Book Prompt | Books Read | Ideas |
A book published in 2022 | – Gallent (V.E. Schwab), – Book of Night (Holly Black) | |
A book set on a plane, train, or cruise ship | – Death on the Nile (Agatha Christie), – Escaping from Houdini (Kerri Maniscalco) | |
A book about or set in a nonpatriarchal society | – Scythe (Neal Shusterman), – The Bone Ships (R.J. Barker), – The Priory of the Orange Tree (Samantha Shannon) | |
A book with a tiger on the cover or “tiger” in the title | – Tiger Queen (Annie Sullivan) | |
A sapphic book | – The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Taylor Jenkins Reid), – The Priory of the Orange Tree (Samantha Shannon) – Gideon the Ninth (Tamsyn Muir) | |
A book by a Latinx author | – Mexican Gothic (Silvia Moreno-Garcia), – Aristotle and Dante (Benjamin Alire Sáenz) | |
A book with a protagonist who uses a mobility aid | – Aurora Rising (Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff) – Half a King (Joe Abercrombie) | |
A book about a “found family” | – The House in the Cerulean Sea (T.J. Klune) – The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Becky Chambers) – Project Hail Mary (Andy Weir) | |
An Anisfield-Wolf Book Award winner | – Bunk: The True Story of Hoaxes, Hucksters, Humbug, Plagiarists, Forgeries, and Phonies (Kevin Young) | |
A #BookTok recommendation | ||
A book about the afterlife | – Under the Whispering Door (T.J. Klune) – The Midnight Library (Matt Haig) – Days of Blood & Starlight (Laini Taylor) | |
A book set in the 1980s | – The Secret History (Donna Tartt) – Eleanor & Park (Rainbow Rowell) – The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (haruki Murakami) | |
A book with cutlery on the cover or in the title | – Arsenic and Adobo (Mia P. Manansala) – The Milk Tart Murders (Sally Andrew) | |
A book by a Pacific Islander author | – Year of the Reaper (Makiia Lucier) | |
A book about witches | – The Bear and the Nightingale (Katherine Arden) | |
A book becoming a TV series or movie in 2022 | – Death on the Nile (Agatha Christie) – The Essex Serpent (Sarah Perry) | |
A romance novel by a BIPOC author | – Aristotle and Dante (Benjamin Alire Sáenz) – The Princess Trap (Talia Hibbert) | |
A book that takes place during your favorite season (Autumn/Winter) | – An Enchantment of Ravens (Margaret Rogerson) – The Broken Girls (Simone St. James) | |
A book whose title begins with the last letter of your previous read | Previous Book: Gallant | |
A book about a band or musical group | – The Album of Dr. Moreau (Daryl Gregory) – The boyband Murder Mystery (Ava Eldred) | |
A book with a character on the ace spectrum | – The Love Hypotheses (Ali Hazelwood) – City of Strife (Claudie Arseneault) – The Foxhole Court (Nora Sakavic) – The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue (Mackenzi Lee) | |
A book with a recipe in it | – Arsenic and Adobo (Mia P. Manansala) – Nanny Ogg’s Cookbook (Terry Pratchett) | |
A book you can read in one sitting | – We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Shirley Jackson, – A Dead Djinn in Cairo (P. Djèlí Clark) | |
A book about a secret | – The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Taylor Jenkins Reid), – The Secret History (Donna Tartt) – Firekeeper’s Daughter (Angeline Boulley) – Glided (Marissa Meyer) | |
A book with a misleading title | – The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Taylor Jenkins Reid), – A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian (Marina Lewycka) | |
A Hugo Award winner | – The Ten Thousand Doors of January (Alix E. Harrow) – The Dispossessed (Ursula K. Le Guin) | |
A book set during a holiday | – The Toymakers (Robert Dinsdale) – Cemetery Boys (Aiden Thomas) – Hallowe’en Party (Agatha Christie) | |
A different book by an author you read in 2021 | ||
A book with the name of a board game in the title | – Scythe (Neal Shusterman) | |
A book featuring a man-made disaster | – The Fifth Season (N.K. Jamisin) | |
A book with a quote from your favorite author on the cover or Amazon page | ||
A social-horror book | – Mexican Gothic (Silvia Moreno-Garcia), – Lovecraft Country (Matt Ruff) | |
A book set in Victorian times | – Escaping from Houdini (Kerri Maniscalco) – The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage (Sydney Padua) – The Paper Magician (Charlie N. Holmberg) – A Study in Scarlet Women (Sherry Thomas) | |
A book with Constellations on the cover or in the title | – Aristotle and Dante (Benjamin Alire Sáenz) – The Midnight Library (Matt Haig) | |
A book you know nothing about | ||
A book about gender identity | – The Prince and the Dressmaker (Jen Wang) – Cemetery Boys (Aiden Thomas) | |
A book featuring a party | – Hallowe’en Party (Agatha Christie) – The Diviners (Libba Bray) | |
An #OwnVoices SFF (Science fiction and fantasy) book | – Gideon the Ninth (Tamsyn Muir) – Cemetery Boys (Aiden Thomas) – Jade City (Fonda Lee) – Woven in Moonlight (Isabel Ibañez) | |
A book that fulfills your favorite prompt from a past POPSUGEAR Reading challenge | ||
A book with a reflected image on the cover or “mirror” in the title | – Firekeeper’s Daughter (Angeline Boulley) – Gallent (V.E. Schwab, | |
A book that features two languages | – Firekeeper’s Daughter (Angeline Boulley) – Project Hail Mary (Andy Weir) – Gaudy Night (Dorothy L. Slayers) | |
A book with a palindromic title | – MaddAddam (Margaret Atwood) | |
A duology (1) | – Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (Benjamin Alire Sáenz) – The Merciful Crow (Margaret Owen) – Daughter of the Pirate King (Tricia Levenseller) | |
A duology (2) | – Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World (Benjamin Alire Sáenz) – The Faithless Hawk (Margaret Owen) – Daughter of the Siren Queen (Tricia Levenseller) | |
A book about someone leading a double life | – Ninth House (Leigh Bardugo) | |
A book featuring a parallel reality | – The Midnight Library (Matt Haig) – The Ten Thousand Doors of January (Alix E. Harrow) | |
A book with two POVs | – Ninth House (Leigh Bardugo) – The City of Brass (S.A. Chakraborty) | |
Two books set in twin towns, aka “sister cities” (1) (Lagos) | – Lagoon (Nnedi Okorafor) | |
Two books set in twin towns, aka “sister cities” (2) | – False Impression (Jeffrey Archer) (Bucharest) – Leah on the Offbeat (Becky Albertalli) (Atlanta) | |
A book with onomatopoeia in its title | – Under the Whispering Door (T.J. Klune) |