/r/52book
A subreddit for the participants of the 52 Book Challenge (one book per week for a year) to discuss their progress and discoveries.
*please note, we are not associated with any prompt challenges. You can do prompts, but we are NOT that challenge.
A subreddit for the participants of the 52 Book Challenge to discuss their progress and discoveries.
FAQs:
Q: What are the participation rules?
A: There are only two rules for participation:
Set a goal to read X number of books in the year (it doesn't have to be 52)
Read that many books
Q: What are the rules for posting?
Each Sunday, the moderators make a weekly post, which is stickied at the top of the page. Members can participate in that post to discuss what you've read, and what you're planning to read.
During the last week of the year, the moderators post "round up" posts for lists of books completed, favorites, least favorites, etc.
Please check for round-up and list posts before making a new one.
We try to keep this sub fairly focused on the weekly discussions. We will remove individual posts that are more appropriate for the aggregated threads to keep the front page clear. This includes “book XX of 52” or single book posts.
Q: I just found this sub. Can I start even though it's not Week 1?
A: Yes, we won't hold it against you.
Q: Do you have to start and finish a book each week?
A: No. We all get into reading slumps at some point in the year. The goal is to complete your challenge by the end of the year.
Q: I'm reading a book with multiple novels contained in one volume. How should I count it?
A: Count each one individually. Or count the collection as a whole. It's entirely up to you.
Q: Can I count a novella as a book?
A: Yes. Unless you don't want to, in which case don't.
Q: Do graphic novels count?
A: If you want to count graphic novels, do it! Are you sensing a theme here?
Q: What about an audiobook?
A: Some people think that listening to an audiobook is not the same as reading the book. Some of those same people are probably sociopaths. What do I know? Count them if you are not one of those people.
Q: Can I count a short story?
A: This is probably stretching it, but you know what - it's your challenge, count whatever you feel is appropriate. The goal is to read more.
Q: How do I add a spoiler?
A: >!spoiler!< spoiler
Q: How do I find a picture of all of the books I've read this year?
A: Go on goodreads, and make sure you're on the desktop site. Find your yearly challenge, and take a screenshot. When you post it, maybe post a list in the comments of some books that you liked or didn't like. Just something to generate a little discussion.
Looking for book suggestions?
Looking for a book club?
/r/bookclub | /r/nonfictionbookclub | /r/SF_Book_Club | /r/BettermentBookClub
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It took me a few tries to get it done, but that what boring days at work are for! Also fun to reflect on some of these books and see if I even remember them!
Please excuse the quality, still figuring out tiermaker but wanted to join in.
Most recent reads:
Prodigal Summer - I enjoyed it a lot. I enjoyed how it expanded upon love being a multi-faceted emotion as opposed to just romantic love. I did not expect them to dovetail in the end but Kingsolver managed to do it in a very loose way that felt complete.
Burning Girls - So many characters that at some points I just could not keep up. I wish there was a character list towards the beginning and their relationship to Jack the Vicar. Due to all the characters the slight hand holding was welcome. Some plot holes but they weren't major.
I had no chance of making 52, but I' made my goal of 16....
Forgot that I enjoyed reading for a few years (blame it on reading too many research papers at school). I had a bit of an underwhelming November book wise, but still super proud to be currently at 43 books read for 2024📚🎉!
I have no idea what I read beyond a rough grasp of the “art” of it and I’m absolutely not going to pretend to be smart enough to understand. What a waste of time. Total mindfuck.
1/5
I read this book because I saw it in the Atlantic and my wife runs a healthcare business so I figured it'd be a good read.
This book has very valuable information for healthcare entrepreneurs and those living with chronic illnesses.
I would say the book does a very good job of labeling and classifying what we already knew. It also helps people who are living with chronic illness and maybe people who form communities here in Reddit on how to reach out to professionals.
That being said, like a lot of business books, I think it falls into the "we kind of already know this". We're often using words or terms to describe things that most people already know.
Given that information, I give it a 3.75/5 ⭐
Yes a good handful of them are short horror stories from Lovecraft, but I did finally tackle my dream of reading The Count of Monte Cristo. I think this is a pretty eclectic list, so let me know what you think! (In order within each tier, so House of Leaves was my #1 and King Rat my least favorite)
In May, I finally took the first book in the Malazan series off of my TBR and could not put it down. Slide deck reading companions and read along podcasts required, to process the three and a half million words.
I'll round the year out with some normal sized books, but I enjoyed this journey so much.
Also, in my heart, I'm still on pace, because those door stoppers count for at least 2.
Metal from Heaven is my one 6 star read of the year - it’s cemented itself in my top 3 books of all time, definitely best book of the year. I got about 1/3 of the way through on my Libby ebook before I went out and bought a hard copy so I could annotate the fuck out of it.
A Psalm for the Wild-Built was a re-read, I was annotating it for a friend for Christmas. I also annotated Howl’s Moving Castle for a Christmas present for a friend who adores the movie as much as I do!
Happy November!
Passed my goal of 20 books this year, hopefully on to 52 next year :)
An incredibly stark collection of 13 kinda linked short stories dealing with different aspects of femicide in Mexico. In some cases it was almost as though some of the victims from Bolaño’s (insanely amazing) “2666” were getting the chance to tell their stories in the first-person. Obviously not a light subject, I would label this one as “TW: Everything”. However, NOT looking away from violence against women ANYWHERE is also a very important thing to do, now and always. Fernanda Melchor’s “This is not Miami” and Selva Almada’s “Dead Girls” are two other books I highly suggest on this topic, dealing with Mexico and Argentina respectively (of course there are many others). As a reader of primarily Spanish-English translation, I have to commend Heather Cleary on a masterful job rendering the Mexican street slang and colloquialisms into an engagingly readable text without omitting the tenacity of the source material
Closing in on 52, which I am really proud of considering I started reading in late May.
November was kind of a small month because I finished so many in October and started a couple of chunky books (700+ pages) in November that I have not finished yet.
The only 5 star read here was Great Expectations, which I loved and became an instant favorite. This book I can totally see becoming a ‘comfort book’ for me, coming back to it again and again. This book was my first Dickens but it caused me to instantly take up my second (which is one of the 700+ page chonkers I mentioned earlier).
Two 4 star reads - Cannery Row and Under the Greenwood Tree.
The other two books were down in the 3 star area. Was not nearly as impressed as I’d hoped to be with these titles.
AMA! ☺️
It’s my first year back into reading for fun since I was a kid and I’m really happy about it. Can you tell what my favorite genre is? 🤓
I know everyone was swooning over this book and saying it was the next OVE or REMARKABLY BRIGHT CREATURES, but for me it was neither: it was just too sickeningly sweet 🍰🎂🍮🍭🍬🍫🍿🍩
I found the beginning confusing and didn't know what family I was meant to be flashing back to and the narrators were so repetitive at times that I found myself rushing to get to the HEAs...not good, folks!
Oh, and not to mention the moral conundrum that everyone conveniently swept under the rug...like, huh?
Yea, #readmore but #redo PLEASE!
i set my goal at 52 books this year and am currently at 62! hoping to get a few more read by the end of the month but this is what i’ve got so far.
i’ve had a really great reading year and found some of my new all time favs. i have also found some books i now consider to be my mortal enemies.