Bookmas Day 27: Challenge Wrap-Up

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For today I'm going to detail my success in completing the 52 books in 52 weeks reading challenge. This is the only reading challenge that I really tried to do and I finished it! I'm so proud of myself! So without further ado here are all the prompts and my books for this challenge. 

1. Set in a School: My Own Two Feet by Beverly Cleary (Cleary's autobiography, starting with her college days) 
   
   
   
2. Featuring the Legal Profession: Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding (Mark Darcy is a solicitor)
   
   
   
3. A Dual Timeline: 56 Days by Catherine Ryan Howard (bounces back and forth through time in respect to the pandemic)
   
   
   
4. An Author that is Deceased: Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
   
   
   
5. Published by Penguin: Crazy Stupid Bromance by Lyssa Kay Adams 
   
   
   
6. A Character with the Same Name as a Male Family Member: Beartown by Fredrik Backman (Kevin-my younger brother; Benjamin-my partner)
   
   
   
7. An Author with Only 1 Published Book: In My Dreams I Hold a Knife by Ashley Winstead 
   
   
   
8. A Book in the 900s of the Dewey Decimal System: Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty by Anderson Cooper
   
   
   
9. Set in a Mediterranean Country: The Maidens by Alex Michaelides (set in the UK and in Greece)
   
   
   
10. Related ot the Word "Fire": The Burning Girls by CJ Tudor (Burning is related to fire)
    
    
    
11. Book with Discussion Question Inside: The Only Woman in the Room by Marie Benedict 
    
    
    
12. Title Starting with the Letter "D": Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre by Max Brooks
    
    
    
13. Includes an Exotic Animal: Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid (dolphins)
    
    
    
14. Written by an Author Over 65 (When Published): The Mistress by Danielle Steel
    
    
    
15. A Book Mentioned in Another Book: Lover's Vows by Mrs. Inchbald (the play is mentioned in Jane Austen's Mansfield Park)
    
    
    
16. Set Before the 17th Century: If Walls Could Talk: An Intimate History of the Home by Lucy Worsley (many bits of the history take place prior to the 1600s). 
    
    
    
17. A Character "On the Run": The Long Walk by Richard Bachman (Stephen King)
    
    
    
18. Author with a 9-Letter Last Name: Dark Harvest by Norman Partridge
    
    
    
19. Book with a Deckled Edge: A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes 
    
    
    
20. Made into a TV Series: The Duke and I by Julia Quinn (Bridgerton on Netflix)
    
    
    
21. Book by Kristin Hannah: Comfort & Joy by Kristin Hannah
    
    
    
22. A Family Saga: Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
    
    
    
23. An Ending that Surprises You: The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward
    
    
    
24. A Book You Think They Should Read in Schools: A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf (I think this would be an interesting and unique nonfiction/essay choice for high school or college literature)
    
    
    
25. A Book with Multiple Character POV: The Power by Naomi Alderman
    
    
    
26. An Author of Color: White Smoke by Tiffany D Jackson
    
    
    
27. First Chapter Ends on an Odd Page Number: Britt-Marie Was Here by Fredrik Backman
    
    
    
28. Includes a Historical Event You Know Little About: Moloka'i by Alan Brennert (the Moloka'i leper colony in Hawaii)
    
    
    
29. Featuring the Environment: The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green
    
    
    
30. Watch Out for Dragons!: A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik 
    
    
    
31. Shares a Similar Title to Another Book: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid (very similar to The Seven and a Half Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton)
    
    
    
32. A Selfish Character: The Wife Upstairs by Rachel Hawkins (literally every character)
    
    
    
33. Featuring Adoption: The Chestnut Man by Soren Sveistrup
    
    
    
34. A Book You'd Rate 5 Stars: My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones
    
    
    
35. Set in a Country that Starts with the Letter "S": My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry by Fredrik Backman (Sweden)
    
    
    
36. A Nameless Narrator: And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer by Fredrik Backman
    
    
    
37. An Educational Read: The Best American Food Writing 2020 by J Kenji Lopez-Alt
    
    
    
38. Recommended on BookBub: Night of the Mannequins by Stephen Graham Jones (bought on my kindle from a BookBub link)
    
    
    
39. An Alternate History Novel: Outlawed by Anna North (alternate version of the American west)
    
    
    
40. Found via #Bookstagram: Home Before Dark by Riley Sager
    
    
    
41. An Endorsement by a Famous Author on the Cover: The Troop by Nick Cutter (endorsement by Stephen King on the cover)
    
    
    
42. An Epistolary: Lady Susan by Jane Austen (written in letters)
    
    
    
43. A Character with a Pet Cat: Tilly and the Bookwanderers by Anna James (the bookstore owned by the main character's family has a resident cat)
    
    
    
44. Includes a Garden: Undercover Bromance by Lyssa Kay Adams (main character lives on a hobby farm)
    
    
    
45. A Coming of Age Novel: The Divines by Ellie Eaton 
    
    
    
46. Winner of the National Book Award-Any Year: Jumanji by Chris Van Allsburg
    
    
    
47. A Character with a Disability: A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman (Ove's wife has a disability)
    
    
    
48. A Cover with a Woman Who is Facing Away: That Summer by Jennifer Weiner
    
    
    
49. A Flavor in the Title: Cappuccinos, Cupcakes, and a Corpse by Harper Lin (Cappuccinos and Cupcakes are both flavors)
    
    
    
50. A Shoe on the Cover: Things My Son Needs to Know About the World by Fredrik Backman
    
    
    
51. Published in 2021: The Kitchen Front by Jennifer Ryan
    
    
    
52. Redo One of the Previous 51 Categories from this 2021 Challenge: The Matzah Ball by Jean Meltzer (prompt 49 a flavor in the title; prompt 51 published in 2021)
    
    
    

And there's all the books I read in this year's challenge and I'm so proud of myself for actually fitting in something for each and every prompt this time around. Tomorrow is the worst books that I read in 2021, which I'm excited about. 

Happy Reading!

Richelle