Ultimate Popsugar Reading Challenge discussion

Oh, this category is super exciting!! Because I've been wanting to read two books with the same title, but I can never fit it into the reading challenges!!

We can play around with ideas. Do you want them to have exactly the same title?
Ink and Bone by Lisa Unger
Ink and Bone by Rachel Caine

Or do you want them to have almost the same title?
The Good Son by You-jeong Jeong (there are at least 18 other books with the title "The Good Son," also)
The Good Daughter by Karin Slaughter (there are at least 15 other books with the title "The Good Daughter")

So yes I love this topic but I'm also frazzled because there are SO MANY CHOICES!!!!

What will YOU read?

I'm thinking about The Double by Fyodor Dostoevsky and The Double by Jose Saramago.

Also: Nemesis title has a ton of options: Agatha Christie, Jo Nesbo, Phillip Roth, Isaac Asimov, Brendan Reichs, Anna Banks...


But can't wait to see other suggestions!

This may be completely cheating the prompt, but would using something like two volumes of Giant Days, Vol. 1 count? They seem to all just be called "Giant Days" with a volume number, and I'm not sure if I'd really consider the volume number part of the title.

Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing
Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery by Scott Kelly

Koa, hope you enjoy the Lansing book. I thought it was brilliant. Frank Worsley, the captain, also titled his memoir of Shackleton's expedition Endurance , which isn't surprising given the coincidence of what they had to endure and the name of the ship.

When I saw this prompt, the first thing that occurred to me was The Tunnel by Ernesto Sabato and The Tunnel by William H. Gass.

The last time I did a prompt like this, I paired Drift by Jim Miller with Drift by Victoria Patterson, and I wouldn't hesitate to recommend them both.

I totally jinxed myself because I made the comment in ATY that I was recommended a book of the same name that I had just read, and someone could use that for the "2 books connected" prompt. Sigh.

In any case the two I found were:

These are the ones I am considering:

I've been meaning to read The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison for years, so I'm going to take the opportunity to pair it with The Invisible Man by HG WElls.

There's The Borrower and The Borrowers, if you're fine with minor variation. Also We and WE.

Possibly you could "cheat" and use a book that was published in two volumes, such as the paperbacks of A Dance with Dragons (A Dance with Dragons: Dreams and Dust and A Dance with Dragons 2: After the Feast).

The Lost World by Doyle and Crichton

Good Morning, Midnight by Lily Brooks-Dalton
and
Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys

I read the former this year and have the latter still sitting on my to-read-shelf, so sadly can't use them for the 2019 challenge.

Shelley wrote: "I totally jinxed myself because I made the comment in ATY that I was recommended a book of the same name that I had just read, and someone could use that for the "2 books connected" prompt. Sigh.
..."

Oh Shelley, if I EVER get around to this prompt, you just saved me so much work. I have Scythe already on my list, so the 2nd in the series would work out perfect and I was recently reading that the Preston/Child book is one of his best. I enjoyed the first 2 in their Pendergast series years ago and it would be a quick read.

Nullifidian wrote: "Koa, hope you enjoy the Lansing book. I thought it was brilliant. Frank Worsley, the captain, also titled his memoir of Shackleton's expedition Endurance, which isn't surprising given..."

Thanks Nullifidian. I actually read it already for the 2018 challenge. I too thought it was brilliant.

and

Well I happen to have 3 different books with the same title (although I don't know if any of them will be any good) but at least there's a 3rd option in case i want to DNF one! I guess I'll end up using 2 of these:

Broken by Elizabeth Kelly
Broken by Kathleen Hayes
Broken by K. Webster

Katy wrote: "I've been meaning to read The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison for years, so I'm going to take the opportunity to pair it with The Invisible Man by HG WElls."

Thank you, Katy! I have also been wanting to read Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, for years, and didn't know about HG Wells work. I will be doing this combo for the challenge.

I’m probably going to do these because I’ve been reading the first already. It’s like 900 pages long though, but super interesting. I have no idea about the second but it was recommended for the family prompt and I do remember reading another book by her a long time ago that I liked.
Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity by Andrew Solomon
Far from the Tree by Robin Benway

This is a great link with 10 pairs of books with the same title.

http://flavorwire.com/376237/the-doub...

