2021 PopSugar Reading Challenge

 

Hello Readers!

 Are you participating in the PopSugar reading challenge this year?


This will be the third year I've participated but I've never been strict with following the prompts and have yet to complete one.
Perhaps this will be the year that I change that!
  I'm going to continue with my trend from last year by adding books that I own/have on my TBR that might fit the prompts and then crossing them out once I read that book.

Feel free to leave me recs for the ones I haven't filled in yet!

 Title = finished reading
* = currently reading


1. A book that's published in 2021
Across the Green Grass Fields
2. An Afrofuturist book
The Deep, Binti, The Fifth Season, Akata Witch
3. A book that has a heart, diamond, club, or spade on the cover
The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight
The Diviners

4. A book by an author who shares your zodiac sign
Joan Aiken, Agatha Christie, Stephen King

5. A dark academia book
The Secret History, Catherine House, Dead Poet's Society

6. A book with a gem, mineral, or rock in the title
Gods, Jade, and Shadows by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

7. A book where the main character works at your current or dream job
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
The Haunted Bookshop by Christopher Morley

8. A book that has won the Women's Prize for Fiction
An American Marriage

9.  A book with a family tree
The Cousins by Karen McManus

10. A bestseller from the 1990's
Practical Magic
The Virgin Suicides
Jurassic Park
Cold Mountain

11. A book about forgetting
The Invisible Life of Addie Larue by VE Schwab

12. A book you have seen on someone's bookshelf (in real life, on a Zoom call, in a TV show, etc)
The One and Only Ivan

13. A locked-room mystery
The Last Time I Lied
14. A book set in a restaurant
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

15. A book with a black-and-white cover
My Dark Vanessa, A Promised Land

16. A book by an Indigenous author
There, There by Tommy Orange
Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger
17. A book that has the same title as a song
Layla by Colleen Hoover
For Whom The Bell Tolls
The Phantom of the Opera
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Brave New World
You Love Me
18. A book about a subject you are passionate about


19. A book that discusses body positivity


20. A book found on a Black Lives Matter reading list
Between the World and Me
Stamped From the Beginning
Stamped: Remix
White Fragility

21. A genre hybrid
Gideon the Ninth

22.  A book set mostly or entirely outdoors
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
The Wood
The Boy In The Woods DNF
A Walk in the Woods
Gone to the Woods
23. A book with something broken on the cover
Ready Player Two (broken letters)
 This Is Where It Ends

24. A book by a Muslim American author
We Hunt the Flame by Hafsah Faizal
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Thorn by Intisar Khanani

Have Read & Recommend: Internment by Samira Ahmed

25. A book that was published anonymously
Go Ask Alice (reread)

26. A book with an oxymoron in the title
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth
The Once and Future Witches

27. A book about do-overs or fresh starts
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
CirceThe Four Winds by Kristin Hannah

28. A magical realism book
House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune
 The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
 Love in the Time of Cholera

Have Read & Recommend: Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel, Beloved by Toni Morrison

29. A book set in multiple countries
The Midnight Library
Gods of Jade and Shadow
Chance: Escape from the Holocaust by Uri Shulevitz (Poland, Soviet Union, Turkistan)
Inside Out & Back Again (Vietnam, Guam, US)

30. A book set somewhere you'd like to visit in 2021
Cold Mountain
A Walk in the Woods
Willa of the Woods

31. A book by a blogger, vlogger, YouTube video creator, or other online personality
Turtles All the Way Down

32. A book whose title starts with "Q," "X," or "Z"
The Queen's Gambit
Queen of the Tearling

33. A book featuring three generations (grandparent, parent, child)
The Vanishing Half
A Thousand Splendid SunsThe Evolution of Calpurnia Tate
The Four Winds
Spinning Silver

34. A book about a social justice issue
The Vanishing Half
Stamped from the beginning

35. A book in a different format than what you normally read (audiobooks, ebooks, graphic novels)
audiobook - Emma in the Night, The Cousins,

36. A book that has fewer than 1,000 reviews on Amazon or Goodreads
T. Minus: The Race to the Moon by Jim Ottaviani

37. A book you think your best friend would like


38. A book about art or an artist
Hamnet

39. A book everyone seems to have read but you
Practical Magic
Salem's Lot
Verity
Carrie
40. Your favorite prompt from a past POPSUGAR Reading Challenge

Advanced

41. The longest book (by pages) on your TBR list
Dune, A Priory of the Orange Tree

42. The shortest book (by pages) on your TBR list
Brokeback Mountain

43. The book on your TBR list with the prettiest cover
The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea
Pan's Labyrinth
 King of Scars
 The Snow Queen
44. The book on your TBR list with the ugliest cover 
The Hunger
The Virgin Suicides
Fried Green Tomatoes

45. The book that's been on your TBR list for the longest amount of time
The Thirteenth Tale
 A Tale of Two Cities

46. A book from your TBR list you meant to read last year but didn't
The Near WitchThe Starless SeaGideon the Ninth
The Library of Auschwitz
Fever 1793

47. A book from your TBR list you associate with a favorite person, place, or thing
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

48. A book from your TBR list chosen at random
The Case of the Missing Marquess
Bridge of Souls

49. A DNF book from your TBR list
 The Year of the Witching
The Bone Houses

50. A free book from your TBR list (gifted, borrowed, library)Verity by Colleen Hoover (was free on Kindle!)

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