I’ve seen a lot of book lists in my feed the past couple of weeks. I’m not going to paste my whole reading list from 2025 here, but here were some of my favorites. #BookSky

#LearnedLeague #LL107 MD11 thread. Today, I try to get to three wins in a row against the great @awaygames.bsky.social !!! This will be a challenge indeed - Kelly is on a flyer this season. Luckily, I get to Factfuel with All! Nine! COOKIES!!!

52 Book Club’s Connections Challenge Book 10. Same publisher as previous book (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) Blindness by Jose Saramago #The52BookClub #52BookClub #BookSky 📚💙

Book 44 for the 52 Book Club’s 2025 Challenge Vera, or Faith, by Gary Shteyngart #prompt21: Character’s name in the title Shteyngart takes the cruel absurdities of current American life and spins them forward to make them crueler but still believable. #The52BookClub #52BookClub #BookSky 📚💙

52 Book Club’s Connections Challenge Book 10. A book the previous character would read at the beach - The Giver Previous book was Lula Dean’s Little Library of Banned Books It’s a classic for a reason. Warm, colorful feelings about this book. #The52BookClub #52BookClub #BookSky 📚💙

52 Book Club’s Connections Challenge Book 9. Shares a narrative technique with previous book (multiple POVs) Lula Dean’s Little Library of Banned Books by Kirsten Miller If only real life could follow this model. 🤞 #The52BookClub #52BookClub #BookSky 📚💙

52 Book Club’s Connections Challenge Book 8. Cover shares item with the previous cover (a single eye) Your Heart Is a Muscle the Size of A Fist, by Sunil Yapa #The52BookClub #52BookClub #BookSky 📚💙

52 Book Club’s Connections Challenge Book 7. Two Nights in Lisbon by Chris Pavone. Author shares name with character from previous book (Atmosphere) #The52BookClub #52BookClub #BookSky 📚💙

52 Book Club’s Connections Challenge Book 6. Similar title font to previous book Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid (Previous book: Cabin) #The52BookClub #52BookClub #BookSky 📚💙

52 Book Club’s Connections Challenge Book 5. Cabin by Patrick Hutchison +/- 30 pages to previous book (Big Chief) #The52BookClub #52BookClub #BookSky 📚💙

52 Book Club’s Connections Challenge Book 4. Big Chief by Jon Hickey Published the same year as the previous book (Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil, 2025) #The52BookClub #52BookClub #BookSky 📚💙

52 Book Club’s Connections Challenge Book 3: Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab Set in the country where the previous author (Joseph Heller) is from (US) #The52BookClub #52BookClub #BookSky 📚💙

52 Book Club’s Connections Challenge Book 2: Catch-22 by Joseph Heller. Title shares a word with the previous book’s title, which was 2 a.m. at the Cat’s Pajamas #The52BookClub #52BookClub #BookSky 📚💙

Book 43 for the 52 Book Club’s 2025 Challenge 2 a.m. at the Cat’s Pajamas by Marie-Helene Bertino #prompt9: Genre Four: Set in Winter - literary fiction Great sentences. I’m also using this as book 1 of the Connections Mini-Challenge. #The52BookClub #52BookClub #BookSky 📚💙

Book 42 for the 52 Book Club’s 2025 Challenge Isola by Allegra Goodman #prompt13: Title is ten letters or less I had visions of reading 2666 for this prompt, but it just seemed like too much right now. Maybe another time. #The52BookClub #52BookClub #BookSky 📚💙

Book 41 for the 52 Book Club’s 2025 Challenge Starter Villain by John Scalzi #prompt45: Author releases more than one book a year #The52BookClub #52BookClub #BookSky 📚💙

Book 40 for the 52 Book Club’s 2025 Challenge Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds #prompt17: Told in verse Very creative. Quick read. #The52BookClub #52BookClub #BookSky 📚💙

Book 39 for the 52 Book Club’s 2025 Challenge The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong #prompt50: Set in the 1940s One of the characters has dementia and occasionally thinks she is back in the 1940s. Definitely a loose interpretation of the prompt. #The52BookClub #BookSky 📚💙

Book 38 for the 52 Book Club’s 2025 Challenge The Overstory by Richard Powers #prompt35: Written in the 3rd person Also for the May Mini-Challenge - Seasonal Salad: A leafy, green cover #The52BookClub #BookSky 📚💙

Book 37 for the 52 Book Club’s 2025 Challenge Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams #prompt28: A crossover (Set in a shared universe) #The52BookClub #BookSky 📚💙

Book 36 for the 52 Book Club’s 2025 Challenge Everything Is Tuberculosis, by John Green #prompt44: A celebrity on the cover. John Green’s social media presence upgrades him to celebrity in my book. Nerd influencer? #The52BookClub #BookSky 📚💙

Book 35 for the 52 Book Club’s 2025 Challenge Glorious Exploits, by Ferdia Lennon #prompt39: Has an epigraph May mini-challenge: Dessert course: Tiramisu - Set in Italy (Sicily during the Peloponnesian War to be exact) #The52BookClub #BookSky 📚💙

Book 34 for the 52 Book Club’s 2025 Challenge Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps that Explain Everything About the World, by Tim Marshall #prompt51: 300-400 pages long #The52BookClub #BookSky 📚💙

Book 33 for the 52 Book Club’s 2025 Challenge White Light: The Elemental Role of Phosphorus — In Our Cells, in Our Food, and in Our World by Jack Lohmann #prompt43: Explores social class #The52BookClub #BookSky 📚💙

