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POPSUGAR Reading Challenge 2023
Book Riot Reading Harder Challenge 2023
Non-Fiction
TBR

POPSUGAR Reading Challenge 2023

[x] A book you meant to read in 2022 - I'm Glad My Mom Died
[x] A book set in the decade you were born - Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
[] A book you bought from an independent bookstore
[x] A book with a queer lead - The London Seance Society
[x] A book about a vacation - People We Meet on Vacation
[x] A book with a map - Act of Oblivion
[x] A book by a first-time author - Remarkably Bright Creatures
[x] A book with a rabbit on the cover - Hell Bent
[x] A book with mythical creatures - Kings of the Wyld
[x] A book with just text on the cover - Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia
[x] A book about forbidden romance - The Stopover
[x] The shortest book on your TBR list - The Prince and the Troll
[x] A book with "Girl" in the title - The It Girl
[x] A #BookTok recommendation - The Island
[x] A celebrity memoir - Spare
[x] A book you bought secondhand - The Once and Future King
[x] A book with a color in the title - The Innocence of Father Brown
[x] A book your friend recommended - Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery
[x] A romance with a fat lead - One to Watch
[x] A book that's on a celebrity book club list - All Adults Here
[x] A book about or set in Hollywood - Last Night at the Hollywood Canteen
[x] A book about a family - Pride and Premeditation
[x] A book published in spring 2023 - A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
[x] A book that comes out in the second half of 2023 - The Connellys of County Down
[x] A book published the year you were born - Red Storm Rising
[x] A book about an athlete/sport - Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
[x] A modern retelling of a classic - Hag-Seed
[x] A historical-fiction book - City of Thieves
[x] A book with a song lyric as its title - Small Mercies
[x] A book about divorce - What Alice Forgot
[x] A book where the main character's name is in the title - Oona Out of Order
[x] A book you think your best friend would like - Trust
[x] A book with a love triangle - A Court of Mist and Fury
[x] A book you should have read in high school - Death of a Salesman
[x] A book that's been banned or challenged in any state in 2022 - Candide
[x] A book you read more than 10 years ago - Edge of Oblivion
[x] A book that fulfills your favorite prompt from a past challenge - The Bullet That Missed
[x] A book you wish you could read for the first time again - 11/22/63
[x] A book becoming a TV series or movie in 2023 - American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
[x] A book by an author with the same initials as you - Syria's Secret Library: Reading and Redemption in a Town Under Siege

[x] A book written during NaNoWriMo - The Calculating Stars
[x] A book with a pet character - Murder and Mamon
[x] A book based on a popular movie - Back From the Future: A Celebration of the Greatest Time Travel Story Ever Told
[x] A book about a holiday that's not Christmas - The Night Shift
[x] A book that takes place entirely in one day - A Midummer Nights Dream
[x] A book that features two languages - Carrie Soto Is Back
[x] A book that was self-published - John Wayne Gacy: The Killer Clown
[] The longest book on you TBR list
[x] A book that started out as fan fiction - Stuck with You
[x] A book with alliteration in the title - Memory Man

Book Riot's Reading Harder Challenge 2023

1. Read a novel about a trans character written by a trans author - Light from Uncommon Stars
2. Read one of your favorite author's favorite books - Shōgun
3. Read a book about activism - Parkland: Birth of a Movement
4. Read a book that's been challenged recently in your school district/library - Turtles All the Way Down
5. Read a completed webcomic
6. Finish a book you've DNFed
7. Listen to an audiobook performed by a POC of a book written by a POC - Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers
8. Read a graphic novel/comic/manga if you haven't before
9. Read an independently published book by a BIPOC author. - Nothing But Blackened Teeth
10. Read a book you know nothing about based solely on the cover. - Hotel Magnifique
11. Read a cookbook cover to cover
12. Read a non-fiction book about BIPOC an/or queer history - Stonewall
13. Read an author local to you - The Anthropocene Reviewed
14. Read a book with under 500 GR ratings. - Iron, Fire and Ice: The Real History that Inspired Game of Thrones
15. Read a historical fiction book set in an eastern country - The Narrow Road to the Deep North
16. Read a romance with bisexual representation - If This Gets Out
17. Read a YA book by an Indigenous author. - Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two
18. Read a comic or graphic novel that features disability representation
19. Read a non-fiction book about intersectional feminism - Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America
20. Read a book of poetry by a BIPOC or queer author. - Call Us What We Carry
21. Read a book of short stories - The Illustrated Man
22. Read any book from the Ignyte awards shortlist/ longlist/ winner list - The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games
23. Read a social horror, mystery, or thriller novel - Notes on an Execution
24. Pick a challenge from any of the previous challenges to repeat. - The Plot Against America (An alternate history novel - 2019)

Non-Fiction 2023
Goal: 35 books

January
1. The First World War - 12 Jan
2. Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America - 26 Jan
3. The Anthropocene Reviewed - 31 Jan

February
4. Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory - 11 Feb
5. The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games - 15 Feb
6. A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them - 22 Feb
7. White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America - 28 Feb

March
8. Spare - 13 Mar
9. Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia - 21 Mar

April
10. The Vortex: A True Story of History's Deadliest Storm, an Unspeakable War, and Liberation - 15 April
11. A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them - 28 April

May
12. Parkland: Birth of a Movement - 10 May
13. Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game - 15 May
14. The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer - 29 May
15. I'm Glad My Mom Died - 31 May

June
16. Hidden Figures - 8 June
17. Stonewall - 12 June
18. Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital - 29 June

