This page is to help me keep track of how the challenge is going and to help anyone with ideas for their own challenges.
Pictures indicate book actually read.
A book that’s published in 2021
Rule of Wolves by Leigh Bardugo
An Afrofuturist book
Lagoon by Nnedi Okorafor
A book that has a heart, diamond, club, or spade on the cover
The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee / Spellslinger by Sebastien de Castell
A book by an author who shares your zodiac sign (Cancer)
A dark academia book
Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo / The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
A book with a gem, mineral, or rock in the title
A Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J. Maas / Opal by Maggie Stiefvater
A book where the main character works at your current or dream job
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A book that has won the Women’s Prize For Fiction
Circe by Madeline Miller
A book with a family tree
Crazy Rich Asian by Kevin Kwan / The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon
A bestseller from the 1990s
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon / The Secret History by Donna Tartt
A book about forgetting
A book you have seen on someone’s bookshelf (in real life, on a Zoom call, in a TV show, etc.)
A locked-room mystery
A is for Alibi by Kinsey Millhone / Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
A book set in a restaurant
The Little Teashop of Lost and Found by Trisha Ashley / Chocolat by Joanne Harris
A book with a black-and-white cover
Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo / The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
A book by an Indigenous author
Jojo Rabbit by Taika Waititi
A book that has the same title as a song
Any Way the Wind Blows by Rainbow Rowell / A Winter’s Promise by Christelle Dabos
A book about a subject you are passionate about
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A book that discusses body positivity
Hold Me Closer, Necromancer by Lish McBride / The Upside of Unrequited by Becky Albertalli
A book found on a Black Lives Matter reading list
Victor LaValle’s Destroyer by Victor LaValle
A genre hybrid (Mystery>Crime / Urban Fantasy)
A book set mostly or entirely outdoors
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
A book with something broken on the cover
Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir / The Queen of Nothing by Holly Black
A book by a Muslim American author
An Ember in the Ashes by Sahaa Tahir/ The City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty
A book that was published anonymously
The Arabian Nights
A book with an oxymoron in the title
The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee / Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
A book about do-overs or fresh starts
Circe by Madeline Miller / The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
A magical realism book
The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern / The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern / The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker
A book set in multiple countries
The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee / The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab / Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
A book set somewhere you’d like to visit in 2021
Less by Andrew Sean Greer
A book by a blogger, vlogger, YouTube video creator, or other online personality
A book whose title starts with “Q,” “X,” or “Z”
The Queen of Nothing by Holly Black / Zombies Vs. Unicorns by various
A book featuring three generations (grandparent, parent, child)
Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan
A book about a social justice issue
A book in a different format than what you normally read (audiobooks, ebooks, graphic novels)
Miss Abbott and the Doctor – Maripaz Villar
A book that has fewer than 1,000 reviews on Amazon or Goodreads
Miss Abbott and the Doctor – Maripaz Villar (103 reviews on Goodreads)
A book you think your best friend would like
A book about art or an artist
Call Down the Hawk by Maggie Stiefvater /The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab / The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
A book everyone seems to have read but you
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
Your favorite prompt from a past POPSUGAR Reading Challenge
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The longest book (by pages) on your TBR list
The shortest book (by pages) on your TBR list
The book on your TBR list with the prettiest cover
The book on your TBR list with the ugliest cover
The book that’s been on your TBR list for the longest amount of time
A book from your TBR list you meant to read last year but didn’t
A book from your TBR list you associate with a favorite person, place, or thing
A book from your TBR list chosen at random
A DNF book from your TBR list
A free book from your TBR list (gifted, borrowed, library)
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