Book 32 for the 52 Book Club’s 2025 Challenge Harlem Rhapsody by Victoria Christopher Murray #prompt52: Published in 2025 Historical novel about Jessie Redmond Fauset, literary editor of The Crisis during the Harlem Renaissance #52BookClub #The52BookClub #BookSky 📚💙

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Book 31 for the 52 Book Club’s 2025 Challenge Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi #prompt20: A fairy tale retelling #52BookClub #The52BookClub #BookSky 📚💙

Book 30 for the 52 Book Club’s 2025 Challenge Heartwood by Amity Gaige #prompt38: An adventure story #52BookClub #The52BookClub #BookSky 📚💙

Book 29 for the 52 Book Club’s 2025 Challenge Raising Hare: A Memoir by Chloe Dalton #prompt1: A pun in the title Great on audio. #52BookClub #The52BookClub #BookSky 📚💙

Book 28 for the 52 Book Club’s 2025 Challenge Audition by Katie Kitamura #prompt48: Related to the word “puzzle” #52BookClub #The52BookClub #BookSky 📚💙

Book 27 for the 52 Book Club’s 2025 Challenge Tilt by Emma Pattee #prompt36: Final sentence is less than 6 words long. I tore through this. It would also work for nonhuman antagonist (earthquake) and stream of consciousness prompts. #52BookClub #The52BookClub #BookSky 📚💙

Book 26 for the 52 Book Club’s 2025 Challenge The Antidote by Karen Russell #prompt6: Genre One (magical realism, also historical fiction) - Set in Spring #52BookClub #The52BookClub #BookSky 📚💙

Book 25 for the 52 Book Club’s 2025 Challenge Mythos by Stephen Fey #prompt47: “I think it was blue” I might switch it to one of the shared universe prompts depending on where my reading whims take me. #52BookClub #The52BookClub #BookSky 📚💙

Book 24 for the 52 Book Club’s 2025 Challenge The Paris Express by Emma Donoghue #prompt8: Genre 3 (historical thriller) - Set in autumn #52BookClub #The52BookClub #BookSky 📚💙

Book 23 for the 52 Book Club’s 2025 Challenge Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins #prompt11: A prequel #52BookClub #The52BookClub #BookSky 📚💙

When you look at the list of institutions they want to defund: libraries, museums, the Smithsonian, public schools, PBS, NPR, archives, you can clearly see that the real threat to an authoritarian regime is an informed and educated public

Book 22 for the 52 Book Club’s 2025 Challenge Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy #prompt19: Has short chapters #52BookClub #The52BookClub #BookSky 📚💙

Book 21 for the 52 Book Club’s 2025 Challenge The Dream Hotel by Laila Lalami #prompt22: Found family trope #52BookClub #The52BookClub #BookSky 📚💙

Book 20 for the 52 Book Club’s 2025 Challenge The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy #prompt10: Author’s last name is also a first name March TBR Mini-challenge: A book you’ve been meaning to get to “eventually”. I bought this at Powell’s in 2000. 😂 #52BookClub #The52BookClub #BookSky 📚💙

Book 19 for the 52 Book Club’s 2025 Challenge Kindred by Octavia Butler #prompt2: A character with red hair Also March Mini-challenge: Prettiest cover on your TBR #52BookClub #The52BookClub #BookSky 📚💙

Book 18 for the 52 Book Club’s 2025 Challenge How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu #prompt14: climate fiction #52BookClub #The52BookClub #BookSky 📚

Book 17 for the 52 Book Club’s 2025 Challenge Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros #prompt18: a character who can fly 🐉 #52BookClub #The52BookClub #BookSky 📚

Book 16 for the 52 Book Club’s 2025 Challenge All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me by Patrick Bringley #prompt5: plot includes a heist It’s a memoir by a former Met guard. It’s not about heists per se, but they’re mentioned. #52BookClub #The52BookClub #BookSky 📚

Book 15 for the 52 Book Club’s 2025 Challenge The Shadow of the Wind, by Carlos Ruiz Zafon #prompt23: a sprayed edge If I wind up reading another sprayed edge book this year, I’ll probably switch this one to the puzzle prompt. #52BookClub #The52BookClub #BookSky 📚💙

Book 14 for the 52 Book Club’s 2025 Challenge Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country, by Patricia Evangelista #prompt49: set in a country with an active volcano (Philippines) Lunar New Year Mini-Challenge: written by an Asian author #52BookClub #The52BookClub #BookSky 📚💙

Book 13 for the 52 Book Club’s 2025 Challenge My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante #prompt3: Title starts with the letter “M” Lunar New Year Mini-Challenge: a wise character Also: found family, volcano country, social class, and celebrity on cover #52BookClub #The52BookClub #BookSky 📚💙

Book 12 for the 52 Book Club’s 2025 Challenge The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain #promp30: in the public domain Also Lunar New Year Mini-Challenge: a wise character I think this has been sitting unread on my shelf since the early 90s. #52BookClub #The52BookClub #BookSky 📚💙

Book 11 for the 52 Book Club’s 2025 Challenge The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen #prompt41: cover font is in a primary color Also Lunar New Year Mini-Challenge: set in a country that celebrates Lunar New Year #52BookClub #The52BookClub #BookSky 📚💙

Book 10 for the 52 Book Club’s 2025 Challenge #prompt40: stream of consciousness narrative To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf #52BookClub #The52BookClub #BookSky 📚💙