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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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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
An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir

An Ember in the Ashes

An Ember in the Ashes #1

Sabaa Tahir

464 pages • digital • 2015

fiction fantasy romance young adult adventurous dark tense medium-paced
Elantris by Brandon Sanderson

Elantris

Elantris #1

Brandon Sanderson

27 hours, 30 minutes • audio • 2005

fiction fantasy adventurous mysterious medium-paced
The Moon Sister by Lucinda Riley

The Moon Sister

The Seven Sisters #5

Lucinda Riley

738 pages • paperback • 2018

fiction historical romance adventurous emotional medium-paced
The Prisoner's Key by C.J. Archer

The Prisoner's Key

Glass and Steele #8

C.J. Archer

288 pages • digital • 2019

fiction fantasy historical mystery romance emotional mysterious fast-paced
Deep End by Ali Hazelwood

Deep End

Ali Hazelwood

446 pages • paperback • 2025

fiction contemporary romance sports emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced