Popsugar 2025

 2025 POPSUGAR Reading Challenge

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



Here they are:

 

 

Progress:  21.01.2025  8 / 40    and    1 / 10

1. A book about a POC experiencing joy and not trauma: Leah Johnson - Du solltest mich mit Krone sehen
 
[e-book]
2. A book you want to read based on the last sentence; Toni Morrison - Sula [e-book]
3. A book about space tourism: S.A. Barnes - Dead Silence [e-book]
4. A book with two or more books on the cover or "book" in the title: Alan Gratz - Amy und die geheime Bibliothek / Shaun Bythell - Tagebuch eines Buchhändlers [e-book]
5. A book with a snake on the cover or in the title: Michael Ende - Die unendliche Geschichte / M.V. Carey - Die drei Fragezeichen und die singende Schlange [e-books]

6. A book that fills your favorite prompt from the 2015 PS Reading Challenge: Rebecca Yarros - Iron Flame (female author) ⭐⭐
7. A book about a cult: Emma Cline - The Girls [audiobook]
8. A book under 250 pages: Jeffrey Eugenides - Air Mail ⭐⭐⭐⭐
9. A book that features a character going through menopause: Georgie Hall - Einatmen, ausrasten [e-book]
10. A book you got for free: Julia Deck - Viviane Élisabeth Fauville ⭐⭐ (Gewinnspiel)
11. A book mentioned in another book: Stephen Kind - Carrie [e-book]
12. A book about a road trip: Andrew Shawn Greer - Mister Weniger ⭐⭐
13. A book rated less than three stars on Goodreads: Botho Strauss - Paare, Passanten [Hardcover]
14. A book about a nontraditional education: Tara Westover - Educated [libby Ausleihe]
15. A book that an AI chatbot recommends based on your favorite book: Richard Bach - Die Möwe Jonathan [Stabi Ausleihe]
16. A book set in or around a body of water: Taylor Jenkins Reid - Malibu Rising ⭐⭐⭐
17. A book about a run club: Jason Reynolds - Ghost [Stabi audiobook Ausleihe]
18. A book containing magical creatures that aren't dragons: Terry Pratchett...
19. A highly anticipated read of 2025
20. A book that fills a 2024 prompt you'd like to do over (or try out)
21. A book where the main character is a politician: Frank Herbert - Dune ⭐⭐⭐
22. A book about soccer: Drei Fragezeichen...
23. A book that is considered healing fiction: [e-book]
24. A book with a happily single woman protagonist: Agatha Christie - Mord im Pfarrhaus [e-book]

25. A book where the main character is an immigrant or refugee: [e-book]
26. A book where an adult character changes careers: Andy Weir - Der Astronaut [onleihe audiobook]

27. A book set at a luxury resort: Sarah Pearse - Das Sanatorium
28. A book that features an unlikely friendship: Gavin Extence - Das unerhörte Leben des Alex Woods
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
29. A book about a food truck: Ashley Poston - Geekerella [???]
30. A book that reminds you of your childhood
31. A book where music plays an integral part of the storyline: Taylor Jenkins Reid - Daisy Jones and the Six [StaBi]
32. A book about an overlooked woman in history: Marie Benedict - Die einzige Frau im Raum [e-book onleihe]
33. A book featuring an activity on your bucket list
34. A book written by an author who is neurodivergent: John Green - reread oder Wie hat Ihnen das Anthropozän bis jetzt gefallen? [e-book]
35. A book centering LGBTQ+ characters that isn't about coming out: Michael Cunningham - Die Stunden [???]
36. A book with silver on the cover or in the title: Die drei Fragezeichen und die silberne Spinne [e-book]
37. Two books with the same title (1): Kenah Cusanit - Babel [e-book]
38. Two books with the same title (2): Rebecca F. Kuang - Babel
[e-book]
39. A classic you've never read: Howard Pyle - Robin Hood [Hardcover]
40. A book about chosen family: Eileen Garwin - Die Melodie der Bienen [onleihe audiobook]

Advanced Prompts

Easy
41. A book by the oldest author in your TBR pile
42. A book with a title that starts with the letter Y: R.F. Kuang - Yellowface [libby, StaBi]
43. A book that includes a nonverbal character: Brandon Sanderson - Weit über der smaragdgrünen See [Stabi]
44. A book you have always avoided reading: Stefan Aust - Der Bader Meinhof Komplex ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Medium
45. A book with a left-handed character: Garth Nix - Die magischen Buchhändler von London [e-book]
46. A book where nature is the antagonist: Emily St. John Mandel - Das Licht der letzten Tage [onleihe audiobook]
47. A book of interconnected short stories: Elizabeth Strout - Mit Blick aufs Meer [e-book]

Hard
48. A book that features a married couple who don't live together: Homer - Die Odyssee [audiobook]
49. A dystopian book with a happy ending: Lauren Oliver - Delirium [audiobook onleihe]
50. A book that features a character with chronic pain: Hanya Yanagihara - Ein wenig Leben [audiobook, e-book]



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