Have you heard of the PopSugar Reading Challenge? It’s an annual challenge with a list of prompts – you pick the book to fit each one!

Here is my list for the PopSugar 2020 Reading Challenge. Books in bold are books that I’ve read.

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REGULAR
1. A book that published in 2021 – Black Buck – | Bookshop | Amazon |
2. An Afrofuturist book
3. A book that has a heart, diamond, club, or spade on the cover – The Dating Plan | Bookshop | Amazon |
4. A book by an author who shares your zodiac sign – Becoming, by Michelle Obama | Bookshop | Amazon |
5. A dark academia book – A Deadly Education | Bookshop | Amazon |
6. A book with a gem, mineral, or rock in the title – The Nickel Boys | Bookshop | Amazon |
7. A book where the main character works at your current or dream job – The Prime of Miss. Jean Brodie
8. A book that has won the Women’s Prize for Fiction – Piranesi
9. A book with a family tree – Romancing Mister Bridgerton
10. A bestseller from the 1990s – Holes
11. A book about forgetting – Wintersong
12. A book you have seen on someone’s bookshelf (in real life, on a Zoom call, in a TV show, etc.) – From Blood and Ash
13. A locked-room mystery – Shiver
14. A book set in a restaurant – Arsenic & Adobo
15. A book with a black-and-white cover – Luminous
16. A book by an indigenous author – Firekeeper’s Daughter
17. A book that has the same title as a song – It’s In His Kiss (Bridgerton #7)
18. A book about a subject you are passionate about – The House in the Cerulean Sea
19. A book that discusses body positivity – Spoiler Alert
20. A book on a Black Lives Matter reading list – The Poet X
21. A genre hybrid – The Viscount Who Loved Me
22. A book set mostly or entirely outdoors – King and the Dragonflies
23. A book with something broken on the cover –
24. A book by a Muslim American / Muslim British author
25. A book that was published anonymously – Pride and Prejudice
26. A book with an oxymoron in the title
27. A book about do-overs or fresh starts – The Lost Apothecary
28. A magical realism book – Instant Karma
29. A book set in multiple countries – Infinite Country
30. A book set somewhere you’d like to visit in 2021 – The Exiles
31. A book by a blogger, vlogger, YouTube video creator, or other online personality – An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
32. A book whose title starts with “Q,” “X,” or “Z”
33. A book featuring three generations (grandparent, parent, child) – The School for Good Mothers
34. A book about a social justice issue – This Promise of Change
35. A book in a different format than what you normally read (audiobooks, ebooks, graphic novels) – They Call me Guero: A Border Kid’s poems
36. A book that has fewer than 1,000 reviews on Amazon or Goodreads – Between Perfect and Real
37. A book you think your best friend would like – The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
38. A book about art or an artist – An Offer From a Gentleman
39. A book everyone seems to have read but you – The Duke & I
40. Your favorite prompt from a past POPSUGAR Reading Challenge – Cinderella is Dead

ADVANCED
41. The longest book (by pages) on your TBR list – A Court of Silver Flames
42. The shortest book (by pages) on your TBR list – The Prince and the Troll
43. The book on your TBR list with the prettiest cover – The Undocumented Americans
44. The book on your TBR list with the ugliest cover – Mediocre
45. The book that’s been on your TBR list for the longest amount of time – The Once and Future King
46. A book from your TBR list you meant to read last year but didn’t – Cemetery Boys
47. A book from your TBR list you associate with a favorite person, place, or thing – Alanna
48. A book from your TBR list chosen at random – An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States
49. A DNF book from your TBR list – Neil Gaiman’s Norse Mythology
50. A free book from your TBR list (gifted, borrowed, library) – Truly Devious