I had so much fun last year, I’m taking part in the Popsugar 2017 Reading Challenge again this year. Below are the topics and I’ll update the book I read for each one as I read it.
If any categories are in blue, it means I’ve initially marked it in a different colour so I can easily find them to allocate them to one category as the year goes on. I have included links to either purchase the books or to my Good Reads reviews.
The categories still to be read are marked in red so I can easily find them as the challenge goes on.
1. A Book recommended by a librarian – Cinderella’s (not so) Ugly Sisters by Gillian Shields
2. A book that’s been on your TBR list for way to long
3. A book of letters – Signed, Sealed, Delivered created by Michaela McGuire & Marieke Hardy
4. An audiobook – The Lying Carpet by David Lucas
5. A book by a person of colour
6. A book with one of the four seasons in the title – A Summer at Sea by Katie Fforde
7. A book that is a story within a story – Hitler’s Daughter by Jackie French
8. A book with multiple authors
9. An espionage thriller – Miss Lily’s Lovely Ladies by Jackie French
10. A book with a cat on the cover – Old Tom by Leigh Hobbs
11. A book by an author who uses a pseudonym
12. A bestseller from a genre you don’t normally read – You’re One by Shelley Unwin
13. A book by or about a person who has a disability – Reinventing Emma by Emma Gee
14. A book involving travel – View from a Barred Window by Katherina Fares
15. A book with a subtitle – Ellie’s War: Come Home Soon by Emily Sharratt
16. A book that’s published in 2017 – Looking Glass Lies by Varina Denman
17. A book involving a mythical creature – Zombie Inspiration by Adam Wallace
18. A book you’ve read before that never fails to make you smile – Mollie Pride by Beverley S Martin
19. A book about food – The Chocolate Promise by Josephine Moon
20. A book with career advice – How to Write Short Romance Kindle Books: a 40 minute masterclassby Nina Harrington
21. A book from a nonhuman perspective – Tercules by Marcy Pusey
22. A steampunk novel
23. A book with a red spine – Weir Do by Ahn Do
24. A book set in the wilderness
25. A book you loved as a child – Daddy Long Legs by Jean Webster
26. A book by an author from a country you have never visited – The Mummyfesto by Linda Green
27. A book with a title that’s a character’s name – Pig Dude by Michael Wagner
28. A novel set during wartime – Ellie’s War: Come Home Soon by Emily Sharratt
29. A book with an unreliable narrator – Dear Sam Dear Ben by Josephine Croser
30. A book with pictures – Tickle Monster by Josie Bissett
31. A book where the main character is a different ethnicity than you – Silk by Alessandro Baricco
32. A book about an interesting woman – The Constant Princess by Philippa Gregory
33. A book set in two different time periods
34. A book with a month or day of the week in the title –
35. A book set in a hotel
36. A book written by someone you admire – How to Catch an Elf by Adam Wallace
37. A book that’s becoming a movie in 2017 – The Zookeepers Wife by Diane Ackerman
38. A book set around a holiday other than Christmas
39. The first book in a series you haven’t read before – Accidentally Awesome by Adam Wallace
40. A book you bought on a trip
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41. A book recommended by an author you love
42. A bestseller from 2016
43. A book with a family-member term in the title – Summer with my Sister by Lucy Diamond
44. A Book that takes place over a character’s life span
45. A book about an immigrant or refugee
46. A book from a genre/subgenre that you’ve never heard of
47. A book with an eccentric character – The Rejected Writers’ Book Club by Suzanne Kelman
48. A book that’s more than 800 pages – Winter by Marissa Meyer
49. A book you got from a used book sale – We’ll Meet Again by Mary Higgins Clark
50. A book that’s been mentioned in another book
51. A book about a difficult topic – Looking Glass Lies by Varina Denman
52. A book based on mythology – A Miscellany of Magical Beasts by Simon Holland
