The 52 Book Club: 2025 Challenge discussion

47. Read During The Month Of November


In the past, some challenge participants have finished as early as the beginning of March. But this year, we wanted to intentionally stretch the challenge out and have us all finish together in November or December. That’s why, this prompt is a little different but also just so much fun! **Cue singing: We’re all in this together! **

For this prompt, any book read during November 2022 counts! (Although we always encourage creativity, so I look forward to your work-arounds!) If you want to add an extra challenge, try picking a book set in the month of November.

**There is no Goodreads list for this prompt**

Here is my workaround for this prompt! Persepolis is a book that I read in November of 2020 and since rereads count…😁 It’s a great book and if I have time I may do all the challenges a second time this year so my second book for this might actually be read in November. But for now I have a book that I read first in November of 2020 and am rereading.

I just finished 11/22/63 by Stephen King. Obviously set in the month of November, that is my workaround for this prompt.

I'm dying to read November 9 by colleen hoover so even if when I get to it it's not in November I'm using it for that prompt lol

I read November 9 by Colleen Hoover. I usually do the challenges twice in a year, so the second one will be read in the month of November.

I’m currently 42/52 and 106 books for 2022.

One of my book clubs will be reading They Came to Baghdad in November.

2 days to go until i can read Trick or Treat by Katerina Diamond. a little boy dissappears on Halloween with the search for him being in November. Book has lovely Autumnal leaves all over the ground which i love at this time of year. 2 more to read after this one

My book club choice for November is A Brilliant Night of Stars and Ice. Looking forward to reading it.

I read "Second Coming" by Mark Russell, Richard Pace, Leonard Kirk, and Andy Troy

Finished “Less is Lost” last night to finish this topic and the whole challenge. I really enjoyed both books in this duology. Arthur Less is so charmingly written!

The Sunday Lunch Club by Juliet Ashton is a contemporary story about four siblings who meet regularly for Sunday lunch with their partners, families and friends, their lives and relationships. ⭐⭐⭐ here is my review

I read The Wolf and the Woodsman by Ava Reid, 5 Stars

I read The Philosophy of Modern Song by Bob Dylan. It was just published on November 1, 2022 as well. Five stars.

The Angry Women's Choir by Australian author Meg Bignell is an empowering feminist read about Tasmanian housewife Freycinet Barnes who joins a choir of women which meets to sing out their anger and heartache. She meets a cast of zany characters who help her deal with the curly challenges life throws her way and band together to promote freedom from oppression. Here is my review

I read "Heavy; a memoir" by Kiese Laymon. Wonderful read! I've had it on the shelf for a couple months and am so glad I made it my November read.

I read A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams.

I listened to The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocumb. Excellent book and narration. This brought me over the line to finish the 52 Books Challenge for 2022.

I read "The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning" by Margareta Magnusson for my final book of the challenge. This was a great challenge and I can't wait for next years prompts to come out.

The Bangalore Detectives Club by Indian author Harini Nagendra is a cozy mystery set in 1920s Bangalore. The first in a series featuring the mathematical and forward-thinking Kaveri, an enjoyable read with yummy recipes at the end. ⭐⭐⭐⭐ here is my review

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Monkey Beach - Eden Robinson

The Single Ladies of Jacaranda Retirement Village by Joanna Nell is a quirky tale of aging disgracefully. The only bright spot in 79 year old Peggy’s beige life is watching eligible widower Brian walk past in the mornings until her glamorous mad-cap childhood friend Angie makes an appearance and turns more than just Peggy’s wardrobe upside-down. ⭐⭐⭐⭐ here is my review.

Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri is a beautiful, award-winning collection of short stories set in India or Bangladesh, or involving Bengali immigrants to the US. It is poignant, insightful, full of loss and longing. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ here is my review.

The Bleeding of the Stone by award-winning Libyan author Ibrahim al-Koni is a short book about a shepherd living in the Sahara desert. It has strong environmental themes about species extinction and reads like a Bedouin folktale with a dose of magical realism and Sufi mysticism. ⭐⭐⭐⭐ here is my review

I read Righteous Prey by John Sandford
It was released in October

Spellmaker by Charlie N Holmberg

The Orange Girl by Norwegian author Jostein Gaarder is a short and sweet, enchanting tale set in Oslo about a 15 year old boy who discovers a letter from his deceased father. His father writes the story of his meeting the mysterious and captivating Orange Girl on a tram. This is a beautiful and moving read. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ here is my review

Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt

Once, Only the Swallows Were Free by Romanian born Australian author Gabrielle Gouch is a gripping memoir of life in a Jewish family living in Transylvania, Romania under Communist rule and their struggle to escape to Israel and begun again there. ⭐⭐⭐⭐ here is my review

Although I finished the challenge earlier this month and posted about my final book above in Message 13, I have just finished another five-star book for a strong November finish: Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1956, the year I was born. Phenomenal historical fiction about the Civil War.

The Witch of Babylon by D.J. McIntosh https://cdnbookworm.blogspot.com/2022...

I read Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo.

"Yes No Maybe So" by Aisha Saeed & Becky Albertalli

I read My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout.