Duration: 1st January – 31st December 2020
Number of books: 50
Hosted by: Popsugar
A book published in 2020 – A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing by Jessie Tu
A book by a trans or nonbinary author – A Lake of Feathers and Moonbeams by Dax Murray
A book with a great first line – Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
A book about a book club – The Bad Mothers’ Book Club by Keris Stainton
A book set in a city that has hosted the Olympics
A bildungsroman
The first book you touch on a shelf with your eyes closed – Foundling by D.M. Cornish
A book with an upside-down image on the cover
A book with a map
A book recommended by your favourite blog, vlog, podcast or online book club – 11/22/63 by Stephen King
An anthology – Sirens and Other Daemon Lovers edited by Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling
A book that passes the Bechdel test
A book with the same title as a movie or TV show but is unrelated to it – The Night Before Christmas by Lori Foster, Erin McCarthy, etc.
A book by an author with flora or flora in their name – Virgin River by Robyn Carr
A book published the month of your birthday – Deep in the Valley by Robyn Carr (February)
A book about or by a woman in STEM – Break No Bones by Kathy Reichs (Written by and about a forensic anthropologist)
A book that won an award in 2019 – Wolf Rain by Nalini Singh
A book on a subject you know nothing about – The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang (autism)
A book with only words on the cover, no images or graphics – The Poetry of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson
A book with a pun in the title – Sex and the Psychic Witch by Annette Blair
A book featuring one of the seven deadly sins – The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee
A book with a robot, cyborg or AI character – Burning Up Flint by Laurann Dohner
A book with a bird on the cover – Across the Nightingale Floor by Lian Hearn
A fiction or nonfiction book about a world leader – Becoming by Michelle Obama
A book with “gold”, “silver”, or “bronze” in the title
A book by a WOC – Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
A book with at least a four-star rating on Goodreads – The Viscount Who Loved Me by Julia Quinn (4.18 stars)
A book you meant to read in 2019 – Wolf Rain by Nalini Singh
A book about or involving social media – Beard Science by Penny Reid (Jennifer is escaping her social media celebrity)
A book that has a book on the cover – The Mammoth Book of Dark Magic edited by Mike Ashley
A medical thriller
A book with a made-up language – The Ill-Made Mute by Cecilia Dart-Thornton
A book set in a country beginning with C – First They Killed My Father by Loung Ung (Cambodia)
A book you picked because the title caught your attention – That’s Not What Happened by Kody Keplinger
A book with a three-word title – The Man Within by Lora Leigh
A book with a pink cover – On the Way to the Wedding by Julia Quinn
A Western – My Antonia by Willa Cather
A book by or about a journalist – Marley and Me by John Grogan
A banned book during Banned Books Week – Looking for Alaska by John Green
Your favourite prompt from a past challenge (set in space, 2019 challenge) – Artemis by Andy Weir
ADVANCED
A book written by an author in their 20s – I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai
A book with “20” or “twenty” in the title
A book with a character with a vision impairment or enhancement
A book set in Japan – Red Winter by Annette Marie
A book set in the 1920s – Death in Daylesford by Kerry Greenwood
A book by an author who has written more than 20 books – An Offer from a Gentleman by Julia Quinn
A book with more than 20 letters in its title – The Highlander Takes a Bride by Lynsay Sands
A book published in the 20th century – The Cowboy’s Lady by Debbie Macomber (1990)
A book from a series with more than 20 books – Sourcery by Terry Pratchett
A book with a main character in their 20s – To Marry a Scottish Laird by Lynsay Sands
