Duration: 1st January – 31st December 2018
Number of books: 40 (+12 advanced)
Hosted by: Pop Sugar

A book made into a movie you’ve already seen – Lucinda’s Secret by Tony DiTerlizzi & Holly Black

True crime – Monday Mourning by Kathy Reichs

The next book in a series you started – The Girl with the Windup Heart by Kady Cross

A book involving a heist – The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Nordic noir – Hard Cheese by Ulf Durling

A novel based on a real person – Rejected Princesses by Jason Porath

A book set in a country that fascinates you – Dangerously Charming by Deborah Blake

A book with a time of day in the title – After Midnight by Fiona Brand

A book about a villain or antihero – The Demigod Diaries by Rick Riordan

A book about death or grief – Mort by Terry Pratchett

A book with your favorite color in the title – The Red Queen by Isobelle Carmody

A book with alliteration in the title – The Sword of Summer by Rick Riordan

A book about time travel – Once Upon a Curse by E.D. Baker

A book with a weather element in the title – Ill Wind by Rachel Caine

A book set at sea – Dangerously Fierce by Deborah Blake

A book with an animal in the title – Mastiff by Tamora Pierce

A book set on a different planet – The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett

A book with song lyrics in the title – Magic Flutes by Eva Ibbotson

A book about or set on Halloween – Halloween in Atlantis by Alyssa Day

A book with characters who are twins – Allegiance of Honour by Nalini Singh

A book with a female author who uses a male pseudonym – The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith

A book with an LGBTQ+ protagonist – Small Shen by Kylie Chan & Queenie Chan

A book that is also a stage play or musical – Wicked by Gregory Maguire

A book by an author of a different ethnicity than you – Shards of Hope by Nalini Singh

A book about feminism – Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett

A book about mental health – The Heart is a Burial Ground by Tamara Colchester

A book you borrowed or that was given to you as a gift – A Company of Swans by Eva Ibbotson

A book by two authors – The Field Guide by Tony DiTerlizzi & Holly Black

A book about or involving sport – White Tiger by Kylie Chan

A book by a local author – The Sending by Isobelle Carmody

A book mentioned in another book – Shutter by Courtney Alameda

A book from a celebrity book club – Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found by Cheryl Strayed

A childhood classic you’ve never read – The Wrath of Mulgarath by Tony DiTerlizzi & Holly Black

A book that’s published in 2018 – Tempests and Slaughter by Tamora Pierce

A past Goodreads Choice Awards winner – Beastly by Alex Flinn

A book set in the decade you were born – The Alchemist’s Key by Traci Harding

A book you meant to read in 2017 but didn’t get to – Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterley

A book with an ugly cover – The Seeing Stone by Tony DiTerlizzi & Holly Black

A book that involves a bookstore or library – Iron Kissed by Patricia Briggs

Your favorite prompt from the 2015, 2016, or 2017 POPSUGAR Reading Challenges (Steampunk novel) – Cinder by Marissa Meyer

ADVANCED

A bestseller from the year you graduated high school – Inked by Karen Chance, Marjorie Liu, Yasmine Galenorn and Eileen Wilks

A cyberpunk book – Altered Carbon by Richard Morgan

A book that was being read by a stranger in a public space – Angels’ Blood by Nalini Singh

A book tied to your ancestry – Stardust by Neil Gaiman

A book with a fruit or vegetable in the title – Cress by Marissa Meyer

An allegory – Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll

A book by an author with the same first or last name as you – Falling for Anthony by Meljean Brook (alright, Brook is actually my middle name, but I still identify with it very strongly, and I think that makes it count…)

A microhistory – Jodie’s Journey by Colin Thiele

A book about a problem facing society today – Dangerously Divine by Deborah Blake

A book recommended by someone else taking the POPSUGAR Reading Challenge – Silver Silence by Nalini Singh

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