Ultimate Popsugar Reading Challenge discussion

Given my memoir habit, this one should be easy. 11 of the 53 books I've read this year have subtitles. Most are memoirs but there were a few business books in there too.

Memoirs, biographies and true story books are all great for subtitles. I plan to read Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster

The three books that I have penciled in for this came from my to-read shelf:

There's More to Life Than This: Healing Messages, Remarkable Stories, and Insight About the Other Side from the Long Island Medium

You Can't Make This Stuff Up: Life-Changing Lessons from Heaven

If Someone Says "You Complete Me," Run!: Whoopi's Big Book of Relationships

Nonfiction is great for this, here are some options I'm considering:
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary

Some fiction options:
Alanna: The First Adventure
Romeo and/or Juliet: A Chooseable-Path Adventure
Eligible: A Modern Retelling of Pride and Prejudice
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale
One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories

I'm going to start off my year with Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person. Sounds like it will be a good read for the start of 2017 ;)

Other ones I noticed on my TBR,

Nonfiction~ pretty memoir heavy if that's your thing
Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"
Life As I Blow It: Tales Of Love, Life & Sex . . . Not Necessarily In That Order
Amazing Fantastic Incredible: A Marvelous Memoir
Madam Secretary: A Memoir
Humans of New York: Stories
Neil Patrick Harris: Choose Your Own Autobiography
Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
No More Dirty Looks: The Truth About Your Beauty Products and the Ultimate Guide to Safe and Clean Cosmetics
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
The Tudors: The Complete Story of England's Most Notorious Dynasty
A World Undone: The Story of the Great War, 1914 to 1918
Hamilton: The Revolution
I Like You Just the Way I Am: Stories About Me and Some Other People
Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination
You Can't Touch My Hair: And Other Things I Still Have to Explain

Fiction
The Exile: An Outlander Graphic Novel
Pretty Deadly, Vol. 1: The Shrike
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
His Good Opinion: A Mr. Darcy Novel

I'm planning a graphic novel marathon for myself on xmas day, and "Pretty Deadly" is on my list (along with Saga vol 6, the rest of Ex Machina, and the second Buffy season 8 book, and I've got a Sandman something or other sitting in the pile, not sure which one it is, maybe the rest of Nocturnes, and Bitch Planet vol 2 if it arrives in time!)

I read "Amazing, Fantastic, Incredible" this year for a memoir category in one of the challenges - boy, Stan Lee sure is impressed with himself ;-) ... but that's no surprise!

... Not that any of that had anything to do with subtitles! I just got excited when I saw "Pretty Deadly" on your list!!

Nadine wrote: "I'm planning a graphic novel marathon for myself on xmas day, and "Pretty Deadly" is on my list (along with Saga vol 6, the rest of Ex Machina, and the second Buffy season 8 book, and I've got a Sa..."

I have Saga, Volume 1 slotted for a genre you don't normally read! I have read some graphic novels, but I still much prefer a regular book. But my boyfriend sometimes recommends series he'll think I'll like. I also have the Charmed season 9 comics on my list!

I am hoping to get to The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics or Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption because I need both of these for a different challenge and I never got to them in 2016.

After reading some of your suggestions, I realize I have a few examples of this subject in my library.

1. Enduring Courage:Ace Pilot Eddie Rickenbacker and the Dawn of the Age of Speed

2. Outpost: Life on the Frontlines of American Diplomacy: A Memoir

3. Shame: How America’s Past Sins Have Polarized Our Country

4. Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America

Obviously there are lots of options here. One I'm considering is this book, because I'm super into classic Hollywood: Bright Boulevards, Bold Dreams: The Story of Black Hollywood

Sharmon wrote: "I am hoping to get to The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics or [book:Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience,..."

It is funny how we use the same books to fill different prompts. I've been wanting to read both of these, but I am putting them under different categories – The Boys in the Boat will be a red spine book whereas Unbroken is under a books set during the war, I think. I would have to check my list, but I'm looking forward to both of these books.

Hollow City: The Second Novel of Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children

or the third one. Maybe a stretch?!?!

I just got The Happiness Equation: Want Nothing + Do Anything = Have Everything for Christmas so going to read that for this prompt!

I have two I want to read already on my pile

The Uses of Literacy: Aspects of Working-Class Life

and

From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers

I just finished Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Terry Pratchett, and Neil Gaiman. I really enjoyed this book. It could also work for the multiple author prompt.

Seems memoirs are the way to go for this category! There's a few titles that have been mentioned that are sitting on my to-read pile on my nightstand. I picked It Sucked and Then I Cried: How I Had a Baby, a Breakdown, and a Much Needed Margarita by Heather B. Armstrong because it's been hanging around the longest and I needed to find a category for it. It's next on my list.

