The 52 Book Club: 2026 Challenge discussion

(since Goodreads has a character limit, I'm breaking up the mini challenge lists.
Click HERE for 2020-2025)


If you are finished the mini challenges, we would love to see what your list looks like! If you're not done but would still like to share part of your list, we'd love to see that too!

Please just edit your list to add more books instead of re-posting the list each time.

You can copy and paste this list into the comments -- just add what book you read for each category beside it!

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2/26 - Scarlet or Letter
2/26 - Crime or Punishment
2/26 - Fourth or Wing
3/26 - Mystery Genre Challenge Pick 1 of 50 prompts
3/26 - Mystery Genre Challenge Pick 1 of 50 prompts
3/26 - Mystery Genre Challenge Pick 1 of 50 prompts
4/26 - A Rhymeless Word In The Title
4/26 - Author's Photo: Smiling With Teeth
4/26 - Knock, Knock. Who's There?
5/26 - A Coffee Shop Scene
5/26 - Character Has A Roommate
5/26 - "I'll Be There For You"

Mine:
✅Read 🟨Currently reading 🟥 TBR

✅2/26 - Scarlet or Letter: Scarlet: Defender of the Universe and The Letter
✅2/26 - Crime or Punishment: Real Pigeons Fight Crime and The Magic Misfits
✅2/26 - Fourth or Wing: The Fourth Suit and On the Wing
✅3/26 - Mystery Genre Challenge: The Thursday Murder Club
✅3/26 - Mystery Genre Challenge: The First Time I Saw Him
🟨3/26 - Mystery Genre Challenge: Gone Before Goodbye
✅4/26 - A Rhymeless Word In The Title: The Secret Christmas Library
✅4/26 - Author's Photo: Smiling With Teeth: The Busybody Book Club
🟥4/26 - Knock, Knock. Who's There?: Lady Tremaine
🟥5/26 - A Coffee Shop Scene
🟥5/26 - Character Has A Roommate
🟥5/26 - "I'll Be There For You"

2026 Mini's

I don't post the title until I've completed it. My goal is always to read it, or at least begin it, within the month the challenge is given.


🤷🏻‍♀️2/26 - Scarlet: Scarlet Morning
🤷🏻‍♀️2/26 - Letter: The ABC Murders
🤷🏻‍♀️2/26 - Crime: The Murder at World's End
🤷🏻‍♀️2/26 - Punishment: All of Us Murderers
🤷🏻‍♀️2/26 - Fourth: The Sign of Four
🤷🏻‍♀️2/26 - Wing:The Dutch House

🔍3/26 Case #7 an Unsettling read: King of Ashes
🔍3/26 Case #1 Classic Mystery: Whose Body?
🔍3/26 Case #8 TITLE INCLUDES THE WORD “DEATH” OR “DEAD”Lord Edgware Dies

🙃4/26 - Author’s photo: smiling with teethAnybody Can Do Anything
🙃4/26 - A rhymeless word in the title; My Sweet Orange Tree
🙃4/26 - Knock, knock. Who’s there? The Lady of Shadows

☕5/26 A coffee shop scene: Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
☕5/26 Character has a roommate: Cherry Baby
☕5/26 “I’ll be there for you.”: Letters to the Lost

✅ Completed 🟥DNF 🌟Reading Soon ☕ Waiting for Release

February 2026 Mini (2/3)
✅Scarlet/Letter: Ms. Mebel Goes Back to the Chopping Block
✅Crime/Punishment: Against the Loveless World ⭐️⭐️1/2
✅4th/Wing: Crow Mary

March Mini 2/3
✅Case 1: The Same Backward as Forward ⭐️⭐️
✅Case 2:The Method⭐️⭐️⭐️
✅Case 3: Little White Lies

