Popsugar Challenge | Book Title |
A book that’s published in 2021 | The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner |
An Afrofuturist book | Binti by Nnedi Okorafor |
A book that has a heart, diamond, club, or spade on the cover | The Glass Magician by Charlie N. Holmberg |
A book by an author who shares your zodiac sign | The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame |
A dark academia book | The Lessons by Naomi Alderman |
A book with a gem, mineral, or rock in the title | Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia |
A book where the main character works at your current or dream job | The Versions of Us by Laura Barnett |
A book that has won the Women’s Prize For Fiction | Celestial Bodies by Jokha Alharthi, Marilyn Booth (Translator) |
A book with a family tree | The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon |
A bestseller from the 1990s | Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt |
A book about forgetting | The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab |
A book you have seen on someone’s bookshelf (in real life, on a Zoom call, in a TV show, etc.) | Catch-22 by Jospeh Heller |
A locked-room mystery | A Very Pukka Murder by Arjun Raj Gaind |
A book set in a restaurant | Vanessa Yu’s Magical Paris Tea Shop by Roselle Lim |
A book with a black-and-white cover | Artemis by Andy Weir |
A book by an Indigenous author | There There by Tommy Orange |
A book that has the same title as a song | You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson |
A book about a subject you are passionate about | Homes: A Refugee Story by Abu Bakr al Rabeeah, Winnie Yeung |
A book that discusses body positivity | The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf |
A book found on a Black Lives Matter reading list | Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge |
A genre hybrid | Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb #1) by Tamsyn Muir |
A book set mostly or entirely outdoors | Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor |
A book with something broken on the cover | Little Cruelties by Liz Nugent |
A book by a Muslim American author | Even in the Breaks by Hend Hegazi |
A book that was published anonymously | The Arabian Nights by Anonymous, Richard Francis Burton (Translator) |
A book with an oxymoron in the title | A Neon Darkness by Lauren Shippen |
A book about do-overs or fresh starts | Circe by Madeline Miller |
A magical realism book | Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado |
A book set in multiple countries | Ibn Fadlān and the Land of Darkness: Arab Travellers in the Far North (Library of Arabic Literature) by Ahmad ibn Fadlān |
A book set somewhere you’d like to visit in 2021 | The Old Man and His Sons by Heðin Brú, John F. West (Translator) |
A book by a blogger, vlogger, YouTube video creator, or other online personality | Stay Sexy & Don’t Get Murdered: The Definitive How-To Guide by Karen Kilgariff, Georgia Hardstark |
A book whose title starts with “Q,” “X,” or “Z” | Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1) by Robert M. Pirsig |
A book featuring three generations (grandparent, parent, child) | Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward |
A book about a social justice issue | The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love by Sonya Renee Taylor |
A book in a different format than what you normally read (audiobooks, ebooks, graphic novels) | Mis(h)adra by Iasmin Omar Ata |
A book that has fewer than 1,000 reviews on Amazon or Goodreads | Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction by Lisa Kröger |
A book you think your best friend would like | Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan |
A book about art or an artist | The Henna Artist by Alka Joshi |
A book everyone seems to have read but you | Eragon by Christopher Paolini |
Your favorite prompt from a past POPSUGAR Reading Challenge | Read a Banned Book Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado |
The longest book (by pages) on your TBR list | The Master and the Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov |
The shortest book (by pages) on your TBR list | The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway |
The book on your TBR list with the prettiest cover | Woven in Moonlight by Isabel Ibañez |
The book on your TBR list with the ugliest cover | Neuromancer by William Gibson |
The book that’s been on your TBR list for the longest amount of time | Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy |
A book from your TBR list you meant to read last year but didn’t | Warcross by Marie Lu |
A book from your TBR list you associate with a favorite person, place, or thing | Cairo by G. Willow Wilson |
A book from your TBR list chosen at random | The Compound by S. A. Bodeen |
A DNF book from your TBR list | Red Hood by Elena K. Arnold |
A free book from your TBR list (gifted, borrowed, library) | The Henna Artist by Alka Joshi |
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