Sarah’s Comments (group member since Nov 12, 2018)

Sarah’s comments from the Around the Year in 52 Books group.

SEPTEMBER

💻 = Kobo e-book (3)
📖 = Physical book (1)
🎧 = Audiobook (4)

Male author (1)
Female author (8)

Fiction (8)
Non-Fiction (0)

🏆 = Pulitzer Prize Winner
🎗 = Women’s Prize for Fiction Winner
🥇 = Man Booker Prize Winner
🎖 = National Book Award Winner (2)
📚 = Our Shared Shelf Book

ATY 2019 Completed Tasks 3/52 (Total 35/52)
21. A book from one of the polarizing or close call votes: What If It's Us by Becky Albertalli & Adam Silvera (Poll 15 - A book with a romantic element or featuring a romantic relationship) 23/09/2019 ★★★★★ 🎧

48. A book that was a finalist or winner for the National Book Award for any year: The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo 21/09/2019 ★★★★☆ 🎧

50. A book that includes a journey: Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward 29/09/2019 ★★★☆☆ 📖🎖

POPSUGAR Completed Tasks 1/50 (Total 20/50)
35. A book by an author whose first and last names start with the same letter: Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams 13/09/2019 ★★★★☆ 🎧

READING WOMEN Completed Tasks 2/26 (Total 15/26)
7. Featuring a woman in science: The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang 10/09/2019 ★★★★★ 💻

23. Any book from a series: A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness 17/09/2019 ★★★★☆ 🎧

SIDE READS (2)
Sapphire Flames by Ilona Andrews 09/09/2019 ★★★★★ 💻
Archangel's War by Nalini Singh 25/09/2019 ★★★★★ 💻

AUGUST

💻 = Kobo e-book (1)
📖 = Physical book (0)
🎧 = Audiobook (0)

Male author (0)
Female author (1)

Fiction (1)
Non-Fiction (0)

🏆 = Pulitzer Prize Winner
🎗 = Women’s Prize for Fiction Winner
🥇 = Man Booker Prize Winner
🎖 = National Book Award Winner
📚 = Our Shared Shelf Book

ATY 2019 Completed Tasks 0/52 (Total 32/52)

POPSUGAR Completed Tasks 0/50 (Total 19/50)

READING WOMEN Completed Tasks 0/26 (Total 13/26)

SIDE READS (1)
The Right Swipe by Alisha Rai 19/08/2019 ★★★☆☆ 💻

JULY

💻 = Kobo e-book (6)
📖 = Physical book (1)
🎧 = Audiobook (5)

Male author (1)
Female author (11)

Fiction (10)
Non-Fiction (2)

🏆 = Pulitzer Prize Winner
🎗 = Women’s Prize for Fiction Winner
🥇 = Man Booker Prize Winner
🎖 = National Book Award Winner
📚 = Our Shared Shelf Book

ATY 2019 Completed Tasks 2/52 (Total 32/52)
13. A book that is included on a New York Public Library Staff Picks list: Sadie by Courtney Summers 25/07/2019 ★★★★★ 🎧

37. A book set in a school or university: The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss 06/07/2019 ★★★★★ 📖

POPSUGAR Completed Tasks 2/50 (Total 19/50)
21. A book by two female authors: Stay Sexy & Don’t Get Murdered: The Definitive How-To Guide by Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark 06/07/2019 ★★★☆☆ 🎧

26. A book that's published in 2019: Whisper Network by Chandler Baker 18/07/2019 ★★★★☆ 🎧

READING WOMEN Completed Tasks 2/26 (Total 13/26)
12. Lambda Literary Award winner: The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich 09/7/2019 ★★★★★ 🎧

22. Book you got because of the cover: The Girls in the Garden by Lisa Jewell 01/07/2019 ★★★☆☆ 🎧

SIDE READS (6)
Hold On by Kristen Ashley 09/07/2019 ★★★★☆ 💻
To Die For by Linda Howard 14/07/2019 ★★★★☆ 💻
Drop Dead Gorgeous by Linda Howard 16/07/2019 ★★★★☆ 💻
Rough Ride by Kristen Ashley 27/07/2019 ★★★★☆ 💻
Rome's Chance by Joanna Wylde 29/07/2019 ★★★★☆ 💻
Jagged by Kristen Ashley 30/07/2019 ★★★☆☆ 💻