I'm going with Life After Life and Life After Life

I bought a copy of The Cloud Atlas I could pair with Cloud Atlas

Corinna wrote: " Good Morning, Midnight by Lily Brooks-Dalton
and
Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys

I read the former this year and have the latter still sitting on my to-read-shelf, so sadly can't use them for..."

I'm in pretty much the same situation with this pairing, and it's really frustrating. And I kinda hated Brooks-Dalton's book, so there's no way I'm re-reading it.

So, what about adaptations with the same title as the original work?

Stina wrote: "So, what about adaptations with the same title as the original work?"

Like Macbeth & Macbeth? seems fair to me!

My local library has

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Possibly too much horror for me though.

Joyce wrote: "My local library has

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Possibly too much horror for me though."

A.S. Byatt's Possession is one of the two best books I've ever read.

This would work as there are several books by this title.

Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders. This is the story of the Charles Manson murders. I read it years ago.

It would work for prompt 9. A book that has inspired a common phrase or idom (e.g., Big Brother from 1984).

Feed by M.T. Anderson
and
Feed by Mira Grant

I read these last year and they were both pretty good

The ones I am considering from my TBR list are:

Away by Amy Bloom
Away by Jane Urquhart

The Beast by Jaden Wilkes
The Beast byJ.R. Ward

Forgotten by Catherine McKenzie
Forgotten byMaggie Shayne

The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Idiot by Elif Batuman

The Muse by Jessie Burton
Muse by Mary Novik

The Time in Betweenby María Dueñas
The Time In Between by David Bergen

I was really excited about the idea of this prompt when it was first suggested, but now I'm realizing that the obvious pairs I know of are ones I've already read one of, and don't necessarily want to re-read (or re-read yet).

Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
and
Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery

Heartless by Marissa Meyer
and
Heartless by Anne Elisabeth Stengl

I'll keep digging through my TBR and see if I find anything else. I read enough fairy tale rewrites that I may just be able to read multiples called "Beauty" or something like that.

Raquel - same!!! A very exciting prompt but very difficult to find good ideas to fill it!

I am going to tackle this by looking up books I am reading during the year (with not too weird titles) to see if they have a twin. I have complete faith in this approach (or so I tell myself).

If you care to mix up your reading levels

The Night Gardener - picture book
The Night Gardener - middle grade
The Night Gardener - crime thriller
and oh so close
In the Night Garden - fantasy

I did find a few interesting ones:

Brightly Burning by Alexa Donne
and
Brightly Burning by Mercedes Lackey

Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia
and
The Desert Queen
and
Desert Queen: The many lives and loves of Daisy Bates

In Real Life by Cory Doctorow
and
In Real Life by Jessica Love
and
In Real Life by Lawrence Tabak

When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing by Daniel H. Pink
and
When by Victoria Laurie

As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride by Cary Elwes
and
As You Wish by Jackson Pearce
(and several other options if you like historical or time travel romance)

Uprooted by Naomi Novik
and
Uprooted - A Canadian War Story by Lynne Reid Banks

and

The Changeling by Victor Lavalle and
The Changeling by Joy Williams

Anna Lyndsey's Girl in the Dark
Marion Pauw's Girl in the Dark

Anyone planning on trying this by reading the same book in multiple formats (like a novel/graphic novel adaptation of the same work)?

Johanne wrote: "I am going to tackle this by looking up books I am reading during the year (with not too weird titles) to see if they have a twin. I have complete faith in this approach (or so I tell myself)."

I think that's the approach I will take to this one as well, thanks for the suggestion!

The Lying Game by Ruth Ware and Sara Shepard. I’ve already read both so I will have to use someone else’s suggestion.

One word titles seem to be the easy way to go here.

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
Wicked
Wicked

And that may be what I use!

