Book Club 2025

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Across
  1. 3. The name of the 'female pope' in legend.
  2. 7. Title of the 2025 Women's Prize-winning novel.
  3. 9. A narrator who cannot be trusted.
  4. 10. Mina's mother in Kokomo.
  5. 11. The Impossible _______, the latest installment in the Thursday Murder Club series.
  6. 13. Tragic Hamlet character referenced by Taylor Swift in her 2025 lead single.
  7. 14. One beloved genre, 'Bunny', could be classified as.
  8. 16. In any narrative, a character who contrasts with another character – typically contrasting with the protagonist.
  9. 17. Title of the 2025 Miles Franklin-winning novel.
  10. 21. Bill Furlong, in Small Things Like These delivers ____ to the residents in his local town.
  11. 24. Suburb where Peter 'The Plum' Lum lives.
  12. 25. Code name for agent Eloise in The Paris Agent.
  13. 27. (Init.) Wartime role played by Noah Ainsworth in The Paris Agent.
  14. 28. Title of the novel which was awarded the 2025 Stella Prize.
  15. 30. Author celebrating 250 years since her birth in 2025.
  16. 31. Surname of Eva's family in We Need to Talk About Kevin
  17. 32. A 14-line poem written in iambic pentameter.
  18. 33. Characters in Kevin Wilson's Nothing to See Here, experience spontaneous __________.
  19. 34. Name of the restaurant where Matilda works in Lonely Mouth.
  20. 36. 2025 novel from Kevin Wilson, Run for the ____
  21. 37. University where Samantha studies and meets the Bunnies.
  22. 38. Popular reading tracking platform
  23. 39. Poet _______ Bukowski, encountered by Peter Lum in Plum.
Down
  1. 1. While travelling to this city, Alex discovers his fear of flying in You and Me on Vacation.
  2. 2. A genre that blends autobiography and fiction.
  3. 4. One-word title of Bri Lee's 2025 Antartica-bound novel.
  4. 5. Twin sister of Hamnet
  5. 6. Amanda who plays Nina in the 2025 adaptation of The Housemaid
  6. 8. A figure of speech which contains a blatant exaggeration.
  7. 12. Total number of books we have read as a group since 2019.
  8. 15. R.F Kuang's 2025 Dark Academia novel.
  9. 18. University of _______ where Poppy and Alex first meet in You and Me on Vacation.
  10. 19. Town where Small Things Like These is set.
  11. 20. Australian attraction where Matilda and Lara were abandoned by their mother in Lonely Mouth.
  12. 22. "Second best ___" – item Shakespeare left to his wife in his will.
  13. 23. German town where we meet Agnes in Rapture.
  14. 25. Title of the 2025 Booker Prize-winning novel.
  15. 26. A short scene that captures a single moment or a defining detail about a character, idea, or other lement of a story.
  16. 29. Style of fiction based on letters, like We Need to Talk About Kevin.
  17. 35. First country mentioned in the song Kokomo by the Beach Boys.
  18. 36. Protagonist of Suzanne Collins' 2025 Hunger Games prequel– _______ Abernathy.