2026 Reading Challenge discussion

POPSUGAR READING CHALLENGE 2020

Duration: January 1, 2020 - December 31, 2020

1. A book that's published in 2020
2. A book by a trans or nonbinary author Autonomous by Annalee Newitz
3. A book with a great first line Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides ★★★★★
4. A book about a book club The Dirty Book Club by Lisi Harrison
5. A book set in a city that has hosted the Olympics A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
6. A bildungsroman I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
7. The first book you touch on a shelf with your eyes closed Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs ★☆☆☆☆
8. A book with an upside-down image on the cover The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
9. A book with a map The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer ★★★★☆
10. A book recommended by your favorite blog, vlog, podcast, or online book club A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
11. An anthology Through the Woods by Emily Carroll
12. A book that passes the Bechdel test Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
13. A book with the same title as a movie or TV show but is unrelated to it Beloved by Toni Morrison ★★★★★
14. A book by an author with flora or fauna in their name The Tin Drum by Günter Grass
15. A book about or involving social media You by Caroline Kepnes
16. A book that has a book on the cover Uprooted by Naomi Novik ★★☆☆☆
17. A medical thriller The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides ★★☆☆☆
18. A book with a made-up language Watership Down by Richard Adams
19. A book set in a country beginning with "C" The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende ★★★★☆
20. A book you picked because the title caught your attention When God Was a Rabbit by Sarah Winman
21. A book published the month of your birthday We Are Okay by Nina LaCour
22. A book about or by a woman in STEM Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematorium by Caitlin Doughty
23. A book that won an award in 2019 The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
24. A book on a subject you know nothing about Red Sorghum by Mo Yan
25. A book with only words on the cover, no images or graphics Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie ★☆☆☆☆
26. A book with a pun in the title The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher
27. A book featuring one of the seven deadly sins The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King ★★☆☆☆
28. A book with a robot, cyborg, or AI character Scythe by Neal Shusterman
29. A book with a bird on the cover Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
30. A fiction or nonfiction book about a world leader A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
31. A book with "gold," "silver," or "bronze" in the title I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara
32. A book by a WOC The Color Purple by Alice Walker
33. A book with at least a four-star rating on Goodreads Пандем by Marina Dyachenko ★★★★☆
34. A book you meant to read in 2019 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
35. A book with a three-word title The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell ★★★★☆
36. A book with a pink cover Middlemarch by George Eliot
37. A Western The Gunslinger by Stephen King
38. A book by or about a journalist Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo
39. Read a banned book during Banned Books Week The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton ★★★★☆
40. Your favorite prompt from a past POPSUGAR Reading Challenge (A novel based on a true story) The Girl in the Green Sweater: A Life in Holocaust's Shadow by Krystyna Chiger ★★☆☆☆

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41. A book written by an author in their 20s Burial Rites by Hannah Kent
42. A book with "20" or "twenty" in the title Metro 2033 by Dmitry Glukhovsky
43. A book with a character with a vision impairment or enhancement (a nod to 20/20 vision) The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham ★★★★☆
44. A book set in the 1920s A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith ★★★★☆
45. A book set in Japan, host of the 2020 Olympics Battle Royale by Koushun Takami
46. A book by an author who has written more than 20 books On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King
47. A book with more than 20 letters in its title The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks
48. A book published in the 20th century Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence ★★★★☆
49. A book from a series with more than 20 books The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett
50. A book with a main character in their 20s My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh

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LET’S TURN PAGES

Duration: January 1, 2019 - December 31, 2020

1. The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King - 223 pages
2. Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog by Jerome K. Jerome - 256 pages
3. Пандем by Marina Dyachenko - 448 pages
4. Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs - 61 pages
5. The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell - 992 pages
6. I'll Be There for You: The One about Friends by Kelsey Miller - 112 pages
7. The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende - 496 pages
8. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change by Stephen R. Covey - 391 pages
9. Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie - 256 pages
10. The Girl in the Green Sweater: A Life in Holocaust's Shadow by Krystyna Chiger - 304 pages
11. Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer - 195 pages
12. Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence - 376 pages
13. Authority by Jeff VanderMeer - 341 pages
14. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer - 291 pages
15. Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond - 518 pages
16. Uprooted by Naomi Novik - 435 pages
17. And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini - 404 pages
18. The Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy - 358 pages
19. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides - 529 pages
20. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton - 198 pages
21. Beloved by Toni Morrison - 324 pages
22. The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides - 341 pages
23. Олеся by Aleksandr Kuprin - 224 pages
24. The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan - 153 pages
25. Holes by Louis Sachar - 264 pages
26. Malentendu à Moscou by Simone de Beauvoir - 145 pages
27. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith - 496 pages
28. The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri - 415 pages
29. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand - 752 pages
30. The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham - 272 pages

Progress: 10,470 / 20,000 pages

AROUND THE YEAR IN 52 BOOKS

Duration: January 1, 2020 - December 31, 2020

1. A book with a title that doesn't contain the letters A, T or Y Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides ★★★★★
2. A book by an author whose last name is one syllable The Gunslinger by Stephen King
3. A book that you are prompted to read because of something you read in 2019 Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
4. A book set in a place or time that you wouldn't want to live The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
5. The first book in a series that you have not started A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin

6. A book with a mode of transportation on the cover Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog by Jerome K. Jerome ★★☆☆☆
7. A book set in the southern hemisphere The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende ★★★★☆
8. A book with a two-word title where the first word is "The" The Changeling by Victor LaValle
9. A book that can be read in a day The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman

