44. A book whose title contains a negative

[Joan]

1. What are you reading for this category? Don't You Cry
2. What are your recommendations for this one? Never Have I Ever
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
And Then There Were None

I'm really enjoying Don't You Cry and I'm over halfway through. It's been hard to put down.

[Laurel]

1. What are you reading for this category? I read I'm Not Dying with You Tonight
2. What are your recommendations for this one? If you like YA, I'd recommend this one; my other recommendations include A Gentleman Never Keeps Score (gay historical romance), Never Let Me Go (literature), Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir (memoir), Indian No More (children's book), and Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts (psychology)

I have #Notyourprincess: Voices of Native American Women and It's Not All Downhill from Here in my TBR for this year

[Ellie]

I read This Coven Won't Break which was a disappointing sequel to These Witches Don't Burn.

[Jill]

We Never Asked for Wings

[StefanieFrei]

Just finished The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax

[Tabatha (tab.talks.books)]

The Ex Talk by Rachel Lynn Solomon

Finished 2/15/21

[Amy]

I did All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood - which was really interesting and I'd definitely recommend it!

I'd also recommend:
To Say Nothing of the Dog
World Without End
All the Light We Cannot See

[JenniferAustin]

I read Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro. It was unsurprisingly excellent!

Other possibilities I can recommend:
Your Silence Will Not Protect You: Essays and Poems by Audre Lorde
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease by Michael Greger
Advice Not Given: A Guide to Getting Over Yourself by Mark Epstein (this is a much more fun and interesting read than the title suggests)
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst (a picture book, but a very good one!)
#Notyourprincess: Voices of Native American Women (anthology)
We Will Not Be Silent: The White Rose Student Resistance Movement That Defied Adolf Hitler by Russell Freedman

These may be a stretch:
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
The Nonesuch by Georgette Heyer

[Sandra]

I'm trying to read books I already own or from the library for my challenge this year - I need a new audiobook and so it looks like I'll be reading Neverwhere.

[Stacey]

For this prompt, I read A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments by David Foster Wallace. The title essay, about the author's experience aboard a cruise ship, is brilliant and hilarious, but I found most of the preceding essays long-winded (with tons of footnotes) and somewhat outdated.

Other books that fit the bill: Never Let Me Go, Nothing to See Here, Tell No One, No Country for Old Men and What Alice Forgot.

[Samantha]

1. What are you reading for this category? If We're Not Married by Thirty
2. What are your recommendations for this one?
Don't Look for Me

[Ruth]

I read Nada by Carmen Laforet. This is the first book I ever read for myself in Spanish back in 1975 (apart from my A level set texts). Set in post cvil war Barcelona and written when she was 23 it's a coming of age story. Bleak but ultimately hopeful for the narrator Andrea; it's a compelling read.

[Leah]

1. What are you reading for this category?

I read Terra Nullius by Claire G. Coleman. Set in colonial Australia (almost) and a gripping and thought-provoking read.

2. What are your recommendations for this one?

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit; All the Light We Cannot See; And Then There Were None; Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men.

[GailW]

1. What are you reading for this category?
I read The Things We Cannot Say

[Jill]

What are you reading for this category?
I read Never Somewhere Else by Alex Gray
I don't think I have any recommendations, but I found a lot of options for this prompt that looked interesting.

[NancyJ]

1. Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson. Very entertaining book.


I loved:
A Woman of No Importance - Purnell
This Is How You Lose the Time War
The Heart's Invisible Furies

Us Against You - but read Beartown first

[Marie]

1. What are you reading for this category?
Don't Read the Comments
2. What are your recommendations for this one?
Not Otherwise Specified was a good read.

[Marta]

My biggest recommendation and favorite book of the year is To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis. Charming, funny, twisty, romantic, and time travel to Victorian England to boot, with overtones of Dorothy L. Sayers and P.G. Wodehouse.

I have used it for the cross genre prompt, though. I went with Nothing to See Here.

I also highly recommend A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II. Great real-life spy story.

[Pam]

I read The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives, edited by Viet Thanh Nguyen, using Dis- as a negative prefix. I highly recommend it! It's an excellent collection of essays. It's a heavy subject but well worth the read to gain perspective on the lives of refugees from all over the world.

[Pamela, Arciform Mod]

I read No Angel by Penny Vincenzi. Perhaps the worst title ever- had nothing to do with the book!

[JessicaMHR]

I decided to use The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas for this. Awesome book with an important theme and message.

[Sherri]

I read Broken (in the best possible way) by Jenny Lawson. She is a new to me author. I will definitely read her other books. I laughed out loud & read parts out loud to my husband.

[Suzanne]

1. What are you reading for this category?
Don't You Forget About Me by Mhairi McFarlane

2. What are your recommendations for this one?
It’s Not Me, It’s You
Hush Now, Don't You Cry
Mourn Not Your Dead
And Justice There Is None
No Mark Upon Her

[Severina]

1. What are you reading for this category?
I read The Summer is Ended and We Are Not Yet Saved by Joey Comeau.

. What are your recommendations for this one?
I recommend No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy

[Kimberly]

How Not to Die Alone by Richard Roper

Neverworld Wake by Marisha Pessl

[Marie (UK)]

1. What are you reading for this category?
Nowhere Near You

2. What are your recommendations for this one?
certainly not this one it was absolute rubbish.
Try Neverwhere

[Trish, Annular Mod]

For anyone who wants a delightful, relatively short read and loves cats, I recommend No One Noticed the Cat by Anne McCaffrey

[Misty]

I read Never Never by Brianna R. Shrum. Don't read it. It was very boring.

[Tiffany]

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

Ha! I like that, but as a Scorpio - should I be offended? :D

[Tiffany]

I read Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking.

I like this prompt if only to read the quirky & funny titles.
I recommend: The Hate U Give
Invisible Man - I'm sure it's on a few required reading lists
Everything I Never Told You
Much Ado About Nothing
We Are Never Meeting in Real Life.
Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

[Evelyn]

1. What are you reading for this category?
No Exit by Taylor Adams

2. What are your recommendations for this one?

[Dana]

1. What are you reading for this category?
I want to finish Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come: An Introvert's Year of Living Dangerously by Jessica Pan, which I dnf'ed last month.

2. What are your recommendations for this one?
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
Neverworld Wake by Marisha Pessl

[Joanne]

I read Never Fade by Alexandra Bracken. It's been so long since I read the first book in the series that I had to seek out a spoiler-filled recap of the plot of book one before I started this one. Hopefully I will get to book 3 in a more timely fashion. Probably not though ;)

[Dana]

Dana wrote: "1. What are you reading for this category?
I want to finish Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come: An Introvert's Year of Living Dangerously by Jessica Pan, which I dnf'ed last mont..."

I just finished it. :)

Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come: An Introvert's Year of Living Dangerously by Jessica Pan.

[Marie]

I read You're Never Weird on the Internet by Felicia Day, and I'd definitely recommend it.

Other recommendations are I Am Not a Serial Killer, A Woman of No Importance and Patron Saints of Nothing.

[NancyJ]

My first round pick was: Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson.

Second round pick: Bad Feminist by Roxanne Gay
It took me a long time to recognize that "bad" fit this prompt

I strongly recommend Nothing to See Here.

[Anne]

I will be reading Falling by Colin Thubron.
I can recommend Out of Love by Victoria Clayton and The Unseen by Catherine Webb.

[Andrea]

I just finished Stop at Nothing by Michael Ledwidge to fulfill this prompt. Another book that I considered reading for it was No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy for I recently visited the Big Bend region.