The 52 Book Club: 2025 Challenge discussion

34. Direction in the title

For this prompt, we’re looking for any book with direction in the title. As with all our title-related prompts, this may be included in the main title, subtitle, or series title.

* Direction can be cardinal direction (points on a compass: North, South, East, West.)
* Direction may also be positional. Positional words describe the location of something in relation to something else. Examples of positional direction words could include: Up, Down, Right, Left, Forward, Front, Back, Backward, Behind, Straight, Ahead, Far, In, On, Above, Below, etc.
* You could also choose a title with the word “direction” in the title, subtitle, or series title.
* An additional interpretation for this prompt would be to choose a title that is an imperative sentence. (A title that doubles as a command or direction to do something.) For example: “Go Set a Watchman,” “Don't Let Her Stay,” “Do Not Become Alarmed,” etc. In this case, the entire title is a direction (or command).

Any directional word in the title will count for this prompt, and the word can be in any language.

As a creative interpretation, you may choose a word that has another direction word inside of it. For example, a title word the word “Beast” (contains the word “east” inside.) Other examples include, but aren’t limited to, the words: feast, Easter, awestruck, narrowest, unorthodox, touchdown, downtown, porcupine, frontier, cleft, fright, etc.


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Hellas fra sør til nord - en reise i gammel og ny tid by Aage Hauken

Fangirl Down by Tessa Bailey

I’m planning to read Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

On my TBR:
Through My Eyes
The Country Under My Skin: A Memoir of Love and War
The Sky Below

Books I've read and recommend:
East of Desolation
A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea
Turtles All the Way Down
Secrets She Left Behind

Drag Me Up

Fangirl Down by Tessa Bailey

Down & Out in Paris & London

I now have both the impetus and an excuse to read West with the Night by Beryl Markham.

I'm also reading one of the so-called Four Great Chinese Novels, Journey to the West. Since it's well over 1700 pages long, I don't recommend it unless one absolutely has an itch to read a classic of Asian literature.

I'm planning to read Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk. Could also work for the "book set in winter" prompt.

There were a lot of choices from my TBR bookshelf....I finally decided to read:



The Front Runner by Patricia Nell Warren

HAPPY READING!!

The Man in the High castle Philip K. Dick

Could Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen or What a Way To Go by Bella Mackie count for this one?

I listened to East of Alice by Annie Seaton for this prompt.

Beneath the Surface by John Hargrove. 4.5 stars.

I went for the command/instruction approach and read One, Two, Buckle my Shoe by Agatha Christie

Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas (technically a play?? oh well, I'm reading it anyway 🤣)

Would Orbital count as a direction?

Amber wrote: "Would Orbital count as a direction?"

Personally I wouldn't. A direction would be more like Left, Right, North, South, Up, Down. You wouldn't say "Orbital" when telling someone where to go.

West With Giraffes

Lindsey wrote: "Amber wrote: "Would Orbital count as a direction?"

Personally I wouldn't. A direction would be more like Left, Right, North, South, Up, Down. You wouldn't say "Orbital" when telli..."

agreed

tenuous but I've just finished UPgrade- by Paul Mort - I had this on preorder and couldn't wait to read it!

I read How To Read A Book by Monica Wood

I read Under the Whispering Door by T.J. Klune

"Growing Up Urkel" by Jaleel White

Spaced Out by Stuart Gibbs 2/14/25

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https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Would We Are Not From Here count?

I read Under the Whispering Door by T.J. Klune. VERY good!

I read "The New Black West: Photographs from America's Only Touring Black Rodeo" by Gabriela Hasbun

I'll read Out by Natsuo Kirino

March Forward, Girl by Melba Pattillo Beals

Does "between" count as a direction? If yes I will read Between Friends & Lovers

I read Beyond Ivy Walls (audio book)

I read The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James.

Just read The Good Left Undone by Adriana Trigiani.

Blood and Thunder: The Epic Story of Kit Carson and the Conquest of the Wild West by Hampton Sides ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Do you think Raising Hare would count - raising can indicate going up??? or am I grasping at straws????

“Into the Darkness” by Barbara Michaels is a good mystery and the title does it: where are they going? Into the darkness.

Andrea wrote: "Do you think Raising Hare would count - raising can indicate going up??? or am I grasping at straws????"

LOL. I struggled with this one too for the same reason. But imho, it is a direction - "up".

North of Normal: A Memoir of My Wilderness Childhood, My Unusual Family, and How I Survived Both by Cea Sunrise Person. Her family was Messed Up.

Watership Down

How does everybody feel about Ascension as a direction?

I’m thinking about Sanderson‘s, Well of Ascension.

I ended up reading Falling Down by Guillermo del Toro for this prompt, it was a short read.

I read We Do Not Part Han Kang
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

I read North and South
Loved reading this one

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Question: does ' You are here' (David Ni holls) count? What do you all think?

Marielle wrote: "Question: does ' You are here' (David Ni holls) count? What do you all think?"

Hi! I'd say "You Are Here" totally counts! "Here" is a positional word, kinda like those "You Are Here" pointers on a map.

thnx, Liliana!!

For this prompt, I read Kevin Wilson's new novel, Run for the Hills. I was going to read it anyway, since I'm a diehard Wilson fan, but I like how the book title is an imperative sentence with the positional command (Where are you running? For the hills!)

The Geographer's Map to Romance by India Holton