I had such a blast searching for novels to fit the prompts and seeing where I could squeeze in books that were already on my TBR for the new year. I’ve included below the 40 prompts for the regular challenge and following that my 10 choices for the advanced reading list, although I may not get to those. We’ll just see how the year goes!
PUBLISHED IN 2020
Wicked As You Wish by Rin Chepeco
TRANS/NON-BINARY AUTHOR
All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders
GREAT FIRST LINE
ABOUT A BOOK CLUB
-UNDECIDED-
SET IN A CITY THAT HAS HOSTED THE OLYMPICS
BILDUNGSROMAN
Tell the Wolves I’m Home by Carol Rifka Brunt
FIRST BOOK YOU TOUCH ON A SHELF WITH YOUR EYES CLOSED
This Mortal Coil by Emily Suvada
AN UPSIDE DOWN IMAGE ON THE COVER
A MAP
The Queen’s Rising by Rebecca Ross
RECOMMENDED BY YOUR FAVORITE BLOG/ PODCAST/ONLINE BOOK CLUB
ANTHOLOGY
PASSES THE BECHDEL TEST
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
SAME AS TITLE AS MOVIE/TV SHOW BUT IS UNRELATED TO IT
AUTHOR WITH FLORA/FAUNA IN THEIR NAME
The Queen of Nothing by Holly Black
ABOUT/INVOLVING SOCIAL MEDIA
One of Us is Lying by Karen M. McManus
HAS A BOOK ON THE COVER
Assassin of Truth by Brenda Drake
MEDICAL THRILLER
A MADE UP LANGUAGE
SET IN A COUNTRY BEGINNING WITH ‘C’
City of the Lost by Kelley Armstrong
YOU PICKED BECAUSE THE TITLE CAUGHT YOUR ATTENTION
The Merciful Crow by by Margaret Owen
PUBLISHED THE MONTH OF YOUR BIRTHDAY
ABOUT/BY A WOMAN IN STEM
The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang
WON AN AWARD IN 2019
A SUBJECT YOU KNOW NOTHING ABOUT
only words on the cover, no images/graphics
pun in the title
The Good, the Bad, and the Undead by Kim Harrison
featuring one of the seven deadly sins
with a robot/cyborg/AI character
Heart of Iron by Ashley Poston
a bird on the cover
fiction/nonfiction book about a world leader
The President Is Missing by Bill Clinton, James Patterson
“gold”/”silver”/”bronze” in the title
by a WOC
Smoke in the Sun by Reneé Ahdieh
at least a four-star rating on Goodreads
Flamecaster by Cinda Williams Chima
meant to read in 2019
a three-word title
These Rebel Waves by Sarah Raasch
a pink cover
A Western
by/about a journalist
-UNDECIDED-
Read a banned book during Banned Books Week
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
favorite prompt from a past POPSUGAR Reading Challenge
written by an author in their 20s
Chirldren of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
“20”/”twenty” in the title
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by by Pablo Neruda, W.S. Merwin (Translator)
character with a vision impairment/enhancement
set in the 1920s
-UNDECIDED-
set in Japan, host of the 2020 Olympics
an author who has written more than 20 books
more than 20 letters in its title
Something Strange and Deadly by Susan Dennard
published in the 20th century
a series with more than 20 books
Golden in Death (In Death #50) by J.D. Robb
a main character in their 20s
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
Do you see any books you have loved in past years, or ones you’d like to read as well? Let me know if you’re participating in the challenge too!
If you need a group to join in discussing your POPSUGAR challenge for 2020, you can join the Goodreads group made up of readers who participate in the challenge every year or POPSUGAR Book Club on Facebook!
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