Ultimate Popsugar Reading Challenge discussion

There are so many books that will fill this one and I still think it is a unique prompt!

My ideas:
The Time Traveler's Wife
Outlander or any of that series
The Nightingale
The Debt of Tamar

Kate Morton books, Susanna Kearsley books. Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet. This is actually a pretty common trend over the last 10-15 years at least so there are quite a few.

Wonderstruck
The Marvels
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children

This one is practically a duplicate of "story within a story" and I'll be choosing from the same pool. (Something from Susanna Kearsley or Lauren Willig) Which is okay, because I really like both those authors and I try to read at least one book by them each year.

I am planning on reading The girl in the blue beret for this category.

The Wedding Dress would have been a good one for this category but I already read that this year.

I'm thinking of The Last Letter from Your Lover.

Nadine wrote: "(Something from Susanna Kearsley or Lauren Willig) Which is okay, because I really like both those authors and I try to read at least one book by them each year..."

Nadine, I have read quite of few of Susanna Kearsley's books, but I'm thinking I might read another for this prompt. I've read The Winter Sea, The Rose Garden, Mariana, The Shadowy Horses, A Desperate Fortune. Have you read the others? Do you have a recommendation?

Sara wrote: "Nadine wrote: "(Something from Susanna Kearsley or Lauren Willig) Which is okay, because I really like both those authors and I try to read at least one book by them each year..."

Nadine, I have r..."

No, you're way ahead of me! I've read The Winter Sea and The Shadowy Horses, and that's it! I've got A Desperate Fortune on my list to read next.

For Willig, I've read almost everything by her except The Other Daughter, The Ashford Affair, and The Lure of the Moonflower, so I'll read one of those. I suppose if I were to recommend one, I'd say start at the beginning, with The Secret History of the Pink Carnation.

I am reading Voyager by Diana Gabaldon. I know the first two in the Outlander series would also qualify. I would also suggest Revolution by Jennifer Donnelly which switches between modern and revolutionary Paris. A great story. If you want to think a little bit outside of the box, I would suggest New York by Edward Rutherford. This book follows several generations of families who live in New York from when it first became New Amsterdam until 2009. This could also fit into the prompt of a book that spans a person's lifetime.

Nadine wrote: "I'd say start at the beginning, with The Secret History of the Pink Carnation."

This was on my reading list years ago but I never got around to it. Guess I should make 2017 the year! :) Thank you!

The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion by Fannie Flagg talks about women who were trained as pilots during WWII, but is about a woman today who discovers she was adopted and goes looking for her mother (a pilot).

Kindred by Octavia Butler is a time travel (current day to slave days).

I have The House on Primrose Pond. Not only does the protagonist delve into the history of her deceased mother, she encounters some mysterious characters along the way. I've been anxious to read this book from my TBR list.

Marilyn wrote: "... Kindred by Octavia Butler is a time travel (current day to slave days). ..."

Kindred would be a great choice for this category!

I loved To Say Nothing of the Dog. However, I could not read it in print. It bogged me down - but the audio is delightful. And it is a future/past book.

Also I second Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children.

Since reading Me Before You, I've been interested in more of Jojo Moyes' work.

I found The Girl You Left Behind on my TBR, set in 1916 and present day, about a painting that ties the two stories together. I think I might choose this, it sounds interesting.

I love Historical Fiction and this method of the dual story telling is very popular so I think I will leave it open and see what happens .

Jojo Moyes is a good choice for this type of novel. I have enjoyed both The Girl You Left Behind and Windfallen

I'm finally going to get around to reading Outlander!

One of my favorites is Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus. Set in Christopher Columbus' time as well as in a very dystopian future.

Sara wrote: "Nadine wrote: "I'd say start at the beginning, with The Secret History of the Pink Carnation."

This was on my reading list years ago but I never got around to it. Guess I should make 2017 the year..."

So my memory apparently stinks. I was browing my read books earlier and I have this one marked as read! I guess I did get around to it :) I may read the next one in the series.

That's why I use Goodreads! I can't remember any more which books I've read and which I haven't. Series I read before Goodreads are a blur.

There's a book I loved as a kid (so I could count it here or for the other) but I can't remember the title.
Two girls living 100 years apart both use a wishing well and end up switching places is the general plot that I remember. Anyone know what book this was?

Gotta love Google:
Switching Well by Peni R. Griffin

A Tale for the Time Being would work for this, although I must admit, I only liked half the story and thought the other time's sections were...meh.

Two of my favorite movies of 1979/80!

Time After Time
Somewhere in Time

The Chronos Files series would be work for this catagory I think.

I'm reading The Three-Body Problem right now, and it just occurred to me that it would definitely work for this category. It goes back and forth between the present and the time during and just after the Chinese Cultural Revolution.

