Popsugar 2021

 #popsugarreadingchallenge

This is the 2021 Popsugar reading challenge.  It consists of a diverse set of prompts to encourage reading different books than you might normally pick up to read.   

Completed:    31/40 Regular Prompts

5/10 Advanced prompts

REGULAR
1.  √ A book that published in 2021

• READ Misalignment and Murder by Cathy Tully 
• Blog Post and Good Reads Review  1/26/21

2.   √ An Afrofuturist book  

• READ Binti by Nnedi Okorafor 
• Blog Post and Goodreads Review 9/3/21

3.√ A book that has a heart, diamond, club, or spade on the cover 

• READ First Comes Like by Alisha Rai
• Blog Post and Goodreads Review 5/11/21

4. √   A book by an author who shares your zodiac sign 

• READ The Answer Is by Alex Trebek
• Blog Post and Goodreads Review 3/10/21

5. √   A dark academia book 

• READ One of Us is Lying by Karen McManus
• Blog Post and Goodreads Review 3/20/21

6. . √ A book with a gem, mineral, or rock in the title 

• READ Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys
• Blog Post and Goodreads Review 4/7/21

7. √ A book where the main character works at your current or dream job 

• READ Death of an Irish Diva by Mollie Cox Bryan
• Blog Post and Goodreads Review 3/18/21

8. √ A book that has won the Women’s Prize for Fiction 

• READ Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson
• Blog Post and Good Reads Review 1/15/21

9. √ A book with a family tree 

• READ Once Upon a Prince by Rachel Hauck
• Blog Post and Goodreads Review  11/23/21

10. A bestseller from the 1990s IDEA: The Bourne Ultimatum

11. √ A book about forgetting 

• READ South Pole Station by Ashley Shelby
• Blog Post and GoodReads Review 1/18/21

12.√ A book you have seen on someone’s bookshelf (in real life, on a Zoom call, in a TV show, etc.) 

• READ The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
• Blog Post and Goodreads Review 10/21/21

13. √ A locked-room mystery

• READ The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie  
• Blog Post and Good Reads Review 1/5/21

14. √  A book set in a restaurant

• READ  No Good Tea Goes Unpunished by Bree Baker 
• Blog Post  and Good Reads Review 2/10/21

15. √  A book with a black-and-white cover 

• READ Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick
• Blog Post and Goodreads Review 4/30/21

16. √    A book by an indigenous author

• READ  There There by Tommy Orange
• Blog Post and Goodreads Review 7/7/21

17. A book that has the same title as a song IDEA: Born in the U.S.A.: Bruce Springsteen and the American Tradition

18. √    A book about a subject you are passionate about 

• READ   Holiday Magic at the Disney Parks by Rebecca Cline
• Blog Post and Goodreads Review 12/16/21

19. √ A book that discusses body positivity 

• READ Girl, Wash Your Face by Rachel Hollis
• Blog Post and Good Reads Review 2/6/21

20. A book on a Black Lives Matter reading list IDEA: After Life: My Journey from Incarceration to Freedom

21. √ A genre hybrid 

• READ The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafron
• Blog Post and Goodreads Review 9/20/21

22. √ A book set mostly or entirely outdoors 

• READ  Forests, Fishing & Forgery by Tonya Kappes
• Blog Post and Good Reads Review 2/2/21

23. √ A book with something broken on the cover 

• READ Tide and Punishment by Bree Baker
• Blog Post  and Good Reads Review 2/11/21

24.  √ A book by a Muslim American author 

• READ Ms. Marvel, Vol 2   Generation Why by G. Willow Wilson
• Blog Post and Good  Reads Review 2/12/21 

25. A book that was published anonymously IDEA: You Can't Fly With That!: Confessions of a Disgruntling Airport Security Officer

26. A book with an oxymoron in the title IDEA: Big Little Lies

27.  √ A book about do-overs or fresh starts

• READ Midnight Library by Matt Haig
• Blog Post and Good Reads Review 1/20/21

28. A magical realism book IDEA: City of the Beasts

29.  √ A book set in multiple countries

• READ Peril Through the Panama Canal by Lizzie Josephson
• Blog Post and Goodreads Review 2/12/21

30. √  A book set somewhere you’d like to visit in 2021

• READ Choppy Water by Stuart Woods
• Blog Post and Good Reads Review 1/21/21

31.√   A book by a blogger, vlogger, YouTube video creator, or other online personality 

• READ Laughing at my Nightmare by Shane Burcaw
• Blog Post and Good Reads Review 1/30/21

32. √ A book whose title starts with “Q,” “X,” or “Z”

• READ Z Rex by Steve Cole
• Blog Post and Goodreads Review 8/1/21

33.  √ A book featuring three generations (grandparent, parent, child) 

•    READ : The Sinister Superyacht by Ana T. Drew  
• Blog Post and Good Reads Review 1/4/21 

34. √ A book about a social justice issue 

•   READ : A Burning by Megha Majumdar
• Blog Post and Goodreads Review 3/16/21

35. √ A book in a different format than what you normally read (audiobooks, ebooks, graphic novels)

•    READ : Frontier Follies by Ree Drummond
• Blog Post and Goodreads Review 3/12/21

36. √  A book that has fewer than 1,000 reviews on Amazon or Goodreads     

• READ:  Killer Kung Pao by Vivien Chien
• Blog Post and Good Reads Review 1/14/21

37. √   A book you think your best friend would like 

• READ:  The Day the World Came to Town by Jim DeFede
• Blog Post and Good Reads Review 2/20/21

38.  √  A book about art or an artist

• READ: The Red Address Book by Sofia Lundberg
• Blog Post and Goodreads Review 2/13/21

39. A book everyone seems to have read but you IDEA: Memoirs of a Geisha

40. Your favorite prompt from a past POPSUGAR Reading Challenge IDEA: TBD

ADVANCED
41. The longest book (by pages) on your TBR list IDEA:   The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
42. The shortest book (by pages) on your TBR list IDEA: All I Want for Christmas Is Fudge (Candy-Coated, #3.5)

43.   √ The book on your TBR list with the prettiest cover 

• READ: The Henna Artist by Alka Joshi
• Blog Post and Goodreads Review 5/26/21
  

44. √ The book on your TBR list with the ugliest cover 

• READ Picture Perfect Corpse by Joann Campbell Slan
• Blog Post and Goodreads Review 12/14/21

45. The book that’s been on your TBR list for the longest amount of time IDEA: The Light Between Oceans

46. A book from your TBR list you meant to read last year but didn’t IDEA: Beartown (Beartown, #1)

47. √   A book from your TBR list you associate with a favorite person, place, or thing 

• READ Group, Photo, Grave by Joann Campbell Slan
• Blog Post and Goodreads Review 12/16/21

48.   √  A book from your TBR list chosen at random 

• READ: Booked for Death by Victoria Gilbert
• Blog Post and Goodreads Review 3/2/21

49. A DNF book from your TBR list IDEA:  Antiques Roadkill (A Trash 'n' Treasures Mystery, #1)

50. √ A free book from your TBR list (gifted, borrowed, library) 

• READ Killer Paper Cut by Joann Campbell Slan

• Blog Post and Goodreads Review 12/17/21

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