Edit: I made it! Scroll to the bottom of this page to see a list of all the books I read to finish this challenge
When looking at posts I’d previously written, I found my 2015 reading challenge. I’m actually doing the same challenge this year so I figured it might be fun to track it here!
Why I’m doing this challenge
The amount of books I read greatly differs per year
- 2014: 16 books
- 2015: 53 books
- 2016: 22 books
- 2017: 30 books
- 2018: 10 books

So 2015 was an amazing book year for me. The only thing I did differently in 2015 than the rest of the years? I did a book challenge. A book challenge can be anything, but I did the Pop Sugar book challenge, where you have 50 categories and try to read 1 book for every category. I’m tweaking the challenge so that I can put 1 book into multiple categories, but I’m also doing some extra challenges within this challenge this year.
I’m gonna read 50 books total and also:
– Read books that fit all 50 promps of the Popsugar Reading Challenge
– Read 25 books that were on my “to read” list before 2019
– Read 10 non-fiction books
– Read 10 books by Dutch authors
– Read 10 “own voices” books: books that have a main character who is part of marginalized group, where the writer is part of the same marginalized group
Progress
You can track my progress on my Goodreads page – be sure to befriend me if you’re also using Goodreads!
Last update date: 31 June 2019
2019 Popsugar Reading Challenge (50/50)
- A book becoming a movie in 2019 – The Hate U Give
- A book that makes you nostalgic – Matilda
- A book written by a musician (fiction or nonfiction) – Just Kids
- A book you think should be turned into a movie – The Graveyard book
- A book with at least one million ratings on Goodreads – The book thief
- A book with a plant in the title or on the cover – Flowers for algernon or The husband’s secret
- A reread of a favorite book – Matilda
- A book about a hobby – The book thief (reading)
- A book you meant to read in 2018 – Gedichten van de broer van Roos (borrowed from the library but didn’t read until January 1st)
- A book with POP, SUGAR, or CHALLENGE in the title – Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
- A book with an item of clothing or accessory on the cover – Cinder (has a shoe on the cover)
- A book inspired by myth/legend/folklore – Circe
- A book published posthumously – Het Achterhuis/Anne Frank’s Diary
- A book you see someone reading on TV or in a movie – Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Poussey’s favourite book in OITNB)
- A retelling of a classic – Cinder (retelling of Cinderella)
- A book with a question in the title – Where’d You Go Bernadette
- A book set on college or university campus – Norwegian Wood
- A book about someone with a superpower – Scarlet (spoiler: Cinder has Lunar powers)
- A book told from multiple POVs – Scarlet (Cinder&Thorne, Scarlet&Wolf)
- A book set in space – Scarlet (they’re on a spaceship)
- A book by two female authors – Lethal Affairs
- A book with SALTY, SWEET, BITTER, or SPICY in the title – Salt to the Sea
- A book set in Scandinavia – Björnstad/Beartown
- A book that takes place in a single day – The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
- A debut novel – Cinder (first book by Marissa Meyer)
- A book that’s published in 2019 – On the Come Up
- A book featuring an extinct or imaginary creature – Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (lots of them!)
- A book recommended by a celebrity you admire – Dracula
- A book with LOVE in the title – Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
- A book featuring an amateur detective – Murder at the Vicarage
- A book about a family – Het huis van de moskee
- A book author from Asia, Africa, or South America – Battle Royale (author is from Japan)
- A book with a zodiac sign or astrology term in title – Cinder (Lunar Chronicles)
- A book that includes a wedding – Het huis van de moskee
- A book by an author whose first and last names start with the same letter – Cinder (Marissa Meyer)
- A ghost story – The Graveyard book
- A book with a two-word title – Battle Royale
- A novel based on a true story – The Tattooist of Auschwitz
- A book revolving around a puzzle or game – Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
- Your favorite prompt from a past POPSUGAR Reading challenge – Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (for the prompt “unread childhood classic”)
- A “cli-fi” (climate fiction) book – American War
- A “choose-your-own-adventure” book – My Lady’s Choosing
- An “own voices” book – see seperate list below
- Read a book during the season it is set in – Murder on the orient express
- A LitRPG book – Ready Player One
- A book with no chapters / unusual chapter headings / unconventionally numbered chapters – Where’d You Go Bernadette
- Two books that share the same title – Het Achterhuis/Anne Frank’s Diary
- Two books that share the same title – Het Achterhuis/Anne Frank’s Diary: The Graphic Adaptation
- A book that has inspired a common phrase or idiom –
1984 - A book set in an abbey, cloister, monastery, vicarage, or convent –
Murder at the Vicarage
25 books from my to read list (Surpassed the 25 so I stopped counting)
- Gedichten van de broer van Roos
- Cinder
- Battle Royale
- Furiously Happy
- Murder on the Orient Express
- The gifts of imperfection
- The Graveyard book
- Wit is ook een kleur
- Men explain things to me
- Born a crime
- Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
- Het bestverkochte boek ooit*
- Where’d You Go Bernadette
- Flowers for Algernon
- The book thief
- The Year of Less
- The Girls
- Scrappy Little Nobody
- 1984
- Het kleine meisje van Meneer Linh
- Norwegian Wood
- Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
- Het Zero Waste Project
- Het Achterhuis
- Salt to the Sea
10 non-fiction books (Surpassed the 10 so I stopped counting)
- Gedichten van de broer van Roos
- Furiously Happy
- The gifts of imperfection
- Bezonken rood
- We should all be feminists
- Wit is ook een kleur
- Men explain things to me
- Born a crime
- Educated
- Het bestverkochte boek ooit*
10 Dutch authors (Surpassed the 10 so I stopped counting)
- Gedichten van de broer van Roos
- Het vertrek van de mier
- Het huis van de moskee
- Bezonken rood
- Wit is ook een kleur
- Het best verkochte boek ooit
- Linea recta naar het eind van je Latijn
- Het Zero Waste Project
- Het Achterhuis
- Hoe gaan we dit uitleggen?