JUNE

💻 = Kobo e-book (8)
📖 = Physical book (2)
🎧 = Audiobook (4)

Male author (2)
Female author (12)

Fiction (12)
Non-Fiction (2)

🏆 = Pulitzer Prize Winner
🎗 = Women’s Prize for Fiction Winner (1)
🥇 = Man Booker Prize Winner
🎖 = National Book Award Winner
📚 = Our Shared Shelf Book

ATY 2019 Completed Tasks 4/52 (Total 30/52)
12. A book about reading, books or an author/writer: Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan (About a journalist) 11/06/2019 ★★★★☆ 🎧

16. A book told from multiple perspectives: An American Marriage by Tayari Jones 09/06/2019 ★★★★☆ 🎧 🎗

38. A book not written in traditional novel format: Sabrina by Nick Drnaso (Graphic Novel) 09/06/2019 ★★★★☆ 📖

24. 4 books inspired by the wedding rhyme: Book #2 Something New: Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe (Published Novembe 1, 2018) 05/06/2019 ★★★★☆ 🎧

POPSUGAR Completed Tasks 2/50 (Total 17/50)
11. A book with an item of clothing or accessory on the cover: The Perfect Nanny by Leïla Slimani 23/06/2019 ★★★☆☆ 📖

17. A book set on college or university campus: The Secret History by Donna Tartt 26/06/2019 ★★★★☆ 🎧

READING WOMEN Completed Tasks 1/26 (Total 11/26)
2. Woman w/ a mental illness: Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman 10/06/2019 ★★★★☆ 💻

SIDE READS (7)
Golden Trail by Kristen Ashley 02/06/2019 ★★★★☆ 💻
Wolf Rain by Nalini Singh 05/06/2019 ★★★★☆ 💻
Wild Man by Kristen Ashley 06/06/2019 ★★★☆☆ 💻
Rock Chick Redemption by Kristen Ashley 15/06/2019 ★★★☆☆ 💻
Rock Chick Revenge by Kristen Ashley 16/06/2019 ★★★☆☆ 💻
Motorcycle Man by Kristen Ashley 21/06/2019 ★★★☆☆ 💻
Walk Through Fire by Kristen Ashley 23/06/2019 ★★★☆☆ 💻

MAY

💻 = Kobo e-book (19)
📖 = Physical book (7)
🎧 = Audiobook (3)

Male author (3)
Female author (26)

Fiction (25)
Non-Fiction (4)

🏆 = Pulitzer Prize Winner (1)
🎗 = Women’s Prize for Fiction Winner
🥇 = Man Booker Prize Winner
🎖 = National Book Award Winner (1)
📚 = Our Shared Shelf Book

ATY 2019 Completed Tasks 4/52 (Total 26/52)
14. A book with a title, subtitle or cover relating to an astronomical term: The Sun Is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon 05/05/2019 ★★★★☆ 📖

18. A book related to one of the elements on the periodic table of elements: The Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick 11/05/2019 ★★★★☆ 📖

40. A book you stumbled upon: All-American Murder: The Rise and Fall of Aaron Hernandez, the Superstar Whose Life Ended on Murderers' Row by James Patterson 22/05/2019 ★★☆☆☆ 📖

41. A book from the 2018 GR Choice Awards: Becoming by Michelle Obama 25/05/2019 ★★★★☆ 🎧

POPSUGAR Completed Tasks 2/50 (Total 15/50)
3. A book written by a musician (fiction or nonfiction): Just Kids by Patti Smith 17/05/2019 ★★★★☆ 🎧 🎖

19. A book told from multiple POVs: All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr 04/05/2019 ★★★★★ 📖 🏆

READING WOMEN Completed Tasks 4/26 (Total 10/26)
9. A novella: Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata 16/05/2019 ★★★★☆ 📖

18. Romance or love story: The Bride Test by Helen Hoang 28/05/2019 ★★★★★ 📖

21. Book bought/borrowed in 2019: Life Will Be the Death of Me: . . . and You Too! by Chelsea Handler 09/05/2019 ★★★★☆ 🎧

24. Book featuring a religion other than your own: A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza 31/05/2019 ★★★★★ 📖

