The Reading Challenge Group discussion

Goal: 120

POPSUGAR CHALLENGE

[x] A book published in 2022 - A Flicker in the Dark
[x] A book about a band or musical group - The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music
[x] A book set on a plane, train, or cruise ship - Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
[x] A book with a character on the ACE spectrum - The Love Hypothesis
[x] A book about or set in a non-patriarchal society - She Who Became the Sun
[x] A book with a recipe in it - Homicide and Halo-Halo
[x] A book with a tiger on the cover or in the title - The Teeth of the Tiger
[x] A book you can read in one sitting - Murder in Park Lane
[x] A sapphic book - The Verifiers
[x] A book about a secret - The Book of Cold Cases
[x] A book by a Latinx author - What Were We Thinking: A Brief Intellectual History of the Trump Era
[x] A book with a misleading title - Watership Down
[x] A book with an onomatopoeia in the title - Howl’s Moving Castle
[x] A Hugo Award winner - The Yiddish Policemen's Union
[x] A book with a protagonist who uses a mobility aid - The Bone Collector
[x] A book set during a holiday - Blackmail and Bibingka
[x] A book about a found family - The Nobleman's Guide to Scandal and Shipwrecks
[x] A different book by an author you read in 2021 - The Man Who Died Twice
[x] An Anisfield-Wolf Book Award winner - Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century
[x] A book with the name of a board game in the title - Einstein: His Life and Universe
[x] A #BookTok recommendation - A Marvellous Light
[x] A book featuring a man-made disaster - Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World
[x] A book about the afterlife - Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife
[x] A book with a quote from your favorite author on the cover or Amazon - Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could
[x] A book set in the 1980s - I Must Betray You
[x] A social horror book - Frankenstein in Baghdad
[x] A book with cutlery on the cover or in the title -Midnight at the Blackbird Café
[x] A book set in Victorian times - A Lady's Guide to Mischief and Mayhem
[x] A book by a Pacific Islander author - The Girl from Everywhere
[x] A book with a constellation on the cover or in the title - Star Mother
[x] A book about witches - The Witch's Heart
[x] A book you know nothing about - Foundation
[x] A book becoming a TV series or movie in 2022 - Death on the Nile
[x] A book about gender identity - Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story
[x] A romance novel by a BIPOC author - The Marriage Game
[x] A book featuring a party - The Hunting Party
[x] A book that takes place during your favorite season - It Happened One Summer
[x] A #OwnVoices SFF book - Orlando
[x] A book whose title begins with the last letter of your previous read - Splendid Solution: Jonas Salk and the Conquest of Polio
[x] A book that fulfills your favorite prompt from a past POPSUGAR Challenge - Command Authority

[x] A book with a reflected image on the cover or "mirror" in the title - The Magic Mirror of M.C. Escher
[x] A book about someone leading a double life - Threat Vector
[x] A book that features two languages - The Book of Goose
[x] A book featuring a parallel reality - Neverwhere
[x] A book with a palindromic title - Seveneves
[x] A book with two POVs - Beauty and the Baller
[x] A duology (1) - Spellbreaker
[x] A duology (2) - Spellmaker
[x] A book set in twin towns/sister cities (1) - Empire of the Sun
[x] A book set in twin towns/sister cities (2) - City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America

Non-Fiction 2022
Goal: 30 books

January
1. Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly - 4 Jan
2. Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World - 10 Jan
3. The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear - 20 Jan
4. In Distant Lands: A Short History of the Crusades - 25 Jan
5. Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century - 31 Jan


February
6. The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music - 2 Feb
7. The Immortal Irishman: The Irish Revolutionary Who Became an American Hero - 25 Feb
8. The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story - 27 Feb
9. Hitler's American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law - 28 Feb


March
10. Me - 10 March
11. The Infinite Game - 21 March


April
12. I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life - 5 April
13. Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife - 7 April
14. The Nordic Theory of Everything: In Search of a Better Life - 14 April
15. We Had a Little Real Estate Problem: The Unheralded Story of Native Americans and Comedy - 18 April


May
16. Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman - 9 May
17. Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service - 13 May
18. True Story: What Reality TV Says about Us - 16 May
19. The Age of Radiance: The Epic Rise and Dramatic Fall of the Atomic Era - 19 May


June
20. Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington, from FDR through Clinton - 17 June
21. I Have Something to Tell You - 29 June


July
22. Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story - 6 July


August
24. Mary Shelley - 16 August
25. Splendid Solution: Jonas Salk and the Conquest of Polio - 28 August


September
26. The Pentagon Papers - 3 September
27. Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could - 12 September
28. City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America - 29 September


October
29. The Nineties - 10 October
30. What Were We Thinking: A Brief Intellectual History of the Trump Era - 12 October
31. Walking in My Joy: Stories from on My Way to Happy - 18 October
32. Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty - 22 October
33. Columbine - 26 October


November
34. The Mosquito Bowl: A Game of Life and Death in World War II - 3 November
35. One Person, One Vote: A Surprising History of Gerrymandering in America - 9 November
36. The Facemaker: One Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I - 15 November
37. American Midnight: Democracy's Forgotten Crisis, 1917-1921 - 23 November


December
38. Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks - 5 December
39. More Beautiful Than Before: How Suffering Transforms Us - 8 December
40. Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage - 9 December
41. Einstein: His Life and Universe - 19 December
42. The Devil and Harper Lee - 28 December
43. The Magic Mirror of M.C. Escher - 31 December

To Be Read 2022
Goal: 15

2014
14. 11 DEC - The Husband's Secret

2015
11. 9 MAY -We Need to Talk About Kevin

2016
15. 5 MAY - Breakfast of Champions
13. 4 JULY - Einstein: His Life and Universe
3. 16 NOV - The Immortal Irishman: The Irish Revolutionary Who Became an American Hero

