Ultimate Popsugar Reading Challenge discussion

Whew! At least it isn't exactly 20 letters! Find those LOOOOOOONG book titles!

Diana Gabaldon's upcoming release (hopefully 2020 but that isn't confirmed yet) is over 20 letters long - Go Tell The Bees That I Am Gone.

Listopia link: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...

I actually just finished a really good book with a super-long title. It also won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2018.

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

34 letters.

Tales of a Female Nomad: Living at Large in the World
The Lost Girls: Three Friends. Four Continents. One Unconventional Detour Around the World.
Echoes of Scotland Street
Moonlight on Nightingale Way
The Mysterious Affair at Styles
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars
The Gifts of Imperfection
The Mysteries of Udolpho
Turn Right at Machu Picchu: Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
The Light Between Oceans
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

I've been wanting to read this, but haven't gotten around to it! Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows

My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry
The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Supernatural Enhancements
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the SeaJourney to the Centre of the Earth
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Sweet Valley Confidential: Ten Years Later
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy

When I first read the prompt, I thought it said 20 WORDS. But now that I realize it's LETTERS, I have so many more possibilities! I will hold out hope that Diana Gabaldon gets her new book out next year though.

rec dump! I'm surprised how many of these are exactly 21 letters.

Johannes Cabal the Necromancer - a necromancer makes a deal with the devil to harvest souls via traveling carnival
We Have Always Lived in the Castle - character-driven contemporary about an ostracized family in a small town
The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe - Lovecraftian fantasy
The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare - thriller/comedy. it has a serious premise (a police officer infiltrates an anarchist cell) but, uh, things get goofy. in a good way.
The Ninth Life of Louis Drax - mystery/thriller ft. precocious loudmouth kid
The Boy Who Steals Houses - YA contemporary
A Thousand Perfect Notes - YA contemporary
The Knife of Never Letting Go - YA speculative fiction (also a bildungsroman)

from my TBR:
After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall
The Boy Who Could See Demons
The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein
The Story of Hong Gildong
Dreams of Shreds and Tatters

There are several Agatha Christie books that will work for this prompt.

The Mysterious Affair at Styles
The Mystery of the Blue Train
Appointment with Death
Murder on the Orient Express
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
And Then There Were None

I don't seem to have anything else on my TBR that will work, but last year I read a beautiful, heartbreaking story about Alzheimer's called And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer by Fredrik Backman that I highly recommend.

The Secret Commonwealth is 21 letters.

All the books in the Harry Potter Series
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit by P.G. Wodehouse
Uncle Fred in the Springtime by P.G. Wodehouse

10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World
If on a Winter's Night a Traveller
The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared
The Accidental Further Adventures of the Hundred-Year-Old Man
The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
Conan Doyle for the Defence
The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep
The Adventures of Maud West, Lady Detective: Secrets and Lies in the Golden Age of Crime


The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge
Ophelia and the Marvelous Boy
Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus
The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl

I thought "Book with more than Twenty Words in the title" seemed really hard, then right after finding a book that actually has that many, I reread it and realized it is "20 letters." Whoops. So if you REALLY want to challenge yourself you could read "Pooh and the Philosophers: In Which It Is Shown That All of Western Philosophy Is Merely a Preamble to Winnie-the-Pooh" by John Tyerman Williams. ☺️🤣😂🤣😂🤣😝

I stood in front of my bookshelves and was surprised how easy it was!

The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
The World According to Garp
Special Topics in Calamity Physics
The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
All the Light We Cannot See
The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing
No One Belongs Here More Than You
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
One Hundred Years of Solitude
The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break
The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet
The Watchmaker of Filigree Street
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk
The Summer of Impossible Things
Where'd You Go, Bernadette
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
Civil War Land in Bad Decline
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
Everything I Know About Love
All My Friends are Superheroes
I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death
The Left Hand of Darkness
Samuel Johnson Is Indignant
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

Sarah wrote: "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Supernatural Enhancements
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the SeaJourney to the Centre of the Earth
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Sweet Valley Confidential: Ten Years Later is actually awful.

Forty Autumns: A Family's Story of Courage and Survival on Both Sides of the Berlin Wall has been on my shelf.

Can we include subtitles? I'm thinking of Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption.

I found an old book for this one:
Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister

Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker

Glad it's a 20 letter count !

