Ultimate Popsugar Reading Challenge discussion

A book with a red spine. Should be easy for us e-reader users, right? I'm joking, I read real books too.

This is hard to plan, since not all cover colors are the same as the spine! And some books have different cover versions - it really depends which one you get.

This is one I will have to pass on since I read on my Kindle only, unless someone has some ideas?

When I have some time, I do plan to head to Powell's to look for red spines, among other things. I can post some and then y'all can just read the e-version.

At work we have a book-trading shelf in the cafeteria - I stopped to scan for red spines and found Dreaming of You. It's not 100% red, but it's mostly red, so I borrowed it. Voila! Category decided!

poshpenny wrote: "When I have some time, I do plan to head to Powell's to look for red spines, among other things. I can post some and then y'all can just read the e-version."

Awesome idea!

I am an e-reader only who lives in Mongolia, so if people could post red spines, I would love to pick one, or if anyone knows a way to Google this?

It looks like Vintage has a series of re-released classics with red spines. I wonder if that was the original inspiration for this category?

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/8...

Nadine wrote: "It looks like Vintage has a series of re-released classics with red spines. I wonder if that was the original inspiration for this category?

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/8......"

I was wondering the same thing Nadine!

The only book that I own with a red spine is so I guess that one is the one I will be reading :-)

LaRose has a red spine.

It turns out I've borrowed two other books with red spines from that handy book-trading shelf:

It Happened One Autumn & The Target

also Murder at Monticello

I won't be reading these, because I try not to re-read on the challenge (even though I do love to re-read, in general). But since they have red spines, I thought I'd share so you could look in Kindle. I'll bet some might even be free. On my book shelf, with red spines I have:

Uncle Wiggly's Storybook

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (American version without dustjacket)

Little Women

Queen Zixi of Ix

OK, I while at the bookstore tonight I collected red spines. These are all from the Bestseller, New, Recommended, Staff Picks or Awards tables, shelves and ends. The spines are all or mostly red.

Dracula vs. Hitler
The War in the West: Volume 1: The Rise of Germany, 1939-1941
Me Before You
Fight Club
The Underground Railroad
Wolf Hall
Bring Up the Bodies
The Vegetarian
The Sympathizer
The Sisters Brothers
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared
The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain
The Road to Character
Love in Lowercase
Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know
The Joy of Leaving Your Sh*t All Over the Place: The Art of Being Messy
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
An Unnecessary Woman
Telegraph Avenue
Hag-Seed
March: Book One
Tender Is the Night
Funny Girl
The Swans of Fifth Avenue
Galina Petrovna’s Three-Legged Dog Story
Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945
Infamy: The Shocking Story of the Japanese American Internment in World War II
The Psychopath Whisperer: The Science of Those Without Conscience
The Most Dangerous Animal of All: Searching for My Father . . . and Finding the Zodiac Killer
Only the Dead Know Burbank: A Novel
Cloud and Wallfish
Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures
Splendors and Glooms
A Tyranny of Petticoats: 15 Stories of Belles, Bank Robbers & Other Badass Girls
The Blazing World
How I Became a North Korean
Gorsky
The Wangs vs. the World
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
The Great Detective: The Amazing Rise and Immortal Life of Sherlock Holmes
Your Inner Critic Is a Big Jerk: And Other Truths About Being Creative
The Muralist
The Sealed Letter
Give War and Peace a Chance: Tolstoyan Wisdom for Troubled Times

poshpenny wrote: "OK, I while at the bookstore tonight I collected red spines.

Amazing, @poshpenny! Thanks so much! (Many of these are on my TBR already.)

Poshpenny that is a fantastic list!!! Thank you.

I think we might own Flora & Ulysses - I will have to plumb the depths of my younger daughter's room, it's buried in there somewhere.

poshpenny wrote: "OK, I while at the bookstore tonight I collected red spines.

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What a great list, thanks! A bunch of the books would work for other tasks on the list, too.

Diana Gabaldon's The Fiery Cross has a red spine.

poshpenny wrote: "OK, I while at the bookstore tonight I collected red spines. These are all from the Bestseller, New, Recommended, Staff Picks or Awards tables, shelves and ends. The spines are all or mostly red.

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Wow! What a great list. Thanks for doing all the legwork!

*tips hat

My grandma is a big reader and she handed me a copy of The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared to borrow on Thanksgiving. And just my luck the copy she had has a red spine!

Marley and Me has a red spine.

The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics has a red spine and is already on my TBR list. :)

Lisa wrote: "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics has a red spine and is already on my TBR list. :)"

Loved that book! I highly recommend the audio if you are an audiobook listener. Edward Hermann did a great job :)

Lisa wrote: "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics has a red spine and is already on my TBR list. :)"

I think this is a Cyber Monday Kindle Deal.

Thank you for your suggestions. I just picked it up today, the Boys in the Boat for only $4.99. I read on my Kindle. I had it on my "wish list," and so that definitely made my day.