10. A book that is between 400-600 pages Summer of Night by Dan Simmons
11. A book originally published in a year that is a prime number The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham ★★★★☆
12. A book that is a collaboration between 2 or more people The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer ★★★★☆
13. A prompt from a previous Around the Year in 52 Books challenge (A children’s classic you’ve never read) Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie ★★★★☆
14. A book by an author on the Abe List of 100 Essential Female Writers Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie ★☆☆☆☆

15. A book set in a global city You by Caroline Kepnes
16. A book set in a rural or sparsely populated area Middlemarch by George Eliot
17. A book with a neurodiverse character The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
18. A book by an author you've only read once before A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

19. A fantasy book Uprooted by Naomi Novik ★★☆☆☆
20. The 20th book [on your TBR, in a series, by an author, on a list, etc.] When God Was a Rabbit by Sarah Winman
21. A book related to Maximilian Hell, the noted astronomer and Jesuit Priest who was born in 1720 The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber
22. A book with the major theme of survival The Girl in the Green Sweater: A Life in Holocaust's Shadow by Krystyna Chiger ★★☆☆☆

23. A book featuring an LGBTQIA+ character or by an LGBTQIA+ author A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
24. A book with an emotion in the title Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo
25. A book related to the arts On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King
26. A book from the 2019 Goodreads Choice Awards The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides ★★☆☆☆
27. A history or historical fiction The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell ★★★★☆

28. A book by an Australian, Canadian or New Zealand author The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
29. An underrated book, a hidden gem or a lesser known book Red Sorghum by Mo Yan
30. A book from the New York Times '100 Notable Books' list for any year My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
31. A book inspired by a leading news story Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

32. A book related to the 2020 Olympic Summer Games in Japan A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
33. A book about a non-traditional family We Are Okay by Nina LaCour
34. A book from a genre or sub genre that starts with a letter in your name Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
35. A book with a geometric pattern or element on the cover The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton

36. A book from your TBR/wishlist that you don't recognize, recall putting there, or put there on a whim Philosophy, Pussycats, & Porn by Stoya
37. Two books that are related to each other as a pair of binary opposites: Book #1 High-Rise by J.G. Ballard
38. Two books that are related to each other as a pair of binary opposites: Book #2 The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri ★★★☆☆
39. A book by an author whose real name(s) you're not quite sure how to pronounce The Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy ★★★★☆

40. A book with a place name in the title A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
41. A mystery I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara
42. A book that was nominated for one of the ‘10 Most Coveted Literary Prizes in the World’ The Color Purple by Alice Walker
43. A book related to one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse Scythe by Neal Shusterman
44. A book related to witches April Witch by Majgull Axelsson

45. A book by the same author who wrote one of your best reads in 2019 or 2018 Peony in Love by Lisa See
46. A book about an event or era in history taken from the Billy Joel song "We Didn't Start the Fire" Tell the Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka Brunt
47. A classic book you've always meant to read The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
48. A book published in 2020

49. A book that fits a prompt from the list of suggestions that didn't win (A dystopian novel) Island by Aldous Huxley
50. A book with a silhouette on the cover The Vegetarian by Han Kang
51. A book with an "-ing" word in the title As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
52. A book related to time Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

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AH! SO many of these are on my TBR!

Anna wrote: "
AROUND THE YEAR IN 52 BOOKS


Duration: January 1, 2020 - December 31, 2020

1. A book with a title that doesn't contain the letters A, T or Y Middlesex by [author:Jeffrey Eugenides|..."

GENRE BINGO CHALLENGE

Duration: January 1, 2020 - December 31, 2020



Dystopian - The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
Young Adult - We Are Okay by Nina LaCour
Family Saga - The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
Historical Nonfiction - The Girl in the Green Sweater: A Life in Holocaust's Shadow by Krystyna Chiger
Tragedy - A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
Western - The Gunslinger by Stephen King
Historical Fiction - A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
Humor and Comedy - The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett
Self-Help - The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change by Stephen R. Covey
Literary Fiction - My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
Young Adult Fantasy - Uprooted by Naomi Novik
Horror - The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King
Paranormal - The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
Suspense - The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
Classics - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
Memoir - Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematorium by Caitlin Doughty
Travel - Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo
Science Nonfiction - The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks
Short Stories or Novella - Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
Mystery or Thriller - You by Caroline Kepnes
Science Fiction - Autonomous by Annalee Newitz
Fantasy - A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
Adventure - Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
Satire - Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog by Jerome K. Jerome

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BOOK PER YEAR

Duration: January 1, 2020 - December 31, 2020

2020 -
2019 - The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides ★★☆☆☆
2018 - The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
2017 - We Are Okay by Nina LaCour
2016 - The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher
2015 - Uprooted by Naomi Novik ★★☆☆☆
2014 - You by Caroline Kepnes
2013 - The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri ★★★☆☆
2012 - Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo
2011 - A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
2010 - Does Woman Exist? by Dario Salas Sommer
2009 - Beautiful Darkness by Kerascoët
2008 - The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer ★★★★☆
2007 - Peony in Love by Lisa See
2006 - The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell ★★★★☆
2005 - La Chambre des morts by Franck Thilliez
2004 - Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
2003 - Пандем by Marina Dyachenko ★★★★☆
2002 - Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides ★★★★★
2001 - Atonement by Ian McEwan
2000 - On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King
1999 - The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King ★★☆☆☆
1998 - The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene
1997 - April Witch by Majgull Axelsson
1996 - A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
1995 - The Prestige by Christopher Priest
1994 - La secte des égoïstes by Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt
1993 - Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
1992 - Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype by Clarissa Pinkola Estés

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