SIDE READS (19)
Burn for Me by Ilona Andrews 02/05/2019 ★★★★☆ 💻
White Hot by Ilona Andrews 06/05/2019 ★★★★☆ 💻
Wildfire by Ilona Andrews 06/05/2019 ★★★★☆ 💻
Magic Bites by Ilona Andrews 07/05/2019 ★★★☆☆ 💻
Magic Burns by Ilona Andrews 09/05/2019 ★★★☆☆ 💻
Eli's Triumph by Joanna Wylde 10/05/2019 ★★★☆☆ 💻
Magic Strikes by Ilona Andrews 10/05/2019 ★★★★☆ 💻
Magic Bleeds by Ilona Andrews 12/05/2019 ★★★★☆ 💻
Magic Slays by Ilona Andrews 13/05/2019 ★★★★☆ 💻
Magic Rises by Ilona Andrews 15/05/2019 ★★★★☆ 💻
Magic Breaks by Ilona Andrews 16/05/2019 ★★★★★ 💻
Magic Shifts by Ilona Andrews 17/05/2019 ★★★☆☆ 💻
Magic Binds by Ilona Andrews 18/05/2019 ★★★★☆ 💻
Magic Triumphs by Ilona Andrews 18/05/2019 ★★★★★ 💻
Some Girls Bite by Chloe Neill 18/05/2019 ★★★☆☆ 💻
Friday Night Bites by Chloe Neill 19/05/2019 ★★★☆☆ 💻
Twice Bitten by Chloe Neill 20/05/2019 ★★★☆☆ 💻
Hard Bitten by Chloe Neill 23/05/2019 ★★★☆☆ 💻
Drink Deep by Chloe Neill 28/05/2019 ★★☆☆☆ 💻

APRIL

💻 = Kobo e-book (9)
📖 = Physical book (6)
🎧 = Audiobook (0)

Male author (3)
Female author (12)

Fiction (10)
Non-Fiction (2)

🏆 = Pulitzer Prize Winner
🎗 = Women’s Prize for Fiction Winner
🥇 = Man Booker Prize Winner (1)
🎖 = National Book Award Winner
👩🏻‍🎓 = Rory Gilmore Challenge
📚 = Our Shared Shelf Book

ATY 2019 Completed Tasks 6/52 (Total 22/52)
4. A book with a criminal character: The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides 09/04/2019 ★★★★★ 📖

7. 2 books related to the same topic, genre, or them: The Last Black Unicorn by Tiffany Haddish(Theme: Stand Up Comedy - Nonfiction) 03/04/2019 ★★★☆☆ 📖

8. 2 books related to the same topic, genre, or theme: A Horse Walks into a Bar by David Grossman (Theme: Stand Up Comedy - Fiction) 19/04/2019 ★★☆☆☆ 📖 🥇

22. A book with a number in the title or on the cover:Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid 06/04/2019 ★★★★★ 📖

30. A book featuring an elderly character: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid 18/04/2019 ★★★★★ 📖

43. A book related to STEM: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain 05/04/2019 ★★★★☆ 💻

POPSUGAR Completed Tasks 2/50 (Total 13/50)
1. A book becoming a movie in 2019: The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn 24/04/2019 ★★★☆☆ 📖

32. A book author from Asia, Africa, or South America: My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite (Nigeria) 13/04/2019 ★★★☆☆ 📖

READING WOMEN Completed Tasks 0/26 (Total 6/26)

SIDE READS (7)
Kaleidoscope by Kristen Ashley 01/04/2019 ★★★★☆ 💻
Rock Chick Reckoning by Kristen Ashley 04/04/2019 ★★★★☆ 💻
Bounty by Kristen Ashley 08/04/2019 ★★★☆☆ 💻
Rock Chick Regret by Kristen Ashley 15/04/2019 ★★★☆☆ 💻
Opening Up by Lauren Dane 22/04/2019 ★★★☆☆ 💻
Fumbled by Alexa Martin 24/04/2019 ★★★☆☆ 💻
Shade's Lady 29/04/2019 ★★★☆☆ 💻

MARCH

💻 = Kobo e-book (9)
📖 = Physical book (10)
🎧 = Audiobook (0)

Male author (6)
Female author (13)

Fiction (15)
Non-Fiction (4)

🏆 = Pulitzer Prize Winner
🎗 = Women’s Prize for Fiction Winner
🥇 = Man Booker Prize Winner
🎖 = National Book Award Winner
👩🏻‍🎓 = Rory Gilmore Challenge (1)
📚 = Our Shared Shelf Book (1)

