My finalized list for the 2021 Popsugar reading challenge. I am attempting both the regular and advanced prompts this year, and love that I can shrink my TBR pile so much when I finish.
REGULAR
1. A book that published in 2021 📘 Every Last Fear
2. An Afrofuturist book 📙 Kindred
3. A book that has a heart, diamond, club, or spade on the cover 📕 The Silent Wife ✔️
4. A book by an author who shares your zodiac sign 📗 Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
5. A dark academia book 📕 Ninth House
6. A book with a gem, mineral, or rock in the title 📘 The Nickel Boys
7. A book where the main character works at your current or dream job 📙 The Book of Two Ways
8. A book that has won the Women’s Prize for Fiction 📘 Bel Canto
9. A book with a family tree 📙 Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family
10. A bestseller from the 1990s 📕 The Reader
11. A book about forgetting 📘 Recursion
12. A book you have seen on someone’s bookshelf 📗 A Little Life
13. A locked-room mystery 📘 Anxious People
14. A book set in a restaurant 📙 Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
15. A book with a black-and-white cover 📗 Not My Father's Son
16. A book by an indigenous author 📕 The Round House
17. A book that has the same title as a song 📘 Between Shades of Gray
18. A book about a subject you are passionate about 📙 Cilka's Journey
19. A book that discusses body positivity 📕 Wonder
20. A book on a Black Lives Matter reading list 📘 If Beale Street Could Talk
21. A genre hybrid 📗 The Time Traveler's Wife
22. A book set mostly or entirely outdoors 📕 The Maze Runner
23. A book with something broken on the cover 📗 In Extremis: The Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin
24. A book by a Muslim American author 📙 A Very Large Expanse of Sea
25. A book that was published anonymously 📕 The Whisper Man ✔️
26. A book with an oxymoron in the title 📘 Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
27. A book about do-overs or fresh starts 📗 Things You Save in a Fire ✔️
28. A magical realism book
29. A book set in multiple countries 📘Eat, Pray, Love
30. A book set somewhere you’d like to visit in 2021 📗 Every Note Played
31. A book by a blogger, vlogger, YouTube video creator, or other online personality 📙 Girl, Stop Apologizing: A Shame-Free Plan for Embracing and Achieving Your Goals
32. A book whose title starts with “Q,” “X,” or “Z” 📕 Q is for Quarry
33. A book featuring three generations (grandparent, parent, child) 📘 Concrete Rose
34. A book about a social justice issue 📗 Dear Justyce
35. A book in a different format than what you normally read 📕 Hey, Kiddo
36. A book that has fewer than 1,000 reviews on Amazon or Goodreads 📘 Ballad of the Whiskey Robber: A True Story of Bank Heists, Ice Hockey, Transylvanian Pelt Smuggling, Moonlighting Detectives, and Broken Hearts
37. A book you think your best friend would like 📙 The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11
38. A book about art or an artist 📕 Little Fires Everywhere
39. A book everyone seems to have read but you 📘 Know My Name
40. Your favorite prompt from a past POPSUGAR Reading Challenge 📙 The Stationery Shop
ADVANCED
41. The longest book (by pages) on your TBR list 📘 The Shining
42. The shortest book (by pages) on your TBR list 📙 Night
43. The book on your TBR list with the prettiest cover 📗 Untamed
44. The book on your TBR list with the ugliest cover 📕 A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
45. The book that’s been on your TBR list for the longest amount of time 📘Becoming
46. A book from your TBR list you meant to read last year but didn’t 📗 Educated
47. A book from your TBR list you associate with a favorite person, place, or thing 📕 Winter Garden
48. A book from your TBR list chosen at random 📙 The Authenticity Project
49. A DNF book from your TBR list 📘 Bad Feminist
50. A free book from your TBR list (gifted, borrowed, library) 📕 The 20th Victim

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