Ultimate Popsugar Reading Challenge discussion
Ultimate Popsugar Reading Challenge
Books mentioned in this topic
Dark Matter (other topics)A Little Life (other topics)
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End (other topics)
Convenience Store Woman (other topics)
Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love (other topics)
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Done 2. A book by a trans or nonbinary author Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love
Done 3. A book with a great first line Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone ("Mr. and Mrs. Dursley of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.")
4. A book about a book club
Done 5. A book set in a city that has hosted the Olympics The Library Book (LA)
6. A bildungsroman (Where the Crawdads Sing, Jane Eyre)
7. The first book you touch on a shelf with your eyes closed
8. A book with an upside-down image on the cover
Done 9. A book with a map The Eye of the World (Literally a map inside the front cover)
Done 10. A book recommended by your favorite blog, vlog, podcast, or online book club Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed (By my friends from our WeChat reading group!)
11. An anthology (Allan Poe)
12. A book that passes the Bechdel test (Little Women!!!)
13. A book with the same title as a movie or TV show but is unrelated to it (Radio Silence)
14. A book by an author with flora or fauna in their name (I bet there must be some books I want to read by some Lily or Rose...?)
15. A book published the month of your birthday(May have done that, need to have a look)
16. A book about or by a woman in STEM (Lab Girl, Annihialation)
Done 17. A book that won an award in 2019 Recursion
Done 18. A book on a subject you know nothing about Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End (Funny, since we are all mortal, but do we actually
understand it?)
Reading 19. A book with only words on the cover, no images or graphics Dark Matter
Done 20. A book with a pun in the title Red, White & Royal Blue
21. A book featuring one of the seven deadly sins (Pride and prejudice)
Done 22. A book with a robot, cyborg, or AI character Thunderhead (As the title)
23. A book with a bird on the cover (The Goldfinch)
24. A fiction or nonfiction book about a world leader (Becoming) (Does First lady counts as a world leader??)
25. A book with "gold", "silver", or "bronze" in the title (The Goldfinch)
Done 26. A book by a WOC The Hate U Give
Done 27. A book with at least a four-star rating on GoodreadsOn Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
28. A book you meant to read in 2019 (There are a lot)
Done 29. A book about or involving social media Eliza and Her Monsters (Comic forum counts, right?)
Done 30. A book that has a book on the coverFahrenheit 451
31. A medical thriller
Done 32. A book with a made-up language Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Parseltongue)
33. A book set in a country beginning with "C" (I guess most Chinese books would do)
Done 34. A book you picked because the title caught your attention This Is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Medical Resident
35. A book with a three-word title (We are okay, A beautiful mind)
Done 36. A book with a pink cover Lock Every Door(can't be pinker)
37. A Western (Gonna be a hard one for me)
38. A book by or about a journalist
39. Read a banned book during Banned Books Week (Sept 27- Oct 3)
40. Your favorite prompt from a past POPSUGAR Reading Challenge
Read a book during the season it is set in
Advanced
Done 1. A book written by an author in their 20s'Salem's Lot (King was born in 1947, and the book is published in 1975, if my math is right...)
2. A book with "20" or "twenty" in the title
Done 3. A book with a character with a vision impairment or enhancementHarry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Moody!)
Done 4. A book set in Japan, host of the 2020 Olympics Convenience Store Woman
5. A book set in the 1920s
Done 6. A book by an author who has written more than 20 booksThe Shining (King definitely killed it)
Done 7. A book with more than 20 letters in its title Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (34 letters)
8. A book published in the 20th century
9. A book from a series with more than 20 books (I'm leaning towards Agatha Christie)
Reading 10. A book with a main character in their 20s A Little Life