2018 Reading Challenge

Popsugar’s 2018 Reading Challenge:

• A book made into a movie you’ve already seen – The Double
• True crime – Helter Skelter
• The next book in a series you started – Saga, Volume Eight
• A book involving a heist – Heist Society
• Nordic noir – Sun Storm
• A novel based on a real person – Girl with a Pearl Earring
• A book set in a country that fascinates you – Round Ireland With a Fridge
• A book with a time of day in the title – 4:50 from Paddington
• A book about a villain or antihero – Professor Moriarty
• A book about death or grief – Monday’s Not Coming
• A book with a female author who uses a male pseudonym – Silas Marner
• A book with a LBGTQ+ protagonist – Kevin Keller: Welcome to Riverdale
• A book that is also a stage play or musical – Peter Pan
• A book by an author of a different ethnicity than you – Blackass
• A book about feminism – How We Get Free
• A book about mental health – Loud in the House of Myself
• A book you borrowed or that was given to you as a gift – Ice Station Zebra
• A book by two authors – The Man Who Went Up in Smoke
• A book about or involving a sport – England, Their England
• A book by a local author – The Bamboozlers
• A book with your favorite color in the title – Blue Jean Buddha
• A book with alliteration in the title – The Haunting of Hill House
• A book about time travel – The Infinite Loop
• A book with a weather element in the title – Snowdrops
• A book set at sea – Billy Budd
• A book with an animal in the title – Waypoint Kangaroo
• A book set on a different planet – Sundiver
• A book with song lyrics in the title – Girlfriend in a Coma
• A book about or set on Halloween – The Halloween Tree
• A book with characters who are twins – One
• A book mentioned in another book – Never Tell Our Business to Strangers
• A book from a celebrity book club – Truly Madly Guilty
• A childhood classic you’ve never read – Little House in the Big Woods
• A book that’s published in 2018 – Layover
• A past Goodreads Choice Awards winner – Artemis
• A book set in the decade you were born – Chocolates for Breakfast
• A book you meant to read in 2017 but didn’t get to – Turtles All the Way Down
• A book with an ugly cover – Rosie Colored Glasses
• A book that involves a bookstore or library – The Strange Library
• Your favorite prompt from the 2015, 2016, or 2017 POPSUGAR Reading Challenges – The Cyclist Who Went Out in the Cold

Advanced

• A bestseller from the year you graduated high school – Curtain
• A cyberpunk book – Blood Orbit
• A book that was being read by a stranger in a public place – The Andromeda Strain
• A book tied to your ancestry – Under Milk Wood
• A book with a fruit or vegetable in the title – Oranges
• An allegory – The Phantom Tollbooth
• A book by an author with the same first or last name as you – The Sport of the Gods
• A microhistory – Banana
• A book about a problem facing society today – A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo
• A book recommended by someone else taking the POPSUGAR Reading Challenge – Her Smoke Rose Up Forever

The Books

1. The Double (O Homem Duplicado), by José Saramago (Seattle Public Library)
2. Girl with a Pearl Earring, by Tracy Chevalier (owned)
3. Saga, Volume Eight, by Brian K. Vaughn and Fiona Staples (owned)
4. Turtles All the Way Down, by John Green (Seattle Public Library)
5. The Man Who Went Up in Smoke (Mannen som gick upp i rök), by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö (Seattle Public Library)
6. The Haunting of Hill House, by Shirley Jackson (Seattle Public Library)
7. The Bamboozlers, by Michael de Guzman (Seattle Public Library)
8. Blackass, by A. Igoni Barrett (Seattle Public Library)
9. Heist Society, by Ally Carter (Seattle Public Library)
10. The Infinite Loop, by Pierrick Colinet and Elsa Charretier (owned)
11. Never Tell Our Business to Strangers, by Jennifer Mascia (Seattle Public Library)
12. Kevin Keller: Welcome to Riverdale, by  Dan Parent, Rich Koslowski, and Jack Morelli (owned)
13. Sun Storm (Solstorm), by Åsa Larsson (Seattle Public Library)
14. Silas Marner, by George Eliot (King County Library System)
15. Layover, by Amy Andelson and Emily Meyer (Seattle Public Library)
16. England, Their England, by A.G. Macdonell (owned)
17. How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective, edited by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (Seattle Public Library)
18. Girlfriend in a Coma, by Douglas Coupland (King County Library System)
19. One, by Sarah Crossan (Seattle Public Library)
20. Sundiver, by David Brin (Seattle Public Library)
21. Ice Station Zebra, by Alistair MacLean (office lending library)
22. The Cyclist Who Went Out in the Cold: Adventures Riding the Iron Curtain, by Tim Moore (King County Library System)
23. Round Ireland With a Fridge, by Tony Hawks (Seattle Public Library)
24. A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo, by Marlon Bundo with Jill Twiss, illustrated by EG Keller (owned)
25. Billy Budd, by Herman Melville (Seattle Public Library)
26. The Strange Library (Fushigi na toshokan), by Haruki Murakami (Seattle Public Library)
27. Chocolates for Breakfast, by Pamela Moore (Seattle Public Library)
28. Waypoint Kangaroo, by Curtis C. Chen (owned)
29. Artemis, by Andy Weir (Seattle Public Library)
30. The Andromeda Strain, by Michael Crichton (King County Library System)
31. 4:50 from Paddington, by Agatha Christie (Seattle Public Library)
32. Snowdrops, by A.D. Miller (King County Library System)
33. Monday’s Not Coming, by Tiffany D. Jackson (Seattle Public Library)
34. Professor Moriarty: The Hound of the d’Urbervilles, by Kim Newman (Seattle Public Library)
35. Under Milk Wood: A Play for Voices, by Dylan Thomas (Seattle Public Library)
36. Peter Pan, by J.M. Barrie (King County Library System)
37. Banana: The Fate of the Fruit that Changed the World, by Dan Koeppel (Seattle Public Library)
38. Her Smoke Rose Up Forever, by James Tiptree, Jr. (Seattle Public Library)
39. Oranges, by John McPhee (Seattle Public Library)
40. The Sport of the Gods, by Paul Laurence Dunbar (owned/online)
41. Truly Madly Guilty, by Liane Moriarty (King County Library System)
42. Blood Orbit, by K. R. Richardson (Seattle Public Library)
43. Rosie Colored Glasses, by Brianna Wolfson (Seattle Public Library)
44. Blue Jean Buddha: Voices of Young Buddhists, edited by Sumi Loundon (Seattle Public Library)
45. Curtain: Poirot’s Last Case, by Agatha Christie (Seattle Public Library)
46. The Halloween Tree, by Ray Bradbury (Seattle Public Library)
47. Little House in the Big Woods, by Laura Ingalls Wilder (Seattle Public Library)
48. The Phantom Tollbooth, by Norton Juster (Seattle Public Library)
49. Loud in the House of Myself: Memoir of a Strange Girl, by Stacy Pershall (Seattle Public Library)
50. Helter Skelter, by Vincent Bugliosi with Curt Gentry (Seattle Public Library)