ATY 2019 Completed Tasks 8/52 (Total 16/52)
2. A book with one of the 5 W's in the title: Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man by Thomas Page McBee 13/03/2019 ★★★★☆ 📖

5. A book by Shakespeare or inspired by Shakespeare: Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood 16/03/2019 ★★★☆☆ 💻

10. A book featuring an historical figure: Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann (J. Edgar Hoover) 26/03/2019 ★★★★☆ 📖

11. A book related to one of the 12 Zodiac Chinese Animals: Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir by Jenny Lawson (Rat on cover) 28/03/2019 ★★★★☆ 💻

20. A book featuring indigenous people of a country: There There by Tommy Orange 06/03/2019 ★★★★☆ 📖

25. 4 books inspired by the wedding rhyme: Book #3 Something Borrowed: A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman (Borrowed book from coworker) 01/03/2019 ★★★★★ 📖

42. A book with a monster or "monstrous" character: The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis 17/03/2019 ★★☆☆☆ 📖

51. A book published in 2019: On the Come Up by Angie Thomas 02/03/2019 ★★★★★ 📖

POPSUGAR Completed Tasks 2/50 (Total 11/50)
5. A book with at least one million ratings on Goodreads: Brave New World by Aldous Huxley 23/03/2019 ★★★☆☆ 📖👩🏻‍🎓

6. A book with a plant in the title or on the cover: Watching You by Lisa Jewell (Leaves on the cover) 30/03/2019 ★★★★☆ 📖

READING WOMEN Completed Tasks 4/26 (Total 6/26)
3. Author from Nigeria or New Zealand: Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Nigeria) 21/03/2019 ★★★★☆ 💻

8. Myth retelling: Circe by Madeline Miller 10/03/2019 ★★★★★ 📖

11. YA book by a WOC: The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas 02/03/2019 ★★★★★ 📖📚

25. Book by Jesmyn Ward: Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward 07/03/2019 ★★★★★ 💻

SIDE READS (5)
The Woman Left Behind by Linda Howard 01/03/2019 ★★★★☆ 💻
For You by Kristen Ashley 04/03/2019 ★★★★☆ 💻
Rock Chick Rescue by Kristen Ashley 11/03/2019 ★★★☆☆ 💻
Truth or Beard by Penny Reid 24/03/2019 ★★★☆☆ 💻
Down & Dirty by Rhenna Morgan 31/03/2019 ★★★☆☆ 💻

FEBRUARY

💻 = Kobo e-book (12)
📖 = Physical book (3)
🎧 = Audiobook (0)

Male author (2)
Female author (13)

Fiction (14)
Non-Fiction (1)

🏆 = Pulitzer Prize Winner
🎗 = Women’s Prize for Fiction Winner
🥇 = Man Booker Prize Winner
🎖 = National Book Award Winner
👩🏻‍🎓 = Rory Gilmore Challenge
📚 = Our Shared Shelf Book

ATY 2019 Completed Tasks 2/52 (Total 8/52)
9. A book from one of the top 5 money making genres: The Wedding Date by Jasmine Guillory (Romance) 06/02/2019 ★★☆☆☆ 💻

46. A book with a (mostly) black cover: Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou 03/02/2019 ★★★★☆ 📖

POPSUGAR Completed Tasks 4/50 (Total 9/50)
4. A book you think should be turned into a movie: Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi 05/02/2019 ★★★★★ 📖

25. A debut novel: The Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma 02/02/2019 ★★★☆☆ 💻

33. A book with a zodiac sign or astrology term in title: The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner 10/02/2019 ★★☆☆☆ 💻

43. An “own voices” book: Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng 18/02/2019 ★★★★★ 📖

READING WOMEN Completed Tasks 0/26 (Total 2/26)

SIDE READS (9)
Free by Kristen Ashley 02/02/2019 ★★★★☆ 💻
Intercepted by Alexa Martin 08/02/2019 ★★★★☆ 💻
Mystery Man by Kristen Ashley 13/02/2019 ★★★★☆ 💻
Rock Chick by Kristen Ashley 14/01/2019 ★★★★☆ 💻
Rock Chick Renegade by Kristen Ashley 18/02/2019 ★★★★☆ 💻
The Promise by Kristen Ashley 20/02/2019 ★★★☆☆ 💻
At Peace by Kristen Ashley 21/02/2019 ★★★★☆ 💻
Lady Luck by Kristen Ashley 22/02/2019 ★★★★★ 💻
Sweet Dreams by Kristen Ashley 26/02/2019 ★★★★☆ 💻