Fallen
Fallen

Betrayed
Betrayed

Burned
Burned

Thin Air by Michelle Paver (I really liked this one!)
Thin Air by Robert B. Parker
Thin Air by Rachel Caine
Thin Air by Lynn Seresin
Thin Air by Ann Cleeves
Thin Air by Greg Child

Also
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer
Into Thin Air by Cindy Miles
Into Thin Air by Mary Ellen Porter

Wendy wrote: "Thin Air by Michelle Paver (I really liked this one!)
Thin Air by Robert B. Parker
Thin Air by Rachel Caine
[bo..."

Wow, that´s a lot of thin air books!

I found these by accident on my TBR list.
Above Suspicion Helen MacInnes
Above Suspicion Joe Sharkey

There are a lot of books titled Fortunate Son. I ran across these when I read the John Fogerty memoir.

Would Giant Days, Vol. 1 and Giant Days work for this prompt? A graphic novel and a book based on the graphic novel.

I've read all these three, it's my most popular read title!
The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
The Night Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko
Night Watch by Terry Pratchett

I feel like a lot of these pairings have one book I've already read, and I do't feel like re-reading. I will have to have a rummage through some urban fantasy with generic titles that won't be too stressful to read.

Katy wrote: "I've been meaning to read The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison for years, so I'm going to take the opportunity to pair it with The Invisible Man by HG WElls."

That's a great suggestion! I also like Ellie's for Sarah Waters and Terry Pratchett's The Night Watch. I've read Terry Pratchett's and it's fantastic! I haven't read Sarah Waters' but I've read other books by her so I'd recommend her.

I really want to use North and South and
North and South for this prompt but both are so long. I will see.

I have these two books on my shelves already: The Gunslinger and Gunslinger Girl. Not quite the same title, but I might go with it anyway.

I was, of course, browsing my TBR list last night while watching TV with my kids, and I was delighted to discover that I have three exact matches on my TBR and three near matches! phew! Because even though I was excited by this category when I first saw it, my initial ventures searching for books were ... not promising.

Dust by Joan Frances Turner
Dust by Elizabeth Bear

Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain by David Eagleman
Incognito by Ed Brubaker
(I'm especially charmed by this pairing, because they are very different books!!)

Monster Island by David Wellington
Monster Island by Christopher Golden

Ashes by Ilsa J. Bick
Ashes, Ashes by Jo Treggiari
(I like this pairing because I legitimately confuse these two books on the regular. I own one. I have no idea which one.)

Meadowland: The Private Life of an English Field by John Lewis-Stempel
The Meadowlands: Wilderness Adventures at the Edge of a City by Robert Sullivan *
also, not on my TBR, but the following would also be nice pairs:
Meadowlands by Louise Glück
Meadowlands: A Wetlands Survival Story by Thomas F. Yezerski
Meadowlands by Joshua Lutz

* I REALLY want to read this book, but I just never get around to it.

Mockingbird by Walter Tevis (what even is this book? I don't know how it got on my TBR so I deleted it, but ... I could still read it!)
Mockingbird, Vol. 2: My Feminist Agenda by Chelsea Cain


other matches that I maybe have just one on my TBR:
The Ice Princess by Camilla Läckberg
The Ice Princess by Elizabeth Hoyt
I'm charmed by this pairing because they seem very different but also alike in odd ways.

Ink and Bone by Lisa Unger
Ink and Bone by Rachel Caine
somebody in this group accidentally read one of these when she meant to read the other and that's what started me interested in the entire idea in the first place!

Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
Life After Life by Jill McCorkle

Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body’s Most Underrated Organ by Giulia Enders
Guts by Raina Telgemeier

Undertow by Michael Buckley
Undertow by Elizabeth Bear

and far too many "Hot Shot" titles to even list here!!

Kerry wrote: "I really want to use North and South and
North and South for this prompt but both are so long. I will see."

If you do, you can then read the rest of the John Jakes trilogy, using Love and War as the book with Love in the title and Heaven and Hell for author with same initials. I love John Jakes, so completely recommend this course of action:)

Shelley wrote: "I totally jinxed myself because I made the comment in ATY that I was recommended a book of the same name that I had just read, and someone could use that for the "2 books connected" prompt. Sigh.
..."

Also called Thunderhead. I think I'll read that plus this Thunderhead