2024 PopSugar Reading Challenge

In this challenge, the goal is to read through the PopSugar reading list. Join the challenge and read the rules here!

My goal is the basic level, but I’m tracking all of them.

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basic

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1. A book with the word “leap” in the title/
2. A bildungsroman/ The Family Bones by Elle Marr
3. A book about a 24-year-old/
4. A book about a writer/ Agatha Arch is Afraid of Everything by Kristin Bair
5. A book about K-popv
6. A book about pirates/
7. A book about women’s sports and/or by a woman athlete/ We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry
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/ Freaky Crypts by Amanda M. Lee
11. A book from a genre you typically avoid/
12. A book from an animal’s POV/ Gryphon in Light by Mercedes Lackey
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/ Golden State by Ben H. Winters
20. A book set in the snow/ Red Wolf by Rachel Vincent
21. A book that came out in a year that ends with “24”/ The Heiress by Rachel Hawkins
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/ The Taken Ones by Jess Lourey
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/ Everyone on This Train is a Suspect by Benjamin Stevenson
32. A book with an enemies-to-lovers plot/
33. A book with an unreliable narrator/
34. A book with at least three POVs/ The Black Gryphon by Mercedes Lackey
35. A book with magical realism/
36. A book written by an incarcerated or formerly incarcerated person/ Released: Conversations on the Eve of Freedom by Gypsy-Rose Blanchard
37. A book written during NaNoWriMo/
38. A cozy fantasy book/ Freaky Crush by Amanda M. Lee
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/

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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/ Dearly by Margaret Atwood
4. The 24th book of an author/
5. A book that starts with the letter “X”/

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1. Red Wolf by Rachel Vincent - ★★★★★
2. We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry - ★★★★½
3. Freaky Crypts by Amanda M. Lee - ★★★★
4. Released: Conversations on the Eve of Freedom by Melissa Moore, Michele Matrisciani, Gypsy-Rose Blanchard - ★★★★★
5. Freaky Crush by Amanda M. Lee - ★★★★
6. Golden State by Ben H. Winters - ★★★½
7. Dearly: New Poems by Margaret Atwood - ★★★★
8. Gryphon in Light by Mercedes Lackey, Larry Dixon - ★★★★★