2019 Reading Challenge

POPSUGAR’s 2019 Reading Challenge:

• A book becoming a movie in 2019 – Pet Sematary
• A book that makes you nostalgic – A Princess of Mars
• A book written by a musician (fiction or nonfiction) – Set the Boy Free
• A book you think should be turned into a movie – The Dharma Bums
• A book with at least one million ratings on Goodreads – The Kite Runner
• A book with a plant in the title or on the cover – The Perks of Being a Wallflower
• A reread of a favorite book – Free Boy
• A book about a hobby – Fangirl
• A book you meant to read in 2018 – Decrypting Rita
• A book with “pop”, “sugar”, or “challenge” in the title – American Pop
• A book with an item of clothing or accessory on the cover – The Son
• A book inspired by mythology, legend, or folklore – American Gods
• A book published posthumously – A Moveable Feast
• A book you see someone reading on TV or in a movie – The Terminal Beach
• A retelling of a classic – Railsea
• A book with a question in the title – What If It’s Us
• A book set on a college or university campus – Lucky Jim
• A book about someone with a superpower – The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl Beats Up the Marvel Universe
• A book told from multiple character POVs – Eleanor & Park
• A book set in space – Linesman
• A book by two female authors – Burn for Burn
• A book with a title that contains “salty”, “sweet”, “bitter”, or “spicy” –Sweet
• A book set in Scandinavia – The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared
• A book that takes place in a single day – Saturday
• A debut novel – The Scribe of Siena
• A book that’s published in 2019 – The Water Cure
• A book featuring an extinct or imaginary creature – Catch Me If Yukon
• A book recommended by a celebrity you admire – Re: Colonised Planet 5, Shikasta
• A book with “love” in the title – I’d Tell You I Love You, But Then I’d Have To Kill You
• A book featuring an amateur detective – The Wisdom of Father Brown
• A book about a family – The Best We Could Do
• A book by an author from Asia, Africa, or South America – The Discreet Hero
• A book with a zodiac sign or astrology term in the title – The Pisces
• A book that includes a wedding – I’ve Got Your Number
• A book by an author whose first and last names start with the same letter – An Officer’s Duty
• A ghost story – Hell House
• A book with a two-word title – Hard Landing
• A book based on a true story – Lamb
• A book revolving around a puzzle or game – The Grandmaster
• Your favorite prompt from a past POPSUGAR Reading Challenge – Mouse Guard: Legends of the Guard

Advanced

• A “cli-fi” (climate fiction) book – The Windup Girl
• A “choose-you-own-adventure” book – To Be or Not to Be
• An “own voices” book – If I Was Your Girl
• Read a book during the season it is set in – This One Summer
• A litRPG book – Opening Moves
• A book with no chapters, unusual chapter headings, or unconventionally numbered chapters – The Blood Spilt
• Two books that share the same title (1) – Sugar
• Two books that share the same title (2) – Sugar
• A book that inspired a common phrase or idiom (e.g., Big Brother from 1984) – The Scarlet Letter
• A book set in an abbey, cloister, monastery, vicarage, or convent – The Murder at the Vicarage

The Books

1. Lucky Jim, by Kingsley Amis (King County Library System)
2. What If It’s Us, by Becky Albertalli & Adam Silvera (Seattle Public Library)
3. Burn for Burn, by Jenny Han & Siobhan Vivian (Seattle Public Library)
4. Railsea, by China Miéville (Seattle Public Library)
5. The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl Beats Up the Marvel Universe, by Ryan North and Erica Henderson (owned)
6. Decrypting Rita, by Margaret Trauth (owned)
7. Pet Sematary, by Steven King (Seattle Public Library)
8. The Windup Girl, by Paolo Bacigalupi (Seattle Public Library)
9. If I Was Your Girl, by Meredith Russo (King County Library System)
10. Opening Moves (The Gam3: Book One), by Cosimo Yap (owned)
11. Set the Boy Free, by Johnny Marr (King County Library System)
12. The Scribe of Siena, by Melodie Winawer (owned)
13. The Blood Spilt (Det blod som spillts), by Åsa Larsson (Seattle Public Library)
14. Hard Landing, by Algis Budrys (owned)
15. Free Boy, by Lorraine McConaghy and Judy Bentley (Seattle Public Library)
16. The Water Cure, by Sophie Mackintosh (Seattle Public Library)
17. The Son (Sømmen), by Jo Nesbø (Seattle Public Library)
18. An Officer’s Duty: Theirs Not to Reason Why, by Jean Johnson (Seattle Public Library)
19. The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir, by Thi Bui (Seattle Public Library)
20. Saturday, by Ian McEwan (Seattle Public Library)
21. To Be or Not To Be: A Chooseable-Path Adventure, by Ryan North (Seattle Public Library)
22. Eleanor & Park, by Rainbow Rowell (Seattle Public Library)
23. I’ve Got Your Number, by Sophie Kinsella (Everett Public Library)
24. The Grandmaster: Magnus Carlsen and the Match That Made Chess Great Again, by Brin-Jonathan Butler (Seattle Public Library)
25. American Pop, by Snowden Wright (Seattle Public Library)
26. Mouse Guard: Legends of the Guard, an anthology (owned)
27. The Wisdom of Father Brown, by G. K. Chesterton (owned)
28. The Discreet Hero (El héroe discreto), by Mario Vargas Llosa (King County Library System)
29. The Pisces, by Melissa Broder (Seattle Public Library)
30. The Murder at the Vicarage, by Agatha Christie (Seattle Public Library)
31. The Scarlet Letter: A Romance, by Nathaniel Hawthorne (owned and online)
32. I’d Tell You I Love You, But Then I’d Have To Kill You, by Ally Carter (Seattle Public Library)
33. The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini (Seattle Public Library)
34. Hell House, by Richard Matheson (King County Library System)
35. Sugar, by Jewell Parker Rhodes (King County Library System)
36. Sugar, by Lauren Dane (King County Library System)
37. Re: Colonised Planet 5, Shikasta: Personal, Psychological, Historical Documents Relating to Visit By Johor (George Sherban) Emissary (Grade 9) 87th of the Period of the Last Days, by Doris Lessing (Seattle Public Library)
38. Fangirl, by Rainbow Rowell (Seattle Public Library)
39. The Dharma Bums, by Jack Kerouac (King County Library System)
40. Sweet, by Emmy Laybourne (Seattle Public Library)
41. The Terminal Beach, by J.G. Ballard (owned)
42. Catch Me If Yukon: A Passport to Peril Mystery, by Maddy Hunter (Seattle Public Library)
43. The Perks of Being a Wallflower, by Stephen Chbosky (Seattle Public Library)
44. The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (Hundraåringen som klev ut genom fönstret och försvann), by Jonas Jonasson (Seattle Public Library)
45. This One Summer, by Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki (Seattle Public Library)
46. Linesman, by S.K. Dunstall (Seattle Public Library)
47. A Moveable Feast, by Ernest Hemingway (Seattle Public Library)
48. A Princess of Mars, by Edgar Rice Burroughs (owned and online)
49. Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal, by Christopher Moore (Seattle Public Library)
50. American Gods, by Neil Gaiman (King County Library System)