#1 A book made into a movie you've already seen :
Maurice
#2 True Crime :
Inside the Mind of BTK
#3 The next book in a series you started :
The Kill Order
#4 A book involving a heist :
Bringing Down the House
#5 Nordic noir :
The Girl Who Played With Fire
#6 A novel based on a real person :
Room
#7 A book set in a country that fascinates you :
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
#8 A book with a time of day in the title :
The Voices at 3:00AM
#9 A book about a villain or antihero :
Deviant
#10 A book about death or grief :
The Pocket Book of Death
#11 A book with your favorite color in the title :
Severed: The True Story of the Black Dahlia
#12 A book with alliteration in the title :
Women in the Walls
#13 A book about time travel :
Hollow City
#14 A book with a weather element in the title :
Let It Snow
#15 A book set at sea :
Death on the Nile
#16 A book with an animal in the title :
The Crow: Lazarus Heart
#17 A book set on a different planet :
The Colour of Magic (Discworld)
#18 A book with song lyrics in the title :
Turtles All the Way Down
#19 A book about or set on Halloween :
Scary Stories Treasury
#20 A book with characters who are twins :
Twelfth Night
#21 A book with a female author who uses a male pseudonym :
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
#22 A book with an LGBTQ+ protagonist :
Every Nine Seconds
#23 A book that is also a stage play or musical :
Sweeney Todd
#24 A book by an author of a different ethnicity than you :
The Art of Fushigi Yugi
#25 A book about feminism :
Mrs. Dalloway
#26 A book about mental health :
The Sociopath Next Door
#27 A book you borrowed or that was given to you as a gift :
The Merchant of Venice
#28 A book by two authors :
Triads
#29 A book about or involving a sport :
Quidditch Through the Ages
#30 A book by a local author :
Dead Ever After
#31 A book mentioned in another book :
The Invisible Man
#32 A book from a celebrity book club :
The Road
#33 A childhood classic you've never read :
The Tale of Despereaux
#34 A book that's published in 2018 :
Leah on the Offbeat
#35 A past Goodreads Choice Award winner :
The Pigeon Needs A Bath
#36 A book set in the decade you were born :
Less Than Zero
#37 A book you meant to read in 2017 but didn't get to :
Talking As Fast As I Can
#38 A book with an ugly cover :
The Prize
#39 A book that involves a bookstore of library :
Of Books and Bagpipes
#40 Your favorite prompt from the 2015, 2016, or 2017 POPSUGAR Reading Challenge :
Audition
#41 A bestseller from the year you graduated high school :
The Polar Express
#42 A cyberpunk book :
Ready Player One
#43 A book that was being read by a stranger in a public place :
Lady Killers
#44 A book tied to your ancestry :
The Book Thief
#45 A book with a fruit or vegetable in the title :
It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
#46 An allegory :
The Screwtape Letters
#47 A book by an author with the same first or last name as you :
Rosebush
#48 A microhistory :
New Kids on the Block
#49 A book about a problem facing society today :
Breathing Underwater
#50 A book recommended by someone else taking the POPSUGAR Reading Challenge :
Eat, Pray, Love
Date Started: January 1, 2018
Date completed: December 31, 2018
Books finished in challenge: 50 of 50
Books finished in total for year: 75