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The 52 Book Club's 2025 Challenge - hosted by the52bookclub

A crossover (set in a shared universe)
Prompts 28 and 29 are connected. Your book choice for 28 will influence prompt 29.

A shared universe is when two or more standalone stories take place in the same world setting with the same continuity. This means that one story has the potential to influence events in another story, or that characters from one standalone novel may bump into characters from another standalone novel. (Note: This is different than books in the same series, although books from separate series may share a universe.)
 
For this prompt, you may pick a book with a character crossover or character cameo (For example: the main character in book one enters a coffee shop and bumps into the main character from the author's previous novel). You might choose a location crossover (For example: the main character in one book visits or references a bar owned by a character in another book), or the book may reference events or information from another book. Books in a shared universe may or may not share characters.

Examples: Star Wars books, Stephen King's The Dark Tower series (It, The Stand, Salem's Lot, etc), Brandon Sanderson's Cosmere Universe (Elantris, Mistborn, Warbreaker, The Stormlight Archive, White Sand), The Last Bookshop in London and The Booklover's Library, Taylor Jenkins Reid (The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Daisy Jones and the Six, Malibu Rising, Carrie Soto is Back), Abby Jimenez books, Marvel comics 
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One Grave at a Time by Jeaniene Frost

One Grave at a Time

Night Huntress #6

Jeaniene Frost

9 hours, 6 minutes • audio • 2011

fiction fantasy mystery funny mysterious fast-paced
The Tower of Nero by Rick Riordan

The Tower of Nero

The Trials of Apollo #5

Rick Riordan

416 pages • hardcover • 2020

fiction fantasy middle grade adventurous emotional funny fast-paced
Rainbirds by Clarissa Goenawan

Rainbirds

Clarissa Goenawan

336 pages • paperback • 2018

fiction contemporary mystery emotional mysterious slow-paced
Her Alien Farmhand: Blind Date with an Alien by Honey Phillips

Her Alien Farmhand: Blind Date with an Alien

Honey Phillips

154 pages • digital • 2021 user-added

fiction erotica romance science fiction adventurous fast-paced
Black: The Birth of Evil by Ted Dekker

Black: The Birth of Evil

The Circle #1

Ted Dekker

432 pages • paperback • 2003

fiction fantasy adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced
Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell by Brandon Sanderson

Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell

The Cosmere

Brandon Sanderson

50 pages • paperback • 2013

fiction fantasy short stories adventurous mysterious fast-paced
Consumed by Deception by Rina Kent

Consumed by Deception

Deception Trilogy #3

Rina Kent

286 pages • digital • 2021

fiction contemporary romance thriller adventurous emotional tense medium-paced
Touch Is Really Strange by Steve Haines

Touch Is Really Strange

...is Really Strange

Steve Haines

32 pages • paperback • 2021

nonfiction comics science informative reflective medium-paced
The Sign of Four by Arthur Conan Doyle

The Sign of Four

Sherlock Holmes #2

Arthur Conan Doyle

4 hours, 44 minutes • audio • 1890 user-added

fiction classics crime mystery adventurous mysterious medium-paced
The Frozen People by Elly Griffiths

The Frozen People

Ali Dawson #1

Elly Griffiths

343 pages • hardcover • 2025

fiction crime historical mystery science fiction adventurous mysterious medium-paced