Holly's Non-GR-hosted Reading Challenges

[Rokkan]

The 2017 Popsugar Reading Challenge
Hosted by: Popsugar

1. A book recommended by a librarian - March Violets
4. An audiobook - Herding Hemingway's Cats: Understanding how our genes work
12. A bestseller from a genre you don't normally read - Born to be Bound
18. A book you've read before that never fails to make you smile - Unseen Academicals
20. A book with career advice - How to Win Friends and Influence People
24. A book set in the wilderness - The Revenant
25. A book you loved as a child - The Magician's Nephew

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46. A book about a genre/subgenre that you've never heard of - Flintstaff and Cramp: The Curious Case of the Case (from the genre fiction > mashups genre, apparently)
50. A book that's been mentioned in another book - Treasure Island (mentioned in Inkheart)

Completed
40. A book you bought on a trip - The Forgetting Time - read 2/1/2016
13. A book by or about a person who has a disability - All the Light We Cannot See - read 17/1/2017
27. A book with a title that's a character's name - Jasper Jones - read 19/1/2017
48. A book that's more than 800 pages - Perdido Street Station - read 1/2/2017
30. A book with pictures - The Edge Chronicles 1: The Curse of the Gloamglozer: First Book of Quint - read 4/2/2017
10. A book with a cat on the cover - White Cat - read 17/2/2017
51. A book about a difficult topic - The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - read 20/2/2017 [deals with alcoholism and spousal abuse]
44. A book that takes place over a character's life span - Life After Life - read 21/2/2017
26. A book by an author from a country you've never visited - The Accidental Apprentice - read 4/3/2017
21. A book from a nonhuman perspective - Watership Down - read 9/3/2017
49. A book you got from a used book sale - The Bees - read 3/4/2017
19. A book about food - The Hundred-Foot Journey - read 18/4/2017
15. A book with a subtitle - The Greeks Had a Word For It: Words You Never Knew You Can't Do Without - read 19/4/2017
34. A book with a month or a day of the week in the title - The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August - read 27/4/2017
5. A book by a person of color - The Color Purple - read 25/5/2017
43. A book with a family-member term in the title - Mothers and Daughters - read 26/5/2017
22. A steampunk novel - Kiss of Steel - read 1/6/2017
17. A book involving a mythical creature - Tongues of Serpents - read 30/6/2017
41. A book recommended by an author you love - A Short History of Nearly Everything - read 10/7/2017
29. A book with an unreliable narrator - Wuthering Heights - read 11/7/2017
7. A book that is a story within a story - Inkheart - read 12/7/2017
36. A book written by someone you admire - I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban - read 13/7/2017
31. A book where the main character is a different ethnicity than you - When Dimple Met Rishi - read 20/7/2017
38. A book set around a holiday other than Christmas - Chocolat - read 26/7/2017
32. A book about an interesting woman - Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood - read 19/8/2017
33. A book set in two different time periods - The Mysterious Affair at Castaway House - read 4/9/2017
42. A bestseller from 2016 - The Sellout - read 6/9/2017
11. A book by an author who uses a pseudonym - I'm Travelling Alone: - read 12/9/2017
39. The first book in a series you haven't read before - Europe In Autumn - read 16/9/2017
6. A book with one of the four seasons in the title - The Summer that Melted Everything - read 19/9/2017
2. A book that's been on your TBR list for way too long - 600 Hours of Edward - read 20/9/2017
3. A book of letters - The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - read 27/9/2017
14. A book involving travel - The Dark River - read 28/9/2017
45. A book about an immigrant or a refugee - Americanah - read 1/10/2017
8. A book with multiple authors - Eternity's Wheel - read 7/10/2017
28. A novel set during wartime - Anatomy of a Soldier - read 11/10/2017
23. A book with a red spine - Moriarty - read 22/10/2017
47. A book with an eccentric character - City of the Beasts - 2/11/2017
9. An espionage thriller - Carte Blanche - 4/11/2017
16. A book that's published in 2017 - The Nowhere Man - 16/11/2017
37. A book that's becoming a movie in 2017 - Wonder - read 28/11/2017
52. A book based on mythology - Stormdancer - read 30/11/2017
35. A book set in a hotel - A Gentleman in Moscow - read 22/10/2017

