Saturday, January 26, 2019

2019 PopSugar Reading Challenge

I have never participated in this challenge before but I like the idea of loose prompts that I can choose books for so I thought I'd give it a whirl this year. 

I thought it would help to give myself a few choices for each criteria to hopefully help me cross them off the list throughout the year! I'm also being a stickler and mostly choosing from my 2019 TBR so some prompts may be left empty. 

A book becoming a movie in 2019
All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven
The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness
The Sun Is Also A Star by Nicola Yoon
Pet Sematary by Stephen King
Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer

A book that makes me nostalgic
Where the Red Ferns Grow

A book written by a musician
Bird Box by Josh Malerman

A book you think should be turned into a movie
Chomp by Carl Hiaasen

A book with at least one million ratings on Goodreads
1984 by George Orwell

A book with a plant in the title or on the cover
A Tree Grows In Brooklyn by Betty Smith
Small Spaces by Katherine Arden

A reread of a favorite book
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk

A book about a hobby
Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages by Gaston Dorren (My most recently acquired hobby is learning languages!)

A book you meant to read in 2018
Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik
The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey

A book with POP, SUGAR, or CHALLENGE in the title

A book with an item of clothing or accessory on the cover
The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai

A book inspired by myth/legend/folklore
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
Circe by Madeline Miller
Aru Shaw and the End of Time by Roshani Chokski

A book published posthumously
Brief Answers to the Big Questions by Stephen Hawking

A book you see someone reading on TV or in a movie
A Christmas Carol (in Outlander S3)

A retelling of a classic

A book with a question in the title
Where'd You Go, Bernadette?

A book set on college or university campus
The Secret History by Donna Tartt

A book about someone with a superpower

A book told from multiple POVs
Wilder Girls by Rory Power

A book set in space

A book by two female authors

A book with SALTY, SWEET, BITTER, or SPICY in the title

A book set in Scandinavia
Beartown by Frederik Bachman 
Sea Witch by Sarah Henning

A book that takes place in a single day
The Sun Is Also A Star by Nicola Yoon

A debut novel

A book that's published in 2019
Internment by Samira Ahmed

A book featuring an extinct or imaginary creature
Dealing With Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede
Kenny and the Dragon by Tony Diterlizzi
The Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge

A book recommended by a celebrity you admire

A book with LOVE in the title
The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight

A book featuring an amateur detective

A book about family

A book author from Asia, Africa, or South America

A book with a zodiac sign or astrology term in title
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

A book that includes a wedding
?

A book by an author whose first and last names start with the same letter
The Casquette Girls by Alys Arden
Mr. Dickens and His Carol by Samantha Silva
Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik

A ghost story
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins 
Tunnel of Bones by Victoria Schwab

A book with a two-word title
Jeremy Poldark by Winston Graham
Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline
Doctor Sleep by Stephen King
Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
On Writing by Stephen King

Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik

A novel based on a true story
The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris

A book revolving around a puzzle or game

Your favorite prompt from a past PopSugar Reading Challenge
?


I'm adding the advanced options as well but I don't think I'll be able to read any of these without buying or borrowing. 

A "cli-fi" (climate fiction) book
Dry by Neal Shusterman 

A "choose your own adventure" book

An "own voices" book
Aru Shah and the End of Time by Roshani Chokski

Read a book during the season it's set in
The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
Beartown by Fredrick Bachman

A LitRPG book

A book with no chapters / unusual chapter headings / unconventionally numbered chapters 
(I'll have to look through my tbr pile)

Two books that share the same title #1 & #2

A book that has inspired a common phrase or idiom

A book set in an abbey, cloister, monastery, vicarage, or convent


I'll be editing this throughout the year to cross off what I've read!
I'm also not against recommendations for the empty categories!

4 comments:

  1. This sounds like a fun challenge! Good luck!

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  2. This sounds like such a fun challenge, I think I might be doing it too!

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