Ultimate Popsugar Reading Challenge discussion

Sneak peek prompt #3 - a book that has a book on the cover. Listopia is here: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...

Here's the ones I can think of off the top of my head:

The Thirteenth Tale
The Bookshop of Yesterdays
The Printed Letter Bookshop
The Bookish Life of Nina Hill
I'd Rather Be Reading: A Library of Art for Book Lovers
I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life

What else can you think of?

I have two books with books on the cover in my TBR.

Lord Edgware Dies by Agatha Christie
The Bromance Book Club by Lisa Kay Adams



There are a lot of editions of Lord Edgware Dies without a book on the cover too, though ...

Listopia tip: If the cover/edition you're looking for doesn't come up when you search for the book, go to the book page, copy the ISBN, and search for that in the listopia.

The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend is really cute!

Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore
Small Blessings
The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories

I thought I'd have more than this, but here's what I found on my TBR:

I'm pretty sure Goodreads already has a listopia for this category.

are already on my TBR list.

Some others are:

It's time I finally read

The Mountain in My Shoe

Turns out I don’t have very many books with books on the cover!! I thought I could read The Library Book, but that doesn’t really show a book.

My two main options are:
The Bookshop on the Shore (Colgan) (shows lots of books in the background, no one book is prominent)
The Serpent’s Tale (Franklin) (shows one very beat up book underneath other items, or maybe it’s a notebook, hard to tell)

I think I am going with The Know-It-All: One Man’s Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World by A.J. Jacobs. Clearing off the TBR!

Can there be multiple books on the cover? I'd recommend Bibliophile: An Illustrated Miscellany which I read this year. Great book for all book lovers!

Jillian wrote: "Do you think it would count if you can only see part of the book, like The Poisonwood Bible and The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry?"

I was wondering this too. There are a lot of covers that show book pages but not the whole book, e.g.

Matilda would be a good one too for a quick read or to read with kids.

Some ideas from my Goodsreads’ Want to Read list:
The StorytellerThe Last Book Party
One True Loves
Fahrenheit 451
The Bromance Book Club
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
The Bookish Life of Nina Hill
The Thirteenth Tale
The Overdue Life of Amy Byler

I'll personally be reading The Overdue Life of Amy Byler since I already own it!

Someone on the PopSugar Facebook group just posted this link to a list on Goodreads:
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...

A couple more from my maybe-TBR:

I'll probably read This Dangerous Book: How the Bible Has Shaped Our World and Why It Still Matters Today. It's been on my shelf for a couple of years. It doesn't have a picture of a whole book, but a page which is part of a book, which I say is good enough.

oh good one!

This is a cool prompt! I need to dig out several books this weekend, so will be on the lookout for one of these! :)

The only book I found on my TBR is High Tide in Tucson, so I'll likely be reading that.

Two I found on my TBR that I hadn't already seen mentioned:
The Book Charmer
Girl Against the Universe

Haven't read it but it's in the Goodreads awards this year

Does it have to be an image of a book (or books), or could we count books with the word "book" in the title?

Rachel wrote: "Does it have to be an image of a book (or books), or could we count books with the word "book" in the title?"


Up to you. It just says a book on the cover, so I see no reason you can't interpret that as a "book" on the cover.

The Reading Promise by Alice Ozma (memoir about a girl growing up with a dad who reads with her frequently). It's been on my to-be-read list for way too long.

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were both on my TBR already, but I have Red Azalea penciled in for a prompt this year. I'll be on the lookout for new books that fit, I think!

I love the prompts with something on the cover! So fun to hunt. Just off work and I'm heading to Powell's to look at covers!

I see I got the credit for this one in the Facebook group but I actually pulled it from our Goodreads discussion on suggested prompts; Kendra posted the idea first. 😊

And I'm thinking to read Brown Girl Dreaming for this one.

From my TBR list, Finders Keepers

Katy wrote: "Rachel wrote: "Does it have to be an image of a book (or books), or could we count books with the word "book" in the title?"


Up to you. It just says a book on the cover, so I see no reason you ca..."

Thanks, Katy! I really want to read The Book of Essie, which would have a "book" on the cover!

One of my favorite books.
The City of Dreaming Books

I think Twenty-one Truths About Love looks like a fun read. It comes out in just a couple of days.

I don't have much in my TBR pile, especially not fiction. So I'll probably be looking for new ideas.

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I highly recommend Parable of the Sower!

I am currently reading, “The Library of Lost and Found,”
which also fits this prompt. I think this is my first comment- no idea how to add a picture. 😀

Had a big hunt and I'm exhausted, but boy that was fun. And I only bought four books on the way out.
Books: 4
Will Power: 0

https://www.powells.com/picks-of-the-...
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- the black cover with Aziraphale

I'll add stuff to the list in a bit
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Oh &^$*& I need to sleep!
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by P.G. Wodehouse

by Daphne du Maurier

by Ruskin Bond

Had a good scroll through my Kindle and decided to go with by Kathy Cooperman

Emily wrote: "I highly recommend Parable of the Sower!"

I second this recommendation. It's a fantastic book!

Was just voting for Goodreads Choice Awards and noticed The Overdue Life of Amy Byler would work for this prompt

What do people think: Is a journal on the cover in the spirit of the prompt? (I have other options, just curious.)

A journal is a type of book as far as I'm concerned. As are notebooks and ledgers.

Ellie wrote: "A journal is a type of book as far as I'm concerned. As are notebooks and ledgers."

I was going back and forth about The President's Book of Secrets: The Untold Story of Intelligence Briefings to America's Presidents from Kennedy to Obama

I'm pretty sure that's more of a fancy folder than an actual book, although book is in the title. I have less controversial options, but just thought I'd throw it out for others.

Eujean2 wrote: "What do people think: Is a journal on the cover in the spirit of the prompt? (I have other options, just curious.)"


I'm counting journals. It's a journal on the cover of one of my options: The Serpent's Tale

The GR blogpost today is full of options, and 2 that I hadn’t seen before caught my eye:
and .

Ellie wrote: "A journal is a type of book as far as I'm concerned. As are notebooks and ledgers."

Yeah, I agree.

(But for The President's Book of Secrets, I'd probably say "fancy folder, not a book")

I think I am going to read David E. Fishmans The Book Smugglers


The prompt asks for a book, here are a pile of books, but I guess that's ok