My Super Sweet Sixteenth Century by Rachel Harris may be my pick for this. Of course that's book 1 in a series I haven't read before so I might list it there and then read book 2 in the series A Tale of Two Centuries for this prompt.

Megan wrote: "The Wedding Dress would have been a good one for this category but I already read that this year.

I'm thinking of The Last Letter from Your Lover."

I really enjoyed The Last Letter from Your Lover, even though it's completely outside the genres I'd usually read.

Seconding recommendation of Revolution too, it's very good.

Ali Smith's How to Be Both would work perfectly for this prompt as well; it seems to have been quite divisive, but I loved it.

The Three Body Problem is on my TBR pile, and so is Kindred, so one of those for me :)

Wow Nadine, really good suggestion. I didn't think about the Three-body Problem. I already read it and the second book also but not the third: Death's End. I am pretty sure that it will be another one with different time period.

Cloud Atlas, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, Timeline, The Time Machine or Foundation could work also I guess.

A number of the books people are mentioning involve time travel, so I thought I'd add two more to that pot -

Both Sides of time It's actually a series from Caroline B. Cooney, so it's young adults, but there's nothing wrong with that.
A Murder in Time I think this was one of the Goodreads best book nominees

One that isn't time travel but someone remember what happened during a different time and telling that story (which means it also works for a story within a story) is Winter Garden (also works for Season).

I thoroughly recommend Red Joan for this one! No time travel involved either.

It's YA officially I think but kinda dark but anyway Eion Colfer's W.A.R.P. series is good.

Time and Again by Jack Finney. A quick read that transports you to New York City and the Dakota Hotel in the 19th and 20th centuries.

A couple I've read recently that are good books and fit this category are the ship of brides by Jojo Moyes and the orphan train, can't remember the author but it was quite good.

For those considering to read The Orphan Train, it is definitely a story within a story, and I enjoyed reading it this year. I got to learn a little bit about part of our history that I had never heard of in addition to being entertained. Great combo!

Going thru my "to read list" and foundThe Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom

poshpenny wrote: "Wonderstruck
The Marvels
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children"

I've read the first Peculiar Children, would book 2 count for this as well?

Yup

Marilyn wrote: "The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion by Fannie Flagg talks about women who were trained as pilots during WWII, but is about a woman today who discovers she was adopted and go..."

I recommend Kindred. Anything by Butler is great and Kindred is perfect for this category.

Sheila wrote: "Going thru my "to read list" and foundThe Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom"

I'm using this book for the prompt on travel.

Does A Wrinkle in Time count? It's one I've been meaning to read for years.

A Fall of Marigolds would work for this one

MacKenzie wrote: "Does A Wrinkle in Time count? It's one I've been meaning to read for years."


I don't think so - for all that it's titled "A Wrinkle in Time," the story doesn't really play with time much, it's fairly linear. I always thought "A Wrinkle in Space" would have been a more accurate title, but that doesn't sound as cool.

Possession by A. S. Byatt is another that would count. Hits multiples - story within a story, a book of letters (or using letters as a large part of tale construction), a book set with-in two different time periods (present day and Victorian England)

Here are a few that haven't been mentioned yet...

Nonlinear Narrative or Framing Device
In the Blood by Steve Robinson (any of the books in this series would work.)
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Winter People by Jennifer McMahon
Little Bee by Chris Cleave
The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

Time Travel
Doomsday Book by Connie Willis

Time Travel Romance
A Knight in Shining Armor by Kide Devereaux
Shadow of Night by Deborah Harkness
Karen Marie Moning's Highlander series

YA Time Travel
Passenger by Alexandra Bracken

Juanita wrote: "There are so many books that will fill this one and I still think it is a unique prompt!

My ideas:
The Time Traveler's Wife
Outlander or any of that series
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I think I am going to read [book:The Nightingale for this one!

Here's a couple of other books that I haven't seen mentioned. It seems my book club reads a lot of books that fall in this sub-genre -

Orphan Number 8 by Kim van Alkemade goes back and forth between the 1910s and the 1950s - where an orphaned girl was experimented upon in NYC in the 1910s and finds out she has cancer in the 1950s.

Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline - where another orphan girl in the 1920s is shipped out to the midwest to try to find a family to adopt her, based on a true story. It jumps to present day where the elderly woman ends up befriending a teenager in the foster home system.

The Aviator's Wife by Melanie Benjamin is about Charles Lindbergh's wife, but although the majority of the story takes place in the past, it also jumps forward in time every few chapters to just before Charles Lindbergh's death.

I also saw The Girl You Left Behind mentioned and would recommend that as well.

Secrets of Nanreath Hall by Alix Rickloff is a good one too! It just came out this past August for anyone who likes historical fiction. One POV is set during WWI and the other POV is set during WWII

Has anyone mentioned Kate Mosse?

I love her Labyrinth series and all those books are each set in two different periods.

Would Middlesex work here?