JANUARY

💻 = Kobo e-book (7)
📖 = Physical book (9)
🎧 = Audiobook (0)

Male author (9)
Female author (7)

Fiction (12)
Non-Fiction (4)

🏆 = Pulitzer Prize Winner (1)
🎗 = Women’s Prize for Fiction Winner
🥇 = Man Booker Prize Winner (1)
🎖 = National Book Award Winner
👩🏻‍🎓 = Rory Gilmore Challenge
📚 = Our Shared Shelf Book (1)

ATY 2019 Completed Tasks 6/52
1. A book that was nominated or won an award in a genre you enjoy: Exit West by Mohsin Hamid (Shortlisted for Man Booker Prize in 2017) - 01/01/2019 ★★l★☆ 📖

3. A book where the author’s name contains A, T, and Y: The Sellout by Paul Beatty - 07/01/2019 ★★★★☆ 📖 🥇

26. 4 books inspired by the wedding rhyme: Book #4 Something Blue: Less by Andrew Sean Greer (Blue cover) - 05/01/2019 ★★★★☆ 💻 🏆

34. A book with a person's name in the title: The Rosie Effect by Graeme Simsion 29/01/2019 ★★★★☆ 📖

44. A book related in some way to a tv show/series or movie you enjoyed: Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah (The Daily Show) 22/01/2019 ★★★★★ 📖

52. A book with a weird or intriguing title: The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton 10/01/2019 ★★★★☆ 💻

POPSUGAR Completed Tasks 5/50
2. A book that makes you nostalgic: I'll Be There for You: The One about Friends by Kelsey Miller 12/01/2019 ★★★☆☆ 📖

15. A retelling of a classic: Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi 22/01/2019 ★★★☆☆ 📖

16. A book with a question in the title: Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple 01/01/2019 ★★★★★ 💻

20. A book set in space: Iron Gold by Pierce Brown 26/01/2019 ★★★★★ 📖

34. A book that includes a wedding: Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan 03/01/2019 ★★☆☆☆ 💻

READING WOMEN Completed Tasks 2/26

16. By an Indigenous author: Heart Berries: A Memoir by Terese Marie Mailhot 21/01/2019 ★★★★☆ 📖 📚

17. From 2018 Reading Women award shortlist: Educated by Tara Westover 14/01/2019 ★★★★★ 📖

SIDE READS (3)
Claim & Protect by Rhenna Morgan 04/01/2019 ★★★☆☆ 💻
Stand & Deliver by Rhenna Morgan 11/01/2019 ★★★☆☆ 💻
Tempted & Taken by Rhenna Morgan 19/01/2019 ★★★☆☆ 💻

READING WOMEN CHALLENGE 2019

✔️ = Finished

🏆 = Pulitzer Prize Winner
🥇 = Man Booker Prize Winner
🎖 = National Book Award Winner
👩🏻‍🎓 = Rory Gilmore Challenge
📚 = Our Shared Shelf Book

1. Mystery/thriller by a WOC
Hollywood Homicide
What Lies Between Us
Grotesque
A Most Peculiar Malaysian Murder

2. Woman w/ a mental illness
✔️ Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

3. Author from Nigeria or New Zealand
✔️ Americanah

4. About or set in Appalachia
Each Vagabond by Name
Me and My Daddy Listen to Bob Marley

5. Children’s book
When You Reach Me
Howl's Moving Castle
A Little Princess

6. Multi-Gen family saga
The Joy Luck Club 👩🏻‍🎓
Pachinko
Homegoing
A Place for Us
The Namesake
Song of Solomon
White Teeth
The God of Small Things
The House of the Spirits

7. Featuring a woman in science
✔️ The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang

8. Myth retelling
✔️ Circe

9. A novella
✔️ Convenience Store Woman

10. About a woman athlete
Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina
The Fair Fight

11. YA book by a WOC
✔️ The Hate U Give

12. Lambda Literary Award winner
✔️ The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir

13. Translated book pub before 1945
The Book of the City of Ladies
The Seventh Cross

14. A play
The White Card: A Play
Beauty's Daughter, Monster, The Gimmick: Three Plays
Detroit '67

15. Written by a South Asian author
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
Home Fire
The God of Small Things 🥇 👩🏻‍🎓
Ice Candy Man