I just finished my first book of this challenge (also the 34th book of my own #50unreadbooks challenge started in 2015).
Bridget Jones : Mad about the Boy by Helen Fielding ( 2013). The title doesn't appear as a subtitle on the cover, but appears so on amazon and in book reviews : )
Mad About the Boy

For this one I thought I would struggle to find something but actually there is a lot of novels out there with subtitles.
The one I think I'm going to read is Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

If you're looking for something short to squeeze in for this prompt I HIGHLY recommend The Terrorist's Son: A Story of Choice by Zak Ebrahim. It's amazing

I went with Housebroken: admissions of an untidy life, by Laurie Novato. I got a few laughs from it.

that would be Laurie Notaro, I need to watch auto correct!

I will be reading 2001: A Space Odyssey for this prompt. I have owned this for a couple of years after I made an effort to hunt it down on eBay a couple of years ago after realising that my library no longer had a copy of it.

I just started to read The Emperor of All Maladies: Are Biography of Cancer. It is reading pretty well so far but it definitely requires concentration which, with a six month old, is hard to come by on my end. However, I do see myself finishing it before the year is over.

For this prompt I read A Thousand Naked Strangers: A Paramedic’s Wild Ride to the Edge and Back which I highly recommend!

I'm thinking maybe White Dresses: A Memoir of Love and Secrets, Mothers and Daughters

I saw Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London listed in The Millions as a most anticipated book in 2017. This could also work for a genre you've never heard of. I don't even know what this is, but I like that this challenge is pushing it of my comfort zone.

I think someone has already mentioned a book The Underground Girls of Kabul: In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan for a prompt with a character of different ethnicity, but it fits here as well.
Thanks for a lot of great book with a subtitle recommendations!

I read The Little Blue Book Advent and Christmas Seasons 2016-2017: Six-minute reflections on the Infancy Narrative of Luke since I was in the middle of reading it and it ended in 2017. Great read if you're interested in the genre!

I'm also currently working on You are a Badass: How to stop doubting your greatness and live an awesome life by Jen Sincero. This one will fill this category so definitely going to make sure that I f finish this one.

For me it will be You are the Best Wife: A True Love Story

I just started reading Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History for this category! This is a book that's been on my tbr for a while now, but I just never get around to it, so I'm happy to finally be reading it. And I hope it's good!

I just realized Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race has a subtitle. I bought it as a Kindle deal a few weeks ago so I can slot this one in now that I have a place for it!

In picking the "next" book I read, I'm trying to avoid the monthly challenge prompts for now (until that month) and go with something I have or that comes in from the library. So far so good.

I switched my original book with a subtitle to my audiobook, so now I'm working on Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology. Very interesting so far!

I just finished Etched in Sand: A true story of Five Siblings Who Survived an Unspeakable Childhood on Long Island by Regina Calcaterra. I thought it was heartfelt and well written.

I'll be reading Modern Romance: An Investigation. I wanted to read this book since it came out, but couldn't find the time. Finally, I've an ebook now, and I'm going to read it pretty soon.

Sarah wrote: "I will be reading 2001: A Space Odyssey for this prompt. I have owned this for a couple of years after I made an effort to hunt it down on..."

It's my favorite science fiction book. I hope you'll like it.

I am reading for this prompt: In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom

I just finished The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing It was an easy read and has really inspired me to get my house in order. I'm definitely going to make this my Spring cleaning project.

Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls (and Everything in Between) by Lauren Graham

Does The return of Alex Cross Hope To Die by James Patterson count as a book with a subtitle. I'm reading it right now.

I don't think so. Looks like the full title is "Hope to Die" - no sub-title, no "return of," that part must be a promotional blurb on the cover?

I read The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House for this and I really recommend it. Such a great book!!

Aimee, I read The Residence last year; such an interesting book!

I read Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis for this category.

Other recommendations:

Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls, and Everything in Between by Lauren Graham (on my TBR)

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (read in 2016)

Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family (read in 2016)

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (on my TBR)

Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here: Untold Stories from the Fight Against Muslim Fundamentalism (on my TBR)

Alisia wrote: "Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (on my TBR)"

Sooo good! Once you get past the dead bodies and animal experimentation (that was tough for me), it is such a fascinating read!

I read the Princess Bride by William Goldman...if you love the movie, you will love the book!

If you're looking for fiction, I really enjoyed :
First Impressions: A Novel of Old Books, Unexpected Love, and Jane Austen

I'm about half-way through The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World's Most Precious Manuscripts for this category. It is great so far!

For this category I read Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging by Sebastian Junger.

Does this count? Gone at 3:17: The Untold Story of the Worst School Disaster in American History

Megan wrote: "Does this count? Gone at 3:17: The Untold Story of the Worst School Disaster in American History"

Yup

Awesome! I never realized Title: "words here" meant a book had a subtitle.