Where Does This Book Fit? the 2021 edition ...

[Nadine in NY]

Ariel wrote: "What prompts would work for these books?

Clap When You Land
Their Eyes Were Watching God
A Tale for the Time Being
Stay with Me"



Their Eyes Were Watching God:
Maybe you feel that everyone has read it but you.
I'm sure it's on some BLM reading lists.
It's about social justice - Janie struggles against both sexism and racism in the story.
A big chunk of it is set outdoors.
This is a slight reach, but in a way it's about do-overs/fresh starts (actually, the more I think about it, the more this book is an excellent fit for this category so I crossed off my waffling part!).
Maybe your best friend would like it.


Stay With Me:
Same title as a song.
Involves three generations.
Maybe your best friend would like it.


A Tale for the Time Being, I haven't read it so I'm just guessing:
Three generations, I think?
It's in at least two countries, I'm not sure if there are more.
In a way (and this is tenuous) it could be a book about forgetting (since it's about remembering)


Clap When You Land:
it's a novel in verse, so maybe that's a different format for you.

[Heather L]

Their Eyes Were Watching God would also fit a past Popsugar prompt for a book by a WOC.

[Haidy]

i really want to read these but not sure where they would fit ;-;

Rebecca (A genre hybrid)
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (A book where the main character works at your current or dream job)
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (A book by an author who shares your zodiac sign)
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed (A book by a blogger, vlogger, YouTube video creator, or other online personality)
Know My Name (A book with something broken on the cover)

thanks for the suggestions !!

[Alicia]

Rebecca, you could do a genre hybrid. It's a mix of Romance and Thriller. Or if you'd like to visit England or Monaco. I also think the Bee Gees had a song called Rebecca.

For The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, have you ever wanted to be an actress, journalist, a rich woman living in luxury? It could count as a dream job. Or if you would like to visit NYC in 2021 (or in general). Finally, I just read this book this year because it seemed like everyone had read it except me.

With Know My Name, I would consider the doubt and dismissiveness of women that have been raped to be a social justice issue. Eric Clapton had a song Would You Know My Name and Alicia Keys had a song that says You Don't Know My Name.

[Melissa]

Haidy wrote: "i really want to read these but not sure where they would fit"

Rebecca can be a past popsugar challenge - 2015 had a prompt about became a movie. Netflix made it into a movie in 2020. Daphen du Maurier was a Taurus, if you are too, for author Zodiac sign.

Know My Name - Chanel Miller is a Gemini. Drakeryn mentioned in the thread for Something Broken on the Cover that the cover for this book is a reference to the Japanese art of mending broken pottery with gold (https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...). It would also work for a subject you are passionate about, if you're passionate about believing women, #MeToo, judicial reform, athletes not getting special privileges. It was a New York Times bestseller, so that would be a prior PopSugar challenge (2016, NYT Bestseller).

Lori Gottlieb, author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone, has a podcast, so that would work for online personality. It would work if you're passionate about mental health. I know a few of my friends have read it, so maybe your best friend would want to. A Previous PopSugar challenge in 2016 was Self Improvement, so that would fit here.

[Allie]

Wondering where these might fit into:

Year One by Nora Roberts
Time's Convert by Deborah Harkness
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear
Midnight Sun by Stephenie Meyer

[Brandon]

Allie wrote: "Wondering where these might fit into:

Year One by Nora Roberts
Time's Convert by Deborah Harkness
[book:Atomic Habits: An Easy & Prov..."

I have Atomic Habits as my book about a fresh start.

[Heather L]

Year One would fit past year’s prompt — the 2020 challenge had a book with a bird on the cover.

Depending how big of a stickler you are, it could also fit black & white cover, though the lettering is red.

[Mimi]

I'm trying to fit these in:

The Girl with the Louding Voice
Cress
Winter

Also trying to fit in the rest of the Inspector Gamache Series. I can probably squeeze them in the TBR prompts or a few of the vague ones, but looking to see options.

If anyone knows where these would fit, I'd appreciate it:
The Nature of the Beast -- This fits Song Title
A Great Reckoning
Glass Houses - Maybe broken on cover???
Kingdom of the Blind
A Better Man
All the Devils Are Here

Thanks!

[Alyson]

Can “Such a Fun Age” by Kiley Reid fit somewhere in the prompts?

[Shannon]

Nadine wrote: "I've got a list of books I wanted to read in 2021, and I'm wondering if any of these fit any of my open categories:

The Elegance of the Hedgehog
The Woman Next Door
..."