16. By an Indigenous author
✔️ Heart Berries: A Memoir 📚

17. From 2018 Reading Women award shortlist
✔️ Educated

18. Romance or love story
✔️ The Bride Test

19. About nature
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
The Drunken Botanist: The Plants That Create the World's Great Drinks
Spineless: The Science of Jellyfish and the Art of Growing a Backbone

20. Historical fiction book
The Nightingale
The Alice Network
Burial Rites
The Night Watch
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
The Great Alone

21. Book bought/borrowed in 2019
✔️ Life Will Be the Death of Me: . . . and You Too!

22. Book you got because of the cover
✔️ The Girls in the Garden

23. Any book from a series
✔️ A Discovery of Witches

24. Book featuring a religion other than your own
✔️ A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza

25. Book by Jesmyn Ward
✔️ Men We Reaped

26. Book by Jhumpa Lahiri
The Namesake 👩🏻‍🎓
Interpreter of Maladies 🏆

2019 Popsugar Reading Challenge

✔️ = Finished

🏆 = Pulitzer Prize Winner
🥇 = Man Booker Prize Winner
🎖 = National Book Award Winner
👩🏻‍🎓 = Rory Gilmore Challenge
📚 = Our Shared Shelf Book

26. A book that's published in 2019
Whisper Network by Chandler Baker

27. A book featuring an extinct or imaginary creature
The Two Towers
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World

28. A book recommended by a celebrity you admire
Will use a book from Our Shared Shelf book club (Emma Watson)

29. A book with LOVE in the title
The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P.
Super Sad True Love Story

30. A book featuring an amateur detective
The Alienist

31. A book about a family
A Spot of Bother
The Star Side of Bird Hill
They May Not Mean To, But They Do
Lion
White Teeth

32. A book author from Asia, Africa, or South America
✔️ My Sister, the Serial Killer (Nigeria)

33. A book with a zodiac sign or astrology term in title
✔️ The Mars Room

34. A book that includes a wedding
✔️Crazy Rich Asians

35. A book by an author whose first and last names start with the same letter
✔️ Queenie

36. A ghost story
Midnight Riot
The Graveyard Book
The Woman in Black: A Ghost Story
The Haunting of Hill House
The Broken Girls

37. A book with a two-word title
Will use a book not used from another challenge week

38. A novel based on a true story
A Brief History of Seven Killings 🥇
Burial Rites

39. A book revolving around a puzzle or game
A Gambler's Anatomy

40. Your favorite prompt from a past POPSUGAR Reading challenge
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers(2018 - A microhistory) 👩🏻‍🎓
The Master and Margarita (2017 - With a cat on the cover) 👩🏻‍🎓
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity (2016 - A National Book Award winner) 🎖
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (2015 - A Pulitzer Prize winner) 🏆 👩🏻‍🎓

41. A "cli-fi" (climate fiction) book
American War
Odds Against Tomorrow
We Are Unprepared
Blackfish City

42. A "choose-your-own-adventure" book
Choose Your Own Disaster
Infected
What Lies Beneath the Clock Tower

43. An "own voices" book
✔️ Everything I Never Told You

44. Read a book during the season it is set in
The Yiddish Policemen's Union (Winter)
Frog Music (Summer)
Sunburn (Summer)
Night Film (Autumn)
The Enchanted April (Spring)

45. A LitRPG book
Ready Player One

46. A book with no chapters / unusual chapter headings / unconventionally numbered chapters
House of Leaves
Convenience Store Woman
Insurrecto

47&48. Two books that share the same title
Invisible Man 🎖 & The Invisible Man
The Idiot & The Idiot
Florida & Florida
Golden State & The Golden State

49. A book that has inspired a common phrase or idiom
The Trial 👩🏻‍🎓
Dracula
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

50. A book set in an abbey, cloister, monastery, vicarage, or convent
Murder at the Vicarage
At Home: A Short History of Private Life

2019 Popsugar Reading Challenge

✔️ = Finished

🏆 = Pulitzer Prize Winner
🥇 = Man Booker Prize Winner
🎖 = National Book Award Winner
👩🏻‍🎓 = Rory Gilmore Challenge
📚 = Our Shared Shelf Book

