Book Review All the Perfect Days by Michael ThompsonAdult Fiction | Magical Realism ★★★★ It’s been a long time since I’ve devoured a book in a single sitting, but this magical realism n…

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02.04.2025

April 2025 Mini-Challenge – The 52 Book Club

April 2025 Mini-Challenge It’s time for our annual APRIL FOOL’S DAY mini-challenge. (Don’t worry, we promise not to rickroll you all this year!) Instead, these April 2025 prompts …

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30.03.2025

The Mother Next Door – The 52 Book Club

Book Review The Mother Next Door by Andrea Dunlop and Mike WeberNonfiction | True Crime | Memoir ★★★★ No bond is more sacred than that between a mother and child. And no one is more sympathetic tha…

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23.03.2025

The Queens of Crime – The 52 Book Club

Book Review The Queens of Crime by Marie BenedictMystery | Historical Fiction ★★★★★ Agatha Christie has long been one of my favourite authors. Her work evokes memories of my teen years, borrowing p…

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21.03.2025

The Dark Library – The 52 Book Club

Book Review The Dark Library by Mary Anna EvansMystery | Historical Fiction | Gothic ★★★★ Secrets are rampant in the small town of Bentham-on-Hudson, but perhaps nowhere more so than Estella Ecker&…

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14.03.2025

The Resistance Painter – The 52 Book Club

Book Review The Resistance Painter by Kath JonathanHistorical Fiction | Dual Timeline ★★★★★ Last year, two of my top historical reads for the year just happened to feature the Polish Resistance dur…

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04.03.2025

March 2025 Mini-Challenge – The 52 Book Club

March 2025 Mini-Challenge Who’s ready for some spring cleaning? We know your TBR pile is overflowing with incredible reads. The only problem? That TBR pile keeps growing! But, not to worry, b…

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19.02.2025

Follow Me to Africa – The 52 Book Club

Book Review Follow Me to Africa by Penny HawHistorical Fiction ★★★★ I’ve absolutely adored Peggy Haw’s past books (The Invincible Miss Cust and The Woman at the Wheel) and was so excite…

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19.02.2025

Dinosaurs: Lift the Flap – The 52 Book Club

Book Review Dinosaurs Lift the Flap by Taffy TalesChildren’s Board Book | Flap Book ★★★★★ For the past four years, we’ve had a bit of a dinosaur invasion happening at our house. With a …

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19.02.2025

How to Share an Egg – The 52 Book Club

Book Review How to Share an Egg: A True Story of Hunger, Love, and Plenty by Bonny ReichertMemoir | Culinary ★★★★★ Do you ever try new books solely based on recommendations from other authors? How …

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30.01.2025

Lunar New Year 2025 Mini-Challenge – The 52 Book Club

Lunar New Year 2025 Mini-Challenge Surprise! Our very first mini-challenge of 2025 is here! (It is also, the first-ever time we’ve released a mini in the month of January. More details on tha…

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29.01.2025

The Girls of the Glimmer Factory – The 52 Book Club

Book Review The Girls of the Glimmer Factory by Jennifer CoburnHistorical Fiction | WWII | Holocaust ★★★★★ A couple of years ago, I stumbled across Jennifer Coburn’s novel Cradles of the Reic…

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18.01.2025

The Kennedy Girl – The 52 Book Club

Book Review The Kennedy Girl by Julia Bryan ThomasHistorical Fiction ★★★★ When a mysterious stranger offers Mia a job modelling in Paris for the House of Rousseau, she takes a risk and sets off for…

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13.01.2025

A Language of Dragons – The 52 Book Club

Book Review A Language of Dragons by S. F WilliamsonFantasy | YA | Historical Fiction ★★★★ Welcome to Bletchley Park… with dragons. It was this line alone that hooked me on this debut YA fantasy no…

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23.12.2024

The Secret War of Julia Child – The 52 Book Club

Book Review The Secret War of Julia Child by Diana R. ChambersHistorical Fiction | WWII ★★★ We all know Julia Child. But what about Julia McWilliams — the thirty-year-old who took a job worki…

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18.12.2024

Read It, Watch It 2025 Challenge – The 52 Book Club

Read It, Watch It Challenge A 2025 Bonus Challenge! Have you read the book? Now, let’s watch the movie! Our “Read It, Watch It” is an optional, bonus challenge connected to the pr…

