24. A book with an emotion in the title

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

Happiness. Excitement. Love. Disgust. Terror. Dumbfounded. Books can make us feel all of these emotions, and more. This week, look for a book that has an emotion in the title.

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Suggestions:
You can search in your TBR for this one, but here's a list of possible emotions you could use:

Afraid, Alive, Alone, Amazed, Amused, Anger, Annoyed, Anxiety, Awkward, Bemused, Betrayed, Bitter, Blessed, Bliss, Bold, Bothered, Brave, Calm, Carefree, Caring, Cheerful, Cold, Confused, Courage, Concerned, Conflicted, Contempt, Cowardly, Curious, Defeated, Delighted, Desire, Determined, Devastated, Disappointed, Disbelief, Disdain, Disgust, Distress, Disturbed, Doubtful, Dread, Eager, Earnest, Energetic, Enjoyment, Envy, Expectant, Fascinated, Foolish, Fortunate, Free, Frightened, Frustrated, Furious, Glad, Gleeful, Goofy, Grateful, Greedy, Grief, Guilt, Happy, Hopeful, Hurt, Impatient, Inferior, Inspired, Interested, Intrigued, Jealous, Joy, Lazy, Liking, Lonely, Longing, Lost, Love, Lucky, Lust, Mad, Merry, Miserable, Nervous, Obsessed, Outrage, Panic, Peaceful, Pity, Proud, Puzzled, Rage, Regret, Relief, Sad, Satisfied, Selfish, Silly, Sincere, Solemn, Sorrow, Stressed, Stunned, Surprised, Sympathy, Terror, Thankful, Tired, Tormented, Triumphant, Upbeat, Upset, Vindictive, Woe, Wonder, Worry, Wrath, Yearning

ATY Group Listopia

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Optional Questions:
1. What are you reading for this category?
2. How did you choose this book?

[Serendipity]

This one is a bit of a challenge for me. Nothing the fits perfectly on my TBR. So I’m either going to wait and hope something perfect is released next year or put in my path to stumble across. Or else fudge the wordings of the emotions a little and read Sorry I’m Late, I Didn’t Want to Come or The Sound and the Fury.

[Angie]

I have a bunch that fit, but I am planning on The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle. A while back, I bought audiobook of the Complete Sherlock Holmes narrated by Stephen Fry. This seems like a perfect excuse to read it.

[Jennifer AM]

I'm planning on reading Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger. I started it in 2019 but didn't get to finish it before it had to go back to the library.

[[deleted user]]

Does 'Madness' count? Thinking of this book The Madness of Lord Ian Mackenzie I think it means he's an arse who will be Reformed by the plucky heroine LOL :)

eta: I found another one on my TBR list which might fit better Sweet Tea and Sympathy

[Pam]

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter - It's been on my shelf for years and the first book I thought of, so that's my choice. This one I plan to lock in!

[Dana]

I'm following ZeeJane's idea, and using Sweet Tea and Sympathy

[SadieReadsAgain]

I've got a good bunch of choices on my physical/Kindle TBR shelves:

Courtney Love: The Real Story
Enduring Love
The Heart's Invisible Furies
Her Fearful Symmetry
I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman
I'm Fine and Neither Are You
I'm Not Scared
Original Bliss
So I Am Glad
The Guilty Feminist: From Our Noble Goals to Our Worst Hypocrisies
Where Angels Fear to Tread

[Erica]

I read Malice for this.

[Ira]

A good time to tackle The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss. Been meaning to read that for ages but never actually reading it.

[Laurel]

I will be reading A Grief Workbook for Skeptics: Surviving Loss without Religion I got this when my dad died last year, but put it aside and want to get back to it.

[dalex]

For this prompt I read Child of a Mad God by R.A. Salvatore. It was a typical tropey epic fantasy (but that's not a bad thing!) with excellent world building and great characterization. 4 Stars.

[theStorykeeper]

I have Happiness by Will Ferguson on my TBR.

[Stacey]

I decided on The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers. It's been on my shelf at home for some time, purchased from a street book seller. It fits the bill for this challenge and I'm really looking forward to reading it.

[Emily]

I read The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun and I picked it because it had been on my TBR since 2017 and this prompt was a good excuse to get to it.

[SarahKat]

I used A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer. It's a YA fairytale retelling. A really good one!

[Lizzy]

Emily wrote: "I read The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun and I picked it because ..."

Emily -- what did you think of it? I have it on my TBR as well and was thinking of using it for this prompt.

[Katelyn]

Would My Year of Rest and Relaxation work for this prompt?

[SarahKat]

Lizzy wrote: "Emily wrote: "I read The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun and I pick..."

If I may offer my input, there are some gems in this book but a lot of it is unrelatable or not possible unless you live in a big city and/or have expendable income.
Also, I listened to the audio version and Gretchen Rubin's voice drove me crazy.

[Melissa]

Yes! (Goodreads needs a "like" option on comments)

SarahKat wrote: "Lizzy wrote: "Emily wrote: "I read [book:The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun|63986..."

[Maple]

1. What are you reading for this category?
Reasonable Doubt: A Shocking Story of Lust and Murder in the American Heartland

2. How did you choose this book?
I already owned the book and I'm a fan of true crime.

[Emma]

I'm going with This Will Only Hurt a Little by Busy Philipps!

I have it on my want to read list and have a guilty pleasure soft sport for celebrity memoirs narrated by the authors.

