So how did I do this year in retrospectively completing the POPSUGAR reading challenge? Not too bad, as long as I'm able to use books in more than one category. I've left blank the categories that I don't think I covered.

A book published in 2021 - Damascus Station (David McCloskey) and A Desolation Called Peace (Arkady Martine)

An Afrofuturist book

A book that has a heart, diamond, club, or spade on the cover

A book by an author that shares your zodiac sign - An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (P. D. James)

A dark academia book - We Ride Upon Sticks (Quan Barry) might count here, it is about witchcraft and a high school field hockey team after all

A book with a gem, mineral, or rock in the title - Flour Water Salt Yeast (Ken Forkish)

A book where the main character works at your current or dream job - A Beautiful Blue Death (Charles Finch), the main character is a gentleman sleuth

A book that has won the Women's Prize for Fiction - no winner, but I did read the shortlisted My Sister, The Serial Killer(Oyinkan Braithwaite) and Where'd You Go, Bernadette? (Maria Semple)

A book with a family tree

A bestseller from the 1990s - The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (Alexander McCall Smith, 1998)

A book about forgetting 

A book you have seen on someone else's bookshelf

A locked-room mystery

A book set in a restaurant - It's not really set at a restaurant, but Flour Water Salt Yeast has parts that talk about Forkish's bakery, so I'm counting it.

A book with a black and white cover - Lost and Gone Forever (Alex Grecian)

A book by an Indigenous author - Kaui Hart Hemmings, the author of The Descendants, is herself descended from a native Hawaiian woman who married a Protestant missionary, which I'm going to count.

A book that has the same title as a song - Gun Street Girl (Adrian McKinty, song by Tom Waits)

A book about a subject you are passionate about - I don't know if I'd say I'm passionate, but Sovietistan (Erika Fatland) did scratch a persistent itch I have regarding the Central Asian former Soviet republics.

A book that discusses body positivity - The Relentless Moon (Mary Robinette Kowal) has a character who is being treated for an eating disorder, but she has to keep it quiet as she could lose her job as an astronaut if it becomes public. 

A book found on a Black Lives Matter reading list

A genre hybrid - Interior Chinatown (Charles Yu) is my pick here, as it's had to ascribe to any one particular genre.

A book set mostly or entirely outdoors - Sweetness and Blood, Michael Scott Moore's book about surfing.

A book with something broken on the cover

A book by a Muslim American author 

A book that was published anonymously

A book with an oxymoron in the title - would A Desolation Called Peace (Arkady Martine) count here? Can desolation be peaceful?

A book about do-overs or fresh starts - I think The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (Alexander McCall Smith) fits here, as the main character gets a fresh start when she opens the agency.

A magical realism book

A book set in multiple countries - Sovietistan (Erika Fatland, writing about the five Cenral Asian countries formerly part of the Soviet Union)

A book set somewhere you'd like to visit in 2021 - Bruno and the Carol Singers (Martin Walker) - set in France, which I did actually go to in 2021.

A book by a blogger, vlogger, YouTube video creator, or other online personality - Turtles All the Way Down (John Green)

A book whose title starts with Q, X, or Z - Zen in the Art of Writing (Ray Bradbury)

A book featuring three generations (grandparent, parent, child) - Three generations are mentioned in Lost and Gone Forever (Alex Grecian), though saying they're featured may be reaching. Born a Crime (Trevor Noah) may be a better fit, assuming I'm not misremembering the presence of a grandparent.

A book about a social justice issue - Raise a Fist, Take a Knee (John Feinstein) tackled issues of racism and social justice in sports.

A book in a different format than what you would normally read - if we include audiobooks as reading, Paddle Your Own Canoe (Nick Offerman) would count here, as I almost never listen to audiobooks. 

A book that has fewer than 1000 reviews on Amazon or Goodreads - The Pigeon Tunnel (John Le Carre)

A book you think your best friend would like - I'm going with Born a Crime (Trevor Noah), which was recommended to me by my wife/best friend.

A book about art or an artist - Kirby: King of Comics (Mark Evanier) looked at the life of legendary comic book artist Jack Kirby.

A book everyone seems to have read but you - Normal People (Sally Rooney) seems like the best choice here, but A Visit From the Goon Squad (Jennifer Egan) or Cat's Cradle (Kurt Vonnegut) could also qualify.

Your favorite prompt from a past POPSUGAR reading challenge - going with a book set in Scandinavia, which is my favorite prompt because I have book that fits it that I've not used elsewhere, The Sandman (Lars Kepler)

ADVANCED

So I didn't go to my TBR list to choose books specifically for these items, but I'll list what I did read from my TBR that I think would otherwise meet the challenge.

The longest book (by pages) on your TBR list - Grant (Ron Chernow), which I'd been meaning to read since I read Hamilton.

The shortest book (by pages) on your TBR list - Probably The Education of David Stockman (William Greider), given its start as a magazine article.

The book on your TBR list with the prettiest cover - I don't remember most of the covers, but do recall liking the design on The Descendants. 

The book on your TBR list with the ugliest cover - 

The book that's been on your TBR list the longest amount of time - probably Cat's Cradle (Kurt Vonnegut), as I've been meaning to read more Vonnegut for a while

A book from your TBR list you meant to read last year but didn't - likely On the Plain of Snakes (Paul Theroux)

A book from your TBR list you associate with a favorite person, place, or thing - For the Love of Europe (Rick Steves) combines all of these, as I associate going to Europe with my favorite person, seeing some of my favorite places, and doing some of my favorite things.

A book from your TBR list chosen at random - 

A DNF book from your TBR list

A free book from your TBR list (gifted, borrowed, etc.) - most of the books I read were from the library, so let's pick one I haven't used yet, A Gentleman in Moscow (Amor Towles)