2021 Popsugar Reading Challenge

Each year, I take on different reading challenges as a way to get outside of my reading comfort zone. For 2021, I plan to complete the 2021 Popsugar Reading Challenge which contains a total of 50 books as well as the 52 Book Club Reading Challenge.

Below is a list of reading prompts for the 2021 reading challenge. 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.

2021 Popsugar Reading Challenge:

1. A book published in 2021: Act Your Age, Eve Brown by Talia Hibbert
2. An Afrofuturist book: My Soul to Keep by Tananarive Due
3. A book that has a heart, diamond, club, or spade on the cover: Fattily Ever After by Stephanie Yeboah
   
4. A book by an author who shares you zodiac sign: Ribsy by Beverly Cleary
5. A dark academia book: What Big Teeth by Rose Szabo
   
6. A book with a gem, mineral, or rock in the title: The Final Revival of Opal & Nev by Dawnie Walton
   
7. A book where the main character works at your current or dream job: Deal with the Devil by Kit Rocha
8. A book that has won the Women's Prize For Fiction (2017:) The Power by Naomi Alderman
9. A book with a family tree: The House of Broken Angels by Luis Alberto Urrea
   
10. A bestseller from the 1990s: The Bridges of Madison County by Robert James Waller (1993 & 1994)
    
11. A book about forgetting: Still Alice by Lisa Genova
12. A book you have seen on someone's bookshelf (in real life, on a Zoom call, in a TV show, etc.:) The Passive Programming Playbook by Paula Willey and Andria L. Amaral
    
13. A locked-room mystery: Home Before Dark by Riley Sager
14. A genre hybrid: Seconds by Bryan Lee O'Malley
15. A book set mostly or entirely outdoors: 100 Hikers 100 Hikes by Andrew Camani
16. A book with something broken on the cover: Childhood Disrupted: How Your Biography Becomes Your Biology and How You Can Heal by Donna Jackson Nakazawa
17. A book by a Muslim American author: Proud: Living My American Dream by Ibtihaj Muhammad (Young Readers Edition)
18. A book that was published anonymously: Letting Ana Go by Anonymous
19. A book with an oxymoron in the title: Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
20. A book about do-overs or fresh starts: Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
21. A magical realism book: The Charmed Wife by Olga Grushin
22. A book set in multiple countries: Contents May Have Shifted by Pam Houston
23. A book set somewhere you'd like to visit in 2021:The Museum of Rain by Dave Eggers (California Central Coast)
24. A book by a blogger, vlogger, YouTube video creator, or other online personality: Feeding My Soul (Because It's My Business) by Tabitha Brown
25. A book whose title starts with "Q," "X," or "Z:" Quirky by Melissa A. Schilling
26. A book featuring three generations (grandparent, parent, child:)
27. A book about a social justice issue: Spirit Run by Noe Alvarez
28. A book set in a restaurant: Sweet Bean Paste by Durian Sukegawa
29. A book with a black-and-white cover: The White City by Karolina Ramquvist
30. A book by an Indigenous author: Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese's by Tiffany Midge
31. A book that has the same title as a song: Between You and Me by Mary Norris
32. A book about a subject you are passionate about: I Love it When You Talk Retro by Ralph  Keyes
33. A book that discusses body positivity: The Self-Love Revolution by Virgie Tovar, MA 
34. A book found on a Black Lives Matter reading list: The Day You Begin by Jacqueline Woodson
35. A book in a different format than what you normally read (audiobook, ebooks, graphic novels:) Hidden America by Jeanne Marie Laskas (large print)
36. A book that has fewer than 1,000 reviews on Amazon or Goodreads: The Silence by Don Delillo
37. A book you think your best friend would like: Pop Sonnets by Erik Didriksen
    
38. An book about art or an artist: Leonardo's Knots by Caroline Cocciardi
    
39. A book everyone seems to have read but you: Sula by Toni Morrison
    
40. Your favorite prompt from a past POPSUGAR Reading Challenge: book based entirely on its cover - Reading the OED: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages by Ammon Shea 
41. The longest book (by pages) on your TBR list: From My People: 400 Years of African American Folklore edited by: Daryl Cumber Dance (736 pages)
42. The shortest book (by pages) on your TBR list: I'd Rather Be Reading by Anne Bogel (149 pages)
43. The book on your TBR list with the prettiest cover: Make Your Own Sunshine by Janice Dean
44. The book on your TBR list with the ugliest cover: All Systems Red by Martha Wells
45. The book that's been on your TBR list for the longest amount of time: Dirty South by Ben Westhoff
    
46. A book from you TBR list you meant to read last year but didn't: My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
47. A book from you TBR list you associate with a favorite person, place, or thing: A Pictorial Guide to Biltmore by Rachel Carley
48. A book from your TBR list chosen at random: Rediscover Jesus by Matthew Kelly
49. A DNF book from your TBR list: Afraid of Everything by Adam Tierney
50. A free book from you TBR list (gifted, borrowed, library:) Secrets of a Former Fat 
    Girl by Lisa Delaney

The 52 Book Club's 2021 Reading Challenge

Each year, I take on different reading challenges as a way to get outside of my reading comfort zone. For 2021, I plan to complete the 2021 Popsugar Reading Challenge as well as the 52 Book Club reading challenge which contains a total of 52 books. 

