21. A book whose title and author both contain the letter "u"

[Laurel]

1. What are you reading for this category? A Hunger for High Country: One Woman's Journey to the Wild in Yellowstone Country by Susan Marsh

2. Was it easy to forward he a book that works for this prompt? I had several options in my TBR

3. What book would you recommend to other people? This book; Persuasion by Jane Austen; Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life by Ruth Franklin

[JessicaMHR]

1. What are you reading for this category?
I read Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows by Balli Kaur Jaswal

2. Was it easy to find a book that works for the prompt?
No! But after spending quite a bit of time looking for a book I happened to read this and realized while I was reading it that it fit this prompt.

3. What book would you recommend to other people for this prompt?
Since I had a hard time finding just one I don't/ can't think of other options.

[Joanne]

I read Ruin and Rising by Leigh Bardugo for this prompt. It was a good excuse to finally finish off a series I haven't been very excited to read.

I had a lot of options for this one and didn't have any problem finding books that fit.

[Dubhease]

I read The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware.

[Sue]

1. What are you reading for this category? Mullumbimby by Melissa Lucashenko
2. Was it easy to find a book that works for the prompt? Yes - I had 9 books on my TBR that fitted the prompt. I was particularly looking forward to this as the prompt was my own suggestion and I am reading in order week by week.
3. What book would you recommend to other people for this prompt? Loved my choice (an indigenous author) but there are many others that would also be great

[Stacey]

1. What are you reading for this category? The Murder of My Aunt by Richard Hull
2. Was it easy to find a book that works for the prompt? Yes, there were plenty available.
3. What book would you recommend to other people for this prompt? This one, for a good, snarky, old-fashioned whodunit, plus:

One Hundred Years of Solitude
Pride and Prejudice
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Virgin Suicides
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

[Pam]

I plan to read a book by Boris Akunin for this prompt. I have 4 books to choose from but will probably use The Turkish Gambit. I plan to read all 4 so I will see where they fall out in the challenge. The book I planned to read was Foucalt’s Pendulum, which I bought in 1990, but I may push it off yet another year or read if for the Long Book prompt.

[Karen]

Just finished The Story Hour by Thrity Umrigar. I actually didn't have a lot of options for this prompt, so I'm not sure what I would recommend to other people.

[NancyJ]

I read My Cousin Rachel by Rebecca du Maurier

I also read The Guest List by Lucy Foley

I would recommend both to those who like mysteries.

[Anastasia]

Wow, everyone else is finding this very easy to find. I was lucky that I had one book on my TBR. It had been there for awhile so I was eager to read it. It not that great though. :s

The Dead Duke, His Secret Wife, and the Missing Corpse: An Extraordinary Edwardian Case of Deception and Intrigue by Piu Marie Eatwell It was not the authors fault. She really did not have that much to work with being a non-fiction.

[Suzanne]

1. What are you reading for this category?
Nature's Best Hope by Douglas W. Tallamy

2. Was it easy to find a book that works for the prompt?
It was surprisingly easy.

3. What book would you recommend to other people for this prompt?
The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy
Something About You by Julie James
The Menopause Manifesto by Jen Gunter
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari

[Marie]

I read The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul by Douglas Adams. It was quite difficult to find something on my TBR for this, I didn't have that many options.

Most of my recommendations are travel books, for some reason - Kiss the Sunset Pig: A Canadian's American Road Trip With Exotic Detours by Laurie Gough, Pies and Prejudice: In Search of the North by Stuart Maconie and Beauty Tips from Moosejaw by Will Ferguson,

The only fiction book is Out of the Easy by Ruta Sepetys, unless you fancy starting a series - Sue Grafton and Rob Thurman have some books with a U in the title, but they are part way into a series.

[Hannah]

1. What are you reading for this category?
I read The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune.

2. Was it easy to find a book that works for the prompt?
Yes, but only because this was the obvious choice!

3. What book would you recommend to other people for this prompt?

I read One Hundred Years of Solitudeby Gabriel Garcia Marquez last year and though it was a challenging read, I thought it was well worth it: beautifully written and absolutely bizarre.

If you're looking for another strange, wonderful, and challenging classic, Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantes is great - it's truly, genuinely funny, despite its reputation as intimidating.

Juniper by Monica Furlong is the prequel to Wise Child (one of my favorite books of all time. Young adult, possibly even middle grade, but truly wonderful historical fantasy that really honor female development and relationships.

I read Cixin Liu's new short story collection last year, To Hold Up the Sky. I didn't love all the stories, but there were a few that I really loved and enjoyed reading his reflections on Chinese sci fi.

[GailW]

1. What are you reading for this category?
I read The Push by Ashley Audrain

[Evelyn]

1. What are you reading for this category?
Lust & Wonder by Augusten Burroughs

2. Was it easy to find a book that works for the prompt? It was easy.

3. What book would you recommend to other people for this prompt?

[Elizabeth]

1. Unstrung by Neal Shusterman
2. A little more difficult. I have a lot of books on my tbr with a U in one or the other, very few with both.

[Dana]

1. What are you reading for this category?
I am going to re-read The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, but this time I will read an illustrated edition I bought and never read.

2. Was it easy to find a book that works for the prompt?
Thanks to you and the ATY Listopia, no. :D

3. What book would you recommend to other people for this prompt?
Quiet Girl in a Noisy World: An Introvert's Story by Debbie Tung.
Pilu of the Woods by Mai K. Nguyen

[Jenni]

What are you reading for this category?
I read Uncomfortable Conversations With a Black Man by Emmanuel Acho.

Was it easy to find a book that works for the prompt?
No, it was not easy. This was the only book I read this year that fit the prompt.

What book would you recommend to other people for this prompt?
Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts by Kate Racculia
Under Pressure: Confronting the Epidemic of Stress and Anxiety in Girls by Lisa Damour
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows by Balli Kaur Jaswal

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