2024 Reading Challenge discussion

September 23rd - December 31st, 2024

List of finished books in 2024:
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Number of read pages:

POPSUGAR READING CHALLENGE 2024
Duration: January 1, 2024 - December 31, 2024

PLANS:

1. A book with the word "leap" in the title
2. A bildungsroman - To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
3. A book about a 24-year-old - My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
4. A book about a writer - Misery by Stephen King
5. A book about K-pop
6. A book about pirates - Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
7. A book about women's sports and/or by a woman athlete
8. A book by a blind or visually impaired author - Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
9. A book by a deaf or hard-of-hearing author - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
10. A book by a self-published author - Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
11. A book from a genre you typically avoid - Icon by Georgia Briggs
12. A book from an animal's POV - Watership Down by Richard Adams
13. A book originally published under a pen name - Middlemarch by George Eliot
14. A book recommended by a bookseller
15. A book recommended by a librarian
16. A book set 24 years before you were born
17. A book set in a travel destination on your bucket list - The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin
18. A book set in space - The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
19. A book set in the future - Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
20. A book set in the snow - The Winter People by Jennifer McMahon
21. A book that came out in a year that ends with "24" - Hotel Savoy by Joseph Roth
22. A book that centers on video games
23. A book that features dragons
24. A book that takes place over the course of 24 hours - Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
25. A book that was published 24 years ago - The Slynx by Tatyana Tolstaya
26. A book that was turned into a musical - The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
27. A book where someone dies in the first chapter - The Stranger by Albert Camus
28. A book with a main character who's 42 years old - Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
29. A book with a neurodivergent main character - Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
30. A book with a one-word title you had to look up in a dictionary - Atonement by Ian McEwan
31. A book with a title that is a complete sentence - Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
32. A book with an enemies-to-lovers plot - Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
33. A book with an unreliable narrator - Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
34. A book with at least three POVs - Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
35. A book with magical realism - Beloved by Toni Morrison
36. A book written by an incarcerated or formerly incarcerated person - Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
37. A book written during NaNoWriMo - Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan
38. A cozy fantasy book - The Princess Bride by William Goldman
39. A fiction book by a trans or nonbinary author
40. A horror book by a BIPOC author - Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica
41. A memoir that explores queerness
42. A nonfiction book about Indigenous people
43. A second-chance romance - Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
44. An autobiography by a woman in rock 'n' roll
45. An LGBTQ+ romance novel


Advanced
46. A book in which a character sleeps for more than 24 hours - Preludes & Nocturnes by Neil Gaiman
47. A book with 24 letters in the title - The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
48. A collection of at least 24 poems
49. The 24th book of an author
50. A book that starts with the letter "X"

Finished: 0 / 50

A-Z CHALLENGE
Duration: January 1, 2024 - December 31, 2024

A - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
B - Beloved by Toni Morrison
C - Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan
D - Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
E - The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
F - F by Daniel Kehlmann
G - Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
H - Hotel Savoy by Joseph Roth
I - The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin
J - Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
K - To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
L - Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
M - The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
N - Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
O - Orlando by Virginia Woolf
P - The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
Q - Quo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz
R - Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
S - The Slynx by Tatyana Tolstaya
T - Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica
U - Unbelievable by T. Christian Miller
V - The Vegetarian by Han Kang
W - Watership Down by Richard Adams
X - XOXO by Axie Oh
Y - You by Caroline Kepnes
Z - Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth by Reza Aslan

Progress: 0 / 26

AROUND THE YEAR IN 52 BOOKS

1. A book with a title that ends in A, T or Y - Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
2. A book connected to something you read in 2023
3. A book that fits a suggestion that didn’t make the final list - The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin
4. A book related to something mentioned in the lyrics of What a Wonderful World by Louis Armstrong - The Princess Bride by William Goldman
5. A book set in one of the 25 most beautiful cities in the world - The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery

6. A book with wings on the cover - To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
7. A book with a pronoun in the title - Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
8. A book by an author from Canada, Australia or New Zealand - Burial Rites by Hannah Kent
9. A book with fewer than 2024 ratings on Goodreads

10. A history or historical fiction book - Beloved by Toni Morrison
11. A book with an X connection - XOXO by Axie Oh
12. A book that has been on your TBR for over a year
13. A book that is on a Five Books List; reader’s choice of which list

14. A book with a main character who is Black, Indigenous, or a Person of Color - Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
15. A book whose author’s name includes one of the 4 least used letters in the alphabet (JQZX) -
16. A book related to the phrase "It's Raining Cats and Dogs"
17. A book involving intelligence

18. A book with a botanical cover
19. A book connected in some way to any of the flavors of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream
20. A book with a single word title
21. A book with a title containing 6+ words
22. A book by an author from an African country

23. A book related to Boats, Beaches, Bars, Ballads, or Jimmy Buffett
24. A book with a secondary color on the cover (orange, green or purple)
25. A book involving a crime other than a murder
26. A book by an author known by their initials

27. A book related to land
28. A book related to sea
29. A book related to air
30. A book set in a country bordering the Mediterranean Sea
31. A book related to “Going for the Gold”

32. A book with a number in the title
33. A book involving travel
34. A book related to the name of one of Snow White's seven dwarfs
35. A science or science fiction book

36. A book featuring a character in education
37. A book that is part of a series
38. Two books with similar covers: Book 1
39. Two books with similar covers: Book 2

40. A book involving a wild animal or endangered species, in the content, title, or on the cover
41. A book with a chilling atmosphere
42. A book with a sound-related word in the title
43. A book by an Edgar Award-winning Author
44. A book with a touch of magic

45. A book that is not a novel
46. A book related to night
47. A book with a two-word title beginning with THE
48. A second book that fits your favorite prompt

49. A book with a senior citizen character
50. A book posted in one of the ATY Best Book of the Month threads in 2023 or 2024
51. A book published in 2024
52. A cozy mystery

Progress: 0 / 52