Summer Challenge 0/24
🌟Author from somewhere I have vacationed:Seascraper
🌟Even/odd (Odd): All the King's Men
🌟Chance (TBR Pile): A Suitable Boy
🌟More than (100) pages: Earth
Author with 2 books: A Far-Flung Life
Author's Last Name starts with (S): The Calamity Club
Related to the word Destination: The Forget-Me-Not Library
Gritty Read:Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice
A (2) word Title: Bad Blood
Character with a Unique career: (Apothecary)The Verdant Cage
Chance: (Author Acknowledges Elizabeth): Twelve
Retails for within $5 of last read (originally $17): The Midnight Train ($20)
Item on cover: a thing you would find on a beach: (bird) The List of Suspicious Things
Features an Island Country:The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World
Book Published within 5 years of previous author's birth: Schindler’s List
Book with red spine: Mad Mabel
A hidden gem a non-popular read: The Fixer Bloomsbury USA Childrens
Publisher you haven't read in this challenge yet: Savage Run
Flip Flop: Let coin decide which book: The Gilded Blade
Book Published in 2023: Murdle: Volume 1, 100 Elementary to Impossible Mysteries to Solve Using Logic, Skill, and the Power of Deduction
Chance: choose an author whose last name starts with the same letter as your previous author:It's Not Her
A Watery Scene: Mazywood
First word in the book is (1) letter long: City of Widows

Best Books of Mini Challenge 2026:

I have now started to post the title that I intend to read, and add the cover when I'm finished.

2/26 - Scarlet or Letter - The Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy

2/26 - Crime or Punishment - Var det mord? - En jysk retssag fra 1855 by Søren Manøe

2/26 - Fourth or Wing - www.goodreads.com/series/239012-monst...


3/26 - Mystery Genre Challenge Pick 1 of 50 prompts - Murder Houses of Edinburgh by Jan Bondeson for Case #47

3/26 - Mystery Genre Challenge Pick 1 of 50 prompts - Palmemordet: de tio spåren by Erik Magnusson for Case #50

3/26 - Mystery Genre Challenge Pick 1 of 50 prompts - Skalleknus by Arne Svingen for Case #20



4/26 - A Rhymeless Word In The Title - The London Monster: Terror on the Streets in 1790 by Jan Bondeson

4/26 - Author's Photo: Smiling With Teeth - Austlandet : 88 fabelaktige reisetips by Gunnar Garfors

4/26 - Knock, Knock. Who's There? - The Night She Died by Dorothy Simpson


5/26 - A Coffee Shop Scene

5/26 - Character Has A Roommate

5/26 - "I'll Be There For You"

2/26 - Scarlet Holy Bible: Book 02: Exodus Chater 39 verse 1 "From the blue, purple, and scarlet yarn they made woven garments…" 7 Feb 2026

or Letter Holy Bible: Book 65: Jude letter to the church 7 Feb 2026

2/26 - Crime Auld Lang Crime 15 Feb 2026

or Punishment Paws and Punishment 23 Feb 2026

2/26 - Fourth 84, Charing Cross Road 12 Feb 2026

or Wing Worst Wingman Ever 12 Feb 2026

3/26 - Mystery Genre Challenge Pick 1 of 50 prompts prompt #10 Without a Clue 9 March 2026
3/26 - Mystery Genre Challenge Pick 1 of 50 prompts prompt # 21 Arsenic in the Azaleas 10 March
3/26 - Mystery Genre Challenge Pick 1 of 50 prompts prompt #6
The Rise and Fall of Miss Fannie’s Biscuits 21 March 2026

4/26 - A Rhymeless Word In The Title Love with a Few Hairs 6 April 2026
4/26 - Author's Photo: Smiling With Teeth True Sisters 8 April 2026
4/26 - Knock, Knock. Who's There? Coffee Shop Girl 18 April 2026

5/26 - A Coffee Shop Scene Driftwood Dreams 14 May
5/26 - Character Has A Roommate Toby, Granny and George 15 May 2026
5/26 - "I'll Be There For You" We Are in a Book! 19 May 2026