1. A book becoming a movie in 2019
✔️ The Woman in the Window

2. A book that makes you nostalgic
✔️ I'll Be There for You: The One about Friends

3. A book written by a musician (fiction or nonfiction)
✔️ Just Kids 🎖

4. A book you think should be turned into a movie
✔️ Children of Blood and Bone

5. A book with at least one million ratings on Goodreads
✔️ Brave New World 👩🏻‍🎓

6. A book with a plant in the title or on the cover
✔️ Watching You by Lisa Jewell

7. A reread of a favorite book
Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
American Gods
The Devil and Miss Prym

8. A book about a hobby
Dear Fahrenheit 451: Love and Heartbreak in the Stacks
A Walk in the Woods
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

9. A book you meant to read in 2018
Will choose a book not used for another option

10. A book with POP, SUGAR, or CHALLENGE in the title
Queen Sugar
Challenger Deep
Sugar Run

11. A book with an item of clothing or accessory on the cover
✔️ The Perfect Nanny

12. A book inspired by myth/legend/folklore
Anansi Boys
The Song of Achilles
Norse Mythology

13. A book published posthumously
A Confederacy of Dunces 🏆 👩🏻‍🎓
The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories
The Pale King

14. A book you see someone reading on TV or in a movie
The Beautiful and Damned
Bel Canto 👩🏻‍🎓
Empire Falls 🏆 👩🏻‍🎓
The Naked and the Dead 👩🏻‍🎓

15. A retelling of a classic
✔️ Frankenstein in Baghdad

16. A book with a question in the title
✔️Where'd You Go, Bernadette

17. A book set on college or university campus
✔️ The Secret History

18. A book about someone with a superpower
The Power 📚
She Would Be King
Swan Song
Wild Seed

19. A book told from multiple POVs
✔️ All the Light We Cannot See

20. A book set in space
✔️ Iron Gold

21. A book by two female authors
✔️ Stay Sexy & Don’t Get Murdered: The Definitive How-To Guide

22. A book with SALTY, SWEET, BITTER, or SPICY in the title
Sweetbitter
Sweet Little Lies
Bitter Is the New Black: Confessions of a Condescending, Egomaniacal, Self-Centered Smartass, Or, Why You Should Never Carry A Prada Bag to the Unemployment Office

23. A book set in Scandinavia
The Snowman
Burial Rites
Let the Right One In

24. A book that takes place in a single day
Saturday
Another Day in the Death of America: A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives

25. A debut novel
✔️The Fishermen

AROUND THE YEAR 2019

✔️ = Finished

🏆 = Pulitzer Prize Winner
🥇 = Man Booker Prize Winner
🎖 = National Book Award Winner
👩🏻‍🎓 = Rory Gilmore Challenge
📚 = Our Shared Shelf Book

27. A book off of the 1001 books to read before you die list
✔️ Go Tell It on the Mountain

28. A book related to something cold
✔️ Night 📖

29. A book published before 1950
The Importance of Being Earnest
Murder on the Orient Express
The Lottery and Other Stories 👩🏻‍🎓
All the King's Men 🏆
Under the Volcano

30. A book featuring an elderly character
✔️ The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

31. A children’s classic you’ve never read
The Hobbit
A Little Princess

32. A book with more than 500 pages
The Queen of the Night
Infinite Jest
War and Peace 👩🏻‍🎓
The Name of the Wind
Midnight's Children 🏆
A Little Life
2666

33. A book you have owned for at least a year, but have not read yet
Will use a book that is not chosen from other prompts

34. A book with a person's name in the title
✔️ The Rosie Effect

35. A psychological thriller
The Widow
The Killer Inside Me
Before I Go to Sleep
Rebecca 👩🏻‍🎓 📚

36. A book featured on an NPR Best Books of the Year list
Girls Burn Brighter (2018)
Severance (2018)
Who Is Vera Kelly? (2018)
The Refugees (2017)
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine (2017)
Swing Time (2016)
Fortune Smiles (2015) 🎖
An Untamed State (2014)
The Cuckoo's Calling (2013)
Mortality 2012)

37. A book set in a school or university
✔️ The Name of the Wind

38. A book not written in traditional novel format
✔️ Sabrina

39. A book with a strong sense of place or where the author brings the location/setting to life
The Night Circus
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
A Fine Balance

40. A book you stumbled upon
✔️ All-American Murder: The Rise and Fall of Aaron Hernandez, the Superstar Whose Life Ended on Murderers' Row

