2024 POPSUGAR Reading Challenge

 I always look forward to this one. 

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1. A book with the word "leap" in the title: Leap of Faith--Danielle Steel
2. A bildungsroman book: The Black Flamingo--Dean Atta
3. A book about a 24-year-old: Into the Wild--Jon Krakauer
4. A book about a writer: Savage Beauty--Nancy Milford
5. A book about K-Pop: Celebrity Superhero--Jennie Bennett
6. A book about pirates: Pirate Passover--Judy Press
7. A book about women's sports and/or by a woman athlete: Rise--Lindsey Vonn
8. A book by a blind or visually impaired author: The Story of My Life--Helen Keller
9. A book by a Deaf or Hard-of-Hearing author: Girl at War--Sara Novic
10. A book by a self-published author: Bunkie Spills--Bradley K. Rosen
11. A book from a genre you typically avoid: How to See--Thich Nhat Hanh
12. A book from an animal's POV: Watership Down--Richard Adams
13. A book originally published under a pen name: By the Light of the Study Lamp--Carolyn Keene
14. A book recommended by a bookseller: The Idiot--Elif Batuman
15. A book recommended by a librarian: All That's Left in the World--Erik J. Brown
16. A book set 24 years before you were born: The Girl From the Train--Irma Joubert
17. A book set in a travel destination on your bucket list: The Summer Getaway--Susan Mallery
18. A book set in space: This is How You Lose the Time War--Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone
19. A book set in the future: Remote Control--Nnedi Okorafor
20. A book set in the snow: The Snow Child--Eowyn Ivey
21. A book that came out in a year that ends with "24": The Summer Book Club--Susan Mallery
22. A book that centers on video games: My Video Game Ate My Homework--Dustin Hansen
23. A book that features dragons: Tess of the Road--Rachel Hartman
24. A book that takes place over the course of 24 hours: Five Survive--Holly Jackson
25. A book that was published 24 years ago (2000): Zillah & Me--Helen Dunmore
26. A book that was turned into a musical: Frog and Toad Are Friends--Arnold Lobel
27. A book where someone dies in the first chapter: Fatally Frosted--Jessica Beck
28. A book with a main character who's 42 years old: Rebecca--Daphne Du Maurier
29. A book with a neurodivergent main character: Every Last Word--Tamara Ireland Stone
30. A book with a one-word title you had to look up in a dictionary: Piranesi--Susanna Clarke
31. A book with a title that is a complete sentence: It Starts With Us--Colleen Hoover
32. A book with an enemies-to-lovers plot: It Ends With Us--Colleen Hoover
33. A book with an unreliable narrator: Burn for Burn--Jenny Han and Siobhan Vivian
34. A book with at least 3 POVs: Apocalypse Baby--Virginie Despentes
35. A book with magical realism: Red Queen--Victoria Aveyard
36. A book written by an incarcerated or formerly incarcerated person: Policing the Black Man--Angela Davis
37. A book written during NaNoWriMo: Evvie Drake Starts Over--Linda Holmes
38. A cozy fantasy book: Greenglass House--Kate Milford
39. A fiction book by a trans or nonbinary author: The Fabulous Zed Watson!--Basil Sylvester
40. A horror book by a BIPOC author: The House in the Pines--Ana Reyes
41. A memoir that explores queerness: Growing Up Trans--Lindsay Herriot & Kate Fry (eds.)
42. A nonfiction book about Indigenous people: Apple: Skin to the Core--Eric Gansworth
43. A second-chance romance: Happy Place--Emily Henry
44. An autobiography by a woman in rock 'n' roll: Year of the Monkey--Patti Smith
45. An LGBTQ+ romance novel: She's Too Pretty to Burn--Wendy Heard

Advanced

1. A book in which a character sleeps for more than 24 hours: Mistress of All Evil--Serena Valentino
2. A book with 24 letters in the title: Once Upon a Time in Hollywood--Quentin Tarantino
3. A collection of at least 24 poems: This Wound is a World--Billy-Ray Belcourt
4. The 24th book of an author: Home--Toni Morrison
5. A book that starts with the letter "X": XOXO--Axie Oh

 

Challenge completed on December 11