Ultimate Popsugar Reading Challenge discussion

writer... wrote: "PS Anthology mystery options including ~

Finding Ever After: four fairytale-ish novellas

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Where can you find a copy of Finding Ever After? I can't seem to find it on Kobo, Amazon or Indigo and it sounds interesting!

Fresh Ink: An Anthology is my choice!

Sara wrote: "This immediately brings to mind my massive Norton Anthology from college that's sitting on my shelf. Since I have no intentions of reading that from cover to cover I'm hoping you all have better su..."

How funny, that BIG Norton Anthology was the first thing that came to my mind too, I was like... ooh no do I really have to read this whole thing after all this time... :-D

Luckily this thread has already provided a plethora of other options.

Nicky wrote: "Sara wrote: "This immediately brings to mind my massive Norton Anthology from college that's sitting on my shelf. Since I have no intentions of reading that from cover to cover I'm hoping you all have better su..."

How funny, that BIG Norton Anthology was the first thing that came to my mind too, I was like... ooh no do I really have to read this whole thing after all this time... :-D..."


Hahaha - me too!!! But, no, I'm not reading that behemoth cover-to-cover for this challenge :-)

Is anyone familiar with Emily Carroll? I am considering reading Through the Woods for this one. It's a graphic novel, a collection of five short stories...that counts as an anthology, right?

I'm going with this one, a collection of essays We Are Never Meeting In Real Life

Despina wrote: "Is anyone familiar with Emily Carroll? I am considering reading Through the Woods for this one. It's a graphic novel, a collection of five short stories...that counts as an antholog..."

This falls into that grey area. I believe these are 5 stories that were designed to be published together rather than a collection assembled later. That said, I enjoyed the book.

If you are looking at comics, there are *tons* of anthologies. That seems to be one way less well know artists get published (& found for bigger jobs.) And I think DC & Marvel used to do a lot of holiday collections (& maybe they still do.)

Some recommended comic anthologies:
Elements: Fire (all artists of color)
Fresh Romance, Vol. 1 (modern take on romance comics)
The Big Feminist BUT: Comics about Women, Men, and the IFs, ANDs & BUTs of Feminism (comics about feminism)
The Secret Loves of Geek Girls (geeky female artists)
Love is Love (very short comics to benefit the victims of the Orlando night club shooting)
Puerto Rico Strong (short comics to benefit the hurricane relief in Puerto Rico)

The (Other) F Word: A Celebration of the Fat and Fierce by Angie Manfredi

Eujean2 wrote: "If you are looking at comics, there are *tons* of anthologies. That seems to be one way less well know artists get published (& found for bigger jobs.)"

Thanks for the recs!!

I'm going to go for Snacks After Swimming: A Pool of the Best New Creative Writing Talent in Scotland.

I've had Kaleidoscope: Diverse YA Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories on my TBR shelf for years now, so maybe I'll tackle that one for this prompt.

Other options on my TBR list:
Five Enchanted Roses
The Radical Element
Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance, and Revolution in Trump's America
Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women & Witchcraft
Fresh Romance, Vol. 1

Does Your Mama Know?: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Coming Out Stories

Jenn wrote: "I really think this prompt should be an anthology/short story collection...I really wanted to use the new Zadie Smith short story collection for this prompt.

That being said, RF Kuang tweeted abou..."

Maybe yours are different as I'm in the UK - but the editions I've seen here would fit the text only cover prompt.

A few years ago I bought Shadows Beneath: The Writing Excuses Anthology by Brandon Sanderson, Mary Robinette Kowal, Dan Wells, and Howard Tayler. They host the Writing Excuses podcast, and the stories (one each) are the product of critiques, brainstorming, and workshops they did on the podcast. It's really unique, because it includes that info and early drafts as well as the final drafts!

I'm a huge Sanderson fangirl, but I've never read Sixth of the Dusk (actually a novella), which is his contribution and a part of his Cosmere universe. So this is a perfect opportunity to steal borrow my husband's autographed copy.

I think it would also fit #10—A book recommended by your favorite blog, vlog, podcast, or online book club..

does a view from the cheap seats by Neil Hainan count

does a view from the cheap seats by Neil Hainan count?

Irma wrote: "does a view from the cheap seats by Neil Hainan count?"

Yes. The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction by Neil Gaiman is an anthology of some of his nonfiction work.

I just finished Rogues for this prompt. “Finished”...Finished-esque? ☺️ I wish I would have put it aside and tried a different one. There were a few stories that I enjoyed enough, two that I really liked and want to try more of those author’s works, several I skimmed/forced my way through, and a couple I flat-out DNFed.
For now(giving myself points for trying to hang in there...?), I’m going to count it. But definitely wish to try another anthology, if I’ve made it to the end of the year with time leftover.
I do enjoy anthologies a great deal so, I’m really loving all the suggestions here.

Unbroken: 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens

I just learned of one I'm going to try, Holidays on Ice which apparently is a snarky look back at various holidays (suggested by a GR friend after I didn't care for A Child's Christmas in Wales).

"The Princess Saves Herself in This One" by Amanda Lovelace

Can't decide between Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on The Decision Not To Have Kids by Meghan Daum and Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah.

I just read Doctor Who: 12 Doctors, 12 Stories which was pretty good. It's 1 story by a different author for each of the first 12 doctors.

Jennifer wrote: ""The Princess Saves Herself in This One" by Amanda Lovelace"

I'm hard pressed to see this as an anthology, it's just a book of poetry (and tbh a pretty awful one in my opinion).

Would Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur count for this??

Goodreads' list today of supernatural mysteries had several anthologies:

Shadows Over Baker Street
The Best of H.P. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre
The Black Veil & Other Tales of Supernatural Sleuths
Occult Detective Quarterly Presents

I was particularly intrigued by Shadows Over Baker Street.

For those who like the old Dungeons and Dragons novels, Forgotten Realms published a bunch of anthologies, stories by authors well-known for that genre.

Realms of Valor, Realms of the Dead, Realms of Magic, etc. There's probably a dozen different books like this.

Christmas in the City...has LJ Shen and Elle Kennedy both awesome authors

Nancy wrote: "I was having a hard time with this one because I don't consider short stories by one author to be an anthology (others may disagree with this definition). But then I realized that the Amazon Origin..."

I immediately thought of the Forward collection! Blake Crouch is a favorite!

Found one that I think I could handle: Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on The Decision Not To Have Kids

I think I'm going to go with The Woman with a Worm in Her Head: And Other True Stories of Infectious Disease, even though it is one-author. But odds are good I'll decide on something later on anyway.

I love some of your recommendations, likely I'll pick something else to be a clearer-cut anthology.

I'm gonna read this. My best friend has two stories in it

Forgotten Ones: Drabbles of Myth and Legend https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0824B6NX9/...

Erin wrote: "Jennifer wrote: ""The Princess Saves Herself in This One" by Amanda Lovelace"

I'm hard pressed to see this as an anthology, it's just a book of poetry (and tbh a pretty awful one in my opinion)."

Oh I'm so glad someone else disliked it!

Robyn wrote: "I recommend Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance, and Revolution in Trump's America which I read for the challenge in 2018."

That's actually on buy TBR shelf. Thank you for recommending it.

I'm planning to read A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories for this!

The Best American food Writing 2019 editor Samin Nosrat

Do you think Angela Carter's Book of Fairy Tales would work for this prompt?

I think I'm going to read What My Mother and I Don't Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence

This would also count for the prompts "A book with only words on the cover, no images or graphics" and "A book that won an award in 2019".

I plan to read one