The Reading Challenge Group

message 1: by megan (last edited Sep 30, 2020 06:05AM) (new)

Dec 19, 2019 01:55PM

Goal: 100 Books
Non-Fiction: 25

Challenges:
POPSUGAR Reading Challenge 2020
TBR 2020
Summer Bingo
Non-Fiction

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message 2: by megan (last edited Dec 31, 2020 07:42PM) (new)

Dec 19, 2019 01:55PM

Popsugar 2020 Reading Challenge

[x] A book published in 2020 - The Regrets
[x] A book by a trans or nonbinary author - Little Fish
[x] A book with a great first line - I Capture the Castle
[x] A book about a book club - The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires
[x] A book set in a city that has hosted the Olympics - The Silkworm
[x] A bildungsroman - The Round House
[x] The first book you touch on a shelf with your eyes closed - The English Wife
[x] A book with an upside-down image on the cover - The Two Lives of Lydia Bird
[x] A book with a map - A Curse So Dark and Lonely
[x] A book recommended by your favorite blog, vlog, podcast, or online book club - Below Stairs
[x] An anthology - Stories from Suffragette City
[x] A book that passes the Bechdel test - City of Girls
[x] A book with the same title as a movie or TV show but is unrelated to it - Liar Liar
[x] A book by an author with flora or fauna in their name - Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood
[x] A book published the month of your birthday - Bitter Falls
[x] A book about or by a woman in STEM - The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars
[x] A book that won an award in 2019 - Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death
[x] A book on a subject you know nothing about - The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo
[x] A book with only words on the cover, no images or graphics - The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11
[x] A book with a pun in the title - A Study in Charlotte
[x] A book featuring one of the seven deadly sins - The Bride Test
[x] A book with a robot, cyborg, or AI character - Defy the Stars
[x] A book with a bird on the cover - The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
[x] A fiction or nonfiction book about a world leader - You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington
[x] A book with “gold,” “silver,” or “bronze” in the title - Veins of Gold
[x] A book by a WOC - Of Curses and Kisses
[x] A book with at least a four-star rating on Goodreads -Winter of the World
[x] A book you meant to read in 2019 - The Kiss Quotient
[x] A book about or involving social media - Big Summer
[x] A book that has a book on the cover - The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend
[x] A medical thriller - Excise
[x] A book with a made-up language - Ready Player Two
[x] A book set in a country beginning with “C” - China Rich Girlfriend
[x] A book you picked because the title caught your attention - These Ghosts Are Family
[x] A book with a three-word title - In Five Years
[x] A book with a pink cover - The Wedding Party
[x] A Western - How Much of These Hills Is Gold
[x] A book by or about a journalist - Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth
[x] Read a banned book during banned book week - American Psycho
[x] Your favorite prompt from a past POPSUGAR Reading Challenge: should be made into a movie - The City We Became

Advanced:
[x] A book written by an author in their 20s -Know My Name
[x] A book with “20” or “twenty” in the title - Queen Victoria: Twenty-Four Days That Changed Her Life
[x] A book with a vision impairment or enhancement (a nod to 20/20 vision) - The Queen of Nothing
[x] A book set in Japan, host of the 2020 Olympics - The Travelling Cat Chronicles
[x] A book set in the 1920s - The Diviners
[x] A book by an author who has written more than 20 books - The Outsider
[x] A book with more than 20 letters in its title - The Reckless Oath We Made
[x] A book published in the 20th century - Cat's Cradle
[x] A book from a series with more than 20 books - Pancakes and Corpses
[x] A book with a main character in their 20s - Nothing to See Here

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message 3: by megan (last edited Dec 28, 2020 06:37PM) (new)

Dec 19, 2019 01:55PM

TBR Challenge
Italics: Read in 2019
2020 Total: 13

2014
6. The English Patient - 19 November
36. The Silkworm - 19 November
7. Escape - 4 December

2015
12. Sea of Stars - 1 January
2. To Marry an English Lord: Or How Anglomania Really Got Started - 18 January
45. Below Stairs - 18 January
25. Little Bee - 27 January
19. The Bourbon Kings - 10 February
15. Chasing Mona Lisa - 12 May
43. Cat's Cradle - 11 July
30. Sense and Sensibility - 17 July
9. Where'd You Go, Bernadette - 21 July
42. I Capture the Castle - 23 July
24. Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration - 5 August
35. Shift - 5 August
23. Love May Fail - 21 August
27. Mrs. Dalloway - 25 August
11. All My Friends Are Superheroes - 21 September
40. In the Woods- 2 October
16. The Faithful - 16 October
20. The Wrath and the Dawn - 18 October
8. The Man in the High Castle - 14 November
44. Welcome to Night Vale - 21 November
37. Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania - 3 December

2016
28. The Wright Brothers - 7 January
4. The Importance of Being Earnest - 22 April
31. The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend - 2 May
22. The Shadow of the Wind - 19 May
5. 1776 - 8 June
18. The Last Star - 16 June
3. The Ocean at the End of the Lane - 25 June
17. Blood & Beauty: The Borgias - 14 July
32. Truly Madly Guilty - 2 November
21. Salt to the Sea - 6 December

2017
1. The Alice Network - 11 December
39. Lord of Shadows - 30 May
14. The Bear and the Nightingale - 2 November
26. Artemis - 5 November

2018
41. Queen of Air and Darkness - 7 January
10. Siddhartha - 7 February
34. Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything - 18 October
33. China Rich Girlfriend - 14 November

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message 4: by megan (last edited Sep 15, 2020 05:19AM) (new)

Dec 19, 2019 01:55PM