Popsugar Reading Challenge

Hi again, Munchworms!

As I promised in my first blog, I’m going to give you the list of books I have read and still want to read to complete the Popsugar Reading Challenge. If you haven’t heard of it, it’s a reading challenge that consists of a total of 52 prompts. 40 regular ones and 12 advanced ones. Since there are so many prompts, you’re bound to read books you wouldn’t have ever read otherwise.

I’ve read about different ways to go over this challenge. Some people just read whatever they want and try to add each book to one prompt, some use one book for several prompts. Others dive in and immediately add a book they want to read for every category. That’s what I did as well.
It took me a couple of days, but I just went ahead and made myself an Excel-file and linked a book to every prompt. In the end, I ended up switching books around when I found something that made a better fit or a book that I’d rather read.

So, are you guys ready? A list of 52 prompts!

1. A book recommended by a librarian	Six of Crows – Leigh Bardugo
2. A book that’s been on your TBR list for way too long	Dracula – Bram Stoker
3. A book of letters	Ladies of Letters – Carole Hayman & Lou Wakefield
4. An audiobook	Mary Poppins – Pamela L. Travers
5. A book by a person of color	Everything, everything – Nicola Yoon
6. A book with one of the four seasons in the title	A Summer at Sea – Katie Fforde
7. A book that is a story within a story	Interview with the Vampire – Anne Rice
8. A book with multiple authors	Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy – Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan, Maureen Johnson & Robin Wasserman
9. An espionage thriller	The Chemist – Stephenie Meyer
10. A book with a cat on the cover	Living Dangerously – Katie Fforde
11. A book by an author who uses a pseudonym	Lady Midnight – Cassandra Clare
12. A bestseller from a genre you don’t normally read	The Undomestic Goddess – Sophie Kinsella
13. A book by or about a person who has a disability	Before I Go To Sleep – S. J. Watson
14. A book involving travel	His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
15. A book with a subtitle	Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things – Jenny Lawson
16. A book that’s published in 2017	My Sweet Revenge – Jane Fallon
17. A book involving a mythical creature	Maneater – Thomas Emson
18. A book you’ve read before that never fails to make you smile	The Charm Bracelet – Melissa Hill
19. A book about food	Recipe for Love – Katie Fforde
20. A book with career advice	Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination – J.K. Rowling
21. A book from a nonhuman perspective	The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane – Kate DiCamillo
22. A steampunk novel	Cinder  – Marissa Meyer
23. A book with a red spine	Lips Touch Three Times – Laini Taylor
24. A book set in the wilderness	The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
25. A book you loved as a child	Harry Potter & the Philosopher’s Stone – J.K. Rowling
26. A book by an author from a country you’ve never visited	Wicked Lovely – Melissa Marr
27. A book with a title that’s a character’s name	The Evolution of Mara Dyer – Michelle Hodkin
28. A novel set during wartime	Atonement – Ian McEwan
29. A book with an unreliable narrator	The Girl on the Train – Paula Hawkins
30. A book with pictures	Harry Potter & the Chamber of Secrets – J.K. Rowling
31. A book where the main character is a different ethnicity than you	Shadowshaper- Daniel José Older
32. A book about an interesting woman	Men on the Menu – Bambi Smyth
33. A book set in two different time periods	The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
34. A book with a month or day of the week in the title	Waiting for Wednesday – Nicci French
35. A book set in a hotel	The Shining – Stephen King
36. A book written by someone you admire	Lord of Shadows – Cassandra Clare
37. A book that’s becoming a movie in 2017	Ready Player One – Ernest Cline
38. A book set around a holiday other than Christmas	The house we grew up in – Lisa Jewell (Easter)
39. The first book in a series you haven’t read before	Sweet Evil – Wendy Higgins
40. A book you bought on a trip	Sweet Peril – Wendy Higgins
1. A book recommended by an author you love	Eleanor and Park – Rainbow Rowell (Lauren Kate)
2. A bestseller from 2016	Heartless – Marissa Meyer
3. A book with a family member term in the title	Daughter of Smoke & Bone – Laini Taylor
4. A book that takes place over a character’s life span	The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August – Claire North
5. A book about an immigrant or refugee	Girl in Translation – Jean Kwok
6. A book from a genre/subgenre you’ve never heard of	Neverwhere – Neil Gaiman ( Slipstream)
7. A book with an eccentric character	Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children – Ransom Riggs
8. A book that’s more than 800 pages	Winter – Marissa Meyer
9. A book you got from a used book sale	The Girl in Blue – Pauline Hunt
10. A book that’s been mentioned in another book	The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald (Perks of Being a Wallflower)
11. A book about a difficult topic	Me Before You – Jojo Moyes
12. A book based on mythology	Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief – Rick Riordan

 

So there you go! All crossed out prompts and books are ones that I’ve already read so far. Pretty sure you can say I’ve been on a huge reading spree this year already and I don’t plan on stopping any time soon. You may also notice that there are quite a few different genres present in my list. So another positive to this challenge is that you automatically start broadening your reading horizon – or at least I did.

Did you see books you’ve read or plan to read? Or do you have better ideas to fill some of the prompts? I’m always willing to switch them up some more, haha!

I already can’t wait to start the next Popsugar Reading Challenge. Did I peak your interest? Join me! It’s never too late to start a challenge. Especially a reading one!

Apart from the PRC, I’ve put myself on the task of preparing a challenge for next year as well. Nothing spectacular or special, but I’ve been keeping track of the number of pages I’ve read so far so that I can set my goal for next year. Maybe try to beat my record every year from now on. Do you guys already know how many pages you generally read a year?

Yeah, I guess you can say I like challenging myself. Any ideas for other fun challenges?

Kathy

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