Every Prompt in the 2025 Pop Sugar Reading Challenge

[@ameliabarlowbooks]

I love that you're such an ambassador for this challenge, it warms my heart!

[@PrettyPurplePolkaDots]

@@ameliabarlowbooks thank you 🥲🥲

[@scapegoat13]

Was really excited abt participating in the 2025 popsugar challenge after being disencouraged by this year's list bcs of prompts like the kpop one (i simply wont read ir bcs i kmow i won't enjoy it) and they come up with this last line prompt. I refuse to be spoiled by the last line in a book for a reading challenge 😭

[@PrettyPurplePolkaDots]

Totally get what you mean, sometimes they really give the game away. You could fit in a re-read here though?

[@ToCoziesAndBeyond]

I have not looked at the PopSugar list in so long. This one seems interesting. I have thought of a few books on my shelves that I keep meaning to get to that fit this list. Thanks for going over this!

[@PrettyPurplePolkaDots]

@ToCoziesAndBeyond you're so welcome! It seems like this year is a bit more open than last year at least

[@CulinaryCrime]

I have already read the resort recommendations because I love a romance set at a resort apparently. 😂 I will be reading the thriller The Guest List for that one.

[@PrettyPurplePolkaDots]

That's also such a great book! Not just cos it has an Aoife in it

[@jimsbooksreadingandstuff]

Good luck with the challenge, Aoife. For a book in the title, there is 'Not in my Book' by Katie Holt, which sounds a bit like Beach Read, as it is about two rival authors, who are forced to write a book together, it comes out on December 10th, I read the e-ARC.

[@PrettyPurplePolkaDots]

@@jimsbooksreadingandstuff oooh that sounds rather like my kind of book!

[@jimsbooksreadingandstuff]

@@PrettyPurplePolkaDots I enjoyed it and I don't usually read contemporary fiction. I now have Beach Read on my December TBR for comparison.

[@rosebud7233]

A couple recommendations. For the dystopian book with a happy ending, I would say that the space between worlds has a happy ending. For number 50, good night Tokyo.

[@PrettyPurplePolkaDots]

@@rosebud7233 you're an absolute star!

[@rosebud7233]

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[@sonnymc4677]

The Opposite of You by Rachel Higginson is a great food truck book.

[@PrettyPurplePolkaDots]

@@sonnymc4677 Oh awesome! Definitely going on the list, thank you!

[@CulinaryCrime]

For books set here in Canada, I love Carley Fortune or Hannah Bonham Young. :)

[@PrettyPurplePolkaDots]

@@CulinaryCrime Oh awesome! Thank you 🥰

[@rebeccafisher6334]

Educated by Tara Westover definitely has stuff about homeschooling. In general a lot of memoirs by people who group in fundamentalist communities could probably count

[@PrettyPurplePolkaDots]

Oh that's very true, there'll be heaps of those to check out!

[@ina_loves_books]

The Storygraph is going to help me with so many of these! 😄 But I think I'll skip a few (e.g. bad Goodreads rating)

[@dg_reads]

I skipped Popsugar last year because it did seem too specific. I will definitely be adding at least some of these to my plan for the year.

[@PrettyPurplePolkaDots]

@@dg_reads i feel like the prompts are mouch more open this year!

[@dg_reads]

@PrettyPurplePolkaDots agreed! There are a few I'm not sure I'd hit (food truck?) but there are a lot of really interesting ones!

[@nox_reads]

Instead of going for an AI chatbot, I think I'll be going through the "similar reads" feature on Storygraph OR the program my library has where it recommends books based on what I show interest in!

[@nox_reads]

Also, a middle grade book that I LOVED that featured a food truck was The Takeout by Tracy Badua!

[@PrettyPurplePolkaDots]

Oh that's a great idea!

[@PrettyPurplePolkaDots]

I'll have to check that out, thank you ❤️

[@moodreader3302]

I read 29 books for the 2024 challenge before I gave up. Some prompts I didn't liked & some I didn't get to. We'll see how 2025 go. :)

[@PrettyPurplePolkaDots]

@@moodreader3302 hopefully it works out a lot better!

[@WhatVictoriaRead]

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[@PrettyPurplePolkaDots]

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[@MikkiandtheMouse]

A book that features an unlikely friendship is a prompt I'm looking forward to, I'm going to use Mornings with Rosemary by Libby Page, which was on my TBR for this year but that I never got around to reading. I was dreading reading the Goodreads book rated below 3 stars, but after asking in the Facebook group, someone mentioned the horrible cheesy erotica out there and so Chuck Tingle here I come!

[@PrettyPurplePolkaDots]

@@MikkiandtheMouse truly there is always a Chuck Tingle book to save the day 😅 the hero we didn't know we needed.