Anyone else here doing the 2019 POPSUGAR Reading Challenge? If you’re not familiar, POPSUGAR is an online magazine that curates articles targeted to meet young women’s interests. I’m not a regular reader but I do enjoy the prompts they recommend for their annual reading challenge and in previous years, I’ve compared my reading choices with their categories. click the years below to see how I did:

• My 2018 Popsugar reading challenge results
• My 2017 Popsugar reading challenge results
• My 2016 Popsugar reading challenge results
• My 2015 Popsugar reading challenge results

My strategies

• I am starting early with the challenge list and I’ll keep this post updated with my progress throughout the year (red highlights means I have completed the category, followed by the book that satisfies the prompt) I will also include links to my review if I wrote about the book.
• I have some books on my TBR that I know will satisfy a lot of these categories; what remains is to see if I actually read them 😉
• I also joined this Goodreads group to meet other participants. 

1. A book becoming a movie in 2019 – Where’d You Go Bernadette /Maria Semple
2. A book that makes you nostalgic
3. A book written by a musician (fiction or nonfiction)
4. A book you think should be turned into a movie The Known World /Edward P Jones 
5. A book with at least one million ratings on Goodreads Jane Eyre /Charlotte Bronte
6. A book with a plant in the title or on the cover -Jonah’s Gourd Vine by Zora Neale Hurston 
7. A reread of a favorite book The Elected Member /Bernice Rubens
8. A book about a hobby – Into Thin Air /Jon Krakauer 
9. A book you meant to read in 2018 – The Unhappiness of A Single Man by Franz Kafka (I downloaded this Netgalley e-copy and meant to read and review it last year but only finally got around to reading in January)
10. A book with POP, SUGAR, or CHALLENGE in the title
11. A book with an item of clothing or accessory on the cover – The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants /Ann Brashares 
12. A book inspired by myth/legend/folklore – Pretty In Punxsutawney inspired by Groundhog Day
13. A book published posthumously
14. A book you see someone reading on TV or in a movie – An American Marriage /Tayari Jones 
15. A retelling of a classic – Silence of the Girls /Pat Barker
16. A book with a question in the title
17. A book set on college or university campus – The Incendiaries /R. O. Kwon 
18. A book about someone with a superpower – The Book of M /Peng Shepherd
19. A book told from multiple POVs – If You Leave Me /Crystal Hana Kim 
20. A book set in space – The Word for World Is Forest /Ursula K. Le Guin 
21. A book by two female authors – Me, Myself and I – this collection includes essays by several women writing about their own hair and hair-raising experiences 
22. A book with SALTY, SWEET, BITTER, or SPICY in the title – The Sweetest Dream /Doris Lessing 
23. A book set in Scandinavia (truly Denmark, Norway and Sweden – Beartown/Fredrik Backman (set in Sweden) 
24. A book that takes place in a single day – “Master Harold”… and the boys /Athol Fugard 
25. A debut novel – Where the Crawdads Sing /Delia Owens 
26. A book that’s published in 2019 – Brief Chronicles of Another Stupid Heartbreak /Adi Alsaid

27. A book featuring an extinct or imaginary creature The Sea, The Sea /Iris Murdoch
28. A book recommended by a celebrity you admire – Golden Child by Claire Adam, recommend by SJP
29. A book with LOVE in the title – Love From A to Z by S. K. Ali 
30. A book featuring an amateur detective – The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle /Stuart Turton 
31. A book about a family – The Death of Mrs. Westaway /Ruth Ware
32. A book author from Asia, Africa, or South America – One Part Woman by Perumal Murugan (Indian)
33.  A book with a zodiac sign or astrology term in title Black Leopard, Red Wolf has “Leo” in the title </span
34. A book that includes a wedding – Girls Burn Brighter /Shobha Rao 
35. A book by an author whose first and last names start with the same letter – Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan
36. A ghost story
37. A book with a two-word title Staying On /Paul Scott
38. A novel based on a true story – Fruit of The Drunken Tree /Ingrid Rojas Contreras 
39. A book revolving around a puzzle or game – An Absolutely Remarkable Thing /Hank Green 
40. Your favorite prompt from a past POPSUGAR Reading challenge (From the 2017 challenge: A book by a person of color) – The Fire Next Time /James Baldwin 

Advanced

41. A “cli-fi” (climate fiction) book
42. A “choose-your-own-adventure” book
43. An “own voices” book – New People by Danzy Senna  about being biracial in America
44. Read a book during the season it is set in
45. A LitRPG book(Hank Green’s book could potentially be used for this challenge instead of # 39)
46. A book with no chapters / unusual chapter headings / unconventionally numbered chapters – Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha /Roddy Doyle (no chapters) 
47. Two books that share the same title – Rites of Passage /William Golding
48. Two books that share the same title – Rites of Passage /Joy Hensley
49. A book that has inspired a common phrase or idiom
50. A book set in an abbey, cloister, monastery, vicarage, or convent (maybe Terra Nullius)

As I read books that fulfill the criteria here, I’ll highlight in red