47 & 48 - Two books that share the same title

[Malaraa]

Nadine wrote: "I was, of course, browsing my TBR list last night while watching TV with my kids, and I was delighted to discover that I have three exact matches on my TBR and three near matches! phew! Because eve..."

I have two more Dust titles to go with yours :) Dust and Dust!

Other matches I've read in the past include:

Stardust with Star Dust
Blood Bound and Blood Bound
Radiant and Radiant
Radiance with Radiance
Traitors' Gate and Traitors Gate
Murder of Crows and Murder of Crows

Then several from the Iron Druid series, one word titles are almost always an easy bet for finding matches!

Hammered and Hammered
Hunted and Hunted and Hunted
Trapped and Trapped
each of these also has several more title matches I haven't tried yet.

The Kellerman Family (John, Faye, and Jesse) all have a lot of single or two word titles that have a ton of matches also.

This really feels like one that should be pretty easy to find along the way, I was finding so many extra overlaps just while looking up the matches I remembered!

[Raquel (Silver Valkyrie Reads)]

Sanasai wrote: "Nadine wrote: "I was, of course, browsing my TBR list last night while watching TV with my kids, and I was delighted to discover that I have three exact matches on my TBR and three near matches! ph..."

I think it's easier for some people than others, depending on what your go-to genre is. Romance readers should be able to fill this no problem, while those who read mostly non-fiction or classics might have a little harder time.

[Megan]

I haven't read any of these books but I just came across Borrowed Dreams by Debbie Macomber, Borrowed Dreams by May McGoldrick, and Borrowed Dreams by Susanne O'Leary.

[Jacqueline]

I'm going to read Snobs by Julian Fellowes and Snobs by Russell Lynes.

[Raquel (Silver Valkyrie Reads)]

I just noticed there are a lot of books with the title Out of the Shadows. This is the one I was looking up, and looks interesting (especially for fans of Mary Shelley):

Out of the Shadows

[Nullifidian]

Would it be cheating to read a two-volume biography? I just noticed Charles Darwin: Voyaging and Charles Darwin: The Power of Place on my shelf, and it occurred to me that I hadn't read them yet. They've got the same author, Janet Browne, and the same title because they're both about Darwin, the first covering his life up to 1858 and the second continuing from there to his death.

I have other books I could read, but I'd really like to get these two off my TBR.

[Tamara]

Here's a list of ideas, both ones I am considering and items I matched from my "Read" shelf. Hope it helps someone! (Note: I did not count subtitles as differentiating titles, but I did count things like "a," "the," or pluralization.)

All the Single Ladies
All The Single Ladies
All The Single Ladies

At the Water's Edge
At the Water's Edge

The Nest
The Nest

Swimming
Swimming

Among the Missing
Among the Missing

Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
Bad Blood

The Break
The Break

The Covenant
The Covenant
The Covenant

The Good Daughter
The Good Daughter: A Memoir of My Mother's Hidden Life

Grit
Grit

Heartless
Heartless
Heartless

Identical
Identical

The Immortalists
The Immortalists

Once Upon a River
Once Upon a River

The Perfect Mother
The Perfect Mother

Salt
Salt: A World History

Stardust
Stardust
Stardust

Testimony
Testimony: A Memoir (Also counts for the "book by a musician" category!)
Testimony

[Ellie]

I keep finding pairings I've read or read one half of, but it's surprising how many there are from non-obscure authors!

Pure by Julianna Baggott (YA post-apocalyptic)
Pure by Andrew Miller (historical fiction)

Thin Air by Michelle Paver (ghost story/historical fiction)
Thin Air by Richard Morgan (science fiction)

[Nicole]

Conny wrote: "For those like me whose native language isn't English but who can read English just fine on top of their actual mother tongue, it is also possible to pair two books that have the same title in diff..."

Thats a great Idea! I might have to think about it for a while...

And I was wondering what everybody is thinking about reading a series or a book with several volumes for this one?
Legit or cheating? ;)

[Krissy]

Some of my options:

Captivated


Bittersweet


Cell

[Debbie]

On my shelves:

After by Francine Prose & After by Amy Efaw

Alice in Zombieland by Nickolas Cook and Alice in Zombieland by Gena Showalter

Yummy: The Last Days of a Southside Shorty and Yummy: Eight Favorite Fairy Tales

Yellow Star and The Yellow Star: The Legend of King Christian X of Denmark

Why School? and Why School?: How Education Must Change When Learning and Information Are Everywhere

Treasure Island and Treasure Island!!!

For high school reading:
- Until We Meet Again (Bluford) and Until We Meet Again: A True Story of Love and Survival in the Holocaust
- Schooled and Schooled

[Rachel]

My original plan was to use Forget Me Not and Forget Me Not, but my library only has one of them.

Now I'm thinking My Husband's Wife and My Husband's Wife, since I at least own both of those and I was interested in reading at least one of them next year anyway.

[Stephanie]

The raven king by maggie stiefvater and The raven king by nora sakavic

[Krissy]

More Options:

White Hot


The Wedding


Vanished


Trial by Fire


The Beach House


Shelter

[Jackie]

I'm probably going to go with the Endurance pair; I feel like I've been meaning to read those two books for ages anyway.

[Mandi]

Johanne wrote: "I am going to tackle this by looking up books I am reading during the year (with not too weird titles) to see if they have a twin. I have complete faith in this approach (or so I tell myself)."
I think that's what I'll end up doing too!

So far I've found a couple name twins of books I already planned on reading, but I imagine I'll keep looking.

[Emily]

I'm going with The Lost World By Michael Crichton and The Lost World by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle!

[Mada]

I'm going with Going Postal by Sir Terry Pratchett and Going Postal by Don Lasseter. They seem wildly different from each other and the first one is aligned with my personal challenge of reading as much fantasy as possible for the following year. The second seems quite intriguing though, as I know nothing about the subject at the moment.

[Elene]

I noticed I have both It by Stephen King and It by Alexa Chung in my TBR so I will probably go with those two :-)

[Colleen]

Nadine wrote: "I was, of course, browsing my TBR list last night while watching TV with my kids, and I was delighted to discover that I have three exact matches on my TBR and three near matches! phew! Because eve..."

Arhtur Slade also had a book called Dust

[Sandra]

Mandi wrote: "Johanne wrote: "I am going to tackle this by looking up books I am reading during the year (with not too weird titles) to see if they have a twin. I have complete faith in this approach (or so I te..."

I'm reading Cinder for another prompt, so thanks for the Scarlet suggestions! :)

[Charlotte]

I'm trying to decide how close I want to stick to this prompt. Do I want to do an exact match of titles or a near match? I'm seriously considering using Clockwork Prince and Clockwork Princess to fill this prompt. They are already on my TBR shelf. If not, I think I'm going to go with the suggestion of the pair of One Day in December books.

[Caroline]

This one looks like it is going to be easier than I thought! I found these:

The Lake House
The Lake House
The Lake House

[Maartje]

In Dutch these books are all called Zusje.
Zusje
Sister
The Sister

[SadieReadsAgain]

Seems like the possibilities are endless! I try to use the challenge to get through my physical TBR pile, so at least one of the books in the pair has to come from there. My options (some of them...) are:

The Miniaturist & The Miniaturist
Borrowed Light & Borrowed Light
Disobedience & Disobedience
Baggage: My Childhood & Baggage
Four Corners & Four Corners: A Novel
The Memory Box & The Memory Box or The Memory Box
Motherland & Motherland or Motherland or Motherland
The Missing& The Missing
The Changeling & The Changeling or The Changeling
Swansong or Swansong

Hopefully library availability will help me narrow it down!

[Chrissy]

Kerry wrote: "Katy wrote: "Kerry wrote: "I really want to use North and South and
North and South for this prompt but both are so long. I will see."

If you do, you can then read the..."

The Born to Run ones I was considering, too. Also fulfills a book by a musician and a book about a hobby

[Kimberly]

I am going to go with A Spark of Light and Spark of Light. The second isn’t really my thing but who knows? I will keep an open mind. I haven’t read Jodi Picoult before , so thought I would give it a try.

[Yuval]

I'm considering Carmilla and Carmilla.

[Nicole]

I'm think of reading Home by Toni Morrison and Home byMarilynne Robinson

[Nichelle]

For this one, I'm going to read Faithful by Alice Hoffman and Faithful by Kimberly Cash Tate. The second one has been on my TBR for awhile.

[Karen]

and . These could also work for the nostalgia prompt, and the latter would work for the Published in 2019 prompt.

[Darlene]

Ellie wrote: "Well I seem to be drawn to books with unusual names but I've found a few maybes...

Contagion by Erin Bowman
Contagion by Teri Terry"

I think I've found my pair! I have Bowman's Contagion already waiting to be read. I could pair it with Contagion by Robin Cook

[ally✨]

i planned on doing The Raven King by Maggie Stiefvater and The Raven King by Nora Sakavic, but these only work when you read other books in the two series already

[Bev]

I'm going with Winter Solstice - by Rosaminde Pilcher and also by Elin Hinderbrand

[Lisa]

"Death Be Not Proud"

Suzannah Rowntree
John Gunther

(Different books, different authors...same title)

[Rachel]

Since I try to go as close to my bookshelf as possible and see what in the Reading Challenges fit what already match books I already own, I'm going to read The Accident by Elie Wiesel and then maybe The Accident by Chris Pavone.

[Jessica]

I'm considering and . But there are so many other good options on this thread, I may have to reconsider before starting!

[L Y N N]

Rachel wrote: "Since I try to go as close to my bookshelf as possible and see what in the Reading Challenges fit what already match books I already own, I'm going to read The Accident by Elie Wiesel..."

I really enjoy Pavone's writing!

[KF-in-Georgia]

I was just coming here to see if this would qualify since Wells' book was The Invisible Man, and Ellison's is just Invisible Man. (I only noticed that because they never alphabetize together on my reading lists.)

This is my first POPSUGAR Challenge, so I'm not sure how sticky the rules are on what qualifies. From what I've seen on other posts, it's okay to use a single book to fulfill multiple prompts? (Ellison's also qualifies as a two-word title--where Wells' would not)

[SadieReadsAgain]

KF-in-Georgia wrote: "I was just coming here to see if this would qualify since Wells' book was
The
Invisible Man, and Ellison's is just Invisible Man. (I only noticed that because they never alphabetize together on..."

The rules are as sticky as you want them to be. Personally, a the wouldn't be an issue for me, whereas I never use one book for multiple prompts. It's just what works for you :)

[Leandra]

Went through my read/TBR list and found quite a few doubles!

Assassin


The Captain's Daughter


Deception(s)


Exile(s)


Peacekeeper(s)


Quarantine


Requiem


Scarlet(t)


Shockwave


Vulcan't Forge

(^^^ I'm probably going with this one. I LOVE the Star Trek one and the other has been on my list forever.)

[Caity]

I think I'm going to do The Lost World by Michael Crichton and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. My fiance has the Crichton and the Doyle I was able to get for free on my kindle. I can use Jurassic Park for the prompt with an extinct or imaginary creature, since I've never read it before and would need to read it first.

[Tabitha]

Rebecca and Rebecca are my choices especially since the first fits another challenge.

[Kamilah]

Nadine wrote: "Stina wrote: "So, what about adaptations with the same title as the original work?"

Like Macbeth & Macbeth? seems fair to me!"

Maybe that can count as a retelling of a classic as well.

[Yvonne]

I am on the fence and looking for opinions... do y'all think The Girl in the Red Coat and Girl in the Blue Coat would work for this prompt... they are both "The Girl in the (insert color) Coat" and my library has both (that's where I get 90% of my books from)...I will probably keep looking, but would it be ok to keep these in reserve?

[nicolle]

My two picks! Arcadia by Iain Pears and Arcadia by Lauren Groff

[Jess]

I saw The Night Gardener listed but there are also multiple versions of the Night Garden.

[KF-in-Georgia]

I'm planning to use one book for multiple prompts in order to leave myself enough reading time for whatever comes along that I want to read outside the challenges. (I'm in two challenges with a total of 62 prompts.) I've read 60+ (so far) this year, but some of those were super-short, and I've got Hamilton* on my list for next year (book that should be made into a movie, and a book I wanted to read last year).

*Just remembered: I watched Hamilton's America on PBS and there was a shot of Lin-Manual Miranda reading Chernow's book. One book fitting three prompts!

[Brandyn]

Yvonne wrote: "I am on the fence and looking for opinions... do y'all think The Girl in the Red Coat and Girl in the Blue Coat would work for this prompt... they are both "The Girl i..."

Only you can decide:). I really want to do The Tattooist of Auschwitz and The Librarian of Auschwitz, but I keep looking for more exact matches to the prompt.

[Julie]

I'm trying to stick with as many from my TBR as possible, and at the moment I have Night Watch and The Night Watch, as well as Wonder and The Wonder at the top of my list.

I'm picky enough that for my personal challenge, I kind of don't want to use them, just because one has "the" and the other doesn't, but I'm thinking that shouldn't make that big of a difference. We'll see, I also have Feed and Feed on my TBR, too.