PopSugar's 2022 Reading Challenge

 

This is the eighth PS reading challenge and my fourth year participating!

I'm not very strict about whether I will finish the challenge or not but I love to build my yearly tbr from these challenges and it's always a challenge in itself to find a book I own or have access to that will fit each prompt, but I'm loving these and hope I can knock lots of literature off my tbr list!

THE PROMPTS

1. A book published in 2022
Where the Drowned Girls Go
Northwind
Sleepwalk
Wake the Bones
Amari and the Night Brothers
When Women Were Dragons

2. Set on a plane, train, or cruise ship
The Woman in Cabin 10
Project Hail Mary

3. A book about or set in a nonpatriarchal country
The Power by Naomi Alderman

4.  A book with a tiger on the cover or in the title
The Tiger's Wife

KidLit: 
Camp Tiger by Susan Choi (PB)
When You Trap A Tiger (MG)
The Tiger Rising (J)

5. A sapphic book
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
The Priory of the Orange Tree
Girls of Paper and Fire
When Women Were Dragons
The Girl From the Sea

6. A book by a Latinx author
Velvet Was the Night

7. A book with onomatopoeia in the title
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Ring Shout
Harlem Shuffle

Rec: Flush by Carl Hiaasen

8. A book with a protagonist who uses a mobility aid
Heidi
White Bird

9. A book about a "found" family
The House in the Cerulean Sea
Lumberjanes
A History of Wild Places

10. An Annisfield-Wolf Book Award Winner
Deacon King Kong
There, There
Sing, Unburied, Sing
Hidden Figures
Half Of A Yellow Sun

11. A Booktok recommendation
The Song of Achilles
Cultish

12. A book about the afterlife
Under the Whispering Door
The Broken Girls

13. A book set in the 1980's
My Best Friend's Exorcism by Grady Hendrix
Paper Girls
Watchmen
The Blackbird Girls

14. A book with cutlery on the cover or in the title
The Bird Eater by Ania Ahlborn

15. A book by a Pacific Islander author
Nothing But Blackened Teeth
Tokyo Ever After
Pachinko
Little Fires Everywhere*
The Forest of Stolen Girls^
The Astonishing Color of After

Picture books:
Drawn Together^
A Different Pond

16. A book about witches
Practical Magic
A Lullaby For Witches
The Witches

17. A book becoming a TV series or movie in 2022
Around the World in Eighty Days
Bad Monkey by Carl Hiaasen
Daisy Jones & the Six
Pachinko
Paper Girls
The Power
Neil Gaiman's Sandman
White Bird
Firestarter

18. A romance novel by a BIPOC author
Never Tell by Stacey Abrams
Velvet Was the Night

19. A book that takes place during your favorite season


20. A book whose title begins with the last letter of your previous read
Damnation Spring, following White Bird.

21. A book about a band or musical group
Daisy and the Six


22. A book with a character on the ace spectrum


23. A book with a recipe in it


24. A book you can read in one sitting
Red at the Bone
The Aquanaut

25. A book about a secret
The Last Time I Lied by Riley Sager
Amari and the Night Brothers


26. A book with a misleading title


27. A HUGO Award winner
This Is How You Lose the Time War

28. A book set during a holiday
Father Christmas and Me

29. A different book by an author you read in 2021
Empty Smiles
The Final Girl Support Group
The Haunting of Leigh Harker
The Last Time I Lied
The Shape of Darkness
Out of the Rain

30. A book with the name of a board game in the title
Pan's Labyrinth

31. A book featuring a man-made disaster


32. A book with a quote from your favorite author on a cover or Amazon page


33. A social-horror book
Sorrowland

34. A book set in Victorian times
Within These Wicked Walls

35. A book with a constellation on the cover or in the title
Brief Answers to the Big Questions

36. A book you know nothing about


37. A book about gender identity
Gender Queer

38. A book featuring a party
The Guest List
Lore Olympus Vol 1

39. An #ownvoices SFF book
Amari and the Night Brothers

40. A book that fulfills your favorite prompt from a past PopSugar reading challenge



ADVANCED

41. A book with a reflected image on the cover or "mirror" in the title
The Book of Accidents
The Firekeeper's Daughter
Gallant
Graceling (Graphic Novel)
A History of Wild Places

42. A book that features two languages
Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas
The Last Cuentista
The Poet X

43. A book with a palindromic title
Maddaddam

44. A duology (1)


45. A duology (2)


46. A book about someone leading a double life


47. A book featuring a parallel reality
Where the Drowned Girls Go

48. A book with two POVs
Mercury
The Book of Cold Cases
Ugly Love

49. Two books set in twin towns, aka "sister cities" (1)


50. Two books set in twin towns/sister cities (2)




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