Since I’ve completed all but one of the 2020 prompts (just waiting for Banned Books Week to finish the last one!), I thought I’d continue with the older challenges since I had so much fun with this years! Here’s the original post with the printable prompt list. This list is current as of May 9th.
Regular Prompts:
√ 1. A book becoming a movie in 2019: Where’d You Go Bernadette by Maria Semple
√ 2. A book that makes you nostalgic: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K Rowling (I have a really distinct memory of borrowing the book from my friend’s older sister and staying up later than I should have reading it in my comfy arm chair, with 96.9 KVMV playing softly in the background.)
√ 3. A book written by a musician (fiction or nonfiction): Middlegame by Seanan McGuire (She is apparently a “filk” musician, so I’ll have to give her music a listen. Also, I just really wanted an excuse to read this book.)
[] 4. A book you think should be turned into a movie
√ 5. A book with at least one million ratings on Goodreads: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
[] 6. A book with a plant in the title or on the cover: Autumn by Ali Smith
[] 7. A reread of a favorite book: The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton (I had an embarrassingly hard time trying to decide if I even had “favorites” before I remembered that I literally have a “Stay Gold” tattoo.)
√ 8. A book about a hobby: Dear Fahrenheit 451: Love and Heartbreak in the Stacks by Annie Spence (Since reading is my hobby…)
√ 9. A book you meant to read in 2018: The Devil’s Alphabet by Daryl Gregory
√ 10. A book with POP, SUGAR, or CHALLENGE in the title: In Watermelon Sugar by Richard Brautigan
√ 11. A book with an item of clothing or accessory on the cover: Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood
√ 12. A book inspired by myth/legend/folklore: Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman
√ 13. A book published posthumously: I’ll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara
√ 14. A book you see someone reading on TV or in a movie: American Gods by Neil Gaiman (Technically, I didn’t see someone reading this on TV, but screenshots show that a guard was reading it on Good Omens and since audio description usually doesn’t mention little details like that, I’m bending the rules a bit.)
√ 15. A retelling of a classic: Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld
√ 16. A book with a question in the title: Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor
√ 17. A book set on college or university campus: Campusland by Scott Johnston
√ 18. A book about someone with a superpower: Pivot Point by Kasie West
√ 19. A book told from multiple POVs: The Incarnations by Susan Barker
√ 20. A book set in space: For We Are Many by Dennis E. Taylor
√ 21. A book by two female authors: Stay Sexy & Don’t Get Murdered: The Definitive How-To Guide by Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
√ 22. A book with SALTY, SWEET, BITTER, or SPICY in the title: The Bitter Side of Sweet by Tara Sullivan
√ 23. A book set in Scandinavia: Beartown by Fredrik Backman
√ 24. A book that takes place in a single day: Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
√ 25. A debut novel: The Last 8 by Laura Pohl
√ 26. A book that’s published in 2019: A Girl Named Anna by Lizzy Barber
√ 27. A book featuring an extinct or imaginary creature: The Red Threads of Fortune by J.Y. Yang (Naga!)
√ 28. A book recommended by a celebrity you admire: Summon the Keeper by Tanya Huff (Most of the celebrities I admire are musicians who I’m pretty sure haven’t read a book since school. Luckily, I deeply admire some authors, so this recommendation comes from Seanan McGuire, whose books you’ve seen me gush about quite frequently here.)
√ 29. A book with LOVE in the title: Love You To Death / Death Note by Caroline Mitchell (Even though I love teen romance, I don’t really enjoy when the romance is the whole plot, so I wasn’t looking forward to this prompt. This book is a murder mystery though, and my mom likes them, so I’m giving it a try.)
√ 30. A book featuring an amateur detective: The Goldfish Boy by Lisa Thompson
√ 31. A book about a family: The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell
√ 32. A book author from Asia, Africa, or South America: South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami
√ 33. A book with a zodiac sign or astrology term in title: Red Rising by Pierce Brown (Anyone who’s sort of into astrology will know their main three signs: sun, moon, and rising / ascendant. The rising sign represents the persona we show to the world. Mine is Aquarius.😊♒)
√ 34. A book that includes a wedding: Behind Closed Doors by B.A. Paris
√ 35. A book by an author whose first and last names start with the same letter: Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
√ 36. A ghost story: Horrorstör by Grady Hendrix
√ 37. A book with a two-word title: Many Waters by Madeleine L’Engle
√ 38. A novel based on a true story: Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
√ 39. A book revolving around a puzzle or game: Dominion by Travis Bagwell
√ 40. Your favorite prompt from a past POPSUGAR Reading challenge (2018: A book with an LGBTQ+ protagonist): Girls of Storm and Shadow by Natasha Ngan
Advanced Prompts:
√ 1. A “cli-fi” (climate fiction) book: Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
[] 2. A “choose-your-own-adventure” book: MURDERED by James Schannep
√ 3. An “own voices” book: The Reader by Traci Chee
[] 4. Read a book during the season it is set in
√ 5. A LitRPG book: Apathy by Travis Bagwell
[] 6. A book with no chapters / unusual chapter headings / unconventionally numbered chapters
√ 7. Two books that share the same title: The Immortalists by Kyle Mills
√ 8. Two books that share the same title: The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin
[] 9. A book that has inspired a common phrase or idiom
√ 10. A book set in an abbey, cloister, monastery, vicarage, or convent: The Guineveres by Sarah Domet
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