Photo illustration by Patricia O'Connor, courtesy of Popsugar

Sharing the annual Popsugar reading challenge for the upcoming year is usually pretty integral to my blog postings, but the end of 2023 was a bit hectic for me (iykyk), and I just never got around to it. So now it's 2025, and you can enjoy my 2024 reading recap. Keep an eye out for the 2025 Popsugar reading challenge post I'll have up here soon, so you can follow along with my 2025 reading updates. I, of course, share updates to Instagram more regularly than the blog itself.

2024 POPSUGAR Reading Challenge prompts

01. A book with the word "leap" in the title

02. A bildungsroman - Honey by Isabel Banta

03. A book about a 24-year-old 

04. A book about a writer - Middletide by Sarah Crouch

05. A book about K-pop 

06. A book about pirates - All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker

07. A book about women's sports and/or by a woman athlete - Cleat Cute by Meryl Wilsner

08. A book by a blind or visually impaired author - Murder Road by Simone St James

09. A book by a deaf or hard-of-hearing author 

10. A book by a self-published author

11. A book from a genre you typically avoid - Music is History by Questlove

12. A book from an animal's POV 

13. A book originally published under a pen name - Middle of the Night by Riley Sager

14. A book recommended by a bookseller - The God of the Woods by Liz Moore

15. A book recommended by a librarian - The Book of Doors by Gareth Brown

16. A book set 24 years before you were born - The Women by Kristin Hannah

17. A book set in a travel destination on your bucket list - The Fury by Alex Michaelides

18. A book set in space - Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

19. A book set in the future 

20. A book set in the snow - A Winter in New York by Josie Silver

21. A book that came out in a year that ends with "24" - Ready or Not by Cara Bastone

22. A book that centers on video games 

23. A book that features dragons 

24. A book that takes place over the course of 24 hours 

25. A book that was published 24 years ago 

26. A book that was turned into a musical - Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton

27. A book where someone dies in the first chapter - Yours Truly by Abby Jimenez

28. A book with a main character who's 42 years old 

29. A book with a neurodivergent main character - Yours Truly by Abby Jimenez

30. A book with a one-word title you had to look up in a dictionary 

31. A book with a title that is a complete sentence - She Started It by Sian Gilbert

32. A book with an enemies-to-lovers plot - Love, Theoretically by Ali Hazelwood

33. A book with an unreliable narrator - Stay Awake by Megan Goldin

34. A book with at least three POVs - She Started It by Sian Gilbert

35. A book with magical realism - This Spells Love by Kate Robb

36. A book written by an incarcerated or formerly incarcerated person 

37. A book written during NaNoWriMo 

38. A cozy fantasy book - The Wedding Witch by Erin Sterling

39. A fiction book by a trans or nonbinary author - This Delicious Death by Kayla Cottingham

40. A horror book by a BIPOC author -  We Don't Swim Here by Vincent Tirado

41. A memoir that explores queerness 

42. A nonfiction book about Indigenous people 

43. A second-chance romance - Part of Your World by Abby Jimenez

44. An autobiography by a woman in rock 'n' roll 

45. An LGBTQ+ romance novel - Cleat Cute by Meryl Wilsner

Advanced Prompts 

46. A book in which a character sleeps for more than 24 hours - The Clinic by Cate Quinn

47. A book with 24 letters in the title - The Things We Do to Our Friends by Heather Darwent

48. A collection of at least 24 poems 

49. The 24th book of an author - The Wedding Witch by Erin Sterling

50. A book that starts with the letter "X"

End result: 30 prompts completed of 50, including 3 advanced prompts (not bad!)