Ultimate Popsugar Reading Challenge discussion

I am wondering if anyone is finding YA novels for the list. As a high school English teacher, I want to find Ya novels for the challenge too. I found that Angie Thomas is publishing a novel in 2021 so there’s one! Thanks for any thoughts ✌🏾🤗

I've found several YA books that I am interested in reading for the challenge next year...

A Blade So Black - "a book that has a heart, diamond, club, or spade on the cover"
Ruby Red - "a book with a gem, mineral, or rock in the title"
Three Dark Crowns - "a book you have seen on someone's bookshelf"
Zombies Vs. Unicorns - "a book whose title starts with 'Q,' 'X,' or 'Z'"
The Book Jumper - "a book featuring three generations"
The Sound of Stars - "the book on your TBR list with the prettiest color"

Internment - Muslim-American author
Hearts Unbroken - Indigenous author
Leah on the Offbeat - Body positivity
Be Not Far from Me - Set outdoors

Black Lives Matter reading list books:
The Hate U Give
Dear Martin
The Black Flamingo
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
All American Boys

Books that share their titles with a song: https://www.fiercereads.com/blog/5-ya...

Be sure to check out the Listopia lists for each category too!

A Pho Love Story for set in a restaurant
Pumpkin (or any of the Dumplin books) and Melt My Heart for body positivity
The Cousins for family tree
One of Us Is Lying for locked room mystery
The Marrow Thieves or Firekeeper's Daughter for indigenous author

I think most prompts are doable except for the Women's Prize.

Oh and I forgot:
War Girls for afrofuturism
Night School, The Magpie Society: One for Sorrow, Hysteria or The Name of the Star for dark academia

- Heart/diamond/club/spade on the cover: Ace of Shades
- Family tree: And I Darken (This is the start of a trilogy; all three books take place in multiple countries, and book #3 has a broken pomegranate on the cover)
- Genre hybrid: Archivist Wasp
- Mostly/entirely outdoors: The Knife of Never Letting Go
- Magical realism: All the Crooked Saints
- By a blogger: The Boy Who Steals Houses and A Thousand Perfect Notes
- Found on a BLM reading list: Long Way Down
- Everyone seems to have read it but you: This is obviously going to vary but some "everyone has read this" books are Six of Crows, City of Bones, The Cruel Prince, and The Raven Boys

Bone Gap - Magical Realism

Drakeryn wrote: "- Heart/diamond/club/spade on the cover: Ace of Shades
- Family tree: And I Darken (This is the start of a trilogy; all three books take place in multiple countries,..."

If you haven't had a chance to read Long Way Down, I highly recommend it.

I just published a YA Fantasy suggestion list for the challenge on my blog!

Finished Dear Justyce this morning for prompt 34. I teach high school as well, and if you are still looking for YA books, I cannot recommend it enough.

Binti - Afrofuturist
No True Believers - Muslim American author
Go Ask Alice - published anonymously
Catching Fire - same title as a song

Tracy (Cornerfolds) wrote: "I just published a YA Fantasy suggestion list for the challenge on my blog!"

Thank you for this list! I've been searching for ideas for my daughter.

YA is my favorite genre! Here's some suggestions off the top of my head:

Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo is a novel written in verse (35 - a different format, 16 - something broken on the cover) Elizabeth is an aquarius so if anyone is looking for an aquarius, she's also written The Poet X and With the Fire on High which are also SO GOOD.

Deathless Divide by Justina Ireland is my book that takes place mostly outdoors (historical fiction zombie YA).

Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida Cordova for a magical realist book or a book with a heart on the cover.

Daughters of Jubilation by Kara Lee Corthron is also a historical fiction magical realism book (read it last year and it was soooo good)

if you'd like to travel to Iran (23), Darius the Great is Not Okay by Abdib Khorram is one of my favorite reads of all time.

Loving all the suggestions!

I'm halfway through Shadowshaper by Daniel José Older and it is a good ya urban fantasy. I found this book when a friend recommended it because Tracy Deonn was inspired by this series to create Legendborn which I read last year and loved.

