A book published in 2020
10 Things I Hate About Pinky by Sandhya Menon

A book by a trans or non-binary author
If I Was Your Girl by Meredith Russo

A book with a great first line
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

A book about a book club
The Secret, Book & Scone Society by Ellery Adams

A book set in a city that has hosted the Olympics
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

A bildungsroman
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

The first book I touch on a shelf with my eyes closed
The Call of the Wild by Jack London

A book with an upside-down image on the cover
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides

A book with a map
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster

A book recommended by a blog, vlog, podcast, or online book club
Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston

An anthology
Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein

A book that passes the Bechdel test
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

A book with the same title as a movie or TV show but is unrelated to it
Royals by Rachel Hawkins

A book by an author with flora or fauna in their name
Mr. Penumbra’s 24-hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan

A book published the month of your birthday
The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern

A book about or by a woman in STEM
The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum by Temple Grandin

A book that won an award in 2019
Sadie by Courtney Summers

A book on a subject I know nothing about
A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking

A book with only words on the cover – no images or graphics
Room by Emma Donoghue


A book with a pun in the title
On Thin Icing by Ellie Alexander

A book featuring one of the seven deadly sins
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

A book with a robot, cyborg, or AI character
Gone Rogue by Marissa Meyer

A book with a bird on the cover
The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater

A fiction or nonfiction book about a world leader
The Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison Weir

A book with ‘gold’, ‘silver’, or ‘bronze’ in the title
The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman

A book by a WOC
On the Come Up by Angie Thomas

A book with at least a four-star rating on Goodreads
Emma by Jane Austen

A book I meant to read in 2019
Psycho by Robert Bloch

A book about or involving social media
Tweet Cute by Emma Lord

A book that has a book on the cover
Book Girl by Sarah Clarkson

A medical thriller
Postmortem by Patricia Cornwell

A book with a made-up language
The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien

A book set in a country beginning with C
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck

A book I picked because the title caught my attention
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt

A book with a three-word title

A book with a pink cover
The Merciless by Danielle Vega

A Western
All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy

A book by or about a journalist
Dopesick by Beth Macy

Read a banned book during Banned Books Week
The Adventures of Captain Underpants by Dav Pilkey

My favorite prompt from a past POPSUGAR reading challenge
The Color Purple by Alice Walker

A book written by an author in their 20s
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

A book with “20” or “twenty” in the title
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

A book with a character with a vision impairment or enhancement
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

A book set in Japan, host of the 2020 Olympics
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

A book set in the 1920s
The Diviners by Libba Bray

A book by an author who has written more than 20 books
The Clue of the Black Keys by Carolyn Keene

A book with more than 20 letters in its title
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg

A book published in the 20th century
Lord of the Flies by William Golding

A book from a series with more than 20 books
The Clue of the Tapping Heels by Carolyn Keene

A book with a main character in their 20s
Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell

Wish me luck, Maggie