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2026 Challenge - Regular > 12 - A book with POP or SUGAR in the title

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message 1: by Nadine in NY (last edited Nov 01, 2025 09:03AM) (new)

Nadine in NY Jones | 10029 comments Mod
A book with POP or SUGAR in the title.


Sounds fun! Easy to search for! I have no idea what to read!!


(For those who like memoirs, I highly recommend The House at Sugar Beach)




Listopia list is Here: A book with POP or SUGAR in the title


message 2: by Ellie (new)

Ellie (patchworkbunny) | 1796 comments I was just randomly searching for these words and found a book with sugar in the title about an influencer set in Michigan! It's like they wrote it for next year's challenge. Two Parts Sugar, One Part Murder


message 3: by Tania (new)

Tania | 692 comments Books I recommend:
Visions of Sugar Plums by Janet Evanovich
Pop Goes the Weasel by James Patterson


message 4: by Laura Ruth (new)

Laura Ruth Loomis | 385 comments Apparently there was a previous year with a similar prompt, "pop, sugar, or challenge" in the title, and a longer listopia:

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


message 6: by Lilith (new)

Lilith (lilithp) | 1135 comments I highly recommend In Watermelon Sugar by Richard Brautigan. I read it for this prompt in the earlier challenge. It's become a favorite book.


message 7: by Brandon (new)

Brandon Harbeke | 754 comments Hop On Pop by Dr. Seuss is great if you just want or need to knock out a prompt in a hurry.


message 8: by Kenya (new)

Kenya Starflight | 1032 comments Salt and Sugar is my pick for this prompt. I've also read and enjoyed The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp.


message 9: by Acidic Quagga (new)

Acidic Quagga (acidicquagga) | 90 comments Lilith wrote: "I highly recommend In Watermelon Sugar by Richard Brautigan. I read it for this prompt in the earlier challenge. It's become a favorite book."

I'm intrigued. Onto the list it goes!


message 10: by Katherine (new)

Katherine | 6 comments Ohhh I've been wanting to do a reread of Blood Sugar by Sascha Rothchild for a while, so I think I'll just push that to 2026!


message 11: by Sasha (new)

Sasha  Wolf (sashajwolf) | 290 comments I found two on my TBR:

Sugar
The Cost of Sugar


message 12: by Joanna G (new)

Joanna G (joanna_g) | 388 comments A TBR search coughs up Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us and Culture: The Story of Us, From Cave Art to K-Pop.

Or, I want to get clever about it, Remnant Population.

If anyone hasn't read the Wayward Children series, the third is Beneath the Sugar Sky. Although it's the third, the first two would each fit for at least novella and teen angst, possibly some others.


message 13: by Ellen (new)

Ellen Marcolongo | 103 comments I'm going to read Girl on Girl How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves by Sophie Gilbert by Sophie Gilbert


message 14: by Brandon (new)

Brandon Harbeke | 754 comments From the previous Listopia, they had Murder on the Sugarland Express, which looks like it can double as a travel ghost story.


Bluebelle-the-Inquisitive (Catherine) (bluebelle-the-inquisitive) | 90 comments If you are interested in reverse harem or even just trying it Blood Sugar is one of the best I've read.

For some cute seasonal reading Maple Sugar Crush


message 16: by Nadine in NY (new)

Nadine in NY Jones | 10029 comments Mod
Brandon wrote: "Hop On Pop by Dr. Seuss is great if you just want or need to knock out a prompt in a hurry."



LOL that was my favorite Dr Seuss when I was a baby. Perhaps I'm due for a re-read...


message 17: by Eglė (new)

Eglė | 33 comments Lilith wrote: "I highly recommend In Watermelon Sugar by Richard Brautigan. I read it for this prompt in the earlier challenge. It's become a favorite book."

Thanks for the recommendation, think I'll go for this one!


message 18: by Lilith (new)

Lilith (lilithp) | 1135 comments Acidic Quagga wrote: "Lilith wrote: "I highly recommend In Watermelon Sugar by Richard Brautigan. I read it for this prompt in the earlier challenge. It's become a favorite book."

I'm intrigu..."


I think you'd like it. It's post-apocalyptic, but Brautigan writes dreamy, trippy prose, so the effect is a sweet society, vaguely aware of an industrial one prior. He has a dry sense of humor too.


message 19: by Denise (new)

Denise | 422 comments I'm pretty sure I'm going with American Pop


message 20: by Denise (new)

Denise | 420 comments I'm going to read The Poppy Fields.

I recently went through all the Goodreads Choice Awards Nominees and I had not heard of most of the books there, but that's a good thing because a lot of them sound interesting and this was one of them :)


Almudena entre libros | 3 comments Azúcar y pimienta de Debbie Macomber


The Pampered Librarian | 185 comments The newest book in the Agatha Raisin series by M.C. Beaton (with R.W. Green) is titled Sugar and Spite.


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