2024 POPSUGAR Reading Challenge

Popsugar is a lifestyle magazine and their reading challenge has been around since 2015. On their website they list 40 book prompts and additional 10 advanced prompts.

I finished early in 2024, at the end of October, and I enjoyed the planning and researching a lot. Some of the prompts were challenging indeed, some of the books I found for the more difficult tasks were not to my liking. But each year there are a few gems you never would have considered picking up. 

 Here are my books for all 50 prompts in 2024.

And now moving on to a new list for 2025...  

Progress:  31.10.2024  40 / 40    and    10 / 10

1 A book with the word "leap" in the title: Alexandra Heminsley - Leap In: A Woman
2 A bildungsroman book: Heinrich Mann - Der Untertan
3 A book about a 24-year-old: Kiley Reid - Such a fun age
4 A book about a writer: Melanie Raabe - Die Falle
5 A book about K-pop: Axie Oh - XOXO
6 A book about pirates: William Arden - Die drei Fragezeichen und der rote Pirat
7 A book about women's sports and/or by a woman athlete: Taylor Jenkins Reid - Carrie Soto is Back
8 A book by a blind or visually impaired author: Stephen King - Billy Summers
9 A book by a Deaf or Hard-of-Hearing author: Cece Bell - El Taubinio
10 A book by a self-published author: Tom Peine - Deputy While Immigrant
11 A book from a genre you typically avoid: Nico Paech - Befreiung vom Überfluss
12 A book from an animal's POV: Chen Jiatong - Der Ruf des Mondsteins
13 A book originally published under a pen name: Robert Galbraith - Das tiefschwarze Herz
14 A book recommended by a bookseller: Jean-Luc Bannalec - Bretonischer Ruhm
15 A book recommended by a librarian: Sheila de Liz - Woman on Fire
16 A book set 24 years before you were born: Agatha Christie - Sie kamen nach Bagdad
17 A book set in a travel destination on your bucket list: Simone van der Vlugt - Nachtblau [Amsterdam]
18 A book set in space: Andy Weir - Artemis
19 A book set in the future: Marissa Meyer - Wie Sterne so golden
20 A book set in the snow: Ruth Ware - Das Chalet
21 A book that came out in a year that ends with "24": Jussi Adler Olsen - Verraten
22 A book that centers on video games: Gabrielle Zevin - Morgen, morgen und wieder morgen
23 A book that features dragons: Cornelia Funke - Drachenreiter
24 A book that takes place over the course of 24 hours: Stuart Turton - Die 7 Tode der Evelyn Hardcastle
25 A book that was published 24 years ago (2000): Louise Erdrich - Die Wunder von Little No Horse
26 A book that was turned into a musical: Dr. Seuss - How the Grinch Stole Christmas
27 A book where someone dies in the first chapter: Michael Kobr - Sonne über Gudhjem
28 A book with a main character who's 42 years old: Stephen King - Sie
29 A book with a neurodivergent main character: Michael Robotham - Der Erstgeborene
30 A book with a one-word title you had to look up in a dictionary: Susanna Clark - Piranesi
31 A book with a title that is a complete sentence: Alan Bradley - Eine Leiche wirbelt Staub auf
32 A book with an enemies to lovers plot: Rebecca Yarros - Fourth Wing
33 A book with an unreliable narrator: Dennis Lehane - Shutter Island
34 A book with at least 3 POVs: Arnaldur Indridason - Wand des Schweigens
35 A book with magical realism: Ben Aaronowitch - Die Flüsse von London
36 A book written by an incarcerated or formerly incarcerated person: George Takei - They Called Us Enemy
37 A book written during NaNoWriMo: Travis Baldree - Magie und Milchschaum
38 A cozy fantasy book: T.J. Klune - Mr. Parnassus' Heim für magisch Begabte
39 A fiction book by a trans or nonbinary author: Aiden Thomas - Yadriel und Julian. Cemetery Boys
40 A horror book by a BIPOC author: Zakiya Dalila Harris - The Other Black Girl

Advanced

41 A memoir that explores queerness: Alan Cumming - Not My Father's Son
42 A nonfiction book about Indigenous people: Thomas Jeier - Die ersten Amerikaner
43 A second-chance romance: Erin Sterling - Ex Hex
44 An autobiography by a woman in rock 'n' roll: Brandi Carlile - Broken Horses
45 An LGBTQ+ romance novel: Taylor Jenkins Reid - Die sieben Männer der Evelyn Hugo
46 A book in which a character sleeps for more than 24 hours: Washington Irving - Rip Van Winkle
47 A book with 24 letters in the title: Alina Bronsky - Nenn mich einfach Superheld
48 A collection of at least 24 poems: Erich Fried - Liebesgedichte (Link to goodreads)
49 The 24th book of an author: Karin Slaughter - The Good Daughter
50 A book that starts with the letter "X": Jeffery Deaver - XO (German title: Die Angebetete)