Popsugar’s Ultimate 2016 Reading Challenge

I came, I saw, I conquered.  I was really good about this reading challenge at the beginning of the year, kind of fell off the wagon in the middle, and panic-read the last ten or so prompts in November and December.  In any case, I finished, and here’s my final list.

1. a book based on a fairy tale: Magic Bitter, Magic Sweet by Charlie N. Holmberg
2. a national book award winner: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
3. a YA bestseller: Hopeless by Colleen Hoover
4. a book you haven’t read since high school: Mates, Dates, and Inflatable Bras by Cathy Hopkins
5. a book set in your home state: Arrows by Melissa Gorzelanczyk (Wisconsin)
6. a book translated to English: The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo
7. a romance set in the future: Some Kind of Perfect by Krista & Becca Ritchie
8. a book set in Europe: City of Lost Souls by Cassandra Clare
9. a book that’s under 150 pages: Tyson Caine by Aleya Michelle
10. a New York Times bestseller: The Museum of Extraordinary Things by Alice Hoffman
11. a book that’s becoming a movie this year: The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
12. a book recommended by someone you just met: Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
13. a self-improvement book: The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F*ck by Sarah Knight
14. a book you can finish in a day: Dirty Little Lies by Clare James
15. a book written by a celebrity: Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? by Mindy Kaling
16. a political memoir: Outsider in the White House by Bernie Sanders
17. a book at least 100 years older than you: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
18. a book that’s more than 600 pages: Winter by Marissa Meyer
19. a book from Oprah’s book club: Sula by Toni Morrison
20. a science-fiction novel: Armada by Ernest Cline
21. a book recommended by a family member: Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume (recommended by my mom, my aunt, my grandmother, and several cousins)
22. a graphic novel: Scott Pilgrim, Vol. 1 by Bryan Lee O’Malley
23. a book that is published in 2016: Beyond the Stars by Stacy Wise
24. a book with a protagonist who has your occupation: CPC Training Materials by AAPC (This is possibly cheating, but I could not find a book about a medical coder, and this program involved reading over 7,000 pages that did not count toward my page count or total books read on Goodreads!)
25. a book that takes place during summer: Good Girl by Lauren Layne
26. a book and its prequel: Every Day and Six Earlier Days by David Levithan
27. a murder mystery: Ink and Bone by Lisa Unger (originally The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins, but I ended up using that for #11)
28. a book written by a comedian: Yes Please by Amy Poehler
29. a dystopian novel: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black
30. a book with a blue cover: Invincible Summer by Alice Adams
31. a book of poetry: His Shoes Were Far Too Tight by Edward Lear
32. the first book you see in a bookstore: Heartless by Marissa Meyer
33. a classic from the 20th century: The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
34. a book from the library: To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny Han
35. an autobiography: Sex in the Museum by Sarah Forbes
36. a book about a road trip: Going Bovine by Libba Bray
37. a book about a (sub)culture you’re unfamiliar with: Blow by Heidi McLaughlin
38. a satirical book: Where’d You Go Bernadette by Maria Semple
39. a book that takes place on an island: You Make Me by Erin McCarthy
40. a book that’s guaranteed to bring you joy: Lured In by Laura Drewry