Ultimate Popsugar Reading Challenge discussion

A book with a rabbit on the cover and/or in the title.


This one will sound very familiar to some of you, I know! I'm editing this one to include a rabbit in the title, to increase accessibility.


Listopia list is Here: A book with a rabbit on the cover or in the title

If anyone reads Bunny, which I recommend, I'd love to hear people's thoughts on it.

Alice by Christina Henry. Horror refilling of Alice in Wonderland so this would knock off two prompts in one shot.

The Magician's Assistant by Ann Patchett is a good book and perfect for this prompt.

I was already counting rabbit in the title as it's on the cover!

And I've thought of the perfect option.... (that's sarcasm) Rabbit Redux. I read the first book years ago and hated every minute of it, but the next book is also on the 1001 books to read that will kill you... I mean before you die.

I'm planning on Rabbits by Terry Miles. I'm guessing Watership Down would fit as well.

I loved Rabbit Cake by Annie Hartnett. It also has one of the best opening lines:
“On my tenth birthday, six months before she sleepwalked into the river, Mom burned the rabbit cake"

I'm going to try listening to Wow, No Thank You.: Essays

If you’re into a little bit of cheating What Moves the Dead has a hare on the cover, it’s a retelling of The Fall of the House of Usher: An Edgar Allan Poe Short Story. I just finished and it was nice and creepy lol

100% agree!

Linda wrote: "I loved Rabbit Cake by Annie Hartnett. It also has one of the best opening lines:
“On my tenth birthday, six months before she sleepwalked into the river, Mom burned the rabbit cake""

I would recommend .

I'm going to read .

Guess it's off to the nature section at the bookstores for me.

I saw this prompt and immediately knew someone on the PS team has Hell Bent on their 2023 TBR. I'll not be reading it as I DNF'd Ninth House, but there's a rabbit just the same.

The Velveteen Rabbit

Dani wrote: "If you’re into a little bit of cheating What Moves the Dead has a hare on the cover, it’s a retelling of The Fall of the House of Usher: An Edgar Allan Poe Short Story..."



That hardly feels like cheating, since I can't tell hares and rabbits apart. I know, hares are bigger with longer ears. I still can't tell them apart. I can't tell crows and ravens apart, either. although I know ravens are bigger. (And, embarrassingly, I can't tell alligators & crocodiles apart. I KNOW one had a narrow snout and the other has a broad snout, but I'm always forgetting which is which - I think the crocodile has the narrow snout?)

Jennifer W wrote: "I was already counting rabbit in the title as it's on the cover!

And I've thought of the perfect option.... (that's sarcasm) Rabbit Redux. I read the first book years ago and hated ev..."



LOL! I read Rabbit, Run when I was a teen, and that was enough Updike for my lifetime, thankyouverymuch.

Nadine in NY wrote: "That hardly feels like cheating, since I can't tell hares and rabbits apart..."

I can tell them apart but I also don't feel like making it hard for myself when barely anyone will be making the differentiation and illustrators take liberties with animal anatomy anyway. Like I think Hell Bent will be one of the most popular choices for this and it looks very hare like to me. But maybe the illustrator meant it to be a rabbit. Who knows.

Ashley Marie wrote: "I saw this prompt and immediately knew someone on the PS team has Hell Bent on their 2023 TBR. I'll not be reading it as I DNF'd Ninth House, but there's a rabbit just the same."

Ha, I wouldn't be surprised if you're right.

For anyone looking for nonfiction, the paperback version of Ethics Into Action: Henry Spira and the Animal Rights Movement by Peter Singer has a rabbit on the cover.

I read Rabbits by Terry Miles this year. Wild, but really captivating.

Dani wrote: "If you’re into a little bit of cheating What Moves the Dead has a hare on the cover, it’s a retelling of The Fall of the House of Usher: An Edgar Allan Poe Short Story..."

I agree, I also just read it and is it So Good.

I'm going to read Rabbit in the Moon

Another one to be read with my grandson. I'm enjoying reading children's books again.
Margaret Wise Brown by The Runaway Bunny

Nadine in NY wrote: "Jennifer W wrote: "I was already counting rabbit in the title as it's on the cover!

And I've thought of the perfect option.... (that's sarcasm) Rabbit Redux. I read the first book yea..."

Yeeeeaaaahhhh... I might allow myself to follow your "I attempted, I wanted to stab myself in the eye with a pen, I'm counting it" rule for this one.

If you want to be cheeky about it, you could read Sailor Moon. The main character's name is Usagi which means rabbit. ;)

M, you just reminded me of a slam dunk bit of awesomeness for this prompt. Usagi Yojimbo is one of the greatest comic series of all time, and the title character is a rabbit samurai who is on every cover.

I think I am going with a children's book. It will give me a quick break from some of the bigger books...and rabbits are easily found in that genre.

That being said, I am finding that i am not willing to look at books under 100 pages...so middle school or above rather than picture books.

LOL...and now I have settled for a cozy mystery. The Chocolate Bunny Brouhaha

Mony wrote: "Another one to be read with my grandson. I'm enjoying reading children's books again.
Margaret Wise Brown by The Runaway Bunny
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If you want to make a bunny day of it, some other bunny books I emjoyed:
Bunny Cakes
Little Bunny on the Move - I loved this book so much and somehow no one ever talks about it

and for kids just learning to read:
the entire high-rise detectives series, starting with: The Case of the Missing Monkey featuring detectives Bunny Brown and Jack Jones

Bunnicula!

If you like mysteries try Mr. and Mrs. Bunny — Detectives Extraordinaire!

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Dani wrote: "If you’re into a little bit of cheating What Moves the Dead has a hare on the cover, it’s a retelling of The Fall of the House of Usher: An Edgar Allan Poe Short Story..."



That hardly feels like cheating, since I can't tell hares and rabbits apart. I know, hares are bigger with longer ears. I still can't tell them apart. I can't tell crows and ravens apart, either. although I know ravens are bigger. (And, embarrassingly, I can't tell alligators & crocodiles apart. I KNOW one had a narrow snout and the other has a broad snout, but I'm always forgetting which is which - I think the crocodile has the narrow snout?) ..."

Thank you - because if it looks like a rabbit, I'm using it. I would never have even considered it cheating, and I still won't, because I'm not going to know :-)

I couldn't find anything for this prompt that I would even remotely consider worth picking up to me, so I reverted to my native language and found an adult fiction right away that fits the category. So I'm content for now ;-)

I'll likely either be reading Hell Bent or Our Crooked Hearts.

Here are two others that fit:
After Alice
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Hello!

Would you count a book, where the rabbit is part of the logo of the publisher?

Kincso901 wrote: "Hello!

Would you count a book, where the rabbit is part of the logo of the publisher?"



yes I think so. If there's a rabbit on the cover, then surely it meets this criterion!

I'm just curious: Which publisher has a rabbit logo? I can think of a bear, black dog, greyhound, owl, penguin, and puffin ...

A couple of other children's picture book options that I liked:

Pancho Rabbit and the Coyote by Duncan Tonatiuh

The Forgotten Rabbit by Nancy Furstinger

We have a spot for free books that fit prompts. This is not quite free, but it is 50% off right now. Usagi Yojimbo Saga, Vol. 1 is $7 in ebook form, down from $14, and so are the rest in that collection. I was a very happy camper when I saw this sale on the best rabbit in the comic book world.

The Rabbit Factor by Antti Toumainen
The Running Hare: The Secret Life of Farmland by John Lewis-Stempel
Rabbits by Terry Miles
The Constant Rabbit by Jasper Fforde
Rabbit Foot Bill by Helen Humphreys
Left Fur Dead by J.M. Griffin
Toxic Toffee by Amanda Flower (4th in series)
Some Trick: Thirteen Stories by Helen DeWitt
Winterset Hollow by Jonathan Edward Durham
The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry by Jon Ronson

Because of the Rabbit is a great children’s book option (sorry no link I’m not sure how to do it on the app).

Kincso901 wrote: "Hello!

Would you count a book, where the rabbit is part of the logo of the publisher?"

Thanks:)

It's a small Hungarian publisher, mostly translating Slavic books to Hungarian. I am planning to read this Hana book. My version contains the rabbit logo on the cover

I'm going to read Cursed Bunny by Bora Chung.

Between this and the “read more than 10 years ago” prompt, I am getting a strong urge to reread Bunnicula.

I am going for watership down by Richard Adams.

Considering they’ve done zodiac-related prompts a couple of times, and “tiger” last year, I expected this one.

I’ve looked at my old copy of Watership Down a few times lately, and considered rereading it as an adult. Guess this is my cue to do it!

Looks like someone watches Booksandlala lol

I have so many options from her videos that I honestly can't even pick.

In case anyone wants to watch her video where she reads book with rabbits on the cover:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rup9P...

A playboy style bunny is still a rabbit, yes? Hahaha I am counting it. She has ears.

Tried to add ”The Year of the Hare” by Finnish Arto Paasilinna, but did not succeed. Someone please do. It certainly is worth reading.

Kenneth wrote: "Tried to add ”The Year of the Hare” by Finnish Arto Paasilinna, but did not succeed. Someone please do. It certainly is worth reading."

The Year of the Hare by Arto Paasilinna --- have thought about this one.

Haven't seen anyone mention Rabbit Foot Bill yet, which I read for this prompt. Good but devastatingly sad. Also a quick read though, if people are looking for that.

In a funny coincidence, I recently read How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence, about the history of psychedelics and their therapeutic uses, so when the MC showed up to work at the hospital and was immediately given LSD to understand what they were prescribing their patients, I was like, hey, I know about this!

I read The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane for this (and it fulfilled a prompt on another challenge for one of my favorite author's favorite books - Ann Patchett has talked about how much she loves it). It's a children's/middle grade novel and therefore a quick and easy read, but wow, what a gorgeous story. Highly recommend if this sounds like something you'd enjoy.

You could read When Rabbit Howls but please read the synopsis before reading it. It's an emotionally disturbing memoir book about a woman with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID).