My aunt Mary creates a book challenge every year and I thought this year I’d post it to this thread and see if anyone has any gray recommendations for her many categories.
100 books based on this list of prompts:
A book with the word “leap” in the title
A bildungsroman
About a 24-year-old
About a writer
About K-pop
About pirates
About women’s sports and/or by a woman athlete
By a blind or visually impaired author
By a deaf or hard-of-hearing author
By a self-published author
Genre you typically avoid
From an animal’s POV
Originally published under a pen name
Recommended by a bookseller
Recommended by a librarian
Set 24 years before you were born
Set in a travel destination on your bucket list
Set in space
Set in the future
Set in the snow
Came out in a year that ends with “24”
Centers on video games
Features dragons
Takes place over the course of 24 hours
Was published 24 years ago
Was turned into a musical
Where someone dies in the first chapter
A main character who’s 42 years old
A neurodivergent main character
A one-word title you had to look up in a dictionary
A title that is a complete sentence
An enemies-to-lovers plot
An unreliable narrator
At least three POVs
Magical realism
Written by an incarcerated or formerly incarcerated person
Written during NaNoWriMo
Cozy fantasy book
By a trans or nonbinary author
A horror book by a BIPOC author
Memoir that explores queerness
Nonfiction book about Indigenous people
Second-chance romance
An autobiography by a woman in rock ‘n’ roll
An LGBTQ+ romance novel
A character sleeps for more than 24 hours
24 letters in the title
Collection of at least 24 poems
The 24th book of an author
Starts with the letter “X”
Based on a popular movie
Started out as fan fiction
One character is a pet
About a holiday (not Christmas)
Alliterative title
A palindromic title
Has a parallel reality
Set in sister cities (twin towns)
Has a mirror on the cover
Written by an author in their 20s
Set in 1900-1909
Set in 1910-1919
Set in 1920-1929
Set in 1930-1939
Set in 1940-1949
Set in 1950-1959
Set in 1960-1969
Set in 1970-1979
Set in 1980-1989
Set in 1990-1999
Set in a University
Book that shares a title with other book
Book that shares a title with other book
Set in an abbey, cloister, monastery, or convent
Climate fiction
Titie i an idiom
Became a movie in 2019
Nostalgia
Written by a musician
Plant on the cover
About a hobby
inspired by mythology or legend
Retelling of a classic
Title is a question
Puzzle or game in the main plot
Novel based on a true story
Author’s first and last name begin with same letter
Set in Caribbean
Set in Central or South America
Set in Central Asia
Set in Southeast Asia
Set in Oceana
Set in Sub-Saharan Africa
Set in North Africa
Set in the Middle East
Set in Eastern Europe
Strange History or Microhistory
The Year Spent doing something
Virtual Reality Based
You Read a Book about What?
Edit: made it a readable list
by ErinPrange