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POPSUGAR Reading Challenge 2020

I have decided to this in 2020. I did this in 2018 and enjoyed it.

Debra wrote: "I have decided to this in 2020. I did this in 2018 and enjoyed it."

Yay! I'm looking forward to seeing what you select for challenges. Good luck!

I have a few challenges left that I haven't met for 2019. I'm not sure that I will finish it but I accomplished a lot of them.

Completed
2020 POPSUGAR Reading Challenge

✔ A book that's published in 2020 - The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz by Erik Larson
✔ A book by a trans or nonbinary author - Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love by Jonathan Van Ness
✔ A book with a great first line - The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown
✔ A book about a book club - The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix
✔ A book set in a city that has hosted the Olympics - Somebody to Love: The Life, Death and Legacy of Freddie Mercury by Matt Richards
✔ A bildungsroman - Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
✔ The first book you touch on a shelf with your eyes closed - Come, Tell Me How You Live by Agatha Christie
✔ A book with an upside-down image on the cover - The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman
✔ A book with a map - The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart
✔ A book recommended by your favorite blog, vlog, podcast, or online book club - The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
✔ An anthology - Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America by Ibi Zoboi
✔ A book that passes the Bechdel test - The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
✔ A book with the same title as a movie or TV show but is unrelated to it - The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
✔ A book by an author with flora or fauna in their name - Uganda - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture by Ian Clarke
✔ A book about or involving social media - Radio Silence by Alice Oseman
✔ A book that has a book on the cover Reading with Patrick: A Teacher, a Student and the Life-Changing Power of Books by Michelle Kuo
✔ A medical thriller - Crooked River by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
✔ A book with a made-up language - Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
✔ A book set in a country beginning with "C" - Space Invaders by Nona Fernández
✔ A book you picked because the title caught your attention - These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901 by Nancy E. Turner
✔ A book published the month of your birthday - The Moving Toyshop by Edmund Crispin
✔ A book about or by a woman in STEM - State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
✔ A book that won an award in 2019 - The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold
✔ A book on a subject you know nothing about - Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident by Donnie Eichar
✔ A book with only words on the cover, no images or graphics - To Be Read at Dusk by Charles Dickens
✔ A book with a pun in the title - Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett
✔ A book featuring one of the seven deadly sins - The A.B.C. Murders by Agatha Christie
✔ A book with a robot, cyborg, or AI character - Farewell to the Master by Harry Bates
✔ A book with a bird on the cover - The Conference of the Birds by Ransom Riggs
✔ A fiction or nonfiction book about a world leader - Earth Abides by George R. Stewart
✔ A book with "gold," "silver," or "bronze" in the title - Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik
✔ A book by a WOC - Abyssinian Nomad: An African woman's journey of love, loss, and adventure from Cape to Cairo by Maskarm Haile
✔ A book with at least a four-star rating on Goodreads - The Hollow Hills by Mary Stewart
✔ A book you meant to read in 2019 - One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
✔ A book with a three-word title - Dead Man's Walk by Larry McMurtry
✔ A book with a pink cover - The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein by Kiersten White
✔ A Western - Streets of Laredo by Larry McMurtry
✔ A book by or about a journalist - A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II by Sonia Purnell
✔ Read a banned book during Banned Books Week - Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
✔ Your favorite prompt from a past POPSUGAR Reading Challenge - Comanche Moon by Larry McMurtry

Advanced, 2020 Edition

✔ A book written by an author in their 20s - Eve Green by Susan Fletcher
✔ A book with "20" or "twenty" in the title - The Stars, the Snow, the Fire: Twenty-Five Years in the Alaska Wilderness by John Meade Haines
✔ A book with a character with a vision impairment or enhancement (a nod to 20/20 vision) - Plainsong by Kent Haruf
✔ A book set in the 1920s - Two Days In Aragon by Molly Keane
✔ A book set in Japan, host of the 2020 Olympics - Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
✔ A book by an author who has written more than 20 books - The Last Enchantment by Mary Stewart
✔ A book with more than 20 letters in its title - The Man With The Key Has Gone by Ian Clarke
✔ A book published in the 20th century - The Wicked Day by Mary Stewart
✔ A book from a series with more than 20 books - Murder in Mesopotamia by Agatha Christie
✔ A book with a main character in their 20s - Death of Nine: The Dyatlov Pass Mystery by Launton Anderson

Some prompts, I will plan ahead. Some prompts, I will fill in as I go.

Debra wrote: "Some prompts, I will plan ahead. Some prompts, I will fill in as I go."

The first few plans I tend to plan and then after about the halfway point I lose steam and tend to read whatever I want and then see if it fits a challenge.

I do a whole lot of reading what I want and seeing if it fits : )

All 8 of my January books fit into this challenge. It is so easy when you first start and every book fits somewhere : )

I only have two books left to complete this challenge. One in the regular section and one in the advanced section. A banned book and a book with twenty in the title.

Wow that’s awesome!

Debra wrote: "I only have two books left to complete this challenge. One in the regular section and one in the advanced section. A banned book and a book with twenty in the title."

You're doing an amazing job with this challenge. I'm so behind, as usual.

Thank you, both. I am surprised at how well it is going.

I finished the Popsugar Reading Challenge 2020! Now, I am off to look at the 2021 challenge. Not sure if I will do if or not.

Debra wrote: "I finished the Popsugar Reading Challenge 2020! Now, I am off to look at the 2021 challenge. Not sure if I will do if or not."

That's awesome. Congrats!

Congrats!

Thanks, Krystyna and JB