Yep. It’s that time of year again. Time for making a new plan to keep reading all the books. I did not quite finish all the books from last year’s list, but that has not stopped me from making a plan to participate once more in both the Popsugar and the Around the Year in 52 Books reading challenges. Here are my challenge lists for the new year.
Popsugar Reading Challenge:
A book with the word “leap” in the title: One Giant Leap, Ben Gartner
A bildungsroman book: Brown Girl Dreaming, Jacqueline Woodson
A book about a 24-year-old: Such a Fun Age, Kiley Reid
A book about a writer: Just Stay Away, Tony Wirt
A book about K-pop: Gorgeous Gruesome Faces, Linda Cheng
A book about pirates: Seafire, Natalie C. Parker
A book about women’s sports and/or by a woman athlete: Roller Girl, Victoria Jamieson
A book by a blind or visually impaired author: Wicked, Jennifer L. Armentrout
A book by a Deaf or Hard-of-Hearing author: Girl At War, Sara Novic
A book by a self-published author: Angelfall, Susan Ee
A book from a genre you typically avoid: Rust in the Root, by Justina Ireland
A book from an animal’s POV: Redwall, Brian Jacques
A book originally published under a pen name: Fool’s Errand, Robin Hobb
A book recommended by a bookseller: Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver
A book recommended by a librarian: The Right Swipe, Alisha Rai
A book set 24 years before you were born: The Book of Lost Things, John Connolly
A book set in a travel destination on your bucket list: The Kremlin Conspiracy, Joel C. Rosenburg
A book set in space: Skyward, Brandon Sanderson
A book set in the future: Witch and Wizard, James Patterson
A book set in the snow: Shiver, Maggie Stiefvater
A book that came out in a year that ends with “24”: The Navigator’s Children, Tad Williams
A book that centers on video games: Ready Player Two, Ernest Cline
A book that features dragons: The Tea Dragon Society, Kay O’Neill
A book that takes place over the course of 24 hours: The Midnight Library, Matt Haig
A book that was published 24 years ago: On Writing, Stephen King
A book that was turned into a musical: Les Miserables, Victor Hugo
A book where someone dies in the first chapter: Skyhunter, Marie Lu
A book with a main character who’s 42 years old: Lily and the Octopus, Steven Rowley
A book with a neurodivergent main character: The Secret Service of Tea and Treason, India Holton
A book with a one-word title you had to look up in a dictionary: Piranesi, Susanna Clarke
A book with a title that is a complete sentence: How Long ‘til Black Future Month?, N. K. Jemison
A book with an enemies to lovers plot: The Love Hypothesis, Ali Hazelwood
A book with an unreliable narrator: The Thief, Megan Whalen Turner
A book with at least 3 POVs: Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson
A book with magical realism: The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
A book written by an incarcerated or formerly incarcerated person: Don Quixote, Miguel Cervantes
A book written during NaNoWriMo: Trail of Lightning, Rebecca Roanhorse
A cozy fantasy book: A Marvellous Light, Freya Marske
A fiction book by a trans or nonbinary author: The Deep, Rivers Solomon
A horror book by a BIPOC author: The Ballad of Black Tom, Victor LaValle
A memoir that explores queerness: Hijab Butch Blues, Lamya H.
