to Extremes by Francis Slakey

The Games Gods Play - Abigail Owen

I think any of the BOTM or Aardvark books would work for this one. I have lots of those to read.

The Great Zoo of China, Matthew Reilly

i have a good bit of hardcovers on my shelf so any of those could work but thinking of picking up Demon Copperhead, Big Swiss, or The Guest in the beginning of the year!

I'm going to my local library for this prompt.

This is going to be a tough pick since I have a lot of hardcovers that have dust jackets.

I'll just see what I don't have on my list already and then choose something from my wrapped TBR since I have several hardcovers wrapped for next year.

The Warm Hands of Ghosts by Katherine Arden

Again double dipping with a Bookclub read : Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry. I’m listening to the audiobook but I checked and there are hardcover editions with dust covers.

Went to my bookshelves and selected this book.

I will be reading The Last Precinct by Patricia Cornwell

I just bought this absolutely gorgeous edition of Howls Moving Castle. So i'll be reading that 😊.

I decided to read Good Spirits by B.K Borison for this prompt.

I'm doing this prompt currently and reading "the sun is also a star" by Nicola Yoon

I've gone for The Impossible Thing by Belinda Bauer.

I'm reading Buckeye by Patrick Ryan. Beginning my reading year with this prompt.

Beyond the Call: The True Story of One World War II Pilot's Covert Mission to Rescue POWs on the Eastern Front by Lee Trimble was the first book I finished this year.

Just picked up A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers at the library. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

We who Will Die by Stacia Stark

I'm reading Spectacular by Stephanie Garber

I am reading Around the World in 80 Books from my own shelves

I finished Dream Count by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and planned to use it for prompt 10. After some consideration, I decided that it is not totally appropriate for that prompt due to its reflection aspect and placed it here. It has a dust jacket AND bright spredge!

I attended an author event for King of Ashes by S.A. Cosby last year, but didn't get to read it in 2025, so I took this prompt as an opportunity to finally dig into it. I love Cosby's mysteries.

I’m reading the hardback copy of 102 minutes by Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn which has a dust jacket

I read A Flicker in the Dark for this and loved it. 😍 I got this from BOTM about a year or two ago and finally got around to reading it. Worth the wait!