Who’s in for the 2022 PopSugar Reading Challenge?

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

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Regular prompts

1. A book published in 2022
Recommendations:
– The School for Good Mothers (dystopia, literary) Amazon | Bookshop
– Edgewood (YA fantasy) Amazon | Bookshop
– The Golden Couple (thriller) Amazon | Bookshop
Possibilities:
– Weather Girl Amazon | Bookshop
– Book Lovers Amazon | Bookshop

2. A book set on a plane, train, or cruise ship
– Love, Lists, and Fancy Ships Amazon | Bookshop
– The Other Miss. Bridgerton Amazon | Bookshop

3. A book about or set in a nonpatriarchal society
Recommendations:
– The Priory of the Orange Tree Amazon | Bookshop
– Black Sun Amazon | Bookshop
Possibilities:
– Fevered Star (Feb 2022) Amazon | Bookshop

4. A book with a tiger on the cover or “tiger” in the title
Possibilities:
– Tigers, Not Daughters Amazon | Bookshop
– When You Trap a Tiger Amazon | Bookshop
– The Night Tiger Amazon | Bookshop

5. A sapphic book
Recommend:
– Malice Amazon | Bookshop
– An Absolutely Remarkable Thing Amazon | Bookshop
Possibilities:
– Misrule Amazon | Bookshop
– This Poisoned Heart Amazon | Bookshop
– The Perks of Loving a Wallflower Amazon | Bookshop

6. A book by a Latinx author
Recommend:
– Cemetery Boys Amazon | Bookshop
– Infinite Country Amazon | Bookshop
Possibilities:
– Gods of Jade and Shadow Amazon | Bookshop
– The Inheritance of Orquidea Divina Amazon | Bookshop
– Lost in the Never Woods Amazon | Bookshop

7. A book with an onomatopoeia in its title

8. A book with a protagonist who uses a mobility aid
Possibilities: (looking for some own voices)
– Six of Crows Amazon | Bookshop

9. A book about a “found family”
Possibilities:
– Crooked Kingdom Amazon | Bookshop

10. An Anisfield-Wolf Book Award winner
Recommendations:
– Sing, Unburied, Sing Amazon | Bookshop
Possibilities:
– There, There Amazon | Bookshop
– A Brief History of Seven Killings Amazon | Bookshop
– Half of a Yellow Sun Amazon | Bookshop

11. A #BookTok recommendation
Chosen:
– The Love Hypothesis Amazon | Bookshop
Recommendations:
– A Court of Thorns and Roses Amazon | Bookshop
Possibilities:
– The Spanish Love Deception Amazon | Bookshop

12. A book about the afterlife
Recommendations:
– Under the Whispering Door Amazon | Bookshop
Possibilities:
– The Graveyard Book Amazon | Bookshop

13. A book set in the 1980s
Recommendations:
Possibilities:
– Malibu Rising Amazon | Bookshop

14. A book with cutlery on the cover or in the title
Recommendations:
Possibilities:
– In My Dreams I Hold A Knife Amazon | Bookshop

15. A book by a Pacific Islander author
Recommendations:
Possibilities:
– Homicide and Halo-Halo Amazon | Bookshop

16. A book about witches
Chosen:
– Morrigan’s Cross Amazon | Bookshop
Recommendations:
The Once and Future Witches Amazon | Bookshop
Possibilities:
– Witches Steeped in Gold Amazon | Bookshop
– Magic Lessons Amazon | Bookshop

17. A book becoming a TV series or movie in 2022
Recommendations:
– The Viscount Who Loved Me Amazon | Bookshop
Possibilities:
– The Storied Life of A. J. Fikrey Amazon | Bookshop
– Persuasion Amazon | Bookshop
– Fire & Blood Amazon | Bookshop
– Kindred Amazon | Bookshop

18. A romance novel by a BIPOC author
Recommendations:
Possibilities:
– anything by Jasmine Guillory Amazon | Bookshop
– Get a Life, Chloe Brown Amazon | Bookshop

19. A book that takes place during your favorite season
Recommendations:
Possibilities:
Summer: Well Played Amazon | Bookshop

20. A book whose title begins with the last letter of your previous read
Recommendations:
Possibilities:

21. A book about a band or musical group

22. A book with a character on the ace spectrum

23. A book with a recipe in it

24. A book you can read in one sitting

25. A book about a secret
Crescent City: House of Earth and Blood Amazon | Bookshop

26. A book with a misleading title

27. A Hugo Award winner

28. A book set during a holiday

29. A different book by an author you read in 2021
A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor Amazon | Bookshop

30. A book with the name of a board game in the title

31. A book featuring a man-made disaster

32. A book with a quote from your favorite author on the cover or Amazon page

33. A social-horror book

34. A book set in Victorian times

35. A book with a constellation on the cover or in the title

36. A book you know nothing about
Jane and the Year Without Summer Amazon | Bookshop

37. A book about gender identity

38. A book featuring a party

39. An #ownvoices SFF book

40. A book that fulfills your favorite prompt from a past PopSugar reading challenge

Advanced prompts

41. A book with a reflected image on the cover or “mirror” in the title

42. A book that features two languages

43. A book with a palindromic title

44. A duology (1)

45. A duology (2)

46. A book about someone leading a double life

47. A book featuring a parallel reality

48. A book with two POVs

49. Two books set in twin towns, aka “sister cities” (1)

50. Two books set in twin towns, aka “sister cities” (2)