I am someone who organizes books by color (my husband hates it but I think it's pretty!). So I just went over and looked at my books, and here's everything that has a red spine over there. This includes ones that are primarily red and all red, and granted, they're the specific editions I have, but I figure they work!

- The Wangs vs. the World
- Echo House
- Water for Elephants
- Fast Food Nation
- Mistress in the Art of Death
- Death Comes to Pemberly
- The Handmaid's Tale
- Airframe
- The Name of the Rose
- Jane Eyre
- Bird by bird
- Cutting for Stone
- Ship of the Line
- Red Sky at Morning
- Naked in Death
- The Last Don
- Inferno
- HP & the Chamber of Secrets
- Red Storm Rising
- Return of the King
- Flood Tide
- The Gates
- The Poe Shadow
- The Juggler's Children
- America

In trying to keep with my goal of using books I already own I have two choices: The Time Keeper by Mitch Albom or The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott by Kelly O'Connor McNees. Anyone read either one of these and have an opinion?

Brenna wrote: "I am someone who organizes books by color (my husband hates it but I think it's pretty!). So I just went over and looked at my books, and here's everything that has a red spine over there. This inc..."

That is super helpful. And I need to say: Mistress of the Art of Death is amazing! It is a medieval forensic mystery. I have not read the rest of the series, I am "saving" it, because I know I'll be sad when I finish it.

Brenna and Poshpenny, thank you!

Nadine wrote: "Brenna wrote: "I am someone who organizes books by color (my husband hates it but I think it's pretty!). So I just went over and looked at my books, and here's everything that has a red spine over ..."

I have had that book for literally years and have never gotten to it. I will be putting it as my choice!

Brenna wrote: "I am someone who organizes books by color (my husband hates it but I think it's pretty!). So I just went over and looked at my books, and here's everything that has a red spine over there. This inc..."

Thank you for this! I was going to start reading The Handmaid's Tale next, but I think I will make it my first book of 2017 instead and put it in this prompt. :)

poshpenny wrote: "OK, I while at the bookstore tonight I collected red spines. These are all from the Bestseller, New, Recommended, Staff Picks or Awards tables, shelves and ends. The spines are all or mostly red.

..."

Wow thanks for the list! I read this prompt and got nervous and forgot that Me Before You cover is red so of course the spine would be too!! Thank you! I have been wanting to read this book!!

I'll be reading Persuasion by Jane Austen.

Brenna wrote: "I am someone who organizes books by color (my husband hates it but I think it's pretty!). So I just went over and looked at my books, and here's everything that has a red spine over there. This inc..."

Thank you! Though I have to agree with your husband. Ha Ha! I will be reading Inferno

Ruby Red

Some excellent suggestions already! From my shelves:


Half Bad by Sally Green

An Abundance of Katherines by John Green

Redshirts by John Scalzi

I, Lucifer by Glen Duncan

I'll be reading one of these (all on my TBR shelf already!)

Lock In by John Scalzi

Elizabeth Is Missing by Emma Healey

Blood Red Road by Moira Young

Red Rising by Pierce Brown

I'm in luck -- my copy of The Rosie Effect has a red spine. It's a bit strange since everywhere else, The Rosie Project is blue and The Rosie Effect is red. No idea why mine is reversed.

Two I can think of just off the top of my head are and

Does anyone know if Pandemonium has a red spine?

Rachel wrote: "Does anyone know if Pandemonium has a red spine?"

Sorry, it doesn't

What I Was Doing While You Were Breeding
Light On Life
Paper Towns

Looking at my bookshelves: A Feast for Crows, The Second Empress: A Novel of Napoleon's Court, Sisi: Empress on Her Own and The Autobiography of Henry VIII: With Notes by His Fool, Will Somers

Some red spines I have at home (based on the edition I own):

Gideon's Sword
Crimson Shore (This is a later book in a series)
The Da Vinci Code
Battle Royale
Outlander
Dark Matter
The Incarnations (my challenge pick)
The Sympathizer
Wise Blood

I'm using the Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes, the hardback has a red spine. I'm excited for that one!

The Trespasser by Tana French just came out last year and has a red spine. It's also very good. It's part of a series, but the stories aren't really continuous, so you can read them out of order.

Therese wrote: "This is one I will have to pass on since I read on my Kindle only, unless someone has some ideas?"

I think that Kindle readers can still read books that have red spines, just pick a book that has a red spine but read the kindle version of it. It is what I would do if I was kindle only...

Theresa wrote: "Therese wrote: "This is one I will have to pass on since I read on my Kindle only, unless someone has some ideas?"

I think that Kindle readers can still read books that have red spines, just pick ..."

Thanks to other members here, I was able to find one that I already have to fit this prompt. I just don't remember which book it was at this moment since I'm too lazy to go look it up right now :-)

So excited! Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo (it's the second book of Six of Crows) is entirely red! I bought the series for my teenager because it looked interesting and now I get to read it!!

I've wanted to reread Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale for quite a while and most of the spine is Red. I also noticed that Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them has a red spine. I bought it for my daughter years ago but never read it myself.