Matt's Manic Challenge for 2021

[Matt]

Three goals for 2021


1) Read 105 Books PROGRESS: 75/105
2) Finish Popsugar Challenge PROGRESS: 8/50
3) Finish Read Harder Challenge PROGRESS: 0/24

[Matt]

Monthly Progress

August
Looking for Alaska August 15, 2021
Between Two Kingdoms A Memoir of A Life Interrupted August 19, 2021
Milk and Honey August 20, 2021
Infinitum An Afrofuturist Tale August 21, 2021
An American Marriage August 22, 2021
The Wedding Date August 28, 2021

[Matt]

Popsugar Challenge

Standard Prompts:

1. A book that published in 2021 Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted
2. An Afrofuturist book Infinitum: An Afrofuturist Tale
3. A book that has a heart, diamond, club, or spade on the cover Looking for Alaska
4. A book by an author who shares your zodiac sign Milk and Honey
5. A dark academia book
6. A book with a gem, mineral, or rock in the title
7. A book where the main character works at your current or dream job The Wedding Date
8. A book that has won the Women’s Prize for Fiction An American Marriage
9. A book with a family tree
10. A bestseller from the 1990s
11. A book about forgetting
12. A book you have seen on someone’s bookshelf (in real life, on a Zoom call, in a TV show, etc.)
13. A locked-room mystery
14. A book set in a restaurant
15. A book with a black-and-white cover
16. A book by an indigenous author
17. A book that has the same title as a song
18. A book about a subject you are passionate about
19. A book that discusses body positivity
20. A book on a Black Lives Matter reading list When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir
21. A genre hybrid
22. A book set mostly or entirely outdoors
23. A book with something broken on the cover
24. A book by a Muslim American author
25. A book that was published anonymously
26. A book with an oxymoron in the title
27. A book about do-overs or fresh starts
28. A magical realism book
29. A book set in multiple countries
30. A book set somewhere you’d like to visit in 2021
31. A book by a blogger, vlogger, YouTube video creator, or other online personality
32. A book whose title starts with “Q,” “X,” or “Z”
33. A book featuring three generations (grandparent, parent, child)
34. A book about a social justice issue
35. A book in a different format than what you normally read (audiobooks, ebooks, graphic novels)
36. A book that has fewer than 1,000 reviews on Amazon or Goodreads Dracula, Motherf**ker!
37. A book you think your best friend would like
38. A book about art or an artist
39. A book everyone seems to have read but you
40. Your favorite prompt from a past POPSUGAR Reading Challenge

Advanced Prompts
41. The longest book (by pages) on your TBR list
42. The shortest book (by pages) on your TBR list
43. The book on your TBR list with the prettiest cover
44. The book on your TBR list with the ugliest cover
45. The book that’s been on your TBR list for the longest amount of time
46. A book from your TBR list you meant to read last year but didn’t
47. A book from your TBR list you associate with a favorite person, place, or thing
48. A book from your TBR list chosen at random
49. A DNF book from your TBR list
50. A free book from your TBR list (gifted, borrowed, library)

[Matt]

Book Riot Read Harder Challenge

Read a book you've been intimated to read
Read a nonfiction book about anti-racism
Read a non-European novel in translation
Read an LGBTQ+ history book
Read a genre novel by an Indigenous, First Nations, or Native American author
Read a fanfic
Read a fat-positive romance
Read a romance by a trans or nonbinary author
Read a middle grade mystery
Read an SFF anthology edited by a person of color
Read a food memoir by an author of color
Read an investigative nonfiction by an author of color
Read a book with a cover you don't like
Read a realistic YA book not set in the US, UK or Canada
Read a memoir by a Latinx author
Read an own voices book about disability
Read an own voices YA book with a Black main character that isn't about Black pain
Read a book by/about a non-Western world leader
Read a historical fiction with a POC or LGBTQ+ protagonist
Read a book of nature poems
Read a children's book that centers a disabled characcter but not their disability
Read a book set in the midwest
Read a book that demystifies a common mental illness
Read a book featuring a beloved pet where the pet doesn't die