2017
12. 15 NOV - More Beautiful Than Before: How Suffering Transforms Us

2018
9. 20 JAN - The Yiddish Policemen's Union
1. 4 FEB - Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
2. 8 JUNE - What I've Done
5. 23 OCT - Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife
8. 13 NOV - The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy

2019
6. 20 FEB - Murder in Park Lane
7. 26 APRIL - Howl’s Moving Castle
4. 25 OCT - Morality for Beautiful Girls

2020
10. 22 JUN - Columbine

Book Riot Reading Smarter Challenge
Goal: 15

1. Read a biography of an author you admire. - Mary Shelley
2. Read a book set in a bookstore. - Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore
3. Read any book from the Women’s Prize shortlist/longlist/winner list. - We Need to Talk About Kevin
4. Read a book in any genre by a POC that’s about joy and not trauma. - Walking in My Joy: Stories from on My Way to Happy
5. Read an anthology featuring diverse voices. - A Thousand Beginnings and Endings
6. Read a nonfiction YA comic.
7. Read a romance where at least one of the protagonists is over 40. - The Family Journal
8. Read a classic written by a POC. - I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
9. Read the book that’s been on your TBR the longest. - The Husband's Secret
10. Read a political thriller by a marginalized author (BIPOC, or LGBTQIA+). - While Justice Sleeps by Stacey Abrams
11. Read a book with an asexual and/or aromantic main character. - The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy
12. Read an entire poetry collection.
13. Read an adventure story by a BIPOC author. - A Torch Against the Night
14. Read a book whose movie or TV adaptation you’ve seen (but haven’t read the book). A Discovery of Witches
15. Read a new-to-you literary magazine (print or digital).
16. Read a book recommended by a friend with different reading tastes. - Locked On
17. Read a memoir written by someone who is trans or nonbinary. - Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story
18. Read a “Best _ Writing of the year” book for a topic and year of your choice. - Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
19. Read a horror novel by a BIPOC author. - Fledgling
20. Read an award-winning book from the year you were born. - An Artist of the Floating World
21. Read a queer retelling of a classic of the canon, fairytale, folklore, or myth. - Beast
22. Read a history about a period you know little about. - In Distant Lands: A Short History of the Crusades
23. Read a book by a disabled author. - The Heart Principle
24. Pick a challenge from any of the previous years’ challenges to repeat!
*Read a book in any genre by a Native, First Nations, or Indigenous author (2020) - We Had a Little Real Estate Problem: The Unheralded Story of Native Americans and Comedy by Kliph Nesteroff

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Have fun reading in 2022, Megan!

[x] A book featuring a man-made disaster - Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World

[x] A book you know nothing about - Foundation
- just that it was a Jared Harris series on Apple+

[x] A #BookTok recommendation - A Marvellous Light

3. The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear - 20 Jan

22. Read a history about a period you know little about. - In Distant Lands: A Short History of the Crusades

[x] A book published in 2022 - A Flicker in the Dark

[x] An Anisfield-Wolf Book Award winner - Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented

[x] A book about a band or musical group - The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music
6. The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music

[x] A book set on a plane, train, or cruise ship - Death on the Nile

[x] A book with a character on the ACE spectrum - The Love Hypothesis

2. Read a book set in a bookstore. - Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore

2. 8 JUNE - What I've Done

7. The Immortal Irishman: The Irish Revolutionary Who Became an American Hero - 25 Feb

TBR
3. 16 NOV 2016 - The Immortal Irishman: The Irish Revolutionary Who Became an American Hero

14. Read a book whose movie or TV adaptation you’ve seen (but haven’t read the book). A Discovery of Witches

7. Read a romance where at least one of the protagonists is over 40. - The Family Journal
MC 41 yo

10. Me - 10 March

11. The Infinite Game - 21 March

[x] A social horror book - Frankenstein in Baghdad

12. I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life

[x] A book with a recipe in it - Homicide and Halo-Halo

[x] A book you can read in one sitting - Murder in Park Lane

[x] A sapphic book - The Verifiers

[x] A book with cutlery on the cover or in the title -Midnight at the Blackbird Café

24. Pick a challenge from any of the previous years’ challenges to repeat!
*Read a book in any genre by a Native, First Nations, or Indigenous author (2020) - We Had a Little Real Estate Problem: The Unheralded Story of Native Americans and Comedy by Kliph Nesteroff

[x] A book with an onomatopoeia in the title - Howl’s Moving Castle

10. Read a political thriller by a marginalized author (BIPOC, or LGBTQIA+). - While Justice Sleeps by Stacey Abrams

[x] A book featuring a parallel reality - Neverwhere

[x] A romance novel by a BIPOC author - The Marriage Game

16. Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman - 9 May

[x] A book with a constellation on the cover or in the title - Star Mother

17. Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service - 13 May

18. True Story: What Reality TV Says about Us - 16 May

19. The Age of Radiance: The Epic Rise and Dramatic Fall of the Atomic Era - 19 May

[x] A Hugo Award winner - The Yiddish Policemen's Union
Hugo Award winner 2008

[x] A book with a protagonist who uses a mobility aid - The Bone Collector

[x] A book with two POVs - Beauty and the Baller

[x] A book about a secret - The Book of Cold Cases

[x] A book about witches - The Witch's Heart

21. I Have Something to Tell You - 29 June

[x] A book about the afterlife - Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife

[x] A book about gender identity - Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story

[x] A book that takes place during your favorite season - It Happened One Summer