[Rokkan]

2017 BookRiot Read Harder

6. Read an all-ages comic - Lumberjanes #2
13. Read a nonfiction book about technology - Solar Energy: The physics and engineering of photovoltaic conversion, technologies and systems
23. Read a collection of poetry in translation on a theme other than love - Selected Poems

Completed
2. Read a debut novel. - The Forgetting Time - read 2/1/2016
12. Read a fantasy novel - Six of Crows - read 9/1/2017
14. Read a book about war - All the Light We Cannot See - read 17/1/2017
11. Read a book that is set more than 5000 miles from your location - Jasper Jones - 19/1/2017
16. Read a book that has been banned or frequently challenged in your country - Lolita - read 24/1/2017
8. Read a travel memoir - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values - read 27/1/2017
18. Read a superhero comic with a female lead - Ms. Marvel, Vol. 1: No Normal - read 2/2/2017
9. Read a book you’ve read before - The Wee Free Men - read 10/2/2017
10. Read a book that is set within 100 miles of your location - The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - read 20/2/2017
19. Read a book in which a character of color goes on a spiritual journey - Go Tell It on the Mountain - read 6/3/2017
7. Read a book published between 1900 and 1950 - The Great Gatsby - read 12/3/2017
1. Read a book about sports - The Crossover - read 15/3/2017
15. Read a YA or middle grade novel by an author who identifies as LGBTQ+ - Openly Straight - read 11/4/2017
17. Read a classic by an author of color - The Color Purple - read 25/5/2017
24. Read a book wherein all point-of-view characters are people of color - The Sellout - read 6/9/2017
5. Read a book by an immigrant or with a central immigration narrative. - Americanah - read 1/10/2017
20. Read an LGBTQ+ romance novel - Know Not Why - read 16/10/2017
4. Read a book set in Central or South America, written by a Central or South American author. - City of the Beasts - read 2/11/2017
21. Read a book published by a micropress. - Under An Emerald Sky - read 5/11/2017
3. Read a book about books. - Among Others - 8/11/2017
22. Read a collection of stories by a woman - A Cat, a Hat, and a Piece of String - 23/11/2017

[Rokkan]

Around The World Challenge

Started: 16th January 2017
Finished: ????

