The 2021 PopSugar Reading Challenge is here! This is one challenge I do each year. I love the variety of prompts. Some prompts are easy, others are more challenging and take me out of my comfort zone.

So far, I’ve had good luck sticking with the challenge and finishing it. I was able to finish it in 2018, 2019, and 2020. Hopefully, I manage to complete this year’s new challenge.

The 2021 PopSugar Reading Challenge has 40 standard prompts and 10 advanced prompts. My goal is to complete all 50 prompts. Below is the list of prompts. I will update this list as I work on the challenge.

15/50 completed

2021 POPSUGAR READING CHALLENGE PROMPTS

1. A book that published in 2021 – Good Neighbors by Sarah Langan
2. An Afrofuturist book
3. A book that has a heart, diamond, club, or spade on the cover
4. A book by an author who shares your zodiac sign
5. A dark academia book
6. A book with a gem, mineral, or rock in the title
7. A book where the main character works at your current or dream job – Undercurrents by Mary Anna Evans
8. A book that has won the Women’s Prize for Fiction
9. A book with a family tree
10. A bestseller from the 1990s
11. A book about forgetting – Brewed Awakening by Cleo Coyle
12. A book you have seen on someone’s bookshelf (in real life, on a Zoom call, in a TV show, etc.)
13. A locked-room mystery – One Little Secret by Cate Holahan
14. A book set in a restaurant
15. A book with a black-and-white cover
16. A book by an indigenous author
17. A book that has the same title as a song
18. A book about a subject you are passionate about
19. A book that discusses body positivity
20. A book on a Black Lives Matter reading list
21. A genre hybrid
22. A book set mostly or entirely outdoors
23. A book with something broken on the cover – The Party by Robyn Harding
24. A book by a Muslim American author
25. A book that was published anonymously
26. A book with an oxymoron in the title – Up the Down Staircase by Bel Kaufman
27. A book about do-overs or fresh starts – The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
28. A magical realism book
29. A book set in multiple countries
30. A book set somewhere you’d like to visit in 2021
31. A book by a blogger, vlogger, YouTube video creator, or other online personality – How to Manage Your Home Without Losing Your Mind by Dana K. White
32. A book whose title starts with “Q,” “X,” or “Z”
33. A book featuring three generations (grandparent, parent, child)
34. A book about a social justice issue
35. A book in a different format than what you normally read (audiobooks, ebooks, graphic novels)
36. A book that has fewer than 1,000 reviews on Amazon or Goodreads – Black Coral by Andrew Mayne
37. A book you think your best friend would like
38. A book about art or an artist
39. A book everyone seems to have read but you – Anxious People by Fredrick Backman
40. Your favorite prompt from a past POPSUGAR Reading Challenge – Every Last Fear by Alex Finlay

Advanced Prompts

41. The longest book (by pages) on your TBR list
42. The shortest book (by pages) on your TBR list
43. The book on your TBR list with the prettiest cover
44. The book on your TBR list with the ugliest cover
45. The book that’s been on your TBR list for the longest amount of time
46. A book from your TBR list you meant to read last year but didn’t – Lab Girl by Hope Jahren
47. A book from your TBR list you associate with a favorite person, place, or thing – The House Uptown by Melissa Ginsberg
48. A book from your TBR list chosen at random
49. A DNF book from your TBR list
50. A free book from your TBR list (gifted, borrowed, library) – The Fates Divide by Veronica Roth