All of these are subject to change, because I am a fickle beast and regularly change my mind.
- A book becoming a movie in 2019
- Pet Semetary—Stephen King
- A book set in space
- A book that makes you nostalgic
- The Westing Game—Ellen Raskin
- A book written by a musician (fiction or nonfiction)
- Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl—Carrie Brownstein
- A book by two female authors
- A book with a title that contains “salty,” “sweet,” “bitter,” or “spicy”
- Sweetbitter—Stephanie Danler
- A book that you think should be turned into a movie
- The Queen of the Night—Alexander Chee
- A book set in Scandinavia
- The Girl Who Played with Fire—Stieg Larsson
- A book with at least one million ratings on Goodreads
- A book with a plant in the title or on the cover
- Blanca y Roja—Anna-Marie McLemore
- A book that takes place in a single day
- Run—Ann Patchett
- A debut novel
- The Lilac Girls—Martha Hall Kelly
- A book that’s published in 2019
- Forget You Know Me—Jessica Strawser
- A book featuring an extinct or imaginary creature
- A Wrinkle in Time—Madeline L’Engle
- A reread of a favorite book
- A book about a hobby
- A book you meant to read in 2018
- A Little Life—Hanya Yanagihara
- A book with “pop,” “sugar,” or “challenge” in the title
- A book with an item of clothing or accessory on the cover
- A book recommended by a celebrity you admire
- The Deep—Nick Cutter (Recommended by Stephen King)
- A book with “love” in the title
- Love Child—Shelia Kohler
- A book featuring an amateur detective
- A book about a family
- Homegoing—Yaa Gasi
- A book written by an author from Africa, Asia, or South America
- Boy, Snow, Bird—Helen Oyeyemi (Africa/Nigeria)
- A book published posthumously
- The Opposite of Loneliness—Marina Keegan
- A book inspired by mythology, legend, or folklore
- Song of Achilles—Madeline Miller
- A book with a zodiac sign or astrology term in the title
- Zodiac—Robert Graysmith
- A book that includes a wedding
- The Bride Test—Helen Hoang
- A book you see someone reading in a TV show or in a movie
- Cujo—Stephen King
- A retelling of a classic
- Eligible—Curtis Sittenfeld
- A book by an author whose first and last names start with the same letter
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest—Ken Kasey
- A book with a question in the title
- Where’d You Go Bernadette—Maria Semple
- A book set on a college or university campus
- The Art of Fielding—Chad Harbach
- A book about someone with a superpower
- Bruja Born—Zoraida Córdova
- A book told from multiple POVs
- A ghost story
- The Remains of the Day—Kazuo Ishiguro
- A book with a two-word title
- Little Darlings—Melanie Golding
- A novel based on a true story
- See What I Have Done—Sarah Schmidt
- A book revolving around a puzzle or a game
- The Book of Speculation—Erika Swyler
- A past Popsugar Challenge prompt (you can choose your own!)—a book set in the wilderness
- Wild—Cheryl Strayed
Advanced
Lord help me if I get to all of these.
- A cli-fi (climate fiction) book
- Gold Fame Citrus—Claire Vaye Watkins
- A Choose Your Own Adventure Book
- To Be or Not to Be—Ryan North
- An #ownvoices book
- Love, Hate, and Other Filters—Samira Ahmed
- Read a book during the season it’s set in
- A LitRPG book
- Catharsis—Travis Bagwell
- A book with no chapters or unusual headings or unconventional numbering
- Two books with the same title
- A Place for Us—Fatima Farheen Mirza
- A Place for Us—Liza Gyllenhaal
- A book that inspired a common phrase or idiom
- Othello—Shakespeare (jealousy as a green-eyed monster)
- A book set in an abbey, cloister, monastery, vicarage, or convent