So I decided to "DNF" 2016 Reading Challenge completely and not waste my time on it anymore. And concentrate on 2017 instead. As a result out of 40 prompts I completed 36 and not going to read the last 4 in 2018, but start a new 2018 challenge.
2017 Popsugar Ultimate Reading Challenge
1. A book recommended by a librarian - A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler (completed in March)
2. A book that's been on your TBR list for way too long - About a Boy by Nick Hornby (completed in May)
3. A book of letters - Love Virtually by Daniel Glattauer (completed in September)
4. An audiobook - The Diviners by Libba Bray (completed in October)
5. A book by a person of color - Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon (completed in October)
6. A book with one of the four seasons in the title - Strawberry Spring by Stephen King (completed in December)
7. A book that is a story within a story - A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness (completed in August)
8. A book with multiple authors - The Making of Pride and Prejudice by Sue Birtwistle, Sue Conklin, Susie Conklin (completed in September)
9. An espionage thriller - Eagle Trap by Geoffrey Archer (completed in November)
10. A book with a cat on the cover -
11. A book by an author who uses a pseudonym - The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith; pseudonym for J.K. Rowling (completed in August)
12. A bestseller from a genre you don't normally read - Blankets by Craig Thompson (completed in April)
13. A book by or about a person who has a disability - All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (completed in November)
14. A book involving travel - Holy Cow by David Duchovny (completed in February)
15. A book with a subtitle - I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai (completed in December)
16. A book that's published in 2017
17. A book involving a mythical creature - Dogheaders by Alexej Marvin (completed in May)
18. A book you've read before that never fails to make you smile - Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov (completed in April)
19. A book about food - Shark's Fin And Sichuan Pepper by Fuchsia Dunlop (completed 12/8)
20. A book with career advice - Scrappy Little Nobody by Anna Kendrick (completed in February)
21. A book from a nonhuman perspective - If I Stay by Gayle Forman (completed in September)
22. A steampunk novel -
23. A book with a red spine - The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman (completed in August)
24. A book set in the wilderness - The Martian by Andy Weir (completed in May)
25. A book you loved as a child - Asya by Ivan Turgenev (completed in March)
26. A book by an author from a country you've never visited - A Slow Boat to China by Haruki Murakami (completed in March)
27. A book with a title that's a character's name - Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Thief by Maurice Leblanc (completed in September)
28. A novel set during wartime - The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas (completed in September)
29. A book with an unreliable narrator - Under The Skin by Michel Faber (completed in February)
30. A book with pictures - A Bear Called Paddington by Michael Bond (completed in September)
31. A book where the main character is a different ethnicity than you - All You Need Is Kill by Hiroshi Sakurazaka (completed in July)
32. A book about an interesting woman - The Ocean by Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa (completed in September)
33. A book set in two different time periods - Blood Ties by Samantha Hayes (completed in August)
34. A book with a month or day of the week in the title - Goodnight June by Sarah Jio (completed in September)
35. A book set in a hotel - The Archived by Victoria Schwab (completed in September)
36. A book written by someone you admire - Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (completed in October)
37. A book that's becoming a movie in 2017 - The Circle by Dave Eggers (completed in October)
38. A book set around a holiday other than Christmas -
39. The first book in a series you haven't read before - Hornet's Nest by Patricia Cornwell (completed in December)
40. A book you bought on a trip - The Son by Jo Nesbo (completed in August)
So the below prompts are left incompleted:
10. A book with a cat on the cover
16. A book that's published in 2017
22. A steampunk novel
38. A book set around a holiday other than Christmas
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