...And a Silver Sixpence in Her Shoe

The Quilter's Homecoming
The Cross-Country Quilters
Sylvia's Bridal Sampler from ELM Creek Quilts: The True Story Behind the Quilt - 140 Traditional Blocks
Return to ELM Creek: More Quilt Projects Inspired by the ELM Creek Quilts Novels

Mrs. Grant and Madame Jule
The Christmas Boutique: An ELM Creek Quilts Novel
Enchantress of Numbers: A Novel of ADA Lovelace
Mrs. Lincoln's Sisters: A Novel
The Winding Ways Quilt
An Elm Creek Quilts Album

Her Silhouette, Drawn in Water
Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West
A House at the Bottom of a Lake
Super Sad True Love Story
The Court of Broken Knives
When the Sky Fell on Splendor
The Trial and Execution of the Traitor George Washington
Disappearance at Devil's Rock
Your Favorite Band Cannot Save You
The Best of All Possible Worlds
The Monster of Elendhaven
The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion
The Spies of Shilling Lane
All the Windwracked Stars
The Girl Who Could Move Sh*t with Her Mind
The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack
The Wife, the Maid, and the Mistress
Brightness Falls from the Air
The Unbroken Line of the Moon
Break the Bodies, Haunt the Bones
Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore
The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
The Thief Who Pulled on Trouble's Braids
The Lost Future of Pepperharrow
The Library at Mount Char
The Universe Versus Alex Woods
A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World
The Book of the Unnamed Midwife

Guess I'll call it there. Seems like there are plenty of options. I think I'll go with Pulley's new one though.

I'm going for The Secret Commonwealth, the new Philip Pullman one

Finally going to pick up The Trials of Morrigan Crow or The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue

I'm going with The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders
The Man in the High Castle
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
All the Light We Cannot See
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Hercule Poirot's Christmas
Kingsman: The Secret Service
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone - Plus the others (also why is Philosopher's not something I can link to on here?)
Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
Super Sad True Love Story
Politics: Between the Extremes
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
The Boy with the Topknot: A Memoir of Love, Secrets and Lies in Wolverhampton
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents
The Spider in the Corner of the Room
Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's History-Making Race Around the World
Enemies: A History of the FBI
Deviate: The Science of Seeing Differently
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
The Invention of Hugo Cabret
Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race
Murder on the Orient Express
The Story of the Treasure Seekers
The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Auntie Mame: An Irreverent Escapade
The End of Your Life Book Club
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Stalking Jack the Ripper
Loving Someone with Borderline Personality Disorder: How to Keep Out-of-Control Emotions from Destroying Your Relationship
The World of Cycling According to G
The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Something Wicked This Way Comes

A Semi-Definitive List of Worst Nightmares
The Reckless Oath We Made
Stay Sexy & Don’t Get Murdered: The Definitive How-To Guide
Everything I Never Told You
I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry
I'm Thinking of Ending Things
The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
Where'd You Go, Bernadette
All the Ugly and Wonderful Things
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
The Astonishing Color of After
The Art of Racing in the Rain
I'm Not Dying with You Tonight
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
The Girl With All the Gifts
The Smell of Other People's Houses

I have 3 right now to choose from:
A Breath of Snow and Ashes
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue

For anyone that loves fantasy, this prompt is a wonderful excuse to start on Sarah J. Maas's ACOTAR series! A Court of Thorns and Roses (#1)

I'll be using the novella here A Court of Frost and Starlight (#3.1)

Just bought this one by Paul Tremblay:

The Cabin at the End of the World

Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All

I've been meaning to read this for like the past two years!

I had these on my shelf for a while, time to read one or both finally:
The Man Who Fell In Love With His Wife by Paul Burke
Attack Of The Unsinkable Rubber Ducks by Christopher Brookmyre

Quite a few Brookmyre titles have more than 20 letters.

Rhonda wrote: "Can we include subtitles? I'm thinking of Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption."

I was wondering the same. That's a great book you are looking at--I loved the audiobook presentation and even my teen son was riveted.

The Sean Duffy Series - Books 2 and 3 have more than 20 words in the title. I Hear the Sirens in the Street is the title of book 2. In the Morning I'll Be Gone (book 3).

I'm going with Just One Damned Thing After Another

This is a great chance for me to read a book that's been sitting on my TBR shelf for a while.
The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell

It's a coming of age story about a boy born with ocular albinism (red pupils). Apparently it's also a Bildungsroman.

The Bastard out of Carolina (Dorothy Allison) has exactly 20 letters: do you think is still ok?

Ludovica wrote: "The Bastard out of Carolina (Dorothy Allison) has exactly 20 letters: do you think is still ok?"

It says "more than twenty letters" so it depends on how strict you want to be, I would think.

It’s just Bastard Out of Carolina, no the. Sorry!

That's right! Thanks :)

The Rabbit Back Literature Society
Secret Passages in a Hillside Town

What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us

I thought it was words...so letters is no problem.

#MeToo: Essays About How and Why This Happened, What It Means and How to Make Sure it Never Happens

First book already mentioned, but all the books in this series fit :-D

I am going to read: I am not your perfect Mexican daughter

Girls of Storm and Shadow literally has 21 letters, so it makes the cut. It also could also fit the author in their 20s category, since she turns 30 sometime this year.

Currently reading Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg.

I've wanted to read A Brief History of Seven Killings for a while so that's what I'm going for.

And a few ideas for you from my 'read' shelf:
Just One Damned Thing After Another
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (also works for a book about a book club)
The Priory of the Orange Tree
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
A Very Large Expanse of Sea (also works for a book with no graphics on the cover)

I just finished The Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman. Loved it and will now read the first 2 of her books (not a series)

….I am going with...….