Jemppu's open book of 2020 challenges (comments ok)

[Jemppu]

📖 The following are living lists; all entries subject to change. Possible options listed as they come to mind. Empty spots get filled when they will. The final places for duplicate listings will get determined as things come together.

[Jemppu]

TBR Clean-up challenge 2020


1. Inspired by a meme
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2. Nominated for 2+ awards (didn't win)
⬜ Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand (in process)
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3. Small publisher
⬜ The Way of Thorn and Thunder (in painfully slow process, due to format)
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4. Relationship between humans/animals
✅ Theory of Bastards
⬜ Tomorrow
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5. Recommended by a public figure
✅ Naïve. Super (Pete Buttigieg)
✅ The Underground Railroad (Oprah)
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6. Steal from someone else
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7. Makes you wonder
✅ The Man I Think I Know (The title seems unsure)
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8. Fits a past SFFBC nomination theme
✅ The Martians (We Are Sci-Fi Family)
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9. #ownvoices
✅ I Am Not Myself These Days
✅ Americanah
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10. Won a smaller or regional award
☐ Autonomous
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11. What a title?!
✅ On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
✅ Record of a Spaceborn Few
⬜ This Is the Way the World Ends
⬜ The Complete Roderick
⬜ Nine Hundred Grandmothers
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12. Published in a memorable year
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13. #relatable
✅ Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened
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14. Seven or Twenty
✅ The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
✅ Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
✅ Seven Surrenders
⬜ Seveneves
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15. Dialect, slang, or pidgin languages
✅ Cloud Atlas
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16. Pushing the boundaries
✅ Black Leopard, Red Wolf
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17. The next [insert popular series here]
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18. LOLed IRL
✅ The Humans
✅ Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
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19. Seen in an ad or on social media
✅ Red, White & Royal Blue
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20. Hindsight is 20/20
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[Jemppu]

Popsugar challenge 2020


1. A book that's published in 2020
✅ Real Life
⬜ The Gravity of Us
⬜ Finna
⬜ Afterlife
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2. A book by a trans or nonbinary author
⬜ Transcendent 2: The Year's Best Transgender Speculative Fiction 2016
✅ The Future of Another Timeline
✅ Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love
✅ The City in the Middle of the Night
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3. A book with a great first line
✅ On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous "Let me begin again."
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4. A book about a book club
✅ Among Others
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5. A book set in a city that has hosted the Olympics
✅ October: The Story of the Russian Revolution
✅ A Gentleman in Moscow
⬜ The Master and Margarita

(Tempted to make this a Moscow hattrick)
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6. A bildungsroman
✅ Lie With Me
✅ Flesh and Blood
✅ The Catcher in the Rye
✅ Never Let Me Go
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7. The first book you touch on a shelf with your eyes closed
Need to think of an alternative to bookshelf touching: my shelves are primary for dictionaries in Japanese, and ain't no-one got time for a full one of those.
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8. A book with an upside-down image on the cover
✅ Release
⬜ This Is How You Lose the Time War
✅ Less
⬜ Life After Life
⬜ Witchmark
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9. A book with a map
✅ Black Leopard, Red Wolf
⬜ Into the Wild
⬜ American War
⬜ Disappearing Earth
⬜ The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue
⬜ Six of Crows
⬜ The Priory of the Orange Tree
⬜ The Name of the Rose
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10. A book recommended by your favorite blog, vlog, podcast, or online book club
⬜ The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
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11. An anthology
⬜ Transcendent 2: The Year's Best Transgender Speculative Fiction 2016
⬜ The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifth Annual Collection
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12. A book that passes the Bechdel test
✅ The Future of Another Timeline
✅ The Power
✅ The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
✅ Americanah
⬜ Where the Crawdads Sing
⬜ Nothing to See Here
⬜ Seveneves
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13. A book with the same title as a movie or TV show but is unrelated to it
⬜ Vicious
✅ Beloved
⬜ Euphoria
⬜ Severance
⬜ Becoming
⬜ The Sellout
⬜ Recursion
⬜ Walkaway
⬜ The Good Son
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14. A book by an author with flora or fauna in their name
✅ Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist
✅ 2312
☐ There There
☐ Euphoria
☐ Kitchen
☐ Gilead
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15. A book about or involving social media
✅ Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators
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16. A book that has a book on the cover
✅ Fahrenheit 451
⬜ Autoboyography
⬜ The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu and Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts
✅ A Single Man
⬜ Lent
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17. A medical thriller
✅ The Silent Patient
⬜ Wanderers
⬜ Harvest
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18. A book with a made-up language
✅ Cloud Atlas
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19. A book set in a country beginning with "C"
⬜ Station Eleven
⬜ The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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20. A book you picked because the title caught your attention
⬜ Famous Men Who Never Lived
✅ The Boat of a Million Years
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21. A book published the month of your birthday
⬜ 3zekiel (exact date)
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22. A book about or by a woman in STEM
⬜ Autonomous
⬜ Light from Other Stars
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23. A book that won an award in 2019
✅ Trust Exercise
✅ The Great Believers
✅ Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation
⬜ What If It's Us
⬜ There There
⬜ Recursion
⬜ Normal People
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24. A book on a subject you know nothing about
(Subject I know nothing about, would be a subject I do not know about... anyone want to throw me a random subject?)
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25. A book with only words on the cover, no images or graphics

