2020 Popsugar Reading Challegne

Each year, I take one reading challenges as a way to get outside of my reading comfort zone. For the past couple of years, I've been sticking with the Popsugar Reading Challenge which contains a total 50 books.

Below is a list of all the books I read for the 2020 Popsugar Reading Challenge along with their reading prompt. After I finish each reading prompt, I will update this list. If you want to see more of the books I've read this year, you can check out my Goodreads profile at: https://www.goodreads.com/user_challenges/15431036.

Challenged completed 12/3/20!

2020 Popsugar Reading Challenge:

1. A book that's published in 2020: Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey 
2. A book by a trans or nonbinary author: Don't Call Us Dead by Danez Smith
3. A book with a great first line: If a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
4. A book about a book club: The Bromance Book Club by Lyssa Kay Adams
5. A book set in a city that has hosted the Olympics: The Awakening by Shakir Rashaan (Atlanta)
6. A bildungsroman: Space Invaders by Nona Fernandez
7. The first book you touch on a shelf with your eyes closed: How To Say No Without Feeling Guilty by Patti Breitman
8. A book with an upside-down image on the cover: The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
9. A book with a map: The Walk by Richard Paul Evans
10. A book recommended by your favorite blog, vlog, podcast, or online book club: I Don't Want to Die Poor: Essays by Michael Arceneaux (recommended on Gettin' Grown podcast)
11. An anthology: Running, Eating, Thinking: A Vegan Anthology by Martin Rowe
12. A book that passes the Bechdel test: Alanna: The First Adventure by Tamora Pierce
13.  A book with the same title as a movie or TV show but is unrelated to it: Humans by Brandon Stanton
14. A book by an author with flora or fauna in their name: The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
15. A book published the month of your birthday: Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead (April)
16. A book about or by a woman in STEM: Princess in Theory by Alyssa Cole
17. A book that won an award in 2019: Bring Out the Dog by Will Mackin (winner of PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize) 
18. A book on a subject you know nothing about: Left Out in America: The State of Homelessness in the United States by Pat LaMarche
19. A book with only words on the cover, no images or graphics: The Princess Saves Herself in This One by Amanda Lovelace
20. A book with a pun in the title: Ruff Around the Edges by Roxanne St. Claire
21. A book featuring one of the seven deadly sins: The Wrath & The Dawn by Renee Ahdieh
22. A book with a robot, cyborg, or AI character: Cog by Greg Van Eekhout
23. A book with a bird on the cover: Hollow Kingdom by Kira Jane Buxton
24. A fiction or nonfiction book about a world leader: A Full Life by Jimmy Carter
25. A book with "gold," "silver," or "bronze" in the title: Thousand Pieces of Gold by Ruthanne Lum McCunn
26. A book by a WOC (woman of color): Citizen by Claudia Rankine
27. A book with at least a four-star rating on Goodreads: T is for Transformation by Shaun T
28. A book you meant to read in 2019: Ravenous by Helen Hardt
29. A book about or involving social media: Dot Complicated by Randi Zuckerberg
30. A book that has a book on the cover: Well-Read Black Girl by Glory Edim
31. A medical thriller: The Second Opinion by Michael Palmer
32. A book with a made-up language: The Grammarians by Cathleen Schine
33. A book set in a country beginning with "C": I've Been Meaning To Tell You by David Chariandy (set in Canada) 
34. A book you picked because the title caught your attention: When Food is Your Drug by Kristin Jones
35. A book with a three-word title: Desired or Dominated by Criss Carr
36. A book with a pink cover: Food Junkies by Vera Tarman
37. A western: Red Dirt Riders by Kristen Swann Porter
38. A book by or about a journalist: Never in my Wildest Dreams: A Black Woman's Life in Journalism by Belva Davis
39. Read a banned book during Banned Books Week: 
40. Your favorite prompt from a past POPSUGAR Reading Challenge (2018- next book in a series you started:) The Road to Grace by Richard Paul Evans 
41. A book written by an author in their 20s: An Abundance of Katherines by John Green
42. A book with "20" or "twenty" in the title: Twenty Wishes by Debbie Macomber
43. A book with a character with a vision impairment or enhancement (a nod to 20/20 vision): Dragon Hoops by Gene Luen Yang
44. A book set in Japan, host of the 2020 Olympics: American Fuji by Sara Backer
45. A book set in the 1920s: Black Orchid Blues by Persia Walker
46. A book by an author who has written more than 20 books: The Pearl by John Steinbeck
47. A book with more than 20 letters in its the title: By The River Piedra I Sat Down And Wept by Paulo Coelho
48. A book published in the 20th century: Tambourines to Glory by Langston Hughes (1958) 
49. A book from a series with more that 20 books: Flirt by Laurell K. Hamilton (Anita Blake Vampire Hunter)
50. A book with a main character in their 20s: The Two Lives of Lydia Bird by Josie Silver