My Completed 2020 PopSugar Reading Challenge!

Current Read: The Twelve Dates of Christmas by Jenny Bayliss

Current Listen: The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune

Hey all! I've started to look back at my year in reading for the year, and holy SHIT. Some of the stuff I read in the before-times...it just seems so long ago! But I did just complete the last prompt for my 2020 PopSugar Reading Challenge the other day, so I thought that I would share it with you. 

If you're unfamiliar, the website PopSugar comes up with 50 prompts (40 regular prompts and 10 "advanced" prompts) that are meant to give you some direction in your reading for the year. I choose to read a different book for each prompt, but there aren't really any rules. I make it a point to not let the challenge keep me from reading exactly what I want to read, and I generally just fill things in as I go. But it does get me to expand my reading horizons and try things that I find intriguing but would never normally pick up. This year, in particular, I was challenged to read a Western and a medical thriller. I'm not sure I had EVER read something from either of those genres, and I ended up enjoying both books. The full challenge with the books I read, along with the ratings I gave them, is below. If you'd like to join me in the 2021 Popsugar reading challenge, click here!

Did you read any of these books this year or have other suggestions that fit the prompts? Let me know in the comments. And for now, that's all she read!

2020 Popsugar Reading Challenge

A book that’s published in 2020: Undercover Bromance by Lyssa Kay Adams (5/5)

A book published the month of your birthday: The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead (4/5)

A book by a trans or nonbinary author: Pet by Akwaeke Emezi (4/5)

A book about or by a woman in STEM: Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly (3/5)

A book with a great first line: On the Come Up by Angie Thomas (5/5)

A book that won an award in 2019: Red White and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston (5/5)

A book about a book club: The Bromance Book Club by Lyssa Kay Adams (5/5)

A book on a subject you know nothing about: The Feather Thief by Kirk Wallace Johnson (4/5)

A book set in a city that has hosted the Olympics: Bringing Down the Duke by Evie Dunmore (London) (5/5)

A book with only words on the cover, no images or graphics: Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? By Beverly Daniel Tatum (5/5)

A bildungsroman: Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery (5/5)

A book with a pun in the title: Check Please! Book 2: Sticks and Scones by Ngozi Ukazu (5/5)

The first book you touch on a shelf with your eyes closed: Coraline by Neil Gaiman (4/5)

A book featuring one of the seven deadly sins: Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng (5/5)

A book with an upside-down image on the cover: Verity by Colleen Hoover (5/5)

A book with a robot, cyborg, or AI character: Skyward by Brandon Sanderson (5/5)

A book with a map: Of Curses and Kisses by Sandhya Menon (4/5)

A book with a bird on the cover: The Black Flamingo by Dean Atta (5/5)

A book recommended by your favorite blog, vlog, podcast, or online book club: The Duchess Deal by Tessa Dare (4/5)

A fiction or nonfiction book about a world leader: The Cruel Prince by Holly Black (5/5)

An anthology: We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices edited by Wade Hudson and Cheryl Willis Hudson (5/5)

A book with gold, silver, or bronze in the title: Stay Gold by Tobly McSmith (4/5)

A book that passes the Bechdel test: The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson (3/5)

A book by a WOC: With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo (5/5)

A book with the same title as a movie or TV show but that’s unrelated to it: The Proposal by Jasmine Guillory (4/5)

A book with at least a 4-star rating on Goodreads: City of Heavenly Fire by Cassandra Clare (5/5)

A book by an author with flora or fauna in their name: The Wedding Party by Jasmine Guillory (4/5)

A book you meant to read in 2019: City of Lost Souls by Cassandra Clare (5/5)

A book about or involving social media: Tyler Johnson Was Here by Jay Coles (4/5)

A book with a three-world title: Letters From Skye by Jessica Brockmole (5/5)

A book that has a book on the cover: Beach Read by Emily Henry (5/5)

A book with a pink cover: Bygone Badass Broads by Mackenzi Lee (4/5)

A medical thriller: The End of October by Lawrence Wright (4/5)

A Western: True Grit by Charles Portis (4/5)

A book with a made-up language: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling (5/5)

A book by or about a journalist: No Visible Bruises by Rachel Louise Snyder (5/5)

A book set in a country beginning with a C: A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende (Chile) (5/5)

Read a banned book during banned books week: Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers (5/5)

A book you picked because the title caught your attention: Notes From a Young Black Chef by Kwame Onwuachi (4/5)

Your favorite prompt from a past Popsugar reading challenge: A book by two female authors: The Honey-Don’t List by Christina Lauren (4/5)

Advanced:

A book written by an author in their 20s: Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story by Jacob Tobia (5/5)

A book by an author who has written more than 20 books: Starsight by Brandon Sanderson (4/5)

A book with “20” or “twenty” in the title: 200 Women by Geoff Blackwell, Ruth Hobday, and Kieran Scott (5/5)

A book with more than 20 letters in the title: The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson (5/5)

A book with a character with a vision impairment or enhancement: Romancing the Duke by Tessa Dare (4/5)

A book published in the 20th century: The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X and Alex Haley (5/5)

A book set in Japan, host of the 2020 Olympics: Wildcard by Marie Lu (4/5)

A book from a series with more than 20 books: Death On the Nile by Agatha Christie (4/5)

A book set in the 1920s: The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore (3/5)

A book with a main character in their 20s: How to Walk Away by Katherine Center (5/5)