They Wish They Were Us for dark academia

The Gilded Ones, The Box in the Woods, Concrete Rose, She's Too Pretty to Burn, A Pho Love Story, The Hawthorne Legacy, As Good As Dead, The Divines - Published in 2021
Slay - Afrofuturist book
Heartless, Things We Know by Heart, Tell Me Three Things, Ace of Spades - A book that has a heart, diamond, club or spade on the cover
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Divergent, The Hunger Games - Book by author who shares your star sign (Leo)
Bunny, Catherine House, A Study in Charlotte, Truly Devious, Wilder Girls, How We Fall Apart, People Like Us - Dark academia book
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, The Lovely Bones - Book with gem, mineral or rock in the title
The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Speak - Bestseller from the 1990s
We Were Liars - Book with a family tree
The Memory Book, The One Memory of Flora Banks, We Were Liars - A book about forgetting
Sawkill Girls - Genre hybrid (YA/horror)
The Grace Year - Book set outdoors
Follow Me Back, 180 Seconds, All The Things We Never Said - Book with something broken on the cover
Genuine Fraud - Book with an oxymoron in the title
Looking for Alaska, Before I Fall - Book about do-overs or fresh starts
A Song Below Water - Magical realism
Red, White & Royal Blue, Normal People - Set in multiple countries
Any John Green book - Book by an online personality
A Quiet Kind of Thunder - Starts with Q, X or Z
Red, White & Royal Blue, You Should See Me in a Crown, We Were Liars - Features 3 generations
What Every Girl Should Know, Paper Butterflies, Moxie, Who Put This Song On? - Social justice issue
Speak, Naughts & Crosses - B&W cover
Clean, Heartless, Wonderland, Trouble, You Should See Me in a Crown - Same title as a song
Big Bones, Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body - Body positivity
The Hate U Give, Slay, Such a Fun Age, Dear Martin, You Should See Me in a Crown, Opposite of Always, Pet, A Song Below Water - Book on a BLM reading list
I'll Give You the Sun - Book about art or an artist
Eleanor & Park, Looking for Alaska, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Speak, One of Us Is Lying, The Cruel Prince - A book everyone seems to have read but me
What Every Girl Should Know, Moxie, Our Year of Maybe, The Best Lies, The Divines, Shiny Broken Pieces, Call It What You Want, The Art of Being Normal, A Quiet Kind of Thunder, Girl in Pieces, Red, White & Royal Blue, Girlhood, Anna and the French Kiss, The Henna Wars, Swimming Lessons: Poems, Emergency Contact, Pumpkin - Favourite prompt for a past Popsugar challenge, for example I chose 2020: Book with a pink cover
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - Longest book on TBR list
The Extended Summer of Anna and Jeremy - Shortest book on TBR list
Beautiful Broken Things, Fierce Fragile Hearts, Cinderella Is Dead, We Are Okay, Hold Still - Prettiest cover on TBR
Boys Don't Cry, Things That Fall, Words on Bathroom Walls - Ugliest cover on TBR


I love YA books, I hope that helps!

I have not posted much so I do not know how to link to the book but I used All American Muslim Girl by Nadine Jolie Courtney for a book by a Muslim American Author and Dear Martin by Nic Stone for a book featured in a Nlack Lives Matters Reading list so far.

I'll post about this again when we get closer, but every year there are free YA audiobook giveaways. There look like some great choices this year (as usual), I don't know how many will work for the challenge, but it's an easy way to expand your YA library!

https://www.audiofilemagazine.com/syn...

The Inheritance Games is a fast paced mystery. It is great for filling the 3 generations prompt.

Body positivity: "My Eyes Are Up Here" by Laura Zimmerman

I said I'd be back, here I am. Go get some free YA audiobooks! https://audiofilemagazine.com/sync/

- The Cousins “family tree”
- Since You’ve been gone (Morgan Matson) “song in title”
- All the lights we cannot see “oxymoron”