2021 Reading Challenges

Happy New Year bookworms!

How do you feel about reading challenges? I’ll be doing three of them this year: 2021 PopSugar Reading Challenge, 50 States Book Challenge and the Goodreads Reading Challenge. The first has prompts to follow, the second is less formal, and the Goodreads challenge is the same one I do every year.

PopSugar Reading Challenge

Regular Prompts

1. A book that’s published in 2021
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
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
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
14. A genre hybrid
15. A book set mostly or entirely outdoors
16. A book with something broken on the cover
17. A book by a Muslim American author
18. A book that was published anonymously
19. A book with an oxymoron in the title
20. A book about do-overs or fresh starts
21. A magical realism book
22. A book set in multiple countries
23. A book set somewhere you’d like to visit in 2021
24. A book by a blogger, blogger, YouTube video creator, or other online personality
25. A book whose title starts with “Q,” “X,” or “Z”
26. A book featuring three generations (grandparent, parent, child)
27. A book about a social justice issue
28. A book set in a restaurant
29. A book with a black-and-white cover
30. A book by an Indigenous author
31. A book that has the same title as a song
32. A book about a subject your are passionate about
33. A book that discusses body positivity
34. A book found on a Black Lives Matter reading list
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
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
40. Your favorite prompt from a past PopSugar Reading Challenge

Advanced Prompts

1. The longest book (by pages) on your TBR list
2. The shortest book (by pages) on your TBR list
3. The book on your TBR list with the prettiest cover
4. The book on your TBR list with the ugliest cover
5. The book that’s been on your TBR list for the longest amount of time
6. A book from your TBR list you meant to read last year but didn’t
7. A book from your TBR list you associate with a favorite person, place, or thing
8. A book from your TBR list chosen at random
9. A DNF from your TBR list
10. A free book from your TBR list (gifted, borrowed, library)

50 States Book Challenge

This one might be a little harder. As I mentioned, it’s exactly what it sounds like. The goal is to read one book set in each of the fifty states. I don’t know how many I will get, but it will be fun to see at the end of the year.

For this challenge I am using a layout provided by Jules Buono from her website. If you aren’t familiar with her blog, I highly recommend checking it out for all kinds of awesome bookish content! Thanks for making these layouts, Jules!

Goodreads

In addition to these two challenges I will be tracking the number of books I read over on Goodreads. I’ve set a particularly low goal since I want to focus more on quality and less on quantity this year.

I’ll do check-ins on each of these challenges throughout the year as I track my progress.

Are you doing any reading challenges? Tell me about them in the comments!