Book Challenge End-of-the-Year Wrap-Up by A Book Wanderer

My Popsugar Reading Challenge Wrap-Up for 2024

Hello Readers! This was my seventh year to participate in the Popsugar Reading Challenge, and I barely made it happen this year. I typically only allow myself to cheat with a few short stories or children’s books for those prompts that are extra hard for me to fulfill, but this year I ended up reading 17 of them to cross the finish line. I decided it was more important for me to feel like I completed it, plus I discovered several new authors in the process.

You can see what I originally planned to read in My Popsugar Reading Challenge for 2024 post. After comparing my original and finished list, I only managed to read 12 out of the 50 books I had planned. And some books I’d planned were moved to other prompts where they fit better. But I read less ARCs than I typically do (I guess that happens when you read 40 less books in a year) and used Libby more, so I count those as wins! I’m already excited about the 2025 challenge prompts, so now I’m focused on a fresh start!

Let’s see what books I read!

  • My favorite prompt: A book with a neurodivergent main character. I was excited to see this prompt at the beginning of the year and then equally excited when I realized I’d read several books that would easily fulfill this prompt.
  • My least favorite prompt: A book about K-pop. I have nothing agains K-pop, it’s just not a genre of music I’m interested in, and it tends to be mostly young adult books that feature it. I ended up reading a novella to fulfill it, and it was not one I enjoyed.
  • My hardest prompt to fulfill: Definitely A book about K-pop, as well.
  • A prompt I hope to see again: A book set in a travel destination on your bucket list!

(Link to synopsis on Goodreads through the book title.)

  • ✅ prompt / 06 A book about pirates – Namesake (The World of the Narrows, #2) by Adrienne Young
  • ✅ prompt / 07 A book about women’s sports and/or by a woman athlete – Even if it Breaks Your Heart by Erin Hahn (My Review)
  • ✅ prompt / 08 A book by a blind or visually impaired author – Check & Mate by Ali Hazelwood
  • ✅ prompt / 09 A book by a deaf or hard-of-hearing author – Mooncakes by Suzanne Walker and Wendy Xu
  • ✅ prompt / 10 A book by a self-published author – Savor It by Tarah DeWitt (My Review)
  • ✅ prompt / 21 A book that came out in a year that ends in “24” – The Getaway List by Emma Lord (My Review)
  • ✅ prompt / 22 A book that centers on video games – Summer Frost (Forward Collection, #2) by Blake Crouch
  • ✅ prompt / 23 A book that features dragons – Matthew’s Dragon by Susan Cooper and Jos. A. Smith
  • ✅ prompt / 24 A book that takes place over the course of 24 hours – Big Bad by Chandler Baker
  • ✅ prompt / 25 A book that was published 24 years ago – Riding the Bullet by Stephen King
  • ✅ prompt / 26 A book that was turned into a musical – Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1) by John Steinbeck
  • ✅ prompt / 27 A book where someone dies in the first chapter – Nightbloom by Peace Adzo Medie (My Review)
  • ✅ prompt / 28 A book with a main character who’s 42 years old – Funny Story by Emily Henry
  • ✅ prompt / 29 A book with a neurodivergent main character – Rules for Second Chances by Maggie North (My Review)
  • ✅ prompt / 30 A book with a one-word title you had to look up in a dictionary – Zikora by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  • ✅ prompt / 36 A book written by an incarcerated or formerly incarcerated person – The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde
  • ✅ prompt / 37 A book written during NaNaWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) – Wool (Wool, #1) by Hugh Howey
  • ✅ prompt / 38 A cozy fantasy book – A Fragile Enchantment by Allison Saft (My Review)
  • ✅ prompt / 39 A fiction book by a trans or nonbinary author – Heartstopper: Volume 5 by Alice Oseman
  • ✅ prompt / 40 A horror book by a BIPOC author – The Backbone of the World (Trespass collection, #3)by Stephen Graham Jones

Advanced Prompts

Did you participate in the Popsugar Reading Challenge last year? Did we read any of the same books? Let me know in the comments!

Happy Wandering!

3 thoughts on “My Popsugar Reading Challenge Wrap-Up for 2024”

  2. I’ve been eyeing getting The Getaway List and Even If It Breaks Your Heart from the library and I just might after checking out your reviews for them.

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  3. Wow, congrats on getting all of the prompts completed! Some of the 2024 POPSUGAR prompts were hard enough that I couldn’t think of anything for them. (I will sometimes see what books I have that can fit a challenge, even if I’m not participating in the challenge myself.) Good luck with the 2025 edition!

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