A book with a month or day of the week in the title

[Christy]

I'm considering Tuesday Nights in 1980 by Molly Prentiss for this one, though I reserve the right to reconsider if something more exciting comes up.

[Jessica]

The Last of August - I used this one for this prompt. This is the second book in a series about the descendants of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

The May Queen Murders - Read this last year - good horror book.

Buy Shoes on Wednesday and Tweet at 4:00: More of the Best Times to Buy This, Do That, and Go There - A quick non-fiction read.

Live from New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live

[Carrie]

March by Geraldine Brooks.

[Malaraa]

Friday the Rabbi Slept Late and the rest of the series are very fun mysteries and on the shorter side. Most of the series has a day of the week in the title. I'll probably be re-reading one at some point anyway, so these are acting as my backup plan for this category. :)

[Thegirlintheafternoon]

I had intended to use Tuesdays at the Castle for this prompt, but I enjoyed it so much that I promptly moved it into my "first book in a series I haven't read before" so that I can use the sequel, Wednesdays in the Tower, for this one! Really charming, fun middle-grade reads. Thanks for the folks who recommended this series! I'd never heard of it before, but I'm definitely enjoying it so far :D

[Nadine in NY]

Thegirlintheafternoon wrote: "I had intended to use Tuesdays at the Castle for this prompt, but I enjoyed it so much that I promptly moved it into my "first book in a series I haven't read before" so that I can ..."

I'm glad to read this, because I'll be reading Tuesdays at the Castle too! (My daughter has been insisting I read it for years.)

[Thegirlintheafternoon]

Nadine wrote: "Thegirlintheafternoon wrote: "I had intended to use Tuesdays at the Castle for this prompt, but I enjoyed it so much that I promptly moved it into my "first book in a series I haven..."

I found it thoroughly charming! Read the whole thing in a couple of hours. Hope you enjoy!

[Sarah]

Maggie wrote: "I'm currently reading July's People which is a bit of a cheat, because July in the book is the name of a person, but well. It works! Plus it's an excellent book so far. Full of tensio..."

I tried this for the second time and it has completely disrupted my challenge. I persevered for a week and couldn't get a long with it at all. I was really disappointed with myself more than anything else, but didn't even get halfway through after reading it for a week and when I had been getting through books 3 times as long in the same time. I had to give up :-(

[Hélène]

Kylie wrote: "Is Middlemarch too much of a stretch? Haven't decided how I feel about it yet!"
Middlemarch is so good that you can seize any good excuse to read it!

[Mirel]

Andrew wrote: "The lack of "The Man Who Was Thursday" by GK Chesterton is very disheartening.
If only it could count for both this AND a book that always leaves me with a smile..."

No lack. I just finished it today for this prompt. Although after reading up on the book and learning that it is a "metaphysical thriller" I may change my mind and use it as a genre I hadn't heard of before... I mean there are another six days of the week that I can always find something to read about.

And while I'm still mulling over the ending, the book definitely had me laughing out loud.

[Kathy]

I read March: Book One by John Lewis. It's a powerful graphic novel about Lewis' involvement in the civil rights movement.

[Marta]

Kathy wrote: "I read March: Book One by John Lewis. It's a powerful graphic novel about Lewis' involvement in the civil rights movement."
That is exactly what I was thinking! Great choice.

[Carrie]

Wednesday Letters or March, or Friday's Daughters are all titles that fit the prompt.

[Carrie]

Three Junes

[Anshita]

Tuesdays with Morrie seems to be a popular choice for this prompt. I've read The Five People You Meet in Heaven during mt teenage years, which I enjoyed, but I doubt if Albom would still be able to maintain the same grasp on me.

[Kara]

I would live to count The End of the Day but I feel like I can't justify that.
Maybe I'll reread One of Our Thursdays Is Missing.

[Chinook]

I also read March: Book One for this. I might potentially move it to a book written by someone I admire, depending on what else I end up reading.

Amazing read. Can't wait to read the rest, though my library doesn't have the other two on Overdrive, so I'll have to go find the paper copies.

[Jenn]

Searched on Hoopla for ebooks available from the library and found The Last September by Nina de Gramont for this.

[Brooke]

I am going to either read December 6 or The Friday Night Knitting Club. Two very different books, so it will depend on my mood, I guess.