July
19. Inspector Oldfield and the Black Hand Society: America's Original Gangsters and the U.S. Postal Detective Who Brought Them to Justice - 18 July
20. Syria's Secret Library: Reading and Redemption in a Town Under Siege - 21 July
21. American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer - 27 July
22. His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope - 31 July

August
23. Letter to a Christian Nation - 8 Aug
24. In Such Good Company: Eleven Years of Laughter, Mayhem, and Fun in the Sandbox - 25 Aug
25. Iron, Fire and Ice: The Real History that Inspired Game of Thrones - 29 Aug
26. Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues - 30 Aug

September
27. The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe - 7 September
28. Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery - 21 Sept
29. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil - 27 Sept

October
30. The Great Halifax Explosion: A World War I Story of Treachery, Tragedy, and Extraordinary Heroism - 8 Oct
31. In the Enemy's House: The Secret Saga of the FBI Agent and the Code Breaker Who Caught the Russian Spies - 11 Oct
32. The Dorito Effect: The Surprising New Truth About Food and Flavor - 17 Oct
33. Our Man in Tokyo: An American Ambassador and the Countdown to Pearl Harbor - 28 Oct

November
34. The Origins of Totalitarianism - 3 Nov
35. The Birth of Loud: Leo Fender, Les Paul, and the Guitar-Pioneering Rivalry That Shaped Rock 'n' Roll - 18 Nov
36. The Argonauts - 22 Nov
37. Back From the Future: A Celebration of the Greatest Time Travel Story Ever Told - 28 Nov

December
38. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder - 11 Dec
39. The Order of Time - 14 Dec
40. Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition- 15 Dec
41. Sins of the Founding Father: George Washington, the Indigenous Tribes, and the Decisions that Shaped America’s Future 24 Dec
42. Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail - 25 Dec
43. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession - 27 Dec

To Be Read 2023
Goal: 15

2014
3) 11 Dec - What Alice Forgot
5) 25 Dec - The Narrow Road to the Deep North

2015
17) 13 April - Inside the O'Briens
16) 15 May - The Argonauts
6) 5 July - Memory Man
8) 29 Nov - American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

2016
14) 15 March - Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
4) 28 Aug - Hidden Figures
1) 16 Nov -White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
15) 6 Dec - A Court of Mist and Fury

2017
12) 22 June - Turtles All the Way Down

2018
9) 13 May - In Such Good Company: Eleven Years of Laughter, Mayhem, and Fun in the Sandbox
18) 12 Sept - Candide

2019
10) 1 March - Pygmalion
7) 7 Oct - Syria's Secret Library: Reading and Redemption in a Town Under Siege
11) 5 Nov - The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe

2020

2021
2) 2 Dec - A Red Herring Without Mustard

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NF
1. The First World War - 12 Jan

[x] A book published the year you were born - Red Storm Rising - 1986

19. Read a non-fiction book about intersectional feminism - Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America

[x] A book that fulfills your favorite prompt from a past challenge - The Bullet That Missed
2019: A book featuring an amateur detective

13. Read an author local to you - The Anthropocene Reviewed
John Green - Indianapolis, Ind.

NF
4. Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory - 11 Feb

22. Read any book from the Ignyte awards shortlist/ longlist/ winner list - The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games

[x] A book with a color in the title - The Innocence of Father Brown

20. Read a book of poetry by a BIPOC or queer author. - Call Us What We Carry

6. A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them - 22 Feb

TBR
16 Nov 2016 - White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America

[x] A celebrity memoir - Spare

[x] A book you think your best friend would like - Trust

[x] A book that's on a celebrity book club list - All Adults Here
Jenna Bush Hager's book club

10. Read a book you know nothing about based solely on the cover. - Hotel Magnifique

[x] A book with just text on the cover - Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia

[x] A book by a first-time author - Remarkably Bright Creatures

[x] A #BookTok recommendation - The Island

[x] A book published in spring 2023 - A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

2. 2 Dec - A Red Herring Without Mustard

9. Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia - 21 Mar

10. The Vortex: A True Story of History's Deadliest Storm, an Unspeakable War, and Liberation - 15 April

11. A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them - 28 April

3. Read a book about activism - Parkland: Birth of a Movement

[x] A book with a map - Act of Oblivion

[x] A book about an athlete/sport - Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game

[x] A book with mythical creatures - Kings of the Wyld

[x] A book about divorce - What Alice Forgot

[x] A book you meant to read in 2022 - I'm Glad My Mom Died

7. Listen to an audiobook performed by a POC of a book written by a POC - Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers

15. Read a historical fiction book set in an eastern country - The Narrow Road to the Deep North

[x] A book with alliteration in the title - Memory Man

19. Inspector Oldfield and the Black Hand Society: America's Original Gangsters and the U.S. Postal Detective Who Brought Them to Justice - 18 July

[x] A book you wish you could read for the first time again - 11/22/63

[x] A book by an author with the same initials as you - Syria's Secret Library: Reading and Redemption in a Town Under Siege

[x] A book that features two languages - Carrie Soto Is Back

23. Read a social horror, mystery, or thriller novel - Notes on an Execution

[x] A book becoming a TV series or movie in 2023 - American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

22. His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope - 31 July

[x] A book with a queer lead - The London Seance Society

23. Letter to a Christian Nation - 8 Aug

[x] A book about a family - Pride and Premeditation

[x] A book with a rabbit on the cover - Hell Bent