You could potentially stretch The Elegance of the Hedgehog to fit the generations prompt, if you don't care about those generations being blood-relatives. The main characters are a young girl and an older woman who could be her grandmother. The girl's parents are around, too (although they aren't main characters).

The only other prompt it might be able to fit in is a book about art or an artist, because there's a lot of philosophizing about art. But again, it would be a stretch.

If you need one on a bookshelf, you could look at my virtual bookshelf and see it there! ;)

[Alicia]

Alyson wrote: "Can “Such a Fun Age” by Kiley Reid fit somewhere in the prompts?"

You can do social justice issue or found on BLM reading lists. I've seen this book featured on BLM lists regularly and then that would tie into a social justice issue.

[Sallie]

I really want to read Middlemarch by George Elliot in 2021. Any suggestions where it might fit?

[Allie]

Heather L wrote: "Year One would fit past year’s prompt — the 2020 challenge had a book with a bird on the cover.

Depending how big of a stickler you are, it could also fit black & white cover, tho..."

Hmm. Might have to go with the previous year challenge as I've already got a Black and White covered book

[Allie]

Also wondering where these could fit, as I'm planning to read with a friend from out of town:

Midnight Sun by Stephenie Meyer
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins
Little Soldiers: An American Boy, a Chinese School, and the Global Race to Achieve by Lenora Chu

[AnneElisabeth]

Sallie wrote: "I really want to read Middlemarch by George Elliot in 2021. Any suggestions where it might fit?"

Maybe it can go in the do-overs or fresh starts.
Its been a long time since I read it.

Possibly in the a book everyone seems to have read but you?

[Erica]

Mimi wrote: "I'm trying to fit these in:

The Girl with the Louding Voice
Cress
Winter

Also trying to fit in the rest of the Inspector Gamache Series. I can prob..."

So Cress works for a fresh start for sure.

Better Man is a song title.

[Erica]

Allie wrote: "Also wondering where these could fit, as I'm planning to read them along with a friend from out of town:

Midnight Sun by Stephenie Meyer
[book:The Ballad of Songbi..."

Midnight Sun could be stretched into the fresh start/do over prompt. It's a redo of Twilight with a new narrator. Also It's a redo because the author had wrote Edward's perspective and fans got ahold of it and it stalled her writing it.

[Sarah]

Sallie wrote: "I really want to read Middlemarch by George Elliot in 2021. Any suggestions where it might fit?"

I'm using it for the longest on my TBR. Obviously this prompt will be different for everyone but there's a good chance it'll be close to the longest!

[Nadine in NY]

Sallie wrote: "I really want to read Middlemarch by George Elliot in 2021. Any suggestions where it might fit?"



you must have a lot of really long books on your TBR if this one is not a candidate for "longest book"!!


Maybe you'd like to visit an English village, maybe you think your best friend would like it, maybe the author shares your zodiac sign. I don't know if it was published anonymously, I can't tell when the world knew that George Eliot was Mary Ann Evans.

[Kincso901]

Brandon wrote: "Kincso901 wrote: "Hi :)
I would really like to read Dune. Would it fit any of these promts?

- A book about do-overs or fresh starts
- A book with a family tree
- A book about forg..."

Thank you very much!

[Robin H-R]

Melissa wrote: "Haidy wrote: "i really want to read these but not sure where they would fit"

Rebecca can be a past popsugar challenge - 2015 had a prompt about became a movie. Netflix made it into..."

Rebecca was made in to a movie way before Netflix was even conceived....ah, but you're young...LOL

[Heather L]

For those looking to place Midnight Sun, I was curious and did some checking, and looks like it works for the song title prompt. There’s a song with the same title by Bella Thorne.

[Heather L]

Sallie — “Middlemarch” would fit two more prompts besides those mentioned above.

* Previous prompt: Book with a pink cover (there are a couple editions with pink covers)
* Book with a black and white cover — I found the below edition that fits:

[Melissa]

Robin wrote: Rebecca was made in to a movie way before Netflix was even conceived....ah, but you're young...LO."

Right, it's been a movie before, and the past challenge didn't specify about when the movie was made like other challenges do. I know it became a movie this year because another challenge had a prompt for turned into a movie in 2020, and all of this year's movies got pushed out, so I was basically only left with Rebecca or Call of the Wild for that prompt.

[Tanu]

Middlemarch would also fit do-over or fresh start

[Sallie]

Thank you all. I think I’ll go with fresh start. I plan to use the library ebook version. I’m not sure about page length in this version, but it’s not a pink cover and I gave a lot of long books on my shelves and also TBR on Goodreads. As I’m not reading it yet, I was not aware it might fit the “fresh start” prompt thank you again.

[Sylvia]

I really want to read "Lady Midnight by Cassandra Clare " and "The Poppy War by RF Kuang" Any suggestions where these may fit?

[Ellie]

Sylvia wrote: "I really want to read "Lady Midnight by Cassandra Clare " and "The Poppy War by RF Kuang" Any suggestions where these may fit?"

I knew where I could find The Poppy War on someone else's bookshelves: https://www.instagram.com/p/CH0z-xsA1-7/

Lady Midnight is also a song title.

[Sylvia]

Thanks Ellie

[Janet]

I am new to this and I had started a tbr list before finding out about the Popsugar challenge. I want to become a more avid reader. Can any of these books be use as prompts?

The Whisper Man Black and white cover

All for One
Love & War
Alex & Eliza - Melissa de la Cruz

Baby Teeth - Zoje Stage

The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold

The Truth - Ronald H. Balson

The Turn of the Key - Ruth Ware

A Man Called Ove do-overs or fresh starts

The Giver of the Stars - Jojo Moyes

[Lilith]

Janet wrote: "I am new to this and I had started a tbr list before finding out about the Popsugar challenge. I want to become a more avid reader. Can any of these books be use as prompts?

Baby Teeth works for "something broken on the cover".

[Lilith]

Lilith wrote: "Janet wrote: "I am new to this and I had started a tbr list before finding out about the Popsugar challenge. I want to become a more avid reader. Can any of these books be use as prompts?

Baby Teeth -- something broken on the cover

ETA: removing italics

[Teri]

Any ideas for Sue Kidd's The Book of Longings? My friend just lent it to me and I really don't know anything about it.

[Haidy]

Teri wrote: "Any ideas for Sue Kidd's The Book of Longings? My friend just lent it to me and I really don't know anything about it."

that could fit the last prompt in the advanced challenge: "A free book from your TBR list (gifted, borrowed, library)"

[Addie]

Would The Traveling Cat Chronicles fit into a Book that takes place mostly outside? It says it's a road trip, so I thought it might.

[Katie]

I wanted to know where The School of Essential Ingredients would fit? I was thinking the prompt Book Takes Place in a Restaurant

[Teri]

haidy wrote: "Teri wrote: "Any ideas for Sue Kidd's The Book of Longings? My friend just lent it to me and I really don't know anything about it."

that could fit the last prompt in the advanced challenge: "A free book from your TBR list (gifted, borrowed, library)""

Oh yeah, that should have been obvious.

[Heather L]

Katie,

Yes, The School of Essential Ingredients should fit the restaurant prop, as it’s about a cooking class in a restaurant.

[Kim]

Teri for a book of longings since a friend have it to you you could use it as a book your best friend would like, or a prompt from last year ( book published in 2020) or I can send you a pic of my bookshelf as it's on there!

[Alicia]

Also, if you are doing the Advanced prompts you can do a free book on your TBR. I’m using a book I was gifted for that, since the large majority of my books are from the library, and that felt too easy.

[Deb]

Meddling Kids

Any ideas for Cantero's Meddling Kids? Would it work for locked room?

[Ashley]

A Gentleman in Moscow

It’s not a place I’d like to visit in 2021. I’m all about sand and sun since I already am looking out my window at a winter wonderland 🤣

[Alicia]

For gentleman in Moscow you could do black and white cover or book it feels like everyone else has read.

[Rachel]

Any suggestions for Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier?

[Heather L]

Rachel wrote: "Any suggestions for Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier?"

Someone asked about this earlier in this discussion, I think further up this page. I would suggest reading the earlier messages already posted. 😉

[Rachel]

Heather L wrote: "Rachel wrote: "Any suggestions for Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier?"

Someone asked about this earlier in this discussion, I think further up this page. I would suggest reading the earlier messages al..."

Thanks! I did try to look for it, but I guess I overlooked it the first time.

[Erica]

I'm going to do the 2017 challenge as well next year and I'm needing help finding a book with an unreliable narrator. Any suggestions?

[Tori]

I have two books coming in that I want to read, and was wondering if anyone had some ideas where I could fit in the following:

Untamed by Glennon Doyle &
Stoner by John Williams

Thanks in advance! :)

[Lu]

I bought Black Leopard, Red Wolf on impulse (the cover was too pretty and the blurb was "GoT but in Africa") and it has been sitting on my bookshelf for quite a few months now. Do you know if its plot would fit any category?