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Completed Jade City for:- AtY prompt #16, book told from multiple perspectives
- Popsugar prompt #18, book about someone with a superpower
- Read Harder prompt #3, book by a woman and/or AOC (Author of Color) that won a literary award in 2018
Completed Miss Timmins' School for Girls for:- Popsugar prompt #30, book featuring an amateur detective
- Reading Women prompt #1, a mystery or thriller written by a woman of color
Completed Frost In May for Popsugar prompt #50, book set in an abbey, cloister, monastery, vicarage, or convent.
Completed Lumberjanes, Vol. 10: Parents' Day for Popsugar prompt 24, book that takes place in a single day
Completed Tin Man for AtY prompt #18, book related to one of the elements on the periodic table of elements(Tin being one of the elements... loose connection but it was literally the only one I could find.)
Completed Trail of Lightning for:- AtY prompt #20, book featuring indigenous people of a country
- Popsugar prompt #41, "cli-fi" (climate fiction) book
- Reading Women prompt #16, book by an Indigenous woman
Completed The Real Boy for Read Harder prompt #13, book by or about someone that identifies as neurodiverse
Completed House of Names for:- Popsugar prompt #40, favorite prompt from a past POPSUGAR Reading challenge [I used "a book you bought on a trip" from the 2017 challenge - picked up House of Names while on holiday in London]
- Read Harder prompt #5, by a journalist or about journalism
Completed The Raven Tower for Read Harder prompt #12, a book in which an animal or inanimate object is a point-of-view character[The narrating character is a god who exists in the form of a giant rock.]
Completed The Raven Boys for:- AtY prompt #21. A book from one of the polarizing or close call votes - "Three unrelated books that are linked only by having the same word in the title" (with The Raven Tower and White Ravens)
- Reading Women prompt #4, book about or set in Appalachia
[It's set in the town of Henrietta in Virginia, some parts of which are included in Appalachia - and the real town of Henrietta, West Virginia, is definitely Appalachian.]
Considering participating in the Queer Lit Readathon in June, just going to put the bingo board of challenges here for future reference.
Just pasting over the Goodreads Summer Reading Challenge prompts for this year.For Beginners
1. Good as gold: Read a book that won a Goodreads Choice Award.
2. The book is better: Read a book being adapted for TV or film this year.
9. Wheel of format: Read a book in a format that you don’t normally read in (a graphic novel, poetry, a play, an audiobook, etc.).
11. Past love: Reread a book you loved when you were younger.
Expert-Level Additions
14. Stranger than fiction: Read a nonfiction book published this year.
17. No place like home: Read a book that appears in your Goodreads newsfeed.
18. Continental drift: Read a book set on every continent.
19. Genre explorer: Read a book from a genre you've never read before.
20. Reading roulette: Read the third book you see on your Want to Read shelf.
22. Back to school: Read a book about a subject you don't know much about.
Completed Daisy Jones and The Six for:- AtY prompt #22, a book with a number in the title or on the cover
- Read Harder prompt #1, an epistolary novel or collection of letters
- Tackle that TBR prompt task #11, a book you never finished
- GR Summer Reading Challenge prompt #4, On the bandwagon: Read one of the most read books right now on Goodreads
Completed Tipping the Velvet for:- Reading Women prompt #12, a Lambda Literary Award winner
- GR Summer Reading Challenge prompt #10, New voices: Read a debut novel
Completed Princess Princess Ever After for:- Reading Women prompt #3, a book by an author from Nigeria or New Zealand
- GR Summer Reading Challenge prompt #3, Short & sweet: Read a book with less than 100 pages (or a book you can finish in one sitting)
Completed Albert Nobbs for AtY prompt #23, 4 books inspired by the wedding rhyme: Book #1 Something Old[I'm trying to read mainly LGBT+ books for June, and this was the oldest one of those on my TBR, by publication date.]
Completed Boy Erased for AtY prompt #24, 4 books inspired by the wedding rhyme: Book #2 Something New [it's a recently-purchased book]and
Completed The Witch Boy for Read Harder prompt #21, a comic by an LGBTQIA creator
Completed Nine Last Days on Planet Earth for GR Summer Reading Challenge prompt #21. Primary reading: Read a book with a number or color in the title
Thinking of participating in Summerathon.Prompts:
1: Read a beachy read
2: Read a book with sunrise colors on the cover ✔
3: Read a book featuring a road trip/traveling or summer vacation ✔
4: Read a book set in summer
5: Read a book with food on the cover
6: Drink your favorite summery drink while reading
Completed The Proof of Love for Tackle That TBR task #2, read a book that you were recommended.It's maybe not quite in the spirit of the task, but a couple of my favourite Booktubers have recommended it.
Completed Breath, Eyes, Memory for GR Summer Reading Challenge prompt #6. Not from around here: Read a book set in a different culture from your own.
Completed The Gustav Sonata for:- Popsugar prompt #9, a book you meant to read in 2018
- GR summer reading challenge prompt #5. Actually want to read: Read a book that's been on your Want to Read shelf for more than a year
Completed Of Mice and Men for:- AtY prompt #27, a book off of the 1001 books to read before you die list
- Popsugar prompt #5, a book with at least one million ratings on Goodreads
Completed The Bedlam Stacks for ATY prompt #26, 4 books inspired by the wedding rhyme: Book #4 Something Blue
Completed Jurassic Park for Popsugar prompt #49, a book that has inspired a common phrase or idiom.(The lines I'm thinking of are "life finds a way" and the speech including "so preoccupied with whether or not you could, you didn't stop to think if you should", which are both in the book.)
Completed The Tenderness of Wolves for AtY prompt #28, a book related to something cold(it's set in the Canadian winter which is extremely cold)
Completed The True Deceiver for:- AtY prompt #30, a book featuring an elderly character
- Popsugar prompt #23, a book set in Scandinavia
- GR Summer Reading Challenge prompt #16, Tongue-tied: Read a translated book
Completed Persuasion for:- AtY prompt #29, a book published before 1950
- Popsugar prompt #13, a book published posthumously
Completed The Chronicles of Chrestomanci, Vol. 1 for AtY prompt #31, a children’s classic you’ve never read
Completed The Penelopiad for AtY prompt #33, a book you have owned for at least a year, but have not read yet
Completed The Resurrectionist of Caligo for:- Popsugar prompt #21, a book by two female authors
- GR Summer Reading Challenge prompt #8, It takes two: Read a coauthored book.
Completed The Fifth Season for AtY prompt #36, a book featured on an NPR Best Books of the Year list
Completed This is How You Lose the Time War for AtY prompt #38, a book not written in traditional novel format
Completed The Graveyard Book for AtY prompt #39, a book with a strong sense of place or where the author brings the location/setting to lifeCompleted Coraline for:
- AtY prompt #42, a book with a monster or "monstrous" character
- Popsugar prompt #39, a book revolving around a puzzle or game
2025 Reading Challenge
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The Graveyard Book (other topics)
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This Is How You Lose the Time War (other topics)
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- AtY prompt
#16, book told from multiple perspectives#15, book by an author from a Mediterranean country or set in a Mediterranean country [switched prompts]- Popsugar prompt #10, book with POP, SUGAR, or CHALLENGE in the title