A nonfiction book about Indigenous people: Living Stories of the Cherokee, Barbara R. Duncan
A second-chance romance: The Ex Hex, Erin Sterling
An autobiography by a woman in rock ‘n’ roll: Aretha: From These Roots, Aretha Franklin
An LGBTQ+ romance novel: Witchmark, C. L. Polk
A book in which a character sleeps for more than 24 hours: Project Hail Mary, Andy Weir
A book with 24 letters in the title: A Court of Mist and Fury, Sarah J. Maas
A collection of at least 24 poems: Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman
The 24th book of an author: Gallant, V. E. Schwab
A book that starts with the letter “X”: The X-Factor, Andre Norton
Around the Year in 52 Books Reading Challenge:
A book with a title that ends in A, T, or Y: Sleeping Late on Judgment Day, Tad Williams
A book connected to something you read in 2023: Yumi and the Nightmare Painter, Brandon Sanderson
A book that fits a suggestion that didn’t make the list – A book with a lock and/or key on the cover: The Starless Sea, Erin Morgenstern
A book related to the lyrics of What a Wonderful World by Louis Armstrong: The Best of All Possible Worlds, Karen Lord
A book set in one of the 25 most beautiful cities in the world: Angels and Demons, Dan Brown
A book with wings on the cover: Rebel Spring, Morgan Rhodes
A book with a pronoun in the title: We, Yevgeny, Zamyatin
A book by an author from Canada, Australia or New Zealand: Tigana, Guy Gavriel Kay
A book with few than 2,024 ratings on Goodreads: Forged by Blood, Ehigbor Okosun
A history or historical fiction book: Up a Road Slowly, Irene Hunt
A book with an X connection: Leviathan Wakes, James S. A. Corey
A book that has been on your TBR for over a year: The Kill Order, James Dashner
A book that is on a Five Books List: Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson
A book with a main character who is BIPOC: Tristan Strong Keeps Punching, Kwame Mbalia
A book whose author’s name includes one of the 4 least used letters in the alphabet (JQXZ): Waste Tide, Quifan Chen
A book related to the phrase “It’s raining cats and dogs”: Necromancing the Stone, Lish McBride
A book involving intelligence: Neuromancer, William Gibson
A book with a botanical cover: Age of Myth, Michael J. Sullivan
A book connected in some way to any of the flavors of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream: Legends and Lattes, Travis Baldree
A book with a single word title: Archenemies, Marissa Meyer
A book with a title containing 6+ words: The Rules of Dating My Best Friend’s Sister, Vi Keeland
A book by an author from an African country: Son of the Storm, Suyi Davies Okungbowa
A book related to Boats, Beaches, Bars, Ballads, or Jimmy Buffett: Steering the Craft, Ursula K. LeGuin
A book with a secondary color on the cover: The 5th Wave, Rick Yancey
A book involving a crime other than a murder: The Academy, Ridley Pearson
A book by an author known by their initials: Downbelow Station, C. J. Cherryh
A book related to land: Volcano: The Eruption and Healing of Mount Saint Helens, Patricia Lauber
A book related to sea: The Wager, David Grann
A book related to air: The Olympian Affair, Jim Butcher
A book set in a country bordering on the Mediterranean Sea: The Red Tent, Anita Diamant
A book related to “Going for the Gold”: The Jump, Brittney Morris
A book with a number in the title: The Three-Body Problem, Cixin Liu
A book involving travel: The War of Flowers, Tad Williams
A book related to the name of one of Snow White’s seven dwarfs: The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky
A science or science fiction book: Touched By an Alien, Gini Koch
A book featuring a character in education: School’s Out—Forever, James Patterson
A book that is part of a series: Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson
Two books with similar covers: Incendiary, Zoraida Cordova
Two books with similar covers: Lady Midnight, Cassandra Clare
A book involving a wild animal or endangered species: Jaws, Peter Benchley
A book with a chilling atmosphere: Gone, Michael Grant
A book with a sound-related word in the title: Smash Cut, Sandra Brown
A book by an Edgar Award-winning author: One Came Home, Amy Timberlake
A book with a touch of magic: Vita Nostra, Marina Dyachenko
A book that is not a novel: How to Read Literature Like a Professor, Thomas C. Foster
A book related to night: Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore, Matthew J. Sullivan
A book with a two-word title beginning with The: The Appeal, John Grisham
A second book that fits your favorite prompt (A book that fits a suggestion that didn’t make the list – A book related to the theme of a Las Vegas hotel): Caraval, Stephanie Garber
A book with a senior citizen character: The Last Colony, John Scalzi
A book posted in one of the ATY Best Book of the Month threads in 2023 or 2024: Hell Bent, Leigh Bardugo
A book published in 2024: TBD
A cozy mystery: You Better Knot Die, Betty Hechtman
So, here is my plan for 2024. Several new to me authors and many favorites. I’ll be continuing some series I’ve already started as well as beginning one or two new ones. I managed to fit in a couple of classics as well as a handful of Newbery Honor books. Though most of these books were already on my “want to read” list, only about a third are books I actually own.
I relied heavily on prepared lists to choose many of these books, and I have not taken the time to verify whether or not they really fit the prompts. I decided it doesn’t matter that much. The point is to simply keep me reading.
Happy reading, y’all!
TAwrites 