So far 35/52
1. A book with a subtitle – Just the Essentials: How Essential Oils Can Heal Your Skin, Improve Your Health, and Detox Your Life by Adina Grigore
2. Featuring an inheritance – Where We Belong by Anstey Harris (also works for #44)
3. A title starting with the letter “G” – Golden Fool by Robin Hobb
4. A title starting with the letter “H” – The Huntress by Kate Quinn (not counting The)
5. A title starting with the letter “I” – I Have Some Questions For You by Rebecca Makkai (also works for #11, 44, 50)
6. Under 200 pages – A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers (the hardcover version is 147 pages) (also works for #32, 34, )
7. A city or country in the title
8. Dystopian Fiction – The Memory of Animals by Claire Fuller (also works for #14)
9. A book with a dedication – Silence Of The Lambs by Thomas Harris
10. Takes place during the roaring twenties
11. A book about secrets – Royal Assassin by Robin Hobb (also works for #12)
12. High Fantasy – Ship of Magic (Liveship Traders, #1) by Robin Hobb
13. Published Posthumously
14. A survival story – Wandering Souls by Cecile Pin
15. Set in Australia
16. Featuring one of the “seven deadly sins”: Gluttony – Why We Eat (Too Much): The New Science of Appetite by Andrew Jenkinson (also works for #1, 19, 22, 26)
17. By a Caribbean author – Hungry Ghosts by Kevin Jared Hosein (also works for #4, 9, 11 and 28)
18. Set during a war other than WWI or WWII
19. Typographic cover – The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
20. A book about siblings – The Wheel of Darkness by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child (the two Pendergast brothers feature heavily in this book as protagonist and antagonist)
21. A second-hand book
22. A body positive message (plan: Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman by Lindy West)
23. An alliterative title – Agatha Raisin & The Terrible Tourist by M.C. Beaton
24. Nordic Noir – The Boy in the Suitcase by Lene Kaaberbøl & Agnete Friis
25. A fashionable character – Agatha Raisin and the Wellspring of Death (Agatha Raisin, #7) by M.C. Beaton (Her friend Roy Silver who makes a lengthy appearance in this could be describes as fashionable).
26. Has an epilogue – Love Will Tear Us Apart by C.K. McDonnell (in fact it has 2 epilogues) {also works for #31, 36, 40, 44, 50, 52)
27. Newbery Medal Winner
28. Includes a funeral – Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin ( It includes two I think)
29. Sends you down a rabbit hole – The Happy Writing Book: Discover the Positive Power of Creative Writing by Elise Valmorbida
30. An author with a same name as you
31. Set in a workplace – The Book of the Dead by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child (Set in the New York Natural History Museum)
32. Published by Macmillan – The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
33. A banned book (Plan: The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie, A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway, Ulysses by James Joyce or Howl by Allen Ginsberg)
34. Featuring mythology – Voyages in the Underworld of Orpheus Black by Marcus Sedgwick , Julian Sedgwick & Alexis Deacon (Illustrations)
35. A book you meant to read last year – An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong ( I started it in November but just took a long time to finish it) (also works for #1, 9 and 29)
36. Chapters have cliffhangers – I Know Who You Were by Nick Curran
37. Written in present tense
38. An enemies-to-lovers plot
39. The final book in a series – Assassin’s Quest by Robin Hobb (also works for #12)
40. Written by a comedian (Plan: Why Mummy Drinks (Why Mummy #1) by Gill Sims, or something by Ruby Wax, Graham Norton or Ben Elton)
41. A character who is a refugee – Death Comes to Dartmoor by Stephanie Austin (he’s near the end but plays a big part) (also works for #2, 50 & 52)
42. Time in the title – 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari (also works for #19)
43. A book “everyone” has read – The Salt Path by Raynor Winn
44. A contemporary setting – Fever Dream by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
45. First word in the book is “The” – This Charming Man (Stranger Times #2) by C.K. McDonnell (it starts: The hunger. The damned hunger.) (also works for #26 ,#31, #34 ,#44, #50)
46. Script font on the spine – Ship of Destiny by Robin Hobb
47. Set in the city of Dublin
48. A book by Octavia E. Butler
49. Books on the cover
50. Related to the word “Murder” – Cemetery Dance by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
51. Doesn’t fit any of the other 51 prompts – The Story Grid by Shawn Coyne
52. Published in 2023 – Friendaholic: Confessions of a Friendship Addict by Elizabeth Day (also works for #1)
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