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! 

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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Hello Readers!

Are you participating in the PopSugar reading challenge this year?
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 This will be the second year I've participated in this and I haven't been strict with following any of the prompts but maybe I'll do better this year!
See my 2019 challenge + progress!

I'm going to continue with my trend from last year of 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

13/50

1. A book published in 2020
American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
Come Tumbling Down
The Conference of the Birds
The Deep by Alma Katsu
Glass Town by Isabel Greenberg
Mexican Gothic
Home Before Dark
Kiki's Delivery Service
+++

2. A book by a trans or non-binary author
All the Birds in the Sky
or
The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter

3. A book with a great first line
A Tale of Two Cities

4. A book about a book club
Mr. Penumbra's 24 Hour Bookstore

5. A book set in a city that has hosted the Olympics
[Tokyo, Beijing, Los Angeles, Rome, Montreal, Barcelona, Sochi, Turin, Paris, Seoul, Cortina d'Ampezzo, Atlanta, Athens, Berlin, Sydney, Moscow, Salt Lake City, Sapporo, Helsinki, Stockholm, Munich, Innsbruck, Vancouver, Lake Placid]
Dear Martin (Atlanta)
A Gentleman In Moscow

6. A bildungsroman
Swamplandia
Born A Crime

7. The first book you touch on your shelf with your eyes closed

8. A book with an upside-down image on the cover
The Outsider by Stephen King

9. A book with a map
Ninth House or The Priory of the Orange Tree

10. A book recommended by your fave blog, vlog, podcast, or online book club
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek

11. An anthology
Full Dark, No Stars
Dreadful Young Ladies
20th Century Ghosts

12. A book that passes the Bechdel test
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
Fingersmith
Little Women

13. A book with the same title as a movie or tv show but unrelated

14. A book by an author whose name has flora or fauna in it
D-Day Girls by Sarah Rose

15. A book about or involving social media

16. A book that has a book on the cover
The Library of Auschwitz
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek

17. A medical thriller
Brain On Fire
The Silent Patient
Miracle Creek

18. A book with a made-up language in it
Watership Down

19. A book set in a country beginning with "C"
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (set in the 'Congo')

20. A book you picked because the title caught your attention
The Golem and the Jinni

21. A book published the month of your birthday
Gideon the Ninth
Squirm

22. A book about or by a woman in STEM
Hidden Figures

23. A book that won an award in 2019
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
New Kid by Jerry Craft

24. A book on a subject you know nothing about
For Small Creatures Such As We by Sasha Sagan

25. A book with only words on the cover. No images or graphics.
The Princess Saves Herself in This One

26. A book with a pun in the title

27. A book that features one of the seven deadly sins
The Scarlet Letter (reread)

28. A book with a robot, cyborg, or AI character

29. A book with a bird on the cover
The Conference of the Birds by Ransom Riggs
or
Guest by Mary Downing Hahn

30. A fiction or nonfiction book about a world leader
11/22/63 by Stephen King

31. A book with "gold," "silver," or "bronze in the title
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

32. A book written by a WOC
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

33. A book with at least a 4-star rating on Goodreads
Born A Crime by Trevor Noah

34. A book you meant to read in 2019

35.  A book with a three-word title
Brave New World
Come Tumbling Down
Gideon the Ninth
Gwendy's Button Box

36. A book with a pink cover


37. A western
Brokeback Mountain or True Grit

38. A book by or about a journalist
Scat by Carl Hiassen (writes for the Miami Herald)
Squirm by Carl Hiassen

39. Read a banned book during Banned Books Week
Brave New World
Watership Down

40. Your favorite prompt from a past PopSugar reading challenge


ADVANCED PROMPTS

41. A book written by an author in their 20's

42. A book with "20" or "twenty" in the title
20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill

43. A book with a character with vision impairment

44. A book set in Japan, host of the 2020 Olympics
Pachinko

45. A book set in the 1920s
A Gentleman in Moscow

46. A book by an author who has written 20+ books
Murder on the Orient Express

47. A book with more than 20 letters in the title
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
I Know What You Did Last Summer

48. A book published in the 20th century

49. A book from a series with more than 20 books in it
Murder On The Orient Express

50. A book with the main character in their 20's
The Night Circus

Good luck if you're participating!
Happy reading!

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