In 2018, I decided to try the annual POPSUGAR Reading Challenge again. This year, I wanted to use my own books to complete the categories so I perused my unread bookshelf to find books that match as many of the categories as I can. Click to watch the video where I announced that
Below are the results that reflect how my 2018 reading choices matched some of the prompts:
- A book made into a movie you’ve already seen Life of Pi /Yann Martel
- True crime
- The next book in a series you started The Story of The Lost Child/ Elena Ferrante
- A book involving a heist
- Nordic noir
- A novel based on a real person The Girl They Left Behind by Roxanne Veletzos
- A book set in a country that fascinates you The Dry/Jane Harper – Set in Australia
- A book with a time of day in the title Midnight’s Children /Salman Rushdie
- A book with a villain or antihero Best Day Ever /Kaira Rouda
- A book about death or grief Sing, Unburied, Sing /Jesmyn Ward
- A book with a female author who uses a male pseudonym
- A book with an LGBTQ+ protagonist Disgrace /J. M. Coetzee
- A book that is also a stage play or musical Vernon God Little /D B C Pierre
- A book by an author of a different ethnicity than you Putney /Sofka Zinovieff
- A book about feminism The Mother of All Questions /Rebecca Solnit
- A book about mental health Turtles All The Way Down /John Green
- A book that you borrowed or that was given to you as a gift Fear and Trembling /Amelie Nothomb
- A book by two authors I Funny /James Patterson & Chris Grabenstein
- Involving a sport
- By a local author The Sellout /Paul Beatty
- A book with your favorite color in the title The Color Purple /Alice Walker
- Alliteration in the title There There /Tommy Orange
- About time travel The Outcasts of Time /Ian Mortimer
- With a weather element in the title Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
- Set at sea The Woman In Cabin 10 /Ruth Ware
- With an animal in the title White Tiger /Aravind Adiga
- Set on a different planet The Humans /Matt Haig
- With song lyrics in the title
- About or set on Halloween
- Characters who are twins The God of Small Things /Arundhati Roy
- A book mentioned in another book Lolita /Vladimir Nabokov
- A book from a celebrity book club The Bluest Eye /Toni Morrison (Oprah’s Book Club)
- A childhood classic you’ve never read Pippi Longstocking /Astrid Lindgren
- Published in 2018 Surrender My Heart /L.G. O’Connor
- A past Goodreads Choice Award winner – Little Fires Everywhere /Celeste Ng
- A book set in the decade you were born in In A Free State /V.S. Naipaul
- Book you meant to read in 2017 but didn’t get to Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine /Gail Honeyman
- Book with an ugly cover The Mother Of All Questions /Rebecca Solnit
- Involves a bookstore or a library The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George
- A 2017 challenge prompt (book based on mythology) Circe /Madeline Miller
Advanced
- A bestseller from the year you graduated high school
- A cyberpunk book
- A book that was being read by a stranger in a public place I Am Not Your Negro /James Baldwin
- A book tied to your ancestry Brief History of Seven Killings / Marlon James
- A book with a fruit or vegetable in the title
- An allegory The Buried Giant /Kazuo Ishiguro
- A book by an author with the same first or last name as you
- A micro history Cows, Pigs, Wars and Witches /Marvin Harris
- A book about a problem facing society today Winter /Ali Smith
- A book recommended by someone else taking the POPSUGAR Reading Challenge