For the last couple of years I’ve been doing reading challenges. You can see how I did on the PopSugar Reading Challenges by clicking over here (2017) and here (2018), or use the page headers at the top of this page. Last year I used categories from PopSugar’s challenge (link: here) and from BookRiot’s challenge (link: here).
Rather than trying do a Dueling Challenge like I had last year, this year I’ve decided to select my readings for the year based on the prompts first. In other words, be more focused. If you’re doing the challenge and could use some help figuring out what to read, you can search the GoodReads group for ideas: GoodReads Suggestions. BookRiot is doing their annual challenge as well so I have listed those (total of 24 prompts) for any reading I do beyond the PopSugar challenge. There is a group for BookRiot on Goodreads also (here) if you want to do only that challenge. Again, my goal this year is to match my chosen reading (non-school related or bedtime related) to a reading prompt. Wish me luck,!
If you’d like to do it with me that’d be great! Want to comparing books? I’d love to hear your choices, progress, and thoughts about any and/or all the books you choose, below in the page comments. Both challenges are free and meant for fun so…let’s do this!
**Notes: Dates listed below = date book was finished. Books with ^ were read with my kids during their reading time.**
| PopSugar 2019 Reading Challenge | ||
| 1. Book becoming a movie in 2019 | ||
| 2. Book that makes you nostalgic | ||
| 3. Book written by a musician (fiction or nonfiction) | ||
| 4. Book you think should be turned into a movie | ||
| 5. With at least one million ratings on Goodreads | ||
| 6. With a plant in the title or on the cover | ||
| 7. Reread a favorite book | ||
| 8. Book about a hobby | ||
| 9. You meant to read in 2018 | ||
| 10. With “pop”, “sugar” or “challenge” in the title | ||
| 11. With an item of clothing or accessory on the cover | ||
| 12. Inspired by mythology, legend or folklore | ||
| 13. Published posthumously | ||
| 14. Set in space | ||
| 15. By Two female authors | ||
| 16. With a title that contains “salty,” ‘sweet,” “bitter,” or “spicy” | ||
| 17. Set in Scandinavia | ||
| 18. That takes place in a single day | ||
| 19. A debut novel | ||
| 20. Book that’s published in 2019 | ||
| 21. Featuring an extinct or imaginary creature | ||
| 22. Recommended by a celebrity you admire | ||
| 23. With “love” in the title | ||
| 24. Featuring an amateur detective | ||
| 25. About a family | ||
| 26. Written by an author from Asia, Africa, or South America | ||
| 27. With a zodiac sign or astrology term in the title | ||
| 28. Book you see someone reading on TV or in a movie | ||
| 29. A retelling of a classic | ||
| 30. Book with question in the title | ||
| 31. Set on a college or university campus | ||
| 32. About someone with a superpower | ||
| 33. Told from multiple character POVs | ||
| 34. Book that includes a wedding | ||
| 35. By an author whose first and last names start with the same letter | ||
| 36. A ghost story | ||
| 37. Book with a two-word title | ||
| 38. Novel based on a true story | ||
| 39. Book revolving around a puzzle or game | ||
| 40. Your favorite prompt from a past POPSUGAR Reading Challenge | ||
| Bonus Prompts 2018 PSRC | ||
| 1. A “cli-fi” (climate fiction) book | ||
| 2. A “choose-your-own-adventure” book | ||
| 3. An “own voices” book | ||
| 4. Read a book during the season it is set in | ||
| 5. a LitRPG book | ||
| 6. Book with no chapters, unusual chapter headings, or unconventionally numbered chapters | ||
| 7. Two books that share the same title (#1) | ||
| 8. Two books that share the same title (#2) | ||
| 9. A book that has inspired a common phrase or idi0m (e.g. Big Brother from 1984) | ||
| 10. A book set in an abbey, cloister, monastery, vicarage, or convent | ||
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Additional Books Read from BookRiot’s Challenge |
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| 1. An epistolary novel or collection of letters | ||
| 2. An alternate history novel. | ||
| 3. Book by a woman and/or AOC that won a literary award in 2018 | ||
| 4. A humor book | ||
| 5. Book by a journalist or about journalism | ||
| 6. Book by an AOC set in or about space | ||
| 7. An #ownvoices book set in Mexico or Central America | ||
| 8. An #ownvoices book set in Oceania | ||
| 9. Book published prior to Jan 1, 2019 with fewer than 100 reviews on Goodreads | ||
| 10. Translated book written by and/or translated by a woman | ||
| 11. Book of manga | ||
| 12. Book in which an animal or inanimate object is a POV character | ||
| 13. Book by or about someone that identifies as neurodiverse | ||
| 14. Cozy mystery | ||
| 15. Book of mythology or folklore | ||
| 16. an historical romance by an AOC | ||
| 17. A business book | ||
| 18. Novel by a trans or nonbinary author | ||
| 19. Nonviolent true crime | ||
| 20. Book written in prison | ||
| 21. Comic by LBGTQIA creator | ||
| 22. A children’s or middle grade book (not YA) that has won a diversity award since 2009 | ||
| 23. A self-published book | ||
| 24. A collection of poetry published since 2014 | ||
Don’t forget, this is a free challenge that can be done for fun.
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