The 52 Book Club: 2025 Challenge discussion

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17) Team Pursuit: Featuring a group of friends

For this prompt, choose any book featuring a group of friends. The book may be told from multiple perspectives or not. Their friendship and group dynamics / individual relationships with each other will likely play into the plot and story as a whole but may or may not be the core focus of the story.

Here's the link to our Goodreads list for this prompt!

If I read another Hitchhiker Trilogy book, it will fit here, they all follow the intergalactic adventures of a friend group.

Or I might read Conversations With Friends

Edit: I read K-Pop Confidential, features friends Candace, Ethan and Imani

I'll go for The Hobbit.

I will be reading A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

Chiildren's books are a life-saver for fulfilling prompts like these. That's why I'll read Jacqueline Davies – Sydney & Taylor Take a Flying Leap

I read Happy Place by Emily Henry, 5 Stars

I listened to Penance by Eliza Clark which is an excellent, sometimes challenging, always fascinating listen. I love audiobooks with multiple narrators, & this switches between narrators so well.

So they're not exactly friends? Well, who doesn't remember some of their school days being mired in cliques & disagreements? This takes things to a new level.

There's some colourful language & passages about violence - it's not exactly gory, but there are lines that I won't forget. Maybe it's harder to hear as the mother of almost grown up children, & this is a window into their world?

I read We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry

I read Escape Velocity by Victor Manibo, about a group of friends coming together for high school reunion, in space. It was a lot of fun and definitely didn't end the way I thought it would. I gave it 4 stars.

I read The Iron Flower by Laurie Forest, where a Resistance is formed that includes a group of friends. https://cdnbookworm.blogspot.com/2024...

Listened to the audiobook of The Hobbit for this prompt. Andy Serkis' Gandalf and especially Thorin are amazing. His troll voices gave me the creeps. And of course there's only one Gollum.

Decided to read The Honeys by Ryan La Sala - perfect summer vibes.

I read Beautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuire

The Body by Stephen King, a novella from Different Seasons which was the basis for the movie Stand by Me.

I read a great book!! The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton.

I read a classic that is different than the Disney movie - Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie.

The One and Only Bob by Katherine Applegate