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Popsugar - 20191. A book becoming a movie in 2019 The Woman in the Window
2. A book that makes you nostalgic Summer of '49
3. A book written by a musician (fiction or nonfiction) Chronicles: Volume One
4. A book you think should be turned into a movie Eleanor & Park
5. A book with at least one million ratings on Goodreads Gone Girl
6. A book with a plant in the title or on the cover Barking Up the Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) Wrong
7. A reread of a favorite book On the Road
8. A book about a hobby Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
9. A book you meant to read in 2018 Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America
10. A book with POP, SUGAR, or CHALLENGE in the title The Sugar Queen
11. A book with an item of clothing or accessory on the cover The Outsiders
12. A book inspired by myth/legend/folklore The Bear and the Nightingale
13. A book published posthumously When Breath Becomes Air
14. A book you see someone reading on TV or in a movie Holidays on Ice
15. A retelling of a classic Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
17. A book set on college or university campus Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town
18. A book about someone with a superpower Of Blood and Bone
19. A book told from multiple POVs The Girl on the Train
20. A book set in space The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
21. A book by two female authors The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
22. A book with SALTY, SWEET, BITTER, or SPICY in the title Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
23. A book set in Scandinavia The Ice Princess
24. A book that takes place in a single day A Single Man
25. A debut novel There There
26. A book that's published in 2019 The Last Romantics
27. A book featuring an extinct or imaginary creature The Magician King
28. A book recommended by a celebrity you admire Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic
29. A book with LOVE in the title It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War
30. A book featuring an amateur detective A Curious Beginning
31. A book about a family Educated
32. A book author from Asia, Africa, or South America We Should All Be Feminists
33. A book with a zodiac sign or astrology term in title The Sun Also Rises
34. A book that includes a wedding The Member of the Wedding
35. A book by an author whose first and last names start with the same letter Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
36. A ghost story The Haunting of Hill House
37. A book with a two-word title The Magicians
38. A novel based on a true story Before We Were Yours
39. A book revolving around a puzzle or game The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
40. Your favorite prompt from a past POPSUGAR Reading challenge Mr. Mercedes
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41. A "cli-fi" (climate fiction) book The Road
42. A "choose-your-own-adventure" book Can You Survive a Zombie Apocalypse?
43. An "own voices" book The Hate U Give
44. Read a book during the season it is set in The Winter People
45. A LitRPG book Ready Player One
46. A book with no chapters / unusual chapter headings / unconventionally numbered chapters Thirteen Reasons Why
47. Two books that share the same title Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
48. Two books that share the same title Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery
49. A book that has inspired a common phrase or idiom 1984
50. A book set in an abbey, cloister, monastery, vicarage, or convent Murder at the Vicarage
Let's Turn Pages - 201912,000 pages
2019 Total Pages Read: 12,325
JANUARY
Books Read: 10
1) Gone Girl - 420 pages
2) The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - 131
3) Ready Player One - 374
4) The Sun Also Rises - 189
5) The Woman in the Window - 430
6) Murder at the Vicarage - 298
7) The Bear and the Nightingale - 313
8) The Winter People - 466
9) Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic - 381
10) To-Do List Formula: A Stress-Free Guide To Creating To-Do Lists That Work! - 109
January Pages Read: 3,111
FEBRUARY
Books Read: 9
1) Of Blood and Bone - 448
2) There There - 278
3) Before We Were Yours - 343
4) Barking Up the Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) Wrong - 312
5) The Sugar Queen - 278
6) A Single Man - 192
7) The Ice Princess - 390
8) The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle - 448
9) Educated - 334
February Pages Read: 3,023
MARCH
Books Read: 5
1) Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen - 288
2) The Last Romantics - 352
3) It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War - 357
4) The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - 308
5) The Member of the Wedding - 163
6) Like Water for Chocolate - 176
March Pages Read: 1,644
APRIL
Books Read: 4
1) Where'd You Go, Bernadette - 330
2) Adulthood Is a Myth - 109
3) We Should All Be Feminists - 49
4) The Hate U Give - 444
April Pages Read: 932
OCTOBER
Books Read: 12
1) The Magicians - 428
2) The Princess Saves Herself in This One - 210
3) Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America - 228
4) Can You Survive a Zombie Apocalypse? - 112
5) A Curious Beginning - 337
6) Pride and Prejudice and Zombies - 344
7) The Magician King - 418
8) Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage - 282 pages
9) Summer of '49 - 326 pages
10) When Breath Becomes Air - 229 pages
11) The Haunting of Hill House - 242 pages
12) Eleanor & Park - 328 pages
October Pages Read: 3,484
NOVEMBER
Books Read: 1
1) Big Mushy Happy Lump - 131
November Pages Read: 131
DECEMBER
2019 Book Riot's Read Harder Challenge22/24
An epistolary novel or collection of letters Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
An alternate history novel
A book by a woman and/or AOC (Author of Color) that won a literary award in 2018 All Systems Red
A humor book Adulthood Is a Myth
A book by a journalist or about journalism Black Like Me
A book by an AOC set in or about space Binti
An #ownvoices book set in Mexico or Central America Like Water for Chocolate
An #ownvoices book set in Oceania The Whale Rider
A book published prior to January 1, 2019, with fewer than 100 reviews on Goodreads Heaven Is a Playground
A translated book written by and/or translated by a woman An Elderly Lady is Up to No Good
A book of manga GANGSTA. 1
A book in which an animal or inanimate object is a point-of-view character Animal Farm
A book by or about someone that identifies as neurodiverse The Westing Game
A cozy mystery The Mysterious Affair at Styles
A book of mythology or folklore The Penelopiad
An historical romance by an AOC
A business book Find Your Why: A Practical Guide to Discovering Purpose for You and Your Team
A novel by a trans or nonbinary author Eighth Grade Bites
A book of nonviolent true crime Catch Me If You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake
A book written in prison Letter from Birmingham Jail
A comic by an LGBTQIA creator Batman/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
A children’s or middle grade book (not YA) that has won a diversity award since 2009
A self-published book Wool
A collection of poetry published since 2014 Wade in the Water: Poems
Reading Women ChallengeA mystery or thriller written by a woman of color
A book about a woman with a mental illness
A book by an author from Nigeria or New Zealand
A book about or set in Appalachia
A children's book
A multigenerational family saga
A book featuring a woman in science
A play
A novella
A book about a woman athlete
A book featuring a religion other than your own
A Lambda Literary Award winner
A myth retelling
A translated book published before 1945
A book written by a South Asian author
A book by an Indigenous woman
A book from the 2018 Reading Women Award shortlist
A romance or love story
A book about nature
A historical fiction book
A book you bought or borrowed in 2019
A book you picked up because of the cover
Any book from a series
A young adult book by a woman of color
A book by Jesmyn Ward
A book by Jhumpa Lahiri
2022 Reading Challenge
Books mentioned in this topic
The Westing Game (other topics)The Sun Also Rises (other topics)
Holidays on Ice (other topics)
The Road (other topics)
Like Water for Chocolate (other topics)
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