Afghanistan - And the Mountains Echoed - 9/5/2017
Albania
Algeria - The Outsider - 10/1/2019
Andorra
Angola - Band-Aid for a Broken Leg - 13/7/2017
Antarctica - Away With The Penguins - 4/7/2022
Antigua and Barbuda
Argentina - The Penguin Lessons - 29/9/2021
Armenia
Aruba (part of the Netherlands)
Australia - Jasper Jones - 19/1/2017
Austria - Book of the Night - 18/12/2024
Azerbaijan
Bahamas, The
Bahrain
Bangladesh
Barbados
Belarus - Gingerbread - 2/6/2018
Belgium
Belize
Benin
Bermuda (part of the UK)
Bhutan
Bolivia
Bosnia and Herzegovina - How The Soldier Repairs The Gramophone - 14/11/2018
Botswana - The Double Comfort Safari Club - 14/6/2020
Brazil - The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao - 1/5/2021
Brunei
Bulgaria
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Cambodia
Cameroon
Canada - The Shipping News - 22/2/2018
Cape Verde
Central African Republic
Chad
Chechnya
Chile - The Remainder - 29/5/2019
China - The Three-Body Problem - 15/4/2017
Colombia - Love in the Time of Cholera - 28/7/2017
Comoros
Congo, Democratic Republic of the
Costa Rica
Cote d'Ivoire
Croatia
Cuba
Cyprus
Czech Republic
Denmark - The Copenhagen Affair - 16/5/2020
Dijbouti
Dominica
Dominican Republic
East Timor (part of Portugal)
Ecuador
Egypt
El Salvador
Equatorial Guinea - Palm Trees in the Snow - 14/7/2025
Eritrea
Estonia - Purge - 13/3/2018
Ethiopia
Faroe Islands (part of Denmark)
Fiji
Finland - The Rabbit Back Literature Society - 2/4/2018
France - All the Light We Cannot See - 17/1/2017
Gabon
Gambia
Georgia
Germany - Before the Feast - 14/5/2017
Ghana - Homegoing - 21/8/2022
Greece - The Gifts of Poseidon: The Mysteries of the Greek Detective - 28/6/2017
Greenland (part of Denmark) - Under A Pole Star - 24/2/2018
Grenada
Guatemala
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Guyana
Haiti
Honduras
Hungary
Iceland - The Falcons of Fire and Ice - 10/11/2017
India - The Accidental Apprentice - 4/3/2017
Indonesia - Beauty is a Wound - 22/9/2024
Iran - The Blood of Flowers - 21/10/2020
Iraq - Frankenstein in Baghdad - 24/1/2020
Ireland - In the Woods - 20/1/2017
Israel - A Horse Walks Into A Bar - 13/2/2025
Italy - Inkheart - 12/7/2017
Jamaica - A Brief History of Seven Killings - 21/9/2019
Japan - Silence - 6/10/2017
Jordan
Kazakhstan
Kenya - Dust - 1/1/2019
Kiribati
Kosovo
Kuwait
Kyrgyzstan
Laos - The Coroner's Lunch - 3/7/2017
Latvia
Lebanon
Lesotho
Liberia
Libya
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Macedonia
Madagascar
Malawi - The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind - 7/3/2021
Malaysia - The House of Trembling Leaves - 21/4/2023
Maldives
Mali - The Book Smugglers of Timbuktu - 29/7/2019
Malta
Marshall Islands
Mauritania
Mauritius
Mexico -The Xibalba Murders - 26/2/2019
Micronesia - The People in the Trees - 11/5/2017
Moldova
Monaco
Mongolia - A Hero Born - 26/2/22
Montenegro
Morocco
Mozambique
Myanmar - Return to Mandalay - 13/12/2023
Namibia
Nauru
Nepal - Sacred Mountain - 31/1/2020
Netherlands - The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 83¼ Years Old - 10/10/2019
New Zealand - The Whale Rider - 2/11/2019
Nicaragua
Niger
Nigeria - Half of a Yellow Sun - 5/2/2017
Niue
North Korea - A River in Darkness - 16/10/2020
Northern Ireland (part of the UK)
Norway - I'm Travelling Alone: - 12/9/2017
Oman
Pakistan - The Good Children - 19/2/2017
Palau
Palestine - The Lemon Tree - 6/7/2018
Panama
Papua New Guinea
Paraguay - The News From Paraguay - 22/10/2019
Peru - The Bedlam Stacks - 4/7/2018
Phillipines
Poland - Europe In Autumn - 16/9/2017
Portugal - Keane's Company - 22/1/23
Puerto Rico - Life and Other Near-Death Experiences - 14/10/2019
Qatar
Romania
Russia - A Gentleman in Moscow - 22/12/2017
Rwanda
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Samoa
San Marino
São Tomé and Príncipe
Saudi Arabia
Scotland - T2 Trainspotting - 15/2/2017
Senegal - Redemption in Indigo - 7/9/2018
Serbia - How The Soldier Repairs The Gramophone - 14/11/2018
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Singapore - The Oddfits - 10/7/2017
Slovakia
Slovenia
Solomon Islands
Somalia
South Africa - Apocalypse Now Now - 8/3/2017
South Korea - Daughters of the Dragon - 23/4/2017
South Sudan
Spain - For Whom the Bell Tolls - 28/12/2018
Sri Lanka - The Elephant Keeper's Daughter - 12/3/2019
Sudan
Suriname
Swaziland
Sweden - The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest - 22/4/2017
Switzerland - The Gustav Sonata - 8/10/2017
Syria
Taiwan - The Man With the Compound Eyes - 21/1/2019
Tajikistan
Tanzania
Tatarstan (part of Russia)
Thailand - Burning Moon - 2/7/2017
Tibet
Togo
Tonga
Trinidad and Tobago
Tunisia
Turkey - The Black Book - 24/6/2020
Turkmenistan
Tuvalu
Uganda
Ukraine
United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom - Swallows and Amazons - 7/8/2017
United States - Lies We Tell Ourselves - 17/1/2017
Uruguay
Uzbekistan
Vanuatu
Vatican
Venezuela
Vietnam
Wales (part of the UK) - Don't Cry For Me Aberystwyth - 23/8/2025
Yemen
Zambia - The Old Drift - 17/3/2021
Zimbabwe - We Need New Names - 26/3/2023

