18. A book by two authors

[Ian]

I chose Sleeping Beauties by Stephen King and Owen King

Like a more compelling Under the Dome, Sleeping Beauties does what every good King book manages to do - provide social commentary in the guise of a compelling story. About what happens when all the women on Earth fall into a sleep from which they cannot be awoken, the book reflects on the way men deal with the "fairer" sex. I loved most of the books characters (as with any King doorstop, the book has a town's worth), and the ones I did not like I still found mostly compelling. I also love King becoming a bastion for the liberal agenda. This book is dedicated to Sandra Bland and includes a quote about Elizabeth Warren.

The only thing that keeps the book from getting 5-stars is feeling that King does what King does best in his more recent tomes - he conveniently avoids certain plot points to not have to consider how they might change the world of the story he is developing.

This book would also fill the prompts:
A Book Involving a Heist, A Novel about a Villain or Antihero, A Book about Death or Grief, A Book about Feminism, (view spoiler)[A Book about Time Travel (hide spoiler)], A Past Goodreads Choice Awards Winner (2017 - Horror), A Book about a Problem Facing Society Today

[Raquel (Silver Valkyrie Reads)]

Several people have mentioned Illuminae and the following books, but the same author duo also has a series starting with These Broken Stars (which I loved, despite being emotional traumatized by part of) and another series they just started with Unearthed. Both of those series also work for 'book set on another planet'.

I ended up reading a non-fiction with a niche audience for this prompt, but just in case anyone else happens to be interested it was: Not Pregnant: A Companion for the Emotional Journey of Infertility. Another somewhat niche nonfiction, written by a mother-daughter duo is The Lifegiving Home: Creating a Place of Belonging and Becoming.

The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl: Squirrel Meets World also qualifies for this prompt. It was an adorably ridiculous middle grade book; if you're the sort of person who loves the fourth wall nudging footnotes in The Eyre Affair, you would probably enjoy this book.

[Jennifer]

Would you count The Children of Hurin? It was written by JRR Tolkien but his son had to do some significant editing and wrote a long introduction to explain things that were left unsaid by his father.

[Raquel (Silver Valkyrie Reads)]

Jennifer wrote: "Would you count The Children of Hurin? It was written by JRR Tolkien but his son had to do some significant editing and wrote a long introduction to explain things that were left unsaid by his father."

I checked the goodreads listing and Christopher Tolkien is technically listed as an editor, so I probably wouldn't count it myself, but if you're okay with stretching/interpreting the prompt a bit I could certainly see using it.

[Sherri]

Charles Todd is actually a mother/son writing team. They have two mystery series that are set in and after WW1. I love their books. I would read the series in order as you get a greater feeling for the characters. Technically, they are stand alone novels.

[Cyndy]

Anything by Perri O'Shaughnessy will fit, "she" is two sisters.

[Cyndy]

I read The Cinderella Murder by Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke. A real page-turner! I will need to read more of this series.

[Jenn]

I read Misadventures of a Good Wife by Meredith Wilf & Helen Hardt. I went onto my library app and picked the first book that had two authors. Sometimes I luck out with that approach, but this wasn't one of those times...

[Nikky]

I’m reading the Cinderella murder for this one too :)

[Sally]

A non fiction book this time...Sandwich the Completest Medieval Town

[SadieReadsAgain]

Man... Ok, so I read The Hand That Feeds You by A.J. Rich (who is actually Amy Hempel and Jill Ciment). I wanted to read a fiction book as I think a duel-author fiction is more challenging to find than a non-fic. The choice was limited, but this looked quite promising so I was excited about it. It didn't live up to expectations... Good points first - it's fast paced and quite fun (if you excuse the man-eaten-by-dogs thing), and I found the psychology stuff that gets thrown in quite interesting. But the writing wasn't amazing, the ending wasn't too hard to figure out and the main character in particular seemed to lack a lot of emotion. And actually, I think that was my main issue with this book - it's a bit flat, considering the topic and events in it. Nothing gripped me, nothing made my pulse race, nothing surprised me. And I don't think any book needs more than one scene where a woman has a pee under strange circumstances...

[Denise]

I have a few books on my to-read list that were translated (and thus have a second author), so I'm going with The Traveling Cat Chronicles which looks really good and was translated from Japanese (the e-book is only available Oct 23rd, for anyone like me who prefers e-books)

[Joana]

I read As Instruções da Pitonisa by the duo Erik Axl Sund! Truly Amazing

[Anshita]

I wanted to read The Good Immigrant edited by Nikesh Shukla. It's a collection of essays written by many writers and poets. I hope this is satisfactory for this prompt.

[Tracy]

Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan.

[Sneha]

I have read two books that could fit this prompt
Art Matters
The Dangerous Alphabet

Several others that fit other prompts
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

[Crystal]

Just finished The President is Missing by Bill Clinton and James Patterson. Pretty good!!

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Dani wrote: "For the Night Vale lovers out there

Welcome to Night Vale
It Devours!
Mostly Void, Partially Stars
[book:The Great Glowing Coils of the Universe|29..."

I didn't notice that NightVale had two authors when I grabbed it. Thank you!!

[Megan]

I read Sleeping Beauties for this task.