The 52 Book Club: 2025 / 2026 Challenge discussion

30 -- Author Related To Another Author

Prompts thirty and thirty-one are connected. The choice you make for prompt thirty will impact the book you read in prompt thirty-one.

For this prompt, we’re looking for an author related to another author. This means that they are connected in some way — usually by birth, adoption, marriage, etc. They may be a closer relative: married, siblings, cousins, or grandparents. Or they may be a more distant relation: great-aunt, second cousins three times removed, ex-stepmother, etc. (For example, according to online sources, Meghan Markle is distantly related to Shakespeare.)

Our two authors from prompts thirty and thirty-one may or may not write books together.

As a less literal interpretation, you may choose two authors who are more generally “related.” (For example, sometimes we say, “The police are looking for anyone related to the suspect for more information.”) This could mean two authors who are close friends (C.S. Lewis or Tolkien), colleagues, robbed the Louvre together, etc.



Here is our Goodreads List for this prompt

I am going to read The White Album by Joan Didion and Quintana & friends by John Gregory Dunne (spouses)

I’m going with sisters Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen and An Anonymous Girl and Gone Tonight respectively.

Astronaut Scott Kelly is the brother-in-law of former congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords.
Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery
Gabby: A Story of Courage and Hope

I am going to read A Christmas Carol and then read a book by Monica Dickens or Luncinda Hawksley

Father/son Dick Francis and Felix Francis

Mother/daughter Mary Higgins Clark and Carol Higgins Clark (plus sister-in-law Mary Jane Clark)

Sisters Christine Pullein-Thompson and Josephine Pullein-Thompson and Diana Pullein-Thompson + mother Joanna Cannan (their brother Denis was a playwrite)

Mother/Daughter Janet Evanovich and Alex Evanovich

Sisters Liane Moriarty, Jaclyn Moriarty and Nicola Moriarty

Mother/Daughter P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast

Dorothea Benton Frank and Victoria Benton Frank
Elin Hildebrand and Shelby Cunningham