44. A book whose title contains a negative

[Jackie, Solstitial Mod]

Let the title hunt begin!

Some negative words to search for: no, none, nobody, nothing, not, no one, never, can't, don't, won't, couldn't, wouldn't. And of course the negative words in other languages too!

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...

Optional questions:
1. What are you reading for this category?
2. What are your recommendations for this one?

[Heather]

I'm going to read Monday's Not Coming by Tiffany D Jackson.

[Kathy]

I may reread my favorite author, Barbara Pym, who wrote No Fond Return of Love.

Other options:
No Name - Wilkie Collins
Nothing to See Here - Kevin Wilson
When No One is Watching - Alyssa Cole
Don't Look Now - Daphne du Maurier
Sleep No More: Six Murderous Tales - P.D. James

[Thomas]

largely because I need to priorities books I already own Lizzie Didn't Do It!

[Sam]

I think I'm going with Do Not Say We Have Nothing. I began reading it awhile ago and liked it, but I don't think I finished it, so will make a new start with it!

I don't have a ready rec, but a note of caution on one: Hum If You Don’t Know the Words, IMO it was a pretty decent read for most of it but then got very white savior-y in ways I found deeply irritating and also highly improbable.

[Kate]

Going with the -less suggestion for 'bring it on', Endless Night.

[Chrissy]

My short list right now:
What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays
We Are Never Meeting in Real Life.
You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington

[Serendipity]

Just 4 options on my TBR - I am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter, We are Not Ourselves, I am Not Your Slave and No one Ever Asked. All good options if nothing else shows up.

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

I had a bunch on my TBR, but I narrowed it down to these five, which are all over my plans so I'll probably end up reading all of them at some point next year.

All Boys Aren't Blue by George M. Johnson
I'm Not Dying with You Tonight by Kimberly Jones
Darius the Great Is Not Okay by Adib Khorram
Not So Pure and Simple by Lamar Giles
Monday's Not Coming by Tiffany D. Jackson

[Viktoria]

I'll probably read Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
My other option is The Unhoneymooners, which I didn't even realized would fit this prompt, but I found it on the Listopia.

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

I loved Never Let Me Go! I've read it twice (once last year, and then again this year when my book club picked it).

[Robin P, Orbicular Mod]

I'll probably go with Nothing to See Here, which I have on audio.

[Kristina]

I also loved Never Let Me Go!

I don’t usually count subtitles for prompts, but I’m reading Make Something Up: Stories You Can't Unread because it’s been on my TBR the longest out of my options.

[[deleted user]]

i surprising only had one book from my physical tbr that fit so i'll be reading Neverland by Margot McGovern. i know it's a compound word so i normally wouldn't count it, but it's the only one i have to choose.

i do have Lost in the Never Woods by Aiden Thomas preordered though so i might swap it for that. coincidentally, they're both contemporary peter pan retellings!

[Johanne]

How do we feel about -less, are those considered negatives? Like Soulless and the rest of Gail Carriger's Parasol Protectorate series.

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Johanne wrote: "How do we feel about -less, are those considered negatives? Like Soulless and the rest of Gail Carriger's Parasol Protectorate series."

that's one of my favourite series! if you can squeeze that in, i'm definitely all for it haha

[Johanne]

I love them! I've two left in the series. If I don't read them this year, it's a definite contender for 'comfort read' as well.

[Ellie]

Johanne wrote: "How do we feel about -less, are those considered negatives? Like Soulless and the rest of Gail Carriger's Parasol Protectorate series."

Yes, because it's describing the absence of something, and also yes because I have a lot more "less" books on my TBR than not/never/no etc.

I had pencilled in Nevermoor but when I select in on Goodreads it's not called Nevermoor but The Trials of Morrigan Crow, so that would annoy me if I used it, even though the book has Nevermoor in big writing on it.

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Ellie wrote: "I had pencilled in Nevermoor but when I select in on Goodreads it's not called Nevermoor but The Trials of Morrigan Crow, so that would annoy me if I used it, even though the book has Nevermoor in big writing on it."

it's actually called nevermoor: the trials of morrigan crow. the series is all formatted like TITLE: THE [INSERT] OF MORRIGAN CROW so it definitely counts!

[[deleted user]]

Johanne wrote: "I love them! I've two left in the series. If I don't read them this year, it's a definite contender for 'comfort read' as well."

oooh, that's a good idea! i haven't read the spin offs yet and they definitely qualify for comfort reads for me too

[Anna]

Looking through my TBR I have come up with the following options for me:

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Tell No Tales by Eva Dolan
Mig äger ingen by Åsa Linderborg Swedish book: ingen translated is no one/nobody
Nej och åter nej by Nina Lykke Swedish book: nej translated is no
Det som aldrig fick ske: Skolattentatet i Trollhättan by Åsa Erlandsson Swedish book: aldrig translated is never. This is a non-fictional book about a school shooting in Sweden

[dalex]

Imo “impossible” is a word with negative connotations. The definition is - not able to occur, exist, or be done. I have several books with impossible in the title so I’ll be using one of those for this prompt.

[Nancy]

My two possibilities for this are Never Have I Ever or Never Never.

[Alicia]

This is a tough one for me. The only thing I have on my existing TBR is This Coven Won't Break.

I'll really be using this thread to help me uncover some good ones. This is a prompt that seemed easy when I was voting, and now I'm stuck!

[Jill]

These are some from my list

The Girl Who Never Came Back
I'll Never Be Young Again
Never Saw it Coming
If I Never See You Again
Never Knowing
Never Look Away
Horowitz Horror: Stories You'll Wish You Never Read
More Horowitz Horror: More Stories You'll Wish You'd Never ReadNever Somewhere Else

[[deleted user]]

alicia, i have about a 100 books shelved if that helps!

https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...

