It has been a while since I have focused on a reading challenge beyond making my goal each year. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic last year, I completely lost focus on reading throughout 2020. In fact, I struggled with reading so much that I had 2.5 days to read 19 books/stories to make my goal for 2020. With that being said, to bring my focus back to reading, I am going to work the POPSUGAR 2021 Reading Challenge. Here are the prompts for this year:
REGULAR
✔1. A book that published in 2021 - What Beauty There Is by Cory Anderson
2. An Afrofuturist book
3. A book that has a heart, diamond, club, or spade on the cover
4. A book by an author who shares your zodiac sign
5. A dark academia book
6. A book with a gem, mineral, or rock in the title
7. A book where the main character works at your current or dream job
8. A book that has won the Women’s Prize for Fiction
9. A book with a family tree
10. A bestseller from the 1990s
11. A book about forgetting
12. A book you have seen on someone’s bookshelf (in real life, on a Zoom call, in a TV show, etc.)
13. A locked-room mystery
14. A book set in a restaurant
15. A book with a black-and-white cover
16. A book by an indigenous author
✔17. A book that has the same title as a song - Dark Roads by Chevy Stevens
18. A book about a subject you are passionate about
19. A book that discusses body positivity
20. A book on a Black Lives Matter reading list
21. A genre hybrid
✔22. A book set mostly or entirely outdoors - Aoife and Scathach, Shadow Twins by Michael Scott
23. A book with something broken on the cover
24. A book by a Muslim American / Muslim British author
25. A book that was published anonymously
26. A book with an oxymoron in the title
27. A book about do-overs or fresh starts
28. A magical realism book
29. A book set in multiple countries
30. A book set somewhere you’d like to visit in 2021
31. A book by a blogger, vlogger, YouTube video creator, or other online personality
32. A book whose title starts with “Q,” “X,” or “Z”
33. A book featuring three generations (grandparent, parent, child)
34. A book about a social justice issue
35. A book in a different format than what you normally read (audiobooks, ebooks, graphic novels)
✔36. A book that has fewer than 1,000 reviews on Amazon or Goodreads - Machiavelli: Guardian of Paris by Michael Scott
37. A book you think your best friend would like
38. A book about art or an artist
✔39. A book everyone seems to have read but you - Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
✔40. Your favorite prompt from a past POPSUGAR Reading Challenge - Nicholas Flamel and the Codex by Michael Scott (2015 prompt - A book with nonhuman characters)
ADVANCED
41. The longest book (by pages) on your TBR list
42. The shortest book (by pages) on your TBR list
43. The book on your TBR list with the prettiest cover
44. The book on your TBR list with the ugliest cover
45. The book that’s been on your TBR list for the longest amount of time
46. A book from your TBR list you meant to read last year but didn’t
47. A book from your TBR list you associate with a favorite person, place, or thing
48. A book from your TBR list chosen at random
49. A DNF book from your TBR list
50. A free book from your TBR list (gifted, borrowed, library)
As time permits, I will go back and update last year's reading challenge with the books I read that did in fact fall under 2020's prompts.
What Beauty There Is by Cory Anderson
