2018 Popsugar Reading Challenge

[Kristie, Moderator (Retired)]

You can make it as difficult or easy as you choose. I think it may vary depending on where people are located as well. If you live somewhere very populated, such as New York City, it would be easy to find a local author. For someone who lives in a more rural location, that might be less realistic.

I live in the US and have decided that my town would be too difficult, but the country is huge and way too easy. For me, I'm trying to keep it in my county (which would be my town and surrounding towns), but my state will be good enough. So, I think you can be the judge as to how local you are able keep it.

[Marie (UK)]

If anyone needs a book recommendation I would say try

New Boy retelling of Hamlet - absolutely riveting

and Hag-Seed retelling ot the tempest again a real winner for me

[Sherri]

I'm going to do this, I actually started it a few weeks ago. Let's see how many I can get through in the next 85 days. :)

Read by a stranger in a public place - Ready Player One by Ernest Cline 9/23/18, 3/5*
Book tied to ancestry - Faithful Place by Tana French 9/28/18, 4/5*
A book with a fruit or vegetable in the title - Apples are from Kazakhstan by Christopher Robbin 9/22/18, 1/5*
A book published in 2018- The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn, 10/3/18, 3/5*
A book by an author of a different ethnicity than you - A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini, 10/2/18, 4/5*
A book about mental health - Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson, 9/18/18, 4/5*
A book you borrowed - The Leavers by Lisa Ko, 8/30/18, 4/5*
A book about time travel
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger, 9/1/18, 3/5*
A book with alliteration in the title
Soy Sauce for Beginners by Kirstin Chen, 9/2/18, 3/5*
A book set in a country that fascinates
Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War by Stephen R. Platt, 9/15/18, 3/5*
A book involving a heist
The Heist by Janet Evanovich, 10/3/18, 3/5*

[Sherri]

A Childhood Classic You've Never Read - Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery, 10/4/18, 4*
Next Book in a Series You Started - The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson, 10/6/18, 5*
A Book about death or grief - The Green Mile by Stephen King, 10/7/18, 5*
A book by two authors - Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Terry Pratchett, 10/8/18, 2*
A past Goodreads Choice Awards winners - Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng, 10/9/18, 4*

[Sherri]

Nordic noir - The Keeper of Lost Causes by Jussi Adler-Olsen, 10/10/18, 4/5
Based on a real person - The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner, 10/11/18, 3/5
Book with your favorite color in the title - Blue Screen by Robert B. Parker, 10/12/18, 4/5
Weather element in tltle - Windy City Blues by Sara Paretsky, 10/13/18, 5/5
Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christiem 10/12/818, 4/5

[Sherri]

A book about or set on Halloween - Plum Spooky by Janet Evanovich, 10/15/18, 3/5*

A book with an animal in the title - Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World's Worst Dog by John Grogan, 10/16/18, 5/5*

A book with song lyrics in the title - She Walks These Hills by Sharyn McCrumb, 10/17/18, 5/5*

A book with characters who are twins - Time of the Twins by Margaret Weis, 10/17/18, 3/5*

Microhistory - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot, 10/26/18, 4/5*

A book about or involving a sport - Beartown by Fredrik Backman, 10/27/18, 5/5*

A book by a local author - The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis, 10/28/18, 4/5*

About a problem facing society today - Fierce Kingdom by Gin Phillips, 10/29/18, 3/5*

[Sherri]

Making progress

Author with the same first or last name as me -- The Companions by Sheri S. Tepper, 11/3/18, 3/5*
A book set in the decade you were born -- The Help by Kathryn Stockett, 11/4/18, 4/5*
A book made into a movie you've already seen -- I, Robot by Isaac Asimov, 11/9/18, 3/5*
A book with a female author who uses a male pseudonym, The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith, 11/10/18. 4/5*
A book that involves a bookstore or library --The Bookshop of Yesterdays by Amy Meyerson, 11/12/18, 3/5*
A book with an ugly cover -- City of Bones by Cassandra Clare, 11/17/18, 3/5*
A book takes place on another planet -- The Martian by Andy Weir, 11/19/18. 5/5*

[Sherri]

Woo Hoo - COMPLETED

A book set at sea - The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy, 11/23/18, 4/5*
A bestseller from the year graduated high school - North and South by John Jakes, 11/24/18, 4/5*
Cyberpunk - Cinder by Marissa Meyer, 11/25/18, 2/5*
A book mentioned in another book - The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, 11/25/18, 5/5*
An allegory - Watership Down by Richard Adams, 12/5/18, 4/5*
A book that is also a stage play or musical - Les Misérables by Victor Hugo, 12/9/18, 4/5*

[Kristie, Moderator (Retired)]

Way to go, Sherri!