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I am attempting to do the ATY Challenge, POPSUGAR Challenge, and Read Harder Challenge this year by cross-coordinating as many books as possible to count towards a prompt from each challenge. Here are my lists for each of the non-ATY challenges.
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2022 POPSUGAR Reading Challenge [2022]

01. Read a book published in 2022.
✱ A Magic Steeped in Poison by Judy I. Lin
02. Read a book set on a plane, train, or cruise ship.
✱ Come Fly the World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am by Julia Cooke
03. Read a book about or set in a nonpatriarchal society.
✱ The Stars Are Legion by Kameron Hurley
04. Read a book with tiger on the cover or "tiger" in the title.
✱ When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain by Nghi Vo
05. Read a sapphic book.
✱ Great or Nothing by Joy McCullough, Caroline Tung Richmond, Tess Sharpe, and Jessica Spotswood
06. Read a book by Latinx author
✱ Velvet Was the Night by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
07. Read a book with an onomatopoeia in its title.
✱ Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo
08. Read a book with a protagonist who uses a mobility aid.
✱ Fortune Favors the Dead by Stephen Spotswood
09. Read a book about a "found family."
✱ The Bone Spindle by Leslie Vedder
10. Read an Anisfield-Wolf Book award winner.
✱ On Beauty by Zadie Smith
11. Read a #BookTok recommendation.
✱ Take a Hint, Dani Brown by Talia Hibbert
12. Read a book about the afterlife.
✱ Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz
13. Read a book set in the 1980's.
✘ Wild Game: My Mother, Her Lover, and Me by Adrienne Brodeur (
)14. Read a book with cutlery on the cover or in the book title.
✱ A Pho Love Story by Loan Le
15. Read a romance novel by a BIPOC author.
✱ Act Your Age, Eve Brown by Talia Hibbert
16. Read a book that takes place during your favorite season.
✱ Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas
17. Read a book whose title beings with the last letter of your previous read.
✘ Slay by Brittney Morris (
)18. Read a book about a band or musical group.
✱ Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
19. Read a book with a character on the ace spectrum
✱ Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire
20. Read a book with a recipe in it.
✱ With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo
21. Read a book you can read in one sitting.
✘ Sidney Crosby: The Rookie Year by Neely Lohmann (
)22. Read a book about a secret.
✘ Romeo And Juliet by David Hewson (
)23. Read a book with a misleading title.
✱ A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson
24. Read a Hugo Award winning book.
✱ The Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo
25. Read a book set during a holiday.
✱ The Toymakers by Robert Dinsdale
26. Read a different book by an author you read in 2021.
✘ Curse of the Blue Tattoo: Being an Account of the Misadventures of Jacky Faber, Midshipman and Fine Lady by L.A. Meyer (
)27. Read a book with the name of a board game in the title.
✱ Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert
28. Read a book featuring a man-made disater.
✱ The Black Kids by Christina Hammonds Reed
29. Read a book with a quote from your favorite author ont he cover or Amazon page.
✱ Skin of the Sea by Natasha Bowen
30. Read a social-horror book.
✱ The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
31. Read a book set in Victorian times.
✘ A Study in Scarlet Women by Sherry Thomas (
)32. Read a book with a constellation on the cover or in the title.
✱ The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
33. Read a book you know nothing about.
✱ Anatomy: A Love Story by Dana Schwartz
34. Read a book about gender identity.
✱ Sexual Metamorphosis: An Anthology of Transsexual Memoirs by Various (Edited by Jonathan Ames)
35. Read a book featuring a party.
✱ Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding
36. Read an #OwnVoices science fiction or fantasy book.
✱ Jade City by Fonda Lee
37. Read a book that fulfills your favorite prompt from a past POPSUGAR Reading Challenge. [2015 PS Challenge; Female Author]
✱ The Lost Dreamer by Lizz Huerta
Book Riot's Read Harder Challenge [2022]
01. Read a biography of an author you admire.
✱ The Reason for the Darkness of the Night: Edgar Allan Poe and the Forging of American Science by John Tresch
02. Read a book set in a bookstore.
✱ The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
03. Read any book from the Women's Prize shortlist/longlist/winner list.
✱ On Beauty by Zadie Smith
04. Read a book in any genre by a POC that's about joy and not trauma.
✱ Take a Hint, Dani Brown by Talia Hibbert
05. Read an anthology featuring diverse voices.
✱ Hungry Hearts: 13 Tales of Food & Love by Various [Edited by Elsie Chapman]
06. Read a non-fiction YA comic.
✱ I Was Their American Dream: A Graphic Memoir by Malaka Gharib
07. Read a romance where at least one of the protagonists is over 40.
✱ The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune
08. Read a classic written by a POC.
✱ Thousand Cranes by Yasunari Kawabata
09. Read the book that's been on your TBR the longest.
✱ Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
10. Read a political thriller by a marginalized author.
✱ Velvet Was the Night by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
11. Read a book with an asexual and/or aromantic character.
✱ Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire
12. Read an entire poetry collection.
✱ The Complete Poetry of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe
13. Read an adventure story by a BIPOC author.
✘ A Study in Scarlet Women by Sherry Thomas (
)14. Read a book whose movie or TV adaptation you've seen (but haven't read the book).
✘ Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding (
)15. Read a new-to-you literary magazine (print or digital).
✱ 3cents Magazine by Various (https://www.3centersmagazine.com/issu...)
16. Read a book recommended by a friend with different reading tastes.
✱ Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz
17. Read a memoir written by someone who is trans or non-binary.
✱ Sexual Metamorphosis: An Anthology of Transsexual Memoirs by Various (Edited by Jonathan Ames)
18. Read a "Best _ of the Year" book for the topic and year of your choice. This book won the 2018 Audie for Best Original Work.
✘ Romeo And Juliet by David Hewson (
)19. Read a horror novel BIPOC author.
✱ The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
20. Read an award winning book from the year you were born.
✱ The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
21. Read a queer retelling of a classic of the canon, fairytale, folklore, or myth.
✱ The Bone Spindle by Leslie Vedder
22. Read a history about a period you know little about.
✱ Come Fly the World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am by Julia Cooke
23. Read a book by a disabled author.
✱ Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert
24. Pick a challenge from any of the previous years' challenges to repeat. [2016 RH Challenge; Historical Fiction Set Before 1900]
✘ Curse of the Blue Tattoo: Being an Account of the Misadventures of Jacky Faber, Midshipman and Fine Lady by L.A. Meyer (
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