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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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Winter Nights at the Bay Bookshop by Jessica Redland

Winter Nights at the Bay Bookshop

Jessica Redland

387 pages • digital • 2025 user-added

fiction contemporary romance
Anne of the Island by L.M. Montgomery

Anne of the Island

Anne of Green Gables #3

L.M. Montgomery

243 pages • paperback • 1915

fiction classics middle grade emotional hopeful lighthearted medium-paced
Summers at the Saint by Mary Kay Andrews

Summers at the Saint

Mary Kay Andrews

448 pages • hardcover • 2024

fiction contemporary mystery romance emotional mysterious medium-paced
The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom

The Kitchen House

Kathleen Grissom

368 pages • paperback • 2010

fiction historical emotional informative reflective slow-paced
1984 by George Orwell

1984

George Orwell

314 pages • digital • 1949

fiction classics dystopian literary science fiction dark reflective tense medium-paced
The Hallowed Hunt by Lois McMaster Bujold

The Hallowed Hunt

World of the Five Gods #3

Lois McMaster Bujold

436 pages • paperback • 2005

fiction fantasy romance adventurous mysterious slow-paced
It's in His Kiss by Julia Quinn

It's in His Kiss

Bridgerton #7

Julia Quinn

368 pages • paperback • 2005

fiction historical romance lighthearted fast-paced
Close Knit by Jenny Colgan

Close Knit

Jenny Colgan

360 pages • paperback • 2024

fiction contemporary romance emotional lighthearted slow-paced
Die 13½ Leben des Käpt'n Blaubär by Walter Moers

Die 13½ Leben des Käpt'n Blaubär

Zamonien #1

Walter Moers

702 pages • hardcover • 1999

fiction fantasy young adult adventurous funny lighthearted medium-paced
False Gods by Graham McNeill

False Gods

The Horus Heresy #2

Graham McNeill

406 pages • paperback • 2006

fiction science fiction adventurous mysterious fast-paced