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13.12.2024

Knife Skills for Beginners – The 52 Book Club

Book Review Knife Skills for Beginners by Orlando MurrinCozy Mystery | Food ★★★★ When it comes to cozy mysteries, food-based stories are one of my favourite themes. And this debut mystery from Orla…

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12.12.2024

The 52 Book Club’s 2024 Reading Challenge Finishers! – The 52 Book Club

Congratulations, you did it! 2024 was one for the books! The year is drawing to a close and it is time to celebrate your bookish accomplishments. Whether you finished five prompts, or all fifty-two…

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03.12.2024

December 2024 Mini-Challenge – The 52 Book Club

December 2024 Mini-Challenge Our final mini-challenge of 2024 is here! With this month’s prompts, we’re tackling the sights, sounds, and tastes of December! This will look vastly differ…

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24.11.2024

The 52 Book Club 2025 Challenge Journal – The 52 Book Club

2025 Challenge Journal This post contains affiliate links; as an Amazon associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. Looking for a fun way to track your 2025 challenge reads? Our 52 Book Club 2025 …

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23.11.2024

2025 Goodreads Lists – The 52 Book Club

Our 2025 challenge has arrived with fifty-two new prompts to delight and stretch your reading this year. Stuck on one of the prompts? Need ideas? We’ve created a Goodreads List for *almost* e…

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23.11.2024

2025 Challenge Guide – The 52 Book Club

2025 Challenge Guide Ready to read? Our 2025 challenge has arrived with fifty-two prompts designed to stretch our reading and introduce us to new books, authors, and genres. It is a literary smörgå…

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07.11.2024

The Collaborators – The 52 Book Club

Book Review The Collaborators by Michael IdovThriller | Espionage | Mystery ★★★★ CIA agent, Arie Falk, is already struggling with the morality of what he does. So, when his best asset winds up dead…

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02.11.2024

November 2024 Mini-Challenge – The 52 Book Club

November 2024 Mini-Challenge We’ve been waiting for this! It’s time to show you our November 2024 mini-challenge prompts! In September, we invited The 52 Book Club community to vote on …

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30.10.2024

Across the Ages – The 52 Book Club

Book Review Across the Ages by Gabrielle MeyerHistorical Romance | Christian Fiction | Time Travel ★★★★★ From the creaking timbers and salty sea air aboard an 18th-century pirate ship to the glitte…

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03.10.2024

October 2024 Mini-Challenge – The 52 Book Club

October 2024 Mini-Challenge A new mini-challenge has arrived! This month we’re embracing all things cozy with three new prompts that give us the perfect excuse to curl up with a warm blanket …

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01.10.2024

The Christmas Countdown – The 52 Book Club

Book Review The Christmas Countdown by Holly CassidyChristmas Romance | Holiday | Contemporary Romance ★★★★★ Put up the tree and grab the hot cocoa. The newest Christmas romance from Holly Cassidy …

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24.09.2024

Vote for a 2025 Prompt: Week Four – The 52 Book Club

Vote for a 2025 Prompt! WEEK FOUR: September 23-29, 2024 It’s our final vote for the month and your last chance to have a say on our 2025 challenge! Cast your vote now! How it works: 1. Every…

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19.09.2024

October 2024 Readalong: The Prison Healer – The 52 Book Club

October 2024 Readalong The Prison Healer by Lynette Noni We’re tackling a brand new genre for our October 2024 readalong! This time it’s a YA Fantasy novel — The Prison Healer by …

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17.09.2024

Vote for a 2025 Prompt: Week Three – The 52 Book Club

Vote for a 2025 Prompt! WEEK THREE: September 16-22, 2024 Each Monday in September we’re voting on a prompt for our 2025 challenge. We’ve got the results from week one on our blog post …

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15.09.2024

Vote for a 2025 Prompt: Finalists – The 52 Book Club

2025 Prompt Finalists We’ve started voting on 2025 prompts and the results are trickling in! Each week in September, we’re voting on a different prompt for 2025. Vote on Facebook, Insta…

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13.09.2024

Betrayal at Blackthorn Park – The 52 Book Club

Book Review Betrayal at Blackthorn Park by Julia KellyMystery | Historical Fiction | WWII ★★★★★ After the first book in this series (A Traitor in Whitehall) hit my top ten favorite reads last year,…

