2024 POPSUGAR Reading Challenge

The 2024 PopSugar Reading Challenge!

Hello, readers! 
Happy New Year! 

This is the TENTH year of this reading challenge's existence and the sixth year I've participated! 

This reading challenge provides 50 prompts in all to help readers read more books, whether that be from your shelves, more ebooks or audiobooks, or more books out of your comfort zones.

I don't put any pressure on myself to finish this challenge but participating and widening my reading horizons is always fun. 

Want to join in? 
Check out PopSugar's Reading Challenge HERE!


The Prompts

1. A book with the word "LEAP" in the title


2. A bildungsroman (coming-of-age)
Blankets by Craig Thompson
A Tree Grows In Brooklyn

3. A book about a 24-year-old
Black Sheep
The Circle

4. A book about a writer
The Shining
Misery
The Ghost Writer

5. A book about KPop
(NOT my thing. I read one last year. I'll skip this one.)

6. A book about pirates
Fable
If The Tide Turns
Tress of the Emerald Sea

7. A book about women's sports and/or by a woman athlete
Chlorine

8. A book by a blind or visually impaired author:
Turtles All the Way Down by John Green

9. A book by a deaf or hard-of-hearing author:
Show Me A Sign
El Deafo
The Storyteller by Dave Grohl

10. A book by a self-published author:
Bookshops & Bonedust

11. A book from a genre you typically avoid:
Bookworm
The Lonely Hearts Book Club

12. A book from an animal's POV
Black Beauty
Open Throat
Hollow Kingdom

13. A book originally published under a pen name:
Mislaid in Parts Half-Known

14. A book recommended by a book seller:
Legendborn

15. A book recommended by a librarian:
Yellowface
We Deserve Monuments

16. A book set 24 years before you were born:
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
A Clockwork Orange

17. A book set in a travel destination on your bucket list

18. A book set in space
Dead Space
Dead Silence
This Is How You Lose the Time War

19. A book set in the future
The Future 
Red Rising

20. A book set in the snow
The Snow Child
Dead of Winter

21. A book that came out in a year that ends with 24
Mislaid in Parts Un-Known
Emily Wilde's Map of the Otherlands

22. A book that centers on video games
The Last Wish

23. A book that features dragons
The Eye of the Dragon

24. A book that takes place over the course of 24 hours
Whalefall

25. A book that was published 24 years ago (2000)
Persepolis Vol 1
Spindle's End

26. A book that was turned into a musical
The Phantom of the Opera

27. A book where someone dies in the first chapter
The Overstory
The Maid

28. A book with a MC who's 42 years old
The Family Remains 
Misery

29. A book with a neurodivergent main character
Cloud Cuckoo Land
In the Lives of Puppets

30. A book with a one-word title that you had to look up in a dictionary:
Chouette
Vespertine

31. A book with a title that is a complete sentence
I Keep My Exo-Skeletons To Myself
They Both Die at the End
We Have Always Lived in the Castle

32. A book with an enemies-to-lovers plot
For the Wolf
The Wolf and the Woodsman
This is How You Lose the Time War

33. A book with an unreliable narrator
Bunny
The Wife Upstairs
Piranesi
The Woman in Cabin 10

34. A book with at least 3 POVs

35. A book with magical realism
The Snow Child

36. A book written by an incarcerated or formerly incarcerated author:
The Fury

37. A book written by NaNoWriMo
Clockwork Boys

38. A cozy fantasy novel
After the Forest

39. A fiction book by a trans or nonbinary author
The Witch King

40. A horror book by a BIPOC author 
Jackal
Rouge
Bunny

41. A memoir that explores queerness
Freshwater

42. A nonfiction book about indigenous people
Braiding Sweetgrass
When Stars Are Scattered

43. A second-chance romance
The Witch of Wild Things
Nineteen Steps

44. An autobiography by a woman in rock-n-roll
Sinead O'Connell's memoir

45. An LGBTQIA+ romance
The House in the Cerulean Sea

BONUS PROMPTS:

46. A book in which a character sleeps for over 24 hours

47. A book with 24 letters in the title
I'm Thinking of Ending Things

48. A poetry collection with at least 24 poems

49. The 24th book of an author

50. A book that starts with the letter X




HAPPY READING!