One of my favorite parts of a new year is setting goals and choosing challenges to try to complete. For 2018, besides the usual Goodreads reading challenge, I’ll also be joining the PopSugar Reading Challenge of 2018. This is my first time participating, and I had never even come across it until a few weeks ago so I’m very excited!! ❤
I chose to only do the regular 40-book challenge, not the advanced. If I end up finishing the challenge early enough, I’ll go for the extra prompts as well. You can check out all the prompts here.
A book made into a movie you’ve already seen
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
True crime
Strangler by Corey Mitchell
The next book in a series you started
The Heart of Betrayal by Mary E. Pearson
A book involving a heist
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
Nordic noir
The Crow Girl by Erik Axl Sund
A novel based on a real person
The Real Peter Pan: J. M. Barrie and the Boy Who Inspired Him by Piers Dudgeon
A book set in a country that fascinates you
Landline by Rainbow Rowell
A book with a time of day in the title
Tower of Dawn by Sarah J. Maas
A book about a villain or antihero
Uprooted by Naomi Novik
A book about death or grief
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
A book with a female author who uses a male pseudonym
The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith
A book with an LGBTQ+ protagonist
The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee
A book that is also a stage play or musical
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by Jack Thorne and John Tiffany
A book by an author of a different ethnicity than you
The Ice Princess by Camilla Läckberg
A book about feminism
#MeToo by Various Authors
A book about mental health
Finding Audrey by Sophie Kinsella
A book you borrowed or that was given to you as a gift
Joyland by Stephen King
A book by two authors
Burn for Burn by Jenny Han & Siobhan Vivian
A book about or involving a sport
Any Harry Potter book that I feel like picking up (Quidditch)
A book by a local author
Amor de Perdição by Camilo Castelo Branco, which is a Portuguese classic
A book with your favorite color in the title
Eeny Meeny by M.J. Arlidge (I’ve been loving red lately)
A book with alliteration in the title
Blue Lily, Lily Blue by Maggie Stiefvater
A book about time travel
11.22.63 by Stephen King
A book with a weather element in the title
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
A book set at sea
The Aeneid by Virgil
A book with an animal in the title
The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater
A book set on a different planet
Cinder by Marissa Meyer (the moon is not a planet, but fuck it at least it’s not Earth lmao)
A book with song lyrics in the title
Since You’ve Been Gone by Morgan Matson
A book about or set on Halloween
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling – there’s a Hallowe’en feast in this book, so I guess that counts!
A book with characters who are twins
I’ll Give You The Sun by Jandy Nelson
A book mentioned in another book
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
A book from a celebrity book club
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt (Florence Welch’s book club)
A childhood classic you’ve never read
Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie
A book that’s published in 2018
A Court of Frost and Starlight by Sarah J. Maas
A past Goodreads Choice Awards winner
It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover
A book set in the decade you were born
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling
A book you meant to read in 2017 but didn’t get to
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
A book with an ugly cover
Along for the Ride by Sarah Dessen
A book that involves a bookstore or library
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Your favorite prompt from the 2015 2016, or 2017 POPSUGAR Reading Challenges: A book based on mythology (2017)
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
So those are 40 of the books I plan to read in 2018. What are yours? Are you participating as well? Let me know in the comments!
Thank you for reading,
I’ll see you in my next post ♡