[Kathryn]

I have these on my list:
The Things We Never Said by Susan Elliot Wright
You Don't Know Me by Sara Foster
No Highway by Nevil Shute
Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant? by Roz Chast
Never Never by Colleen Hoover

However I might also have Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro as an option, if I don't get around to reading it this year. I borrowed it as an ebook from the library a week or so ago, but...it's unopened as yet, with various other books crying out for my attention!

[Alicia]

annie wrote: "alicia, i have about a 100 books shelved if that helps!

https://www.goodreads.com/review/list..."

Yes! I should have looked! I've definitely stalked your shelf for BIPOC retellings

[Nadine in NY]

I don't think I'll get to it this year, so I'll probably read Alyssa Cole's new book, When No One is Watching. If I read that this year, then maybe Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe.


I read I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter this year and I really enjoyed it!

[Cendaquenta]

I like how this'll be the first prompt of November, for those reading in order 😁

[Nadine in NY]

Cendaquenta wrote: "I like how this'll be the first prompt of November, for those reading in order 😁"


LOL I missed that!!! Clever!

[Jackie, Solstitial Mod]

Cendaquenta wrote: "I like how this'll be the first prompt of November, for those reading in order 😁"

omg

[Alicia]

Nadine wrote: "I don't think I'll get to it this year, so I'll probably read Alyssa Cole's new book, When No One is Watching. If I read that this year, then maybe [book:Say Nothin..."

I really enjoyed Say Nothing! I would highly recommend. It's a great entry book into the IRA.

[Melissa]

If you do the audiobook, the guy who reads it has a gorgeous accent, too

Alicia wrote: "Nadine wrote: "I don't think I'll get to it this year, so I'll probably read Alyssa Cole's new book, When No One is Watching. If I read that this year, then maybe [..."

[Alicia]

Melissa wrote: "If you do the audiobook, the guy who reads it has a gorgeous accent, too

Alicia wrote: "Nadine wrote: "I don't think I'll get to it this year, so I'll probably read Alyssa Cole's ..."

haha I actually listened to it as an audiobook, that might also be why I loved it so much. It was quite dreamy.

[[deleted user]]

Alicia wrote: "Yes! I should have looked! I've definitely stalked your shelf for BIPOC retellings"

haha glad i could help!

[Nadine in NY]

Melissa wrote: "If you do the audiobook, the guy who reads it has a gorgeous accent, too

Alicia wrote: "Nadine wrote: "I don't think I'll get to it this year, so I'll probably read ..."



Good to know! Say Nothing has been added to my audio wishlist!!

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

Cendaquenta wrote: "I like how this'll be the first prompt of November, for those reading in order 😁"

bahahah I wish I could claim credit for being that insightful, but it's just where it ended up on the list. I love that connection though hahahaha.

[Wendy]

This is a surprisingly difficult prompt for me!

I really like the suggestion of Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland mentioned above.

From my TBR, I came up with
Neverwhere
No Exit and Three Other Plays
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
No Country for Old Men
How Not To Be a Boy

[Priya]

Not without my daughter by Betty Mahmoody

[Stacey]

I also count Never Let Me Go as one of my favorites. This year I read Nothing to See Here, which I really loved, too. A few years back I read an excerpt of A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments and found it really funny, so now I'm going back to read the whole book.

[The Chapter Conundrum (Stacey)]

I think this means it's time for me to finally read Nevernight by Jay Kristoff

[ladymurmur]

A recommendation if you're looking for a children's book: Never Tease a Weasel

[[deleted user]]

Wendy wrote: "This is a surprisingly difficult prompt for me!"

i was surprised by how little choice i had from my physical tbr. too. i literally only have one!

but i have about 100 options on my goodreads shelf here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/list... if anyone needs more ideas. i might need to borrow something from the library.

[Warring]

Does 'against' work? I wanted to read the Ember Quartet.

[SadieReadsAgain]

1. What are you reading for this category?
Everything I Never Wanted to Be by Dina Kucera
2. What are your recommendations for this one?
All the Light We Cannot See, Everything I Never Told You...I got nothing else.

[Ashley]

I'm finally going to read Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere!

[Robin P, Orbicular Mod]

This is surprisingly hard. I have a feeling some people are going to list it as their least favorite prompt, and I was the one who suggested it!

Out of over 400 books I own in some format, I only found

Nothing to See Here
My Not So Perfect Life
Nothing But Velvet
Don't Look Back - one of 9 books on GR by different authors with that title!

Another option is words with the prefix "in" where it means "not", -
Invisible Man or The Invisible Man
The Indignities of Being a Woman
The Incredulity of Father Brown

Books I don't own but would like to read include
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
Nothing More Dangerous
The Unhoneymooners
Unsheltered
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

[NancyJ]

I like the prompt Robin! I wouldn't have thought to include Invisible, Indignities, etc. but it opens up a lot of possibilities.

I have The Invisible Life of Addie La Rue on my phone now.

I really liked:
The Heart's Invisible Furies
Nothing More Dangerous
The Unhoneymooners
A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II by Sonia Purnell
Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man by Mary Trump (I liked the psychology)

I would most like to read:
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
Invisible LIfe of Addie La Rue
The Unseen World
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

Other possibilities:
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
I like the recommendations for: A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments. I bought it for my dad 20 years ago, but I never read it myself.
The Home for Unwanted Girls
Do Not Say We Have Nothing
Invisible Love
I won Don't Look Back (one of them)
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

[Jillian]

I read The Honey-Don't List by Christina Lauren. It was just a so so book. Christina Lauren’s The Unhoneymooners was really good and I recommend that book instead.