I have an objection to the oxymoronic parameters of this: fonts by default are graphics - designed and drawn. Hence, a cover would have to be completely blank to include 'no graphics'.

✅ Faggots
⬜ One Word Kill
✅ Exit West
✅ The Art of Fielding
⬜ The Water Knife
⬜ The Mote in God's Eye
⬜ Everything Is Illuminated
⬜ Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit


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26. A book with a pun in the title
✅ Dead Endless
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27. A book featuring one of the seven deadly sins
✅ Seven Surrenders
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28. A book with a robot, cyborg, or AI character
⬜ The Complete Roderick
⬜ Autonomous
⬜ The Caves of Steel
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29. A book with a bird on the cover
✅ This Is How You Lose the Time War
⬜ Forever Peace
⬜ Zoo City
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30. A fiction or nonfiction book about a world leader
✅ Red, White & Royal Blue
⬜ Long Walk to Freedom (In process)
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31. A book with "gold," "silver," or "bronze" in the title
⬜ The Goldfinch
✅ The Golden Compass
⬜ Spinning Silver
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32. A book by a WOC
✅ The City We Became
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33. A book with at least a four-star rating on Goodreads
✅ Wolf Hall
✅ Giovanni’s Room
✅ Americanah
✅ The Underground Railroad

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34. A book you meant to read in 2019
✅ The Way of Thorn and Thunder
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35. A book with a three-word title
✅ My Real Children
✅ August: Osage County
✅ Make Good Art
✅ Flesh and Blood
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36. A book with a pink cover
✅ Red, White & Royal Blue
✅ Severance
⬜ Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory
✅ Here for It: Or, How to Save Your Soul in America; Essays
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37. A Western
✅ Lonesome Dove
✅ News of the World
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38. A book by or about a journalist
✅ Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators
✅ The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
✅ Cloud Atlas
✅ The Things They Carried
⬜ Into the Wild
⬜ The Water Dancer
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39. Read a banned book during Banned Books Week
⬜ Brave New World
✅ Lolita
⬜ Fahrenheit 451
⬜ Ulysses
✅ To Kill a Mockingbird
✅ 1984
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40. Your favorite prompt from a past POPSUGAR Reading Challenge
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41. A book written by an author in their 20s
⬜ Normal People
⬜ Half of a Yellow Sun
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42. A book with "20" or "twenty" in the title
✅ Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
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43. A book with a character with a vision impairment or enhancement
✅ The Golem and the Jinni
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44. A book set in the 1920s
✅ A Gentleman in Moscow
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45. A book set in Japan, host of the 2020 Olympics
⬜ The Love We Share Without Knowing
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46. A book by an author who has written more than 20 books
✅ A Wild Sheep Chase
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47. A book with more than 20 letters in its title
✅ Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
✅ All the Light We Cannot See
⬜ Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
✅ The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
⬜ Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand
⬜ The Tattooist of Auschwitz
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48. A book published in the 20th century
...bother. Any number of leftover books. We'll see.
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49. A book from a series with more than 20 books
⬜ Shards of Honor
⬜ Foreigner
⬜ Arrows of the Queen
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50. A book with a main character in their 20s
✅ The Secret History
⬜ Where the Crawdads Sing
✅ On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
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[Cheryl]

How gorgeously organized you are. How much would you charge to create this as a template for someone else?! :)

[Jemppu]

*haha* I don't know if there's much for a template there, but thank you ^^'