2023 PopSugar Reading Challenge

Hosted by PopSugar, this Reading Challenge has 40 normal book prompts, with an additional 10 “advanced” prompts as well! PopSugar’s website has a printable list, and recommends that you join the Goodreads group for support! I will be on there and on here, so if you are participating this year, let’s support each other! Share your progress on Instagram with #Popsugarreadingchallenge… You know I will!

Progress: 33 Down, 17 to Go!

Here’s the List:

1. A book you meant to read in 2022 – In the Heart of the Garden Is a Tomb by Joe Pawlowski
2. A book you bought from an independent bookstore – The Hag Rider by Thomas Fenske (I’m cheating here, since I didn’t buy it… But it IS an indie book, so it WOULD be at an indie bookstore!)
3. A book about a vacation – Silverskin by Caitee Cooper (Review Upcoming)
4. A book by a first-time author – Snail’s Pace by Susan McDonough-Wachtman
5. A book with mythical creatures – Breaker by Amy Campbell
6. A book about a forbidden romance – When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain by Nghi Vo
7. A book with “Girl” in the title
8. A celebrity memoir
9. A book with a color in the title
10. A romance with a fat lead
11. A book about or set in Hollywood
12. A book published in spring 2023 – The Path of Celestial Thunder by DRR Hatch
13. A book published the year you were born
14. A modern retelling of a classic – The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw
15. A book with a song lyric as its title
16. A book where the main character’s name is in the title – Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
17. A book with a love triangle – Genesis by CA Voss
18. A book that’s been banned or challenged in any state in 2022 – 1984 by George Orwell
19. A book that fulfills your favorite prompt from a past challenge – Book of Night by Holly Black
20. A book becoming a TV series or movie in 2023
21. A book set in the decade you were born
22. A book with a queer lead – Merchants of Knowledge and Magic by Erika McCorkle
23. A book with a map – The Fellowship of the Ring by JRR Tolkien
24. A book with a rabbit on the cover – Alice by Christina Henry
25. A book with just text on the cover – The Murder Next Door by Sarah Bell
26. The shortest book (by pages) on your TBR list – The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
27. A #BookTok recommendation – Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity by Devon Price
28. A book you bought secondhand – The Two Towers by JRR Tolkien
29. A book your friend recommended – Silence by Shusaku Endo
30. A book that’s on a celebrity book-club list – The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk
31. A book about a family – Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
32. A book that comes out in the second half of 2023 – Well of Shadows by DRR Hatch
33. A book about an athlete/sport
34. A historical-fiction book – One Night in Fear City by JJ Hernandez
35. A book about divorce
36. A book you think your best friend would like – Moon & Shadow (The Channeler Trilogy) by J. Steven Lamperti
37. A book you should have read in high school – The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
38. A book you read more than 10 years ago
39. A book you wish you could read for the first time again – Sexuality Beyond Consent: Risk, Race, Traumatophilia by Avgi SAketopoulou (review upcoming)
40. A book by an author with the same initials as you

Advanced:

1. A book written during NaNoWriMo
2. A book based on a popular movie
3. A book that takes place entirely in one day – Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Caroll
4. A book that was self-published – Email from the Future: Notes from 2084 by Michael Rogers
5. A book that started out as fan fiction
6. A book with a pet character – Nightfall by MA Vice
7. A book about a holiday that’s not Christmas
8. A book that features two languages – The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
9. The longest book (by pages) on your TBR list – War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (review upcoming)
10. A book with alliteration in the title – A Forest of Vanity and Valour by AP Beswick