2017 Popsugar Reading Challenge - Finished!

I finished the Popsugar reading challenge! 52 books down!

1. a book recommended by a librarian - The Rithmatist by Brandon Sanderson

2. a book that's been on your TBR list for way too long - Up A Road Slowly by Irene Hunt

3. a book of letters - The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis

4. an audiobook - Coraline by Neil Gaiman

5. a book by a person of color - Swimming in the Monsoon Sea by Shyam Selvadurai

6. a book with one of the four seasons in the title - A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare

7. a book that is a story within a story - Fire and Hemlock by Diana Wynne Jones

8. a book with multiple authors - Troll's Eye View by Ellen Datlow

9. an espionage thriller - Angelmass by Timothy Zahn
10. a book with a cat on the cover - The Hallowed Hunt by Lois McMaster Bujold

11. a book by an author who uses a pseudonym - Who Could That Be At This Hour? by Lemony Snicket

12. a bestseller from a genre you don't normally read - Through the Woods by Emily Carroll

13. a book by or about a person who has a disability - Look Me in the Eye by John Elder Robison

14. a book involving travel - Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

15. a book with a subtitle - Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond

16. a book that's published in 2017 - By Your Side by Kasie West

17. a book involving a mythical creature - Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin

18. a book you've read before that never fails to make you smile - I Will Surprise My Friend! by Mo Willems

19. a book about food - Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky

20. a book with career advice - Leadership and Self-Deception by Arbinger Institute

21. a book from a nonhuman perspective - White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi

22. a steampunk novel - Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare

23. a book with a red spine - Shade's Children by Garth Nix

24. a book set in the wilderness - Breaking Trail by Arlene Blum

25. a book you loved as a child - Holes by Louis Sachar

26. a book by an author from a country you've never visited - What is Chemistry? by Peter Atkins

27. a book with a title that's a character's name - The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

28. a novel set during wartime - A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

29. a book with an unreliable narrator - Made You Up by Francesca Zappia

30. a book with pictures - Tales of Mystery and Madness by Edgar Allen Poe

31. a book where the main character is a different ethnicity than you - The Color Purple by Alice Walker

32. a book about an interesting woman - Florence Nightingale by Catherine Reef

33. a book set in two different time periods - Kindred by Octavia Butler

34. a book with a month or a day of the week in the title - The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton

35. a book set in a hotel - At Bertram's Hotel by Agatha Christie

36. a book written by someone you admire - I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai

37. a book that's becoming a movie in 2017 - Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon

38. a book set around a holiday other than Christmas - Herschel and the Hanukkah Goblins by Eric Kimmell

39. The first book in a series you haven't read before - Gone by Michael Grant

40. a book you bought on a trip - Shadow on the Mountain by Margi Preus

Advanced

1. a book recommended by an author you love - Sunshine by Robin McKinley

2. a bestseller from 2016 - When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

3. a book with a family member term in the title - The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother by James McBride

4. a book that takes place over a character's lifetime - The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest Gaines

5. a book about an immigrant or refugee - Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai

6. a book from a genre/subgenre you've never heard of - The Number Devil by Hans Enzenberger

7. a book with an eccentric character - The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chobsky

8. a book that's more than 800 pages - The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

9. a book you got from a used book sale - Nights in Rodanthe by Nicholas Sparks

10. a book that's been mentioned in another book - A Separate Peace by John Knowles

11. a book about a difficult topic - Orbiting Jupiter by Gary Schmidt

12. a book based on mythology - The Heavenward Path by Kara Dalkey

November Reading Challenge

A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare (a book with one of the four seasons in the title)
Shakespeare has never been one of my favorites, but I had a lot of fun reading this play out loud to myself. It's funny, wild, and the way it's written is grand! 

Also read, but not for the challenge:
Cinder by Marissa Meyer
An engaging fairy tale remix with cyborgs, plagues, and "princesses"! I thought this book was really fun, and I can't wait to read the next ones.

The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness
This book sounds insane when you're trying to describe it to someone. It really wasn't my piece of cake (a little nonsensical at times), but an interesting plot that never stops moving.

Midnight for Charlie Bone by Jenny Nimmo
A childish book with a bit of a silly plotline. Probably not bad if you're, like, 8, but boring for a 22-year-old.