41. A book from the 2018 GR Choice Awards
✔️ Becoming

42. A book with a monster or "monstrous" character
✔️ The Screwtape Letters

43. A book related to STEM
✔️ Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

44. A book related in some way to a tv show/series or movie you enjoyed
✔️ Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood

45. A multi-generational saga
Homegoing
The House of Broken Angels
A Place for Us
Middlesex
East of Eden
The Joy Luck Club
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Pachinko
The Namesake
Song of Solomon
White Teeth
The God of Small Things
Things Fall Apart
The House of the Spirits

46. A book with a (mostly) black cover
✔️ Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

47. A book related to food
Tangerine
Delicious Foods
Like Water for Chocolate
The House on Mango Street
The Priory of the Orange Tree
Cherry
Blood, Bones, and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef

48. A book that was a finalist or winner for the National Book Award for any year
The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo 🎖

49. A book written by a Far East Asian author or set in a Far East Asian country
✔️ The Devotion of Suspect X

50. A book that includes a journey
✔️ Sing, Unburied, Sing 🎖

51. A book published in 2019
✔️ On the Come Up

52. A book with a weird or intriguing title
✔️The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

AROUND THE YEAR 2019

✔️ = Finished

🏆 = Pulitzer Prize Winner
🎗 = Women’s Prize for Fiction Winner
🥇 = Man Booker Prize Winner
🎖 = National Book Award Winner
👩🏻‍🎓 = Rory Gilmore Challenge
📚 = Our Shared Shelf Book

1. A book that was nominated for or won an award in a genre you enjoy
✔️Exit West (Shortlisted for 2017 Booker Prize)

2. A book with one of the 5 W's in the title
✔️ Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man

3. A book where the author’s name contains A, T, and Y
✔️The Sellout 🥇

4. A book with a criminal character
✔️ The Silent Patient

5. A book by Shakespeare or inspired by Shakespeare
✔️ Hag-Seed

6. A book with a dual timeline
✔️ The Last Time I Lied

7. 2 books related to the same topic, genre, or theme
Theme: Stand Up Comics (Non-fiction)
✔️ The Last Black Unicorn

8. 2 books related to the same topic, genre, or theme
Theme: Stand Up Comics (Fiction)
✔️ A Horse Walks into a Bar 🥇

9. A book from one of the top 5 money making genres
✔️ The Wedding Date

10. A book featuring an historical figure
✔️ Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (J. Edgar Hoover)

11. A book related to one of the 12 Zodiac Chinese Animals
✔️ Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir (Rat)

12. A book about reading, books or an author/writer
✔️ Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness

13. A book that is included on a New York Public Library Staff Picks list
✔️ Sadie

14. A book with a title, subtitle or cover relating to an astronomical term
✔️ The Sun Is Also a Star

15. A book by an author from a Mediterranean country or set in a Mediterranean country
The Perfect Nanny (France)
The Nightingale (France)
Call Me By Your Name (Italy)
The Arab of the Future: A Childhood in the Middle East, 1978-1984: A Graphic Memoir (Syria, Libya & France)
The Yacoubian Building (Egypt)
The Shadow of the Wind (Spain) 👩🏻‍🎓
The Magus (Greece)
The Song of Achilles (Greece)

16. A book told from multiple perspectives
✔️ An American Marriage

17. A speculative fiction
Oryx and Crake 👩🏻‍🎓
Vox
Severance
Neuromancer
The Regional Office is Under Attack!
Never Let Me Go
The Man in the High Castle
Kindred

18. A book related to one of the elements on the periodic table of elements
✔️ The Silver Linings Playbook

19. A book by an author who has more than one book on your TBR
✔️ Normal People

20. A book featuring indigenous people of a country
✔️ There There

21. A book from one of the polarizing or close call votes
✔️ What If It's Us (Poll 15 - A book with a romantic element or featuring a romantic relationship)

22. A book with a number in the title or on the cover
✔️ Daisy Jones & The Six

23. 4 books inspired by the wedding rhyme: Book #1 Something Old
✔️ The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness

24. 4 books inspired by the wedding rhyme: Book #2 Something New
✔️ Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

25. 4 books inspired by the wedding rhyme: Book #3 Something Borrowed
✔️ A Man Called Ove

26. 4 books inspired by the wedding rhyme: Book #4 Something Blue
✔️ Less 🏆