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10.09.2024

Vote for a 2025 Prompt: Week Two – The 52 Book Club

Vote for a 2025 Prompt! WEEK TWO: September 9-15, 2024 Each Monday in September we’re voting on a prompt for our 2025 challenge. We’re tallying the polls from last week and will have th…

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07.09.2024

Katherine, the Wright Sister – The 52 Book Club

Book Review Katherine, the Wright Sister by Tracey Enerson WoodHistorical Fiction | Fiction ★★★ We’ve all heard about the Wright brothers, Orville and Wilbur. But have you heard of their sist…

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04.09.2024

September 2024 Mini-Challenge – The 52 Book Club

September 2024 Mini-Challenge It’s time for a new mini-challenge! This month we have three new prompts inspired by the classic board game, Clue (Cluedo)! In this board game, players move arou…

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03.09.2024

Vote for a 2025 Prompt: Week One – The 52 Book Club

Vote for a 2025 Prompt! WEEK ONE: September 2-8, 2024 It’s September! Which means that we’re heading to The 52 Book Club polls! Every fall, we start prepping for the launch of the follo…

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28.08.2024

The Specimen – The 52 Book Club

Book Review The Specimen by Jaima FixsenHistorical Fiction | Mystery ★★★★★ Amongst Dr. Burnett’s collection of oddities and medical specimens sits a heart in a jar. To anyone else, this juven…

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24.08.2024

The 52 Book Club’s 2022 Challenge Journal – The 52 Book Club

The 2022 Reading Challenge Journal This post contains affiliate links; as an Amazon associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. Let’s hit the shelves! The 2022 reading challenge journal is h…

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21.08.2024

The Booklover’s Library – The 52 Book Club

Book Review The Booklover’s Library by Madeline MartinHistorical Fiction | WWII | Books about Books ★★★★★ After reading Madeline Martin’s debut novel, The Last Bookshop in London, this …

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08.08.2024

Hushbug Deluxe Summer Box 2024 – The 52 Book Club

Hushbug Book Box Summer 2024 Deluxe Box from Hushbug This year I decided to test out a few of the book boxes that I’ve been following along with on social media, but haven’t yet tried. …

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All the Perfect Days – The 52 Book Club

April 2025 Mini-Challenge – The 52 Book Club

The Mother Next Door – The 52 Book Club

The Queens of Crime – The 52 Book Club

The Dark Library – The 52 Book Club

The Resistance Painter – The 52 Book Club

March 2025 Mini-Challenge – The 52 Book Club

Follow Me to Africa – The 52 Book Club

Dinosaurs: Lift the Flap – The 52 Book Club

How to Share an Egg – The 52 Book Club

Lunar New Year 2025 Mini-Challenge – The 52 Book Club

The Girls of the Glimmer Factory – The 52 Book Club

The Kennedy Girl – The 52 Book Club

A Language of Dragons – The 52 Book Club

The Secret War of Julia Child – The 52 Book Club

Read It, Watch It 2025 Challenge – The 52 Book Club

Knife Skills for Beginners – The 52 Book Club

The 52 Book Club’s 2024 Reading Challenge Finishers! – The 52 Book Club

December 2024 Mini-Challenge – The 52 Book Club

The 52 Book Club 2025 Challenge Journal – The 52 Book Club

2025 Goodreads Lists – The 52 Book Club

2025 Challenge Guide – The 52 Book Club

The Collaborators – The 52 Book Club

November 2024 Mini-Challenge – The 52 Book Club

Across the Ages – The 52 Book Club

October 2024 Mini-Challenge – The 52 Book Club

The Christmas Countdown – The 52 Book Club

Vote for a 2025 Prompt: Week Four – The 52 Book Club

October 2024 Readalong: The Prison Healer – The 52 Book Club

Vote for a 2025 Prompt: Week Three – The 52 Book Club

Vote for a 2025 Prompt: Finalists – The 52 Book Club

Betrayal at Blackthorn Park – The 52 Book Club

Vote for a 2025 Prompt: Week Two – The 52 Book Club

Katherine, the Wright Sister – The 52 Book Club

September 2024 Mini-Challenge – The 52 Book Club

Vote for a 2025 Prompt: Week One – The 52 Book Club

The Specimen – The 52 Book Club

The 52 Book Club’s 2022 Challenge Journal – The 52 Book Club

The Booklover’s Library – The 52 Book Club

Hushbug Deluxe Summer Box 2024 – The 52 Book Club

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