So I finished (most) of the 2021 reading challenge. I intentionally saved the prompt “A DNF book from your TBR list” for last and then didn’t do it, because honestly books are on my DNF list for a reason. Here’s the list of what I read.
- A book that’s published in 2021 – One Last Stop
- An Afrofuturist book – How Long ’til Black Future Month?
- A book that has a heart, diamond, club, or spade on the cover – Casino Royale (James Bond, #1)
- A book by an author who shares your zodiac sign – The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
- A dark academia book – Starless Sea
- A book with a gem, mineral, or rock in the title – Crown of Coral and Pearl
- A book where the main character works at your current or dream job – Lost Years of Merlin
- A book that has won the Women’s Prize For Fiction – The Power
- A book with a family tree – Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
- A bestseller from the 1990s – Tipping the Velvet
- A book about forgetting – The Giver (The Giver, #1)
- A book you have seen on someone’s bookshelf (in real life, on a Zoom call, in a TV show, etc.) – Frankenstein (On my boss’s bookshelf)
- A locked-room mystery – The Moonstone
- A book set in a restaurant – With the Fire on High
- A book with a black-and-white cover – Moon Knight
- A book by an Indigenous author – Black Sun (Between Earth and Sky, #1)
- A book that has the same title as a song – The Phantom of the Opera
- A book about a subject you are passionate about – Ready Player Two
- A book that discusses body positivity – The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love
- A book found on a Black Lives Matter reading list – Girl, Woman, Other
- A genre hybrid – The Lady’s Guide to Petticoats and Piracy (Montague Siblings, #2)
- A book set mostly or entirely outdoors – Where the Crawdads Sing
- A book with something broken on the cover – Rurouni Kenshin Vol 1, 2, 3. (broken people count, right?)
- A book by a Muslim American author – We Hunt the Flame
- A book that was published anonymously – 管 子 內 業 第 四 十 九, Study of Inner Cultivation
- A book with an oxymoron in the title – Plain Bad Heroines
- A book about do-overs or fresh starts – Circe
- A magical realism book – Mexican Gothic
- A book set in multiple countries – Deadpool Classic Vol. 6
- A book set somewhere you’d like to visit in 2021 – Happy People Read and Drink Coffee
- A book by a blogger, vlogger, YouTube video creator, or other online personality – The Lazy Genius Way: Embrace What Matters, Ditch What Doesn’t, and Get Stuff Done
- A book whose title starts with “Q,” “X,” or “Z” – The Queen of the Damned (The Vampire Chronicles, #3)
- A book featuring three generations (grandparent, parent, child) – My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry
- A book about a social justice issue – The Legend of Auntie Po
- A book in a different format than what you normally read (audiobooks, ebooks, graphic novels) – ebook of something? Sense and Sensibility
- A book that has fewer than 1,000 reviews on Amazon or Goodreads – The Complete Guide to No-Dig Gardening (18 ratings on Goodreads and 12 on Amazon at the time I read it).
- A book you think your best friend would like – Rabbits
- A book about art or an artist – Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
- A book everyone seems to have read but you – The Handmaid’s Tale
- Your favorite prompt from a past POPSUGAR Reading Challenge – Monstress, Vol. 1: Awakening
Advanced
- The longest book (by pages) on your TBR list – A Suitable Boy
- The shortest book (by pages) on your TBR list – Language of Butterflies (It wasn’t actually all that short, I think the page count was inaccurate on Goodreads.)
- The book on your TBR list with the prettiest cover – Krampus: The Yule Lord ( I think it’s pretty, anyway. I’m in love with Brom’s art.)
- The book on your TBR list with the ugliest cover – Wabi Sabi Simple: Create beauty. Value imperfection. Live deeply.
- The book that’s been on your TBR list for the longest amount of time – The Search for WondLa
- A book from your TBR list you meant to read last year but didn’t – The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
- A book from your TBR list you associate with a favorite person, place, or thing – Black Beauty
- A book from your TBR list chosen at random – Murder in the Boughs
A DNF book from your TBR list – The Shelters of Stone- A free book from your TBR list (gifted, borrowed, library) – Strange Planet by Nathan W. Pyle
