2024 POPSUGAR Reading Challenge
Hosted by PopSugar, this Reading Challenge has 45 normal book prompts, with an additional 5 “advanced” prompts as well. This year’s theme is meant to celebrate the magic of words, and so each prompt subtly revolves around dictionaries.
PopSugar’s website has a printable list, and recommends that you join the Facebook group for support! I will be on there and 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: 20 Down, 30 to Go!
Here’s the List:
- A book with the word “leap” in the title
- A bildungsroman – The Outsiders by SE Hinton
- A book about a 24-year-old – Blue Fire by Ashleigh McCaulley*
- A book about a writer
- A book about K-pop
- A book about pirates
- A book about women’s sports and/or by a woman athlete
- A book by a blind or visually impaired author
- A book by a deaf or hard-of-hearing author
- A book by a self-published author – The Pod Tower by Pete Alexander* (review upcoming!)
- A book from a genre you typically avoid – Sword of Sorrow, Blade of Joy by JF Lee (Wuxia)
- A book from an animal’s POV
- A book originally published under a pen name
- A book recommended by a bookseller – Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
- A book recommended by a librarian – The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
- A book set 24 years before you were born
- A book set in a travel destination on your bucket list
- A book set in space
- A book set in the future – Welcome to Opine by Matthew Marullo*
- A book set in the snow – Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
- A book that came out in a year that ends with “24” – But Everyone Feels This Way: How An Autism Diagnosis Saved My Life by Paige Layle
- A book that centers on video games
- A book that features dragons – Windward by S. Kaeth* (review upcoming!)
- A book that takes place over the course of 24 hours – Roman Fever by Edith Wharton (I know it’s a short story, but I’m counting it!)
- A book that was published 24 years ago
- A book that was turned into a musical – Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
- A book where someone dies in the first chapter – Wild Flowers, Electric Beasts by Alina Leonova
- A book with a main character who’s 42 years old
- A book with a neurodivergent main character
- A book with a one-word title you had to look up in a dictionary – Azygos by JH White*
- A book with a title that is a complete sentence – I Survived Capitalism and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt by Madeline Pendleton
- A book with an enemies-to-lovers plot – Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
- A book with an unreliable narrator
- A book with at least three POVs – As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
- A book with magical realism
- A book written by an incarcerated or formerly incarcerated person
- A book written during NaNoWriMo
- A cozy fantasy book
- A fiction book by a trans or nonbinary author – Tell Me How It Ends by Quinton Li
- A horror book by a BIPOC author
- A memoir that explores queerness
- A nonfiction book about Indigenous people
- A second-chance romance
- An autobiography by a woman in rock ‘n’ roll
- An LGBTQ+ romance novel – Blackmailer’s Delight by David Lawrence*