READING CHALLENGE | POPSUGAR 2024 READING CHALLENGE

I’m a bit late to the party – I started this post and then forgot to finish and post it, so we’re now into March! Oh well, better late than never. I enjoy the PopSugar Reading Challenge because of the sheer amount of prompts. This year it has fifty prompts. And even a reader who is not going to go out of their way to meet the prompts on any reading challenge is bound to hit at least a few of those without even trying, amirite? (You’ll notice when you scroll down that I have, in fact, already done so.)

Here they all are written out in a convenient copy-and-pasteable list for you:

1. A book with the word “leap” in the title
2. A bildungsroman (coming-of-age story)
3. A book about a 24-year-old
4. A book about a writer/author
5. A book about K-pop
6. A book about pirates
7. A book about women’s sports and/or by a woman athlete
8. A book by a blind or visually impaired author
9. A book by a deaf or hard-or-hearing author
10. A book from a self-published author
11. A book from a genre you typically avoid – Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree
12. A book from an animal’s POV – Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt (partly from an octopus’ POV)
13. A book originally published under a pen name
14. A book recommended by a bookseller
15. A book recommended by a librarian
16. A book set 24 years before you were born
17. A book set in a travel destination on your bucket list
18. A book set in space
19. A book set in the future
20. A book set in the snow
21. A book that came out in a year that ends in “24”
22. A book that centers on video games
23. A book that features dragons – Franklin and Luna Go to the Moon by Jen Campbell
24. A book that takes place over the course of 24 hours
25. A book that was published 24 years ago
26. A book that was turned into a musical
27. A book where someone dies in the first chapter – The Great Unexpected by Dan Mooney
28. A book with a main character who’s 42 years old
29. A book with a neurodivergent main character
30. A book with a one-word title you had to look up in the dictionary
31. A book with a title that is a complete sentence
32. A book with an enemies-to-lovers plot – My Oxford Year by Julia Whelan
33. A book with an unreliable narrator
34. A book with at least three POVs – Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt (I think)
35. A book with magical realism
36. A book written by an incarcerated or formerly incarcerated person
37. A book written during NaNoWriMo
38. A cosy fantasy book – Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree
39. A fiction book by a trans or nonbinary author
40. A horror book by a BIPOC author
41. A memoir that explores queerness – Pageboy by Elliot Page, This Much Is True by Miriam Margolyes, and Between the Stops by Sandi Toksvig
42. A nonfiction book about Indigenous people
43. A second-chance romance (don’t ask me, I have no idea what this one means)
44. An autobiography by a woman in rock ‘n’ roll
45. An LGBTQ+ romance novel

Advanced Prompts

1. A book in which a character sleeps for more than 24 hours
2. A book with 24 letters in the title – (The Fortnight in September is 23, Remarkably Bright Creatures is 25 – that’s as close as I’ve gotten!)
3. A collection of at least 24 poems
4. The 24th book of an author
5. A book that starts with the letter “X”

As I said, I’m not going to be putting any active effort into completing the prompts on this list, but I will take some inspiration from it if I can’t decide what to read next (let’s face it, that happens a lot) and will pop in from time to time and see if anything I’ve read fits any of them. As always, if you guys would like to share any recommendations for books for any of the prompts, feel free to do so in the comments! I’m always looking for good books to add to my TBR!