POPSUGAR Reading Challenge 2020

 POPSUGAR Reading Challenge 2020 

I did it! I know this might not sound like a big thing for many who read this, but for me, it's not a small feat. I have been trying to cultivate a regular and healthy reading habit for a couple of years now. 

My romance with reading started while I was a young girl in grade 6 or 7. Our School library was like a slice of heaven for me. I was so often present in the library that the librarian has often used my help to create Library Catalog Cards even!

My relationship with books has been the on and off kind since I left school. There were times when I could read only 2 or 3 books in a year. That number has been slowly increasing for the past few years. I decided it was time for me to really experiment with my reading skills. I have since the past two years picked up books from all kinds of genres.

I am still in awe of people who manage to read 100+ books a year. I have a migraine issue, so too much reading triggers that as well. So a cool 68 books so far in 2020 is not bad at all for a person like me. Right?

So here is my POPSUGAR 2020 List with my ratings of them :

	POPSUGAR 2020 Prompt	Book for the prompt	Rating	Fiction/ Non-Fiction
1	A book that's published in 2020	One of is Next - Karen McManus	4	FICTION
2	A book by a trans or nonbinary author	If I Was Your Girl - Meredith Russo	4	FICTION
3	A book with a great first line	khhullam khulla - Rishi Kapoor	4	NON-FICTION
4	A book about a book club	The End of your life book club - Will Schwalbe	3	FICTION
5	A book set in a city that has hosted the Olympics	The Scarlet Pimpernel - Baroness Emmuska Orczy	5	FICTION
6	A bildungsroman	Puma: A Soldier's Dog - Richa Kashyap	4	FICTION
7	The first book you touch on a shelf with your eyes closed	The 5 Love Languages  - Gary Chapman	4	NON-FICTION
8	A book with an upside-down image on the cover	The Secret Language of Sisters - Luanne Rice	4	FICTION
9	A book with a map	A good Girl's Guide To Murder - Holly Jackson	5	FICTION
10	A book recommended by your favourite blog, vlog, podcast, or online book club	You Beneath Your Skin - Damyanti Biswas	4	FICTION
11	An anthology	Eight Detectives - Alex Pavesi	4	FICTION
12	A book that passes the Bechdel test	Anxious People - Fredrik Backman	5	FICTION
13	A book with the same title as a movie or TV show but is unrelated to it	Postscript - Cecelia Ahern	5	FICTION
14	A book by an author with flora or fauna in their name	The monk who sold his Ferrari - Robin Sharma	4	NON-FICTION
15	A book about or involving social media	One of us is Lying - Karen McManus	4	NON-FICTION
16	A book that has a book on the cover	Book Love - Debbie Tung	4	NON-FICTION
17	A medical thriller	Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro	4	FICTION
18	A book with a made-up language	Ella Minnow Pea - Mark Dunn	5	FICTION
19	A book set in a country beginning with "C"	Tao Te Ching - Stephen Mitchell	3	NON-FICTION
20	A book you picked because the title caught your attention	The Curry Coast - Binoo. K . John	4	NON-FICTION
21	A book published the month of your birthday	The colours of Passion - Saurabh Mukerjee	4	FICTION
22	A book about or by a woman in STEM	Along Came A Spyder - Apeksha Rao	3	FICTION
23	A book that won an award in 2019	Red, White and Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston	3	NON-FICTION
24	A book on a subject you know nothing about	Mental Health: Reduce Anxiety and Discover - Adam Giola	4	NON-FICTION
25	A book with only words on the cover, no images or graphics	The 12-week Fitness Project - Rujuta Diwekar	4	NON-FICTION
26	A book with a pun in the title	The wedding Tamasha - Sudha Nair	3	FICTION
27	A book featuring one of the seven deadly sins	Love in Agartha - Sundari Venkatraman	4	FICTION
28	A book with a robot, cyborg, or AI character	The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams	5	FICTION
29	A book with a bird on the cover	A week in Winter - Maeve Binchy	3	FICTION
30	A fiction or nonfiction book about a world leader	My Story - Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum	5	NON-FICTION
31	A book with "gold," "silver," or "bronze" in the title	Silver Blaze - Conan Doyle	5	FICTION
32	A book by a woman of colour	The One You Cannot Have - Preeti Shenoy	5	NON-FICTION
33	A book with at least a four-star rating on Goodreads	About That Summer - Sudha Nair	4	NON-FICTION
34	A book you meant to read in 2019	Telling Lies - L.A Dobbs	4	FICTION
35	A book with a three-word title	The Nameless relationship - Preeti Shenoy	4	FICTION
36	A book with a pink cover	May Day - Jess Lourey	4	FICTION
37	A Western	News of the World- Paulette Jiles	5	FICTION
38	A book by or about a journalist	Born A Crime - Trevor Noah	4	NON-FICTION
39	Read a banned book during Banned Books Week	And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie	5	FICTION
40	Your favourite prompt from a past POPSUGAR Reading Challenge	Muffins & Murder - Heather Justesen	3	FICTION
41	A book written by an author in their 20s	My TIME, My Tales - Siddharth Joshi	3	FICTION
42	A book with "20" or "twenty" in the title	20 thousand leagues under the sea- Jules Verne	3	FICTION
43	A book with a character with a vision impairment or enhancement (a nod to 20/20 vision)	The Blind Lady’s Descendants - Anees Salim	4	FICTION
44	A book set in the 1920s	The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - Agatha Christie	5	FICTION
45	A book set in Japan, host of the 2020 Olympics	Ikigai: The Japanese secret to a long and happy life - Héctor García	5	NON-FICTION
46	A book by an author who has written more than 20 books	June Bug - Jess Lourey	4	FICTION
47	A book with more than 20 letters in its title	Is everyone hanging out without me - Mindy Kaling	3	NON-FICTION
48	A book published in the 20th century	How to stop worrying and Start Living - Dale Carnegie	3	NON-FICTION
49	A book from a series with more than 20 books	The Secret of the Old Clock: 80th Anniversary Limited Edition - Carolyn Keene	5	FICTION
50	A book with a main character in their 20s	The Wife Between Us - Greer Hendricks, Sarah Pekkanen	4	FICTION