2017 Pop Sugar Reading Challenge

[sabine]

 Just going to leave this here. Public stating of goals makes it easier to keep them, right?

Basic challenge 40 / 40

1. A book recommended by a librarian - The Just City by Jo Walton

2. A book that's been on your TBR list for way too long - Envy of Angels by Matt Wallace

3. A book of letters - Attachments by Rainbow Rowell

4. An audiobook - Yeah, lots. I love audio books.

5. A book by a person of color - The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin

6. A book with one of the four seasons in the title - A Shadow in Summer by Daniel Abraham

7. A book that is a story within a story - Magic for Beginners by Kelly Link, specifically "Lull"

8. A book with multiple authors - Three Slices by Kevin Hearne, Delilah S Dawson, and Chuck Wendig

9. An espionage thriller - An Extraordinary Union by Alyssa Cole

10. A book with a cat on the cover - We Are Never Meeting In Real Life by Samantha Irby

11. A book by an author who uses a pseudonym - Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them by Newt Scamander (J.K. Rowling), read by Eddie Redmayne

12. A bestseller from a genre you don't normally read - Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz

13. A book by or about a person who has a disability - Borderline by Mishell Baker

14. A book involving travel - Magic For Nothing by Seanan McGuire

15. A book with a subtitle - We Are Legion (We Are Bob) by Dennis E. Taylor

16. A book that's published in 2017 - Dusk or Dark or Dawn or Day by Seanan McGuire

17. A book involving a mythical creature - The Palace Job by Patrick Weekes

18. A book you've read before that never fails to make you smile - Shades of Milk and Honey by Mary Robinette Kowal

19. A book about food - Sunshine by Robin McKinley

20. A book with career advice - The Life Changing Magic of Not Giving a F*ck

21. A book from a nonhuman perspective - Narwhal: Unicorn of the Sea by Ben Clanton

22. A steampunk novel - Etiquette and Espionage by Gail Carriger

23. A book with a red spine - My Dad Wrote a Porno (Belinda Blinked 1 - Fully Annotated Edition) by Rocky Flintstone, et al.

24. A book set in the wilderness - Silver on the Road by Laura Anne Gilman

25. A book you loved as a child - The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner. My 2nd grade teacher read this one to us and it's stuck with me.

26. A book by an author from a country you've never visited - Unf*ck Yourself: Get out of your head and into your life by Gary John Bishop from Scotland.

27. A book with a title that's a character's name Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell. This book breaks my heart.

28. A novel set during wartime - Monstress Vol. 2: The Blood by Marjorie Liu

29. A book with an unreliable narrator - All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders

30. A book with pictures - Many graphic novels.

31. A book where the main character is a different ethnicity than you - Home (Binti #2) by Nnedi Okorafor

32. A book about an interesting woman - Mirabile by Janet Kagan

33. A book set in two different time periods Delicious by Sherry Thomas

34. A book with a month or day of the week in the title - The Eyre Affair, a Thursday Next novel by Jasper Fforde

35. A book set in a hotel - Vampire Vacation by CJ Ellisson

36. A book written by someone you admire - The Halcyon Fairy Book by Ursula Vernon.

37. A book that's becoming a movie in 2017 - The World of Lore: Monstrous Creatures by Aaron Mahnke (an Amazon series, but close enough)

38. A book set around a holiday other than Christmas - Snowspelled by Stephanie Burgis. Set at the solstice.

39. The first book in a series you haven't read before - The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman

40. A book you bought on a trip - Little Witch by Anna Elizabeth Bennet

 

 

Advanced Challenge 7/12

 

1. A book recommended by an author you love - Half Resurrection Blues by Daniel Older, recommended by Jim Hines

2. A bestseller from 2016 - The Girl With the Lower Back Tattoo by Amy Schumer

3. A book with a family member term in the title - Please Don't Tell My Parents I'm a Supervillian by Richard Roberts

4. A book that takes place over a character's life span - The Bees by Laline Paull

5. A book about an immigrant or refugee

6. A book from a genre/subgenre you've never heard of

7. A book with an eccentric character - All of the Sin du Jour books by Matt Wallace.

8. A book that's more than 800 pages

9. A book you got from a used book sale - Persuasion by Jane Austen

10. A book that's been mentioned in another book

11. A book about a difficult topic

12. A book based on mythology - Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman. Yeah, I'd say it's based on myths.

Comments

[omnia_mutantur]

This is awesome. And made me go buy the new McGuire book yesterday.

[sabine]

OH MY GODS IT IS SO GOOD! It filled a hole in my heart that I needed to heal. Love it intensely.

[omnia_mutantur]

Also, holy fuck do I love Borderline. I forgot to go to sleep last night because I started Phantom Pains and then had to read until my eyes stopped working.

[sabine]

Millie's a heckuva protagonist. I didn't really know what to expect going into it, but WHOA can I see why I nearly got a BPD diagnosis.