I just completed the 2016 PopSugar Reading Challenge. It was a great way to read books in different categories than I might typically read. I’ll definitely be doing another reading challenge in 2017. Here is the wrap-up of the categories and what I read each for them. I hope you’ll find inspiration for your reading in 2017!

A book based on a fairy tale: Swept Away by Vanessa Riley

A National Book Award winner: Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

A YA bestseller: The Maze Runner by James Dashner

A book you haven’t read since high school (I don’t really like re-reading books, so I changed this category to A book you should have read in high school): Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

A book set in your home state: In Cold Storage: Sex and Murder on the Plains by James W. Hewitt

A book translated into English: Young Babylon by Lu Nei

A romance set in the future: Sleeping Embers of an Ordinary Mind by Anne Charnock

A book set in Europe: Trust To A Degree by Horst Christian

A book that’s under 150 pages: The Side Hustle Path: 10 Proven Ways to Make Money Outside of Your Day Job (Volume 1) by Nick Loper

A New York Times bestseller: Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II by Robert Kurson

A book that’s becoming a movie this year: The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins

A book recommended by someone you just met: The Light Years by Elizabeth Jane Howard

A self-improvement book: More or Less: Choosing a Lifestyle of Excessive Generosity by Jeff Shinabarger

A book you can finish in a day: The Third Reich: Adolf Hitler, Nazi Germany, World War II And The Last German Empire by Frank D. Kennedy

A book written by a celebrity: Mentoring Matters: What Every Mentor Needs to Know by Tom Osborne

A political memoir: Things That Matter: Three Decades of Passions, Pastimes and Politics by Charles Krauthammer

A book at least 100 years older than you are: The Adventures of Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

A book that’s more than 600 pages: Ben-Hur by Lew Wallace

A book from Oprah’s Book Club: Paradise by Toni Morrison

A science-fiction novel: The Death Cure by James Dashner

A book recommended by a family member: Wreckage by Emily Bleeker

A graphic novel: Marvels by Kurt Busiek and Alex Ross

A book that is published in 2016: The Moonlit Garden by Corina Bormann

A book with a protagonist who has your occupation: Rogue Lawyer by John Grisham

A book that takes place during Summer: Marking Time by Elizabeth Jane Howard

A book and its prequel: The Fever Code by James Dashner

A murder mystery: The Butterfly Garden by Dot Hutchison

A book written by a comedian: Modern Romance: An Investigation by Aziz Ansari and Eric Klinenberg

A dystopian novel: The Scorch Trials by James Dashner

A book with a blue cover: Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

A book of poetry: Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda

The first book you see in a bookstore: The Magician’s Lie by Greer Macallister

A classic from the 20th century: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F. Scott Fitzgerald

A book from the library: The Road by Cormac McCarthy

An autobiography: Stars Upside Down: a memoir of travel, grief, and an incandescent God by Jennie Goutet

A book about a road trip: On the Road by Jack Kerouac

A book about a culture you’re unfamiliar with: Daughter of Fortune by Isabelle Allende

A satirical book: Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach

A book that takes place on an island: A Brief History of Montmaray by Michelle Cooper

A book that’s guaranteed to bring you joy: After the War Is Over by Jennifer Robson