Below is a list of reading prompts for the 2021 reading challenge. 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.

The 52 Book Club's 2021 Reading Challenge:

1. Set in a school: Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
2. Featuring the legal profession: In Five Years by Rebecca Serle
3. A dual timeline: The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James
   
4. An author who is deceased: Naughtier Than Nice by Eric Jerome Dickey (July 7, 1961 - January 3, 2021)
5. Published by Penguin: The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
6. An character with the same name as a male family member: Lawrence: The Bunny Who Wanted to Be Naked by Vern Kousky
   
7. An author with only 1 published book: #Veryfat #Verybrave by Nicole Byer
   
8. A book in the 900's of the Dewey Decimal System: American Like Me (920.073) by America Ferrera 
9. Set in a Mediterranean country: My Italian Bulldozer by Alexander McCall Smith
10. Related to the word "fire:" Fighting Fire by Caroline Paul
11. Book with discussion questions inside: The Deep by Rivers Solomon
12. Title starting with the letter "D:" Deception by Selena Montgomery
13. Includes an exotic animal: Remote Control by Nnedi Okorafor
    
14. Written by an author over 65 (when published:) Pandora's Lab by Paul A. Offit, M.D.
    
15. A book mentioned in another book: The Sugar Queen by Sarah Addison Allen (mentioned in "I'd Rather Be Reading" By Anne Bogel) 
16. Set before the 17th Century: Empress of the East by Leslie Peirce
17. A character "on the run:" Dead Girl Running by Christina Dodd
18. Author with a 9-letter last name: Poor Unfortunate Soul by Serena Valentino
    
19. Book with a deckled edge: Evicted by Matthew Desmond
20. Made into a TV series: High on the Hog: A Culinary Journey From Africa to America by Jessica B. Harris
    
21. Book by Kristin Hannah: Between Sisters by Kristen Hannah
22. A family saga: The Cousins by Karen M. McManus
23. An ending that surprises you: Mosquitoland by David Arnold
24. A book you think they should read in schools: Adulthood *for Beginners by Andy Boyle
25. A book with multiple character POV: Slade House by David Mitchell
26. An author of color: Reckless by Selena Montgomery
27. First chapter ends on an odd page number: My One and Only by Kristan Higgins
28. Includes a historical event you know little about: They Called Us Enemy by George Takei
29. Featuring the environment: Fragile Earth From the Editors of Collins
30. Watch out for dragons!:Fire in His Blood by Ruby Dixon
31. Shares a similar title to another book: Legacy by Helen Hardt
32. A selfish character: Baby Teeth by Zoje Stage
33. Featuring adoption: Before and After: The Incredible Real-Life Stories of Orphans who Survived the Tennessee Children's Home Society by Judy Christie & Lisa Wingate
34. A book you'd rate 5 stars: Make Something Good Today by Erin & Ben Napier
35. Set in a country that starts with the letter "S:" The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning by Margareta Magnusson
36. A nameless narrator: The Strange Library by Haruki Murakami
    
37. An educational read: A Loving Approach to Dementia Care by Laura Wayman
38. Recommended on BookBub: Introvert Power by Laurie A. Helgoe
39. An alternate history novel: River of Teeth by Sarah Gailey
40. Found via #bookstagram: Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo
41. An endorsement by a famous author on the cover: Night of the Mannequins by Stephen Graham Jones
42. An epistolary: Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn
43. An character with a pet cat: A Street Cat Named Bob by James Bowen
    
44. Includes a garden: The Memory Theater by Karin Tidbeck
    
45. A coming of age novel: How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez
46. Winner of the National Book Award - any year: Challenger Deep by Neal Shusterman (Young People's Literature 2015)
    
47. A character with a disability: Sunnyside Plaza by Scott Simon
48. A cover with a woman who is facing away: When Winter Comes by V.A. Shannon
49. A flavour in the title: Chocolate Friday by Edwina Martin-Arnold
50. A shoe on the cover: Danger, Sweetheart by MaryJanice Davidson 
51. Published in 2021:Eartha & Kitt by Kitt Shaprio
52. Re-do one of the previous 51 categories from this 2021 challenge: (character with a disability) Always Only You by Chloe Liese