How I Did in the 2017 PopSugar Reading Challenge

At the beginning of the year, I saw that PopSugar were hosting a reading challenge over 2017 and thought it would be a great challenge to keep in mind throughout the year. To be honest, I only looked at it once, but have read over 50 books this year and many of them related to one of the prompts. I didn’t do all of them, but I did manage to do most!

My Results

A book recommended by a librarian

A book that’s been on your TBR for way too long – The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

A book of letters – Simon Vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli (not entirely letters, but close enough)

An audiobook – The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena

A book by a person of colour – The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

A book with one of the four seasons in the title – Strawberry Summer by Marissa Brayden

A book that is a story within a story

A book with multiple authors – Because You Love to Hate Me edited by Ameriie

An espionage thriller – Ragdoll by Daniel Cole

A book with a cat on the cover

A book with an author who uses a pseudonym – Harlequin’s Riddle by Rachel Nightingdale

A bestseller from a genre you don’t typically read – The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood (speculative fiction)

A book by or about a person who has a disability – Maybe Someday by Colleen Hoover (deaf character)

A book involving travel – The Queen of the Tearling by Erika Johansen

A book with a subtitle – Moxie: Moxie Girls Fight Back by Jennifer Mathieu (does that count?)

A book that’s published in 2017 – One of Us is Lying by Karen McManus

A book involving a mythical creature

A book you’ve read before that never fails to make you smile

A book about food

A book with career advice

A book from a nonhuman perspective – The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (death)

A steampunk novel 

A book with a red spine – The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

A book set in the wilderness

A book you loved as a child

A book by an author from a country you’ve never visited – I See You by Clare Mackintosh (England)

A book with a title that’s a character’s name – Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

A novel set during wartime – The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers

A book with an unreliable narrator – The Confession by Jo Spain

A book with pictures – Moxie by Jennifer Mathieu

A book where the main character is a different ethnicity to you – When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon (Indian)

A book about an interesting woman – Truly Madly Guilty by Liane Moriarty

A book set in two different time periods

A book with a month or day of the week in the title – November 9 by Colleen Hoover

A book set in a hotel

A book written by someone you admire – The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

A book that’s becoming a movie in 2017 – Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty (close enough – it was a TV show)

A book set around a holiday other than Christmas 

The first book in a series you haven’t read before – To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny Han

A book you bought on a trip – Truly Madly Guilty by Liane Moriarty

A book recommended by an author you love

A bestseller from 2016 – The Hating Game by Sally Thorne

A book with a family-member term in the title 

A book that takes place over a character’s life span – Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

A book about an immigrant or refugee

A book from a genre or subgenre you’ve never heard of – The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood (speculative fiction)

A book with an eccentric character – Feel Me Fall by James Morris

A book that’s more than 800 pages

A book you got from a used book sale – The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

A book that’s been mentioned in another book – Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

A book about a difficult topic – Flowers In the Attic by V. C. Andrews (incest…?)

A book based on mythology

I used several of the same books more than once and didn’t use many of the books I read, but they just didn’t fit in anywhere!

2018 PopSugar Reading Challenge

The 2018 PopSugar reading challenge prompts have been released! These ones seem much more interesting and challenging.

• Did you take part in any challenges in 2017?