Ultimate Popsugar Reading Challenge discussion

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1. A book about a POC experiencing joy and not trauma

2. A book you want to read based on the last sentence

3. Space Tourism

4. A Book with Two or More Books on the Cover or "Book" in the Title

5. A Book with a Snake on the Cover

6. A book that fills your favorite prompt from the 2015 PS Reading Challenge - No Listopia

7. A Book about a Cult

8. A Book under 250 Pages

9. A Book That Features a Character Going Through Menopause

10. A book you got for free - No Listopia

11. A Book Mentioned in Another Book

12. A Book About a Road Trip

13. A book rated less than three stars on Goodreads - No Listopia

14. A Book About a Nontraditional Education

15. A book that an AI chatbot recommends based on your favorite book - No Listopia

16. A Book Set in or around a Body of Water

17. A Book about a Run Club

18. A Book Containing Magical Creatures (that are not Dragons)

19. A Highly Anticipated Read of 2025

20. A book that fills a 2024 prompt you'd like to do over (or try out) - No Listopia

21. A Book Where the Main Character is a Politician

22. A Book About Soccer

23. A Book That is Considered Healing Fiction

24. A Book with a Happily Single Woman Protagonist

25. A Book with a Main Character who is an Immigrant or Refugee

26. A Book Where an Adult Character Changes Careers

27. A Book Set at a Luxury Resort

28. A Book That Features an Unlikely Friendship

29. A Book About a Food Truck

30. A book that reminds you of your childhood - No Listopia

31. A Book Where Music Plays an Integral Part of the Storyline

32. A Book About an Overlooked Woman in History

33. A book featuring an activity on your bucket list - No Listopia

34. A Book Written By an Author Who Is Neurodivergent

35. A Book Centering LGBTQ+ Characters That Isn't About Coming Out

36. A Book with Silver on the Cover or in the Title

37 & 38 Two Books with the Same Title

39. A classic you've never read - No Listopia

40. A Book About Chosen Family



Advanced Easy
41. A book by the oldest author in your TBR pile - No Listopia

42. A Book with a Title That Starts with the Letter Y

43. A Book That Includes a Nonverbal Character

44. A book you have always avoided reading - No Listopia

Advanced Medium
45. A Book with a Left-Handed Character

46. A Book Where Nature Is the Antagonist

47 A Book of Interconnected Short Stories

Advanced Hard
48. A Book That Features a Married Couple Who Don't Live Together

49. A Dystopian Book with a Happy Ending

50. A Book That Features a Character with Chronic Pain

The prompts this year are so difficult! You guys are doingLord’s work! Thank you so much! 🙏🏽

Vaish wrote: "The prompts this year are so difficult! You guys are doingLord’s work! Thank you so much! 🙏🏽"



I started doing this because it helps ME hahaha! I really rely on this group for some of these categories. And throughout the year I'll come back to this list of lists for a quick reference point. So it's selfish really 😉

I've scribbled "wtf" for half a dozen of these so I'm not quite optimistic about getting through all 50 in 2025 😅 but I have ideas for at least twelve, so I'm excited!

Ashley Marie wrote: "I've scribbled "wtf" for half a dozen of these so I'm not quite optimistic about getting through all 50 in 2025 😅 but I have ideas for at least twelve, so I'm excited!"



LOL!! I still have a lot of blank spaces on my list too.

Worst Rated Books on Goodreads may be useful to some folks for #13

I've really benefited from whoever said sort your tbr on your GR bookshelf from lowest to highest to see ranking, which is great, cuz now I can pull at least one garbage book off the list

Not sure if anyone has noticed this, but for the 2025 challenge the start date is listed as December, 2, 2024, so it's already counting books from 2024. Should this be updated to January 1, 2025?

Mo wrote: "Not sure if anyone has noticed this, but for the 2025 challenge the start date is listed as December, 2, 2024, so it's already counting books from 2024. Should this be updated to January 1, 2025?"

That was done for the tracking app...and some people start immediately once the list is posted.

Mo wrote: "Not sure if anyone has noticed this, but for the 2025 challenge the start date is listed as December, 2, 2024, so it's already counting books from 2024. Should this be updated to January 1, 2025?"




Yes I changed it to Dec 2nd because several members said they had started already. It will only count "read" books on the particular shelf you name.

There is a mini poll open right now asking people which works best for them, Dec or Jan start:
https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/3...

Go vote!!

(it's looking like I'll be changing the start date back to Jan 1st, that's been the majority of replies so far)

Thank you both! I just went and voted. Definitely believe 2025 should begin in 2025. :)

I'm not doing #13. I can't wrap my brain around a prompt instructing me to intentionally read a craptastic book. I've just spent the last two hours trying to find something, ANYTHING, rated 2 stars on GR that doesn't deserve its rating, and I'm stumped. There are too many good books to waste another minute trying to find one that's merely mediocre at best.

Having said all that, I'm happy to say this exercise wasn't altogether fruitless. I've learned that while I may disagree with other readers as to where books fall in the 3- to 5-star range, at least I can pretty well trust that the books listed in that range deserve to be there — very generally speaking, of course!

For #13, I'm just going to read the lowest-rated book already on my tbr list. It'll still be a 3-star book, so yes I'm cheating, but I've made peace with this.