[Jai]

I'm either going to read one of my childhood favorites, Across five Aprils or the Friday Night Knitting Club.

[Jackie]

I am struggling with this one! Anybody have any recommendations for a cozy mystery that fits the bill? Preferably something of the old school "can you figure it out before the detective variety" but really I'm open!

[Nadine in NY]

Jackie wrote: "I am struggling with this one! Anybody have any recommendations for a cozy mystery that fits the bill? Preferably something of the old school "can you figure it out before the detective variety" bu..."

The Rabbi series would be a cozy (cozy-ish?) mystery series that works for this category. Starts with Friday the Rabbi Slept Late.

[Emanuel]

I read Domingo à Tarde, sunday night.

[Sara Grace]

I decided to stretch this prompt out a little to make All Our Wrong Todays fit because I've had it on my TBR shelf a while and heard it was pretty good.

[Juliebean]

Jackie wrote: "I am struggling with this one! Anybody have any recommendations for a cozy mystery that fits the bill? Preferably something of the old school "can you figure it out before the detective variety" bu..."

I can't personally recommend it but I came across this one during a search and it's free on Kindle. Murder by Monday

[Jackie]

Thanks, I ended up reading Theft on Thursday or something to that effect...my library had it. It wasn't great. Weirdly, there was no theft, and I'm not sure that the crime occurred on a thursday. It certainly wasn't a plot point.

[Cindy]

Kylie wrote: "Is Middlemarch too much of a stretch? Haven't decided how I feel about it yet!"

How about, May your days be Merry?

[Lindsey]

I dnf so many books for this prompt. It was bad. I gave up hope, but then I found a romance that wasn't so bad. Bride by Wednesday. Phew!

[Carrie]

Snow in May

[Naina]

I read A Million Junes for this prompt! Really enjoyed the book, reminded me of Neil Gaiman's books with magical realism elements

[Kaitlin]

I read A Million Junes

[Amanda]

I'm filing Tenth of December by George Saunders for this one. I had no clue what this book was about and it turned out being a good read, if quite sad.

[Tytti]

Brooke wrote: "I am going to either read December 6 or The Friday Night Knitting Club."

I became interested because December 6th is our independence day, I should have guessed the year it is set is 1941. (I have also always wondered if Churchill deliberately waited to the next day before declaring war against us in Dec 7, 1941...)

[Nadine in NY]

Tytti wrote: "Brooke wrote: "I am going to either read December 6 or The Friday Night Knitting Club."

I became interested because December 6th is our independence day, I should have g..."

Wow I learned something today! I'm not much of a WWII buff, and I never knew that Finland had sided with the Nazis. Your comment confused me so I googled it. According to this BBC article, Finland, Hungary, and Romania joined forces with Germany, Japan, and Italy in November 1940, and Britain declared war on them on 5 December 1941.

[Tytti]

Nadine wrote: "Finland had sided with the Nazis"

Yeah, well, siding with the Soviet Union wasn't really an option, after what they had done in 1939-1940 (the occupation of Eastern Poland and the Baltic countries, starting a war against Finland) and before the war (mass deportations and executions of tens of thousands of ethnic Finns in the USSR https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jM4VR...), so you do what you have to to survive, even accept help from Germany. Without outside help people would have soon started starving to death, which Stalin very well knew because he had already blackmailed Finland by stopping grain deliveries. He had a lot of experience about starving people to death since the early 1930's, just ask Ukrainians.

(Dec 5 was the date in the ultimatum to stop the advance but Finland wasn't going to let the enemy know what they were planning. The advance was stopped in Dec 8.)

[Cindy]

Tuedays with Morrie - I've been meaning to read this for years.

[Rachel]

I'm reading The Wednesday Letters

[Melody]

Kathy wrote: "I read March: Book One by John Lewis. It's a powerful graphic novel about Lewis' involvement in the civil rights movement."

I also read March: Book One! What a great book, can't wait to read the rest, and very glad so many people read this great work too!

[Wendy]

I'm going to read China Mieville's new book October: The Story of the Russian Revolution for this one! I was having trouble finding a fitting book that I was interested in, but am excited about pairing this one with my "cat" book Master & Margarita.

[Nancy]

I read Thursday's Child by Sonya Hartness, a dark coming of age story set in Australia during the Great Depression.