[Sophie]

Yay for the Around the World challenge! ;)

[Rokkan]

POPSUGAR 2018 Reading Challenge

1. A book made into a movie you've already seen - Fight Club
2. True crime - The Innocent Man
4. A book involving a heist - Crooked Kingdom
5. Nordic noir - Mind's Eye
7. A book set in a country that fascinates you - Shantaram
9. A book about a villian or antihero - Please Don't Tell My Parents I'm a Supervillain
10. A book about death or grief - Counting by 7s
11. A book with a female author who uses a male pseudonym - Middlemarch
13. A book that is also a stage play or musical - Doctor Zhivago
15. A book about feminism - The Power
19. A book about or involving sport - Nightfall: Vampire and Ice Hockey Romance
20. A book by a local author - Human Croquet
21. A book with your favourite colour in the title - Purple Hibiscus
22. A book with alliteration in the title - Song of Summer
23. A book about time travel - Doomsday Book
26. A book with an animal in the title - A Horse Walks into a Bar
29. A book about or set on Halloween - Halloween Candy with a Side of Murder
30. A book with characters who are twins - The Map of Bones
32. A book from a celebrity bookclub - The Roanoke Girls
35. A past goodreads Choice Awards winner - The Light Between Oceans
36. A book set in the decade you were born - The Perks of Being a Wallflower
38. A book with an ugly cover - Snake Eyes
39. A book that involves a bookstore or library - The Invisible Library

Advanced
43. A book that was being read by a stranger in a public place - It Can't Happen Here
47. A book by an author with the same first or last name as you - Am I Normal Yet?
50. A book recommended by someone else taking the POPSUGAR Reading Challenge - A Closed and Common Orbit

Completed
25. A book set at sea - Moby Dick - read 22/1/2018
8. A book with a time of day in the title - Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore - 25/1/2018
40. Your favourite prompt from the 2015, 2016 or 2017 POPSUGAR Reading Challenges - A book with a one word title (2015) - Flotsam - 1/2/2018
12. A book with an LGBTQ+ protagonist - Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe - 3/2/2018
18. A book by two authors - Will Grayson, Will Grayson - 6/2/2018
14. A book by an author of a different ethnicity to you - The Year of the Runaways - 15/2/2018
33. A childhood classic you've never read - The Giver - 25/2/2018
3. The next book in a series you've started - Cibola Burn - 27/2/2018
16. A book about mental health - Made You Up - 6/3/2018
17. A book you borrowed or that was given to you as a gift - Purge - 13/3/2018
42. A cyberpunk book - Apex - 20/3/2018
34. A book that's published in 2018 - the 1000 year old boy - read 25/3/2018
27. A book set on a different planet - Red Rising - read 3/4/2018
31. A book mentioned in another book - Nine Princes in Amber - read 10/6/2018
24. A book with a weather element in the title - The Snow Child - read 24/6/2018
45. A book with a fruit or vegetable in the title - Orangeboy - read 14/7/2018
37. A book you meant to read in 2017 but didn't get to - The Long Cosmos - 29/7/2018
48. A microhistory - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - 10/8/2018
46. An allegory - Brave New World - 7/9/2018
44. A book tied to your ancestry - How The Soldier Repairs The Gramophone - 14/11/2018
6. A novel based on a real person - Letter From Alabama - 15/11/2018
41. A bestseller from the year you graduated high school - The King of Torts - 15/12/2018
49. A book about a problem facing society today - Behold the Dreamers - 22/12/2018
28. A book with song lyrics in the title - For Whom the Bell Tolls - 28/12/2108

[Ann]

Holly wrote: "2017 BookRiot Read Harder

6. Read an all-ages comic - Lumberjanes #2
13. Read a nonfiction book about technology - [book:Solar Energy: The physics and engineering of photovoltaic c..."

I finished this challenge just last week. We did this at book club and I bought prizes for reading 5 or 10 or all of the books. It was fun except the book on technology.