[Kim]

1. What are you reading for this category? The Novel Habits of Happiness by Alexander McCall Smith
2. How did you choose this book? I've read several of his books, and it seemed a good fit for the PS - map prompt. It was serendipitous that I discovered that it would fit this prompt, which I felt would be hard to fulfill.

[The Chapter Conundrum (Stacey)]

I think I'm going for either Sadie by Courtney Summers or The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender by Leslye Walton because I have both of those on my shelf at the moment passed onto me from my sister. :)

[Evelyn]

1. What are you reading for this category?

2. How did you choose this book?
It was on my to-read list.

[Karen]

I read Desperation by Stephen King for this prompt. I chose it because I happened to have a copy, and it seemed like it might be a good read. I enjoyed it.

[Andrea]

I read Her Every Fear by Peter Swanson. I chose this book because I wanted to read this author's work and had a copy readily available.

[Sarah]

dalex wrote: "For this prompt I read Child of a Mad God by R.A. Salvatore. It was a typical tropey epic fantasy (but that's not a bad thing!) with excellent world building and gr..."

I have that right here on the table next to me! Book chosen!

[Ann]

How about The Lying Game

[Kelly]

It just dawned on me that This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger would fit!

[Tabitha]

In the Country We Love: My Family Divided
This will be my choice for this prompt since it interests me a lot especially given the current situation here in the US and I really enjoyed the actress on what I've seen so far of Orange Is the New Black.

[Bana AZ]

1. What are you reading for this category?

Love From A to Z by S.K. Ali - 5 stars!

2. How did you choose this book?
I originally put down The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, but I came across this other book and loved it. I had to fit it in my ATY list somewhere, and this is where it fit. Oh, this can also be put in prompt 26. A book from the 2019 Goodreads Choice Awards. It was a nominee.

[Ruth]

I've just started reading Luis Sepúlveda's The Old Man Who Read Love Stories. I can't remember why I chose this! Sadly Luis Sepúlveda died of Covid-19 in Spain last month.

[Courtney]

1. What are you reading for this category?
Ugly Love
2. How did you choose this book?
I read one of Colleen Hoover's books last year and wanted to read another. I didn't see the ending coming in the first book I read and was looking forward to read more of her books.

[MN]

I read Nancy Mitford, Love in a Cold Climate for this prompt. It made me laugh aloud.

[Kim]

I just finished Her Fearful Symmetry and wow what an unusual book!

Picked it because it had been on my TBR list since reading the Time Traveler's Wife, and I was curious about her second novel.

[Cristin]

Any thoughts on if Guilty Pleasures would count?

[Jackie, Solstitial Mod]

Sure, but don't feel *guilty* for asking :)

Thank you thank you I'll be here all week

[Suzanne]

1. What are you reading for this category?
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy

2. How did you choose this book?
I am working through the Abe List of 100 Essential Female Writers this year. I found a match with "happiness" for a book by an author I had not yet read. I loved this book so much. I have not loved most of the books that I have read on the Abe List but this one was fantastic and I plan to read more by Arundhati Roy.

[Shelley]

I read Hope Never Dies, the Biden/Obama mystery. It was very odd reading it during the current political climate.

[Entropia]

Would having word "emotion" in the title be too much of a cheating? ;) (the book is about emotions)

[Milena]

1. What are you reading for this category?
The Happy Ever After Playlist
2. How did you choose this book?
I read the author's previous book The Friend Zone

[Sherri]

I read Pride,Prejudice, and Other Flavors by Sonali Dev. I read it for a different challenge. I was looking at unfinished prompts for ATY. I was going to use it # 10 A book between 400-600 pages. Then I was Oh Yeah, there's an emotion in the title. # 24 has been a hard prompt for me to fill so I put it there.

[Laurel]

1. What are you reading for this category?The Fear Hunter by Elise Sax
2. How did you choose this book? Scanned TBR list for emotions

[Samantha]

1. What are you reading for this category? Regretting You
2. How did you choose this book? I think I was just looking at my TBR but don't really recall.

[Jackie, Solstitial Mod]

Ok, I need some additional opinions. Is 'haunted' an emotion? I checked out Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life from the library and now I'm torn on whether or not 'haunted' is an emotion.

[Joanne]

I ended up reading which was kind of a freebie for me. I had planned on picking it up anyway and then noticed that it fit the month I was on, so I slotted it in. I'm working on the challenge a month at a time.

[Jackie, Solstitial Mod]

I ended up switching to The Valley of Fear, since fear is more definitely an emotion than 'haunted'. Pretty good, but The Hound of the Baskervilles still reigns as my favorite Holmes story.

[Alesha]

1. What are you reading for this category?
Only Mostly Devastated by Sophie Gonzales

2. How did you choose this book?
I browsed through my TBR shelf and made a (quite short!) list of books that qualified for this prompt. It came down to this and More Happy Than Not, (both of which fit this prompt and the LGBTQIA+ prompt), but I decided to slot More Happy Than Not in the LGBTQIA+ prompt.

4 stars. Overall, a cute, easy-to-read, and fun YA contemporary romance.

[Virginia]

1. What are you reading for this category?
I read The Grapes of Wrath for this prompt.
The Grapes of Wrath
2. How did you choose this book?
I am trying to complete my challenge with books I own for #unreadshelfproject and I'm also working on #20classicsin2020. I have a fantastic set of Steinbeck books from the older version of Book of the Month Club and this book fit a lot of criteria! I am currently reading The Hate U Give but I got it from the library so I am not counting it.