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A-Z Challenge 2021

Duration: January 1, 2021 - December 31, 2021
Books completed: 22/26

A - Anxious People
B - Between Black and White
C - The City We Became
D - The Death of Mrs. Westaway
E - Educated
F - Five Feet Apart
G - A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
H - How to Walk Away
I - In Five Years
J -
K - Kisscut
L - Long Bright River
M - Murder of Crows
N - Never Split the Difference
O - One of Us Is Lying
P - Picture Imperfect
Q -
R - The Ruin
S - Seven Perfect Things
T - To Sleep in a Sea of Stars
U - Undone
V - Vision in Silver
W - Written in Red
X -
Y - You Should See Me in a Crown
Z -

Colorful Covers Challenge 2021

Duration: January 1, 2021 - December 31, 2021
Level: Medium
Completed: 0/#


Blue Cover

Written in Red
Long Bright River

Green Cover

The Marsh King's Daughter
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Firebreak
Red Cover

Good Girl, Bad Blood
How to Walk Away

Black Cover

To Sleep in a Sea of Stars

White Cover-

A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
Five Total Strangers

Yellow Cover

Anxious People
The Rose Code

Pink Cover


Purple Cover

You Should See Me in a Crown

Orange Cover


Gray Cover

The Guest List
The Death of Mrs. Westaway

Brown Cover

Murder of Crows

Colorful Cover

The Vanishing Half
The City Born Great

New Author Challenge 2021

New-to-me Author Exploration Challenge
Duration: January 1, 2021 - December 31, 2021
Completed: 0/#

1. A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson
2. Written in Red by Anne Bishop
3. Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
4. The Ruin by Dervla McTiernan
5. The Guest List by Lucy Foley
6. In Five Years by Rebecca Serle
7. The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
8. To Sleep in a Sea of Stars by Christopher Paolini
9. Long Bright River by Liz Moore
10. The Mother-in-Law by Sally Hepworth
11. To Sleep in a Sea of Stars by Christopher Paolini
12. Five Feet Apart by Rachael Lippincott
13. The City Born Great by N.K. Jemisin
14. Five Total Strangers by Natalie D. Richards
15. Betraying Big Brother: The Rise of China's Feminist Resistance by Leta Hong Fincher
16. The Split by Sharon J. Bolton
17. You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson
18. My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell
19. The Book of Lost Names by Kristin Harmel
20. Malice by Keigo Higashino
21. The Henna Artist by Alka Joshi
22. Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss
23. Circe by Madeline Miller
24. Educated by Tara Westover
25. The Marsh King's Daughter by Karen Dionne
26. The Year of the Witching by Alexis Henderson
27. The Lost Village by Camilla Sten
28. A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
29. Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
30. The Lost Orphan by Stacey Halls
31. The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune
32. The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn
33. Ten Days by Mel Sherratt
34. The Watcher Girl byMinka Kent
35. A Promised Land by Barack Obama
36. Firebreak by Nicole Kornher-Stace
37. The Beekeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri
38. The Stalker by Sarah Alderson
39. The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
40. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
41. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
42. Seven Perfect Things by Catherine Ryan Hyde
43. Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley

New Releases Challenge 2021

Duration: January 1, 2021 - December 31, 2021
Completed: 0/#

1. A Desolation Called Peace
2. The Last Graduate
3. The Secret Keeper of Jaipur
4. The Rose Code
5. The Gilded Ones
6. The Lost Village
7. Ten Days
8. The Watcher Girl
9. Firekeeper's Daughter
10. The Stalker

Popsugar Reading Challenge 2021

Duration: January 1, 2021 - December 31, 2021
Completed: 21/40 (or 0/50)

A book that’s published in 2021- The Rose Code

[] An afrofuturist book

[] A book that has a heart, diamond, club, or spade on the cover

[] A book by an author who shares your zodiac sign

A dark academia book- The Last Graduate

[] A book with a gem, mineral, or rock in the title

A book where the main character works at your current or dream job - What You Wish For in which the MC Sam is a librarian at a school which is my dream job.

[] A book that has won the Women’s Prize for Fiction

[] A book with a family tree

[] A bestseller from the 1990s

[] A book about forgetting

A book you have seen on someone’s bookshelf (in real life, on a Zoom call, in a TV show, etc.- Murder of Crows was on quite a few bookshelves and was also chosen a buddy read for one of book clubs, which is how I got introduced to the series.

A locked-room mystery- Ten Days is about a serial abductor who holds woman in a locked room for 10 days, before releasing them.

[] A genre hybrid

A book set mostly or entirely outdoors- Five Total Strangers

[] A book with something broken on the cover

[] A book by a Muslim American author

[] A book that was published anonymously

A book with an oxymoron in the title- Between Black and White

A book about do-overs or fresh starts- Written in Red is about a blood prophet who escapes from captivity to start a new life elsewhere.

A magical realism book- The Midnight Library

A book set in multiple countries- The Rise of Nine

A book set somewhere you’d like to visit in 2021- The Ruin is set in Ireland. I would love to visit Ireland.

[] A book by a blogger, vlogger, YouTube video creator, or other online personality

[] A book whose title starts with “Q,” “X,” or “Z”

A book featuring three generations (grandparent, parent, child) Educated

A book about a social justice issue- Betraying Big Brother: The Rise of China's Feminist Resistance

A book set in a restaurant A Gentleman in Moscow

A book with a black-and-white cover- The City We Became

A book by an indigenous author- You Should See Me in a Crown

[] A book that has the same title as a song

A book about a subject you are passionate about - The House in the Cerulean Sea is a fictional book in which the magical creatures are like metaphors for people who are different and are subjected to discrimination or prejudices because of their differences. You could be a homosexual, you could be disabled, you could be a book nerd, it absolutely doesn't matter. If you are different, you face prejudices. The book shows us how prejudices are incorrect and unfair and how the discarding them is the absolute need of the hour. The book also shows how prejudices are formed and how they fester and why it is important to keep striving for every small change that will crush prejudices and eventually build a world with no discrimination. This a subject that I feel deeply about because I have seen how quick and easy it is for us to make judgments about other people without a slightest understanding of their circumstances and while I try very hard to change that about myself, I fiercely believe that more people need to open their minds to change.

[] A book that discusses body positivity

[] A book found on a Black Lives Matter reading list

A book in a different format than what you normally read (audiobooks, ebooks, graphic novels)- Anxious People was my first audiobook ever.

[] A book that has fewer than 1,000 reviews on Amazon or Goodreads

A book you think your best friend would like - My Dark Vanessa I recently befriended someone new because of our shared interest in books and I know for a fact that she loved this book.

A book about art or an artist- The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo is the fictional story of Evelyn Hugo who is portrayed as a famous actress.

A book everyone seems to have read but you- The Book Thief

Your favorite prompt from a past POPSUGAR Reading Challenge- Long Bright River is a fictional story which revolves around the opioid crisis in Philly. Drug addiction is associated with Gluttony, one of the 7 deadly sins. So this falls under the category "A book featuring one of the seven deadly sins" from the 2020 Popsugar Reading Challenge]

Advanced:
[] The longest book (by pages) on your TBR list
[] The shortest book (by pages) on your TBR list
[] The book on your TBR list with the prettiest cover
[] The book on your TBR list with the ugliest cover
[] The book that’s been on your TBR list the longest amount of time
[] A book from your TBR list you meant to read last year but didn’t
[] A book from your TBR list you associate with a favorite person, place, or thing
[] A book from your TBR list chosen at random
[] A DNF book from your TBR list
[] A free book from your TBR list (gifted, borrowed, library)