Ultimate Popsugar Reading Challenge discussion

A Book with a Title That Starts with the Letter Y

I really wanted to get to Yellowface by R.F. Kuang this year, but didn't make it, so this will be my selection for this 2025 prompt! Perfect!

Goodreads Listopia for help:
Best Books Beginning with the Letter Y

A Wikipedia listing to help:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...

Listopia is HERE

Hearty recommendations:

Yesterday's Son
You Owe Me a Murder
Yoda - Dark Rendezvous
Yellowface

The Yellow Wall-Paper
The Yada Yada Prayer Group
Yukon Ho!
You'll Be the Death of Me

You Can't Go Home Again- Thomas Wolfe

Ones I've read and enjoyed:
Year of the Reaper
Yellowface
You Only Live Once, David Bravo
You Should See Me in a Crown

And one of my favorite manga series starts with Y in English:
Yona of the Dawn, Vol. 1

Unread books on my list:
You Deserve Each Other
Yumi and the Nightmare Painter

Yerba Buena is one I'm reading this month (I'm doing a repeating alphabet challenge to read down my TBR).

You Can't Touch My Hair: And Other Things I Still Have to Explain for nonfiction.

Yours Truly for romance.

The Yellow House is a really interesting memoir about New Orleans before & after Hurricane Katrina.

Would also work for the "2 books that share a title" prompt with Patricia Falvey's The Yellow House.

From my TBR:
The Yearling
Yellow Crocus
The Year of Magical Thinking
You Love Me
The Year of the Runaways

Britany wrote: "From my TBR:
The Yearling ... "



I read The Yearling for school back in junior high and I am SO SORRY I picked that book. I strongly caution you against it unless you like really sad stories that will make you cry, like Old Yeller and Stone Fox and Where the Red Fern Grows.

It's hard to say what letters the books on my TBR start with, since every time we have a letter challenge I have almost no books with that letter. At some point, my letter has to be up, right?

On my TBR at this time:
Youngbloods - would be my top choice but is 4th in the series so I should go back and see if there is a way to slot the other 3 books in prompts

Your Brain at Work: Strategies for Overcoming Distraction, Regaining Focus, and Working Smarter All Day Long - I probably need to read this one lol

Books I've read and recommend:
Yesterday's Florida Keys
You Get What You Get
You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation
Year One
Yes Please
You Sang to Me
You

If you are ok with books that start with The, here are a few more recommendations:
The Young Black Stallion
The Year of Living Danishly: Uncovering the Secrets of the World's Happiest Country
The Year of Fog

Nadine in NY wrote: "I strongly caution you against it unless you like really sad stories that will make you cry, like Old Yeller and Stone Fox and Where the Red Fern Grows."

AHHHHHH good to know Nadine.

If anyone is looking for a romance, I read You, Again last year and devoured it in a day.

I just read youthjuice and thought it was funny and kind of ridiculous and also gross.

You'd Look Better as a Ghost is about a serial killer who starts being blackmailed by someone in her grief support group. So ridiculous and fun.

For nonfiction, The Yards Between Us: A Memoir of Life, Love, and Football is a memoir by the first openly bisexual NFL player.

Your Shadow Half Remains is on my TBR... let's give this a shot...

I haven't read it yet but if you want a romance, I'm going to read 'You, With a View" ... it might be considered a road trip too. I'm assuming.

I'm using Yinka, Where Is Your Huzband?

Tania wrote: "It's hard to say what letters the books on my TBR start with, since every time we have a letter challenge I have almost no books with that letter. At some point, my letter has to be up, right? ..."

Haha, I feel this. Like really, I've read all my Y books already? How dare I?!

I do have Yinka, Where Is Your Huzband? on my TBR but that's about it.

Pre-ordered a book a while back that's finally being released in January that I'm excited for and it makes this prompt easy:


Y2K: How the 2000s Became Everything

I may do You Are Not So Smart but I also found these on the list that look good Yummy: A History of Desserts
Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded

One of my fave books is The Year of Magical Thinking

Denise wrote: "I may do You Are Not So Smart but I also found these on the list that look good Yummy: A History of Desserts
Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded

One of my ..."

"Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded" sounds awesome based on the title alone. Not surprised to see that it's Scalzi.

Here are the books I have to choose from:

*Yes Please by Amy Poehler
*Yellow Wife by Sadeqa Johnson
*The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers
*You Again by Amanda Waters
*Yellow Jack by Josh Russell
*The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls: A Novel by DiSclafani, Anton (2013) Hardcover byAnton DiSclafani

I will be reading:

Y is for Yesterday by Sue Grafton

HAPPY READING!!

I read Y is for Yesterday. Never read anything by Sue Grafton before. On one side it was refreshing with action taking place in the 1980s without the omnipresent Internet; on the other hand, the topics/crimes discussed in it were disgusting and the timeline in present day to the protagonist was way more entertaining to me. It was an OK read.

Just started this one yesterday:


Y2K: How the 2000s Became Everything

I've read the introduction and chapter 1. Already love this book. As a millennial, I grew up in the 90s/00s so this book is neat. It's kind of depressing, but that's to be expected because it wasn't all rainbows and butterflies and the future we were told would happen.

Finished my book for this prompt:


Y2K: How the 2000s Became Everything

Rating: 4 (actually a 3.5 but GR doesn't do half ratings)

My Review: This book was depressing as hell! What kept me interested in it was the nostalgia factor. As a millennial, it was nice to be reminded of some of the good things from back then. But seriously, millennials got screwed over and this author isn't afraid to show that fact. Not our fault, but still.

It was the nostalgia that led me to give it a 4-star rating. I actually would give it a 3.5 but GR doesn't do half stars and it wasn't that bad for 3-star.

Finished The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

My Review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

I went with poetry: You & Yours by Naomi Shihab Nye:

http://www.lauraruthloomis.com/whats-...

I just finished Yesterday's Kin by Nancy Kress. I'm not sure if I'll read any more in the series.

I read by Amy Poehler.

I've chosen Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks. I saw it in the Listopia and I was intrigued!

I read Year of Wonders Geraldine Brooks

I read Year of Wonders too. I liked it.