Is anyone else planning on participating in the PopSugar reading challenge for 2024? How it works is you read a book to fit one of the prompts and check it off.

1. A book with the word "leap" in the title
2. A bildungsroman
3. A book about a 24-year-old
4. A book about a writer
5. A book about K-pop
6. A book about pirates
7. A book about women's sports and/or by a woman athlete
8. A book by a blind or visually impaired author
9. A book by a deaf or hard-of-hearing author
10. A book by a self-published author
11. A book from a genre you typically avoid
12. A book from an animal's POV
13. A book originally published under a pen name
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
18. A book set in space
19. A book set in the future
20. A book set in the snow
21. A book that came out in a year that ends with "24"
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
25. A book that was published 24 years ago
26. A book that was turned into a musical
27. A book where someone dies in the first chapter
28. A book with a main character who's 42 years old
29. A book with a neurodivergent main character
30. A book with a one-word title you had to look up in a dictionary
31. A book with a title that is a complete sentence
32. A book with an enemies-to-lovers plot
33. A book with an unreliable narrator
34. A book with at least three POVs
35. A book with magical realism
36. A book written by an incarcerated or formerly incarcerated person
37. A book written during NaNoWriMo
38. A cozy fantasy book
39. A fiction book by a trans or nonbinary author
40. A horror book by a BIPOC author
41. A memoir that explores queerness
42. A nonfiction book about Indigenous people
43. A second-chance romance
44. An autobiography by a woman in rock 'n' roll
45. An LGBTQ+ romance novel

Advanced Prompts

1. A book in which a character sleeps for more than 24 hours
2. A book with 24 letters in the title
3. A collection of at least 24 poems
4. The 24th book of an author
5. A book that starts with the letter "X"

My goal is usually just 52 books a year (I did 90 last year but discovering LW now has me scrambling for my very last book to finish up this year) and find myself avoiding reading when I set up strict books to read bc I'm such a mood reader. I did like looking at the challenges though and seeing which books I have read that already fit into them! Throwing out these reccs for the challenges if anyone does wanna try.

#7 Carrie Soto is Back

#9 I really recommend Deaf Utopia

#18 Project Hail Mary

#22 Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow

#23 Eragon. Yes, read it again.

#38 Legends and Lattes

#45 Priory of the Orange Tree (also hits dragons and multiple POVs)

For the advanced

#1 My Year of Rest and Relaxation (altho I didn't love this one hahaha- that's also a full sentence tho)

I'm planning on doing it! There might be a couple prompts that get changed a bit though. (Like #40. I don't like horror, and actively avoid it. However, I found a YA book that seems interesting that fits, so I'll give that one a try. If I end up not finishing I'll change the prompt to just a book by a BIPOC author.)

I'm planning on doing it! There might be a couple prompts that get changed a bit though. (Like #40. I don't like horror, and actively avoid it. However, I found a YA book that seems interesting that fits, so I'll give that one a try. If I end up not finishing I'll change the prompt to just a book by a BIPOC author.)

And #15 is kind of funny, as I am a librarian. So basically anything I want to read in 2024 will fit the prompt!

If anyone has book recommendations featuring a 24 year old main character I'd love to hear them, because that one's being a bit hard to track down!

@Rowan

@Rowan

I'd love to! Here are some books I've really enjoyed reading in 2023:

Starter Villain by John Scalzi (his The Kaiju Preservation Society is amazing too)

City Spies by James Ponti (it's junior fiction, but it was really good!)

If Only You by Chloe Liese

The Last Cold Place by Naira de Gracia (nonfiction about studying penguins in Antarctica)

Girls and Their Horses by Eliza Jane Brazier

Skyriders by Polly Holyoke (another really good junior fiction!)

Temples of Books by Marianne Julia Strauss (a gorgeous nonfiction about various libraries around the world)

The Queen's Crown by K. M. Shea (it's the third book in a trilogy, but the whole trilogy is amazing!)

Hopefully there's one or two there that look interesting to you!