Friday, June 4, 2021

2021 Reading Challenges part I

2021 PopSugar Reading Challenge

A book that's published in 2021

An Afrofuturist book 

A book that has a heart, diamond, club, or spade on the cover

A book by an author who shares your zodiac sign

Some authors who share my zodiac sign are Gertrude Chandler Warner, Anne McCaffrey, Kate DiCamillo, Joseph Campbell, Patrick Süskind, Nikolai Gogol, Andrew Lang, Hans Christian Andersen, Sue Townsend, Maya Angelou, Barbara Kingsolver, Marguerite Henry, James Branch Cabell, and Karen Blixen.

A dark academia book

Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik

A book with a gem, mineral, or rock in the title

A book where the main character works at your current or dream job

That would be a librarian :-D

A book that has won the Women's Prize for Fiction 

A book with a family tree

A bestseller from the 1990s 

A book about forgetting

Fledgling by Octavia E. Butler
but I might re-read The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall. Loved it.

A book you have seen on someone's bookshelf

A locked-room mystery 

A book set in a restaurant 

A book with a black-and-white cover


A book by an indigenous author

I would like to read a book by an indigenous author from my part of the world

A book that has the same title as a song

A book about a subject you are passionate about

I'm passionate about many things, but I chose languages for this
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
Native Tongue by Suzette Haden Elgin (I have studied some Láadan :-D)
Sing by Karin Tidbeck
Looking Through Lace by Ruth Nestvold
Amatka by Karin Tidbeck
Monteverde: Memoirs of an Interstellar Linguist by Lola Robles
Always Coming Home by Ursula K. Le Guin

A book that discusses body positivity

Flora Segunda by Ysabeau S. Wilce
Libriomancer by Jim C. Hines
War for the Oaks by Emma Bull

A book found on a Black Lives Matter reading list

A genre hybrid

Some suggestions:

The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee
Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemisin
Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch

A book set mostly or entirely outdoors

I think of Warriors and Watership Down :-D Books about wild animals.

A book with something broken on the cover

A book by a Muslim American author

A book that was published anonymously

I'm choosing The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes

A book with an oxymoron in the title

A book about do-overs or fresh starts

Middlegame by Seanan McGuire
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

A magical realism book

A book set in multiple countries

A book set somewhere you'd like to visit in 2021

A book by a blogger, vlogger, YouTube video creator, or other online personality

The Forgetting Moon by Brian Lee Durfee

A book whose title starts with Q, X, or Z

Zothique by Clark Ashton Smith
Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson
The Queen of the Tearling

A book featuring three generations (Grandparent, parent, child)

A book about a social justice issue

A book in a different format than what you normally read

A book with fewer than 1000 reviews on Amazon/Goodreads

Alane Adams' The Witches of Orkney series - less than 200 ratings!

A book you think your best friend would like
A book about art or an artist
A book everyone seems to have read but you

     1Q84

Your favorite prompt from a past POPSUGAR Reading Challenge

Advanced

The longest book (with most pages) on your TBR list

Clarissa by Samuel Richardson 1,534 pp
Le Roman de Renart  1,593 pp

The shortest book (with least pages) on your TBR list

Love of Seven Dolls by Paul Gallico (125 pages)

The book on your TBR list with the prettiest cover


 The book on your TBR list with the ugliest cover


 The book that's been on your TBR list for the longest amount of time

World Without End by Ken Follett

A book from your TBR list you meant to read last year, but didn't

The Fire by Katherine Neville

A book from your TBR list you associate with a favorite person, place, or thing

Homeland by R.A.Salvatore

A book from your TBR list chosen at random

Queen of Hearts by Colleen Oakes

A DNF book from your TBR list

The Poppy War by R.F.Kuang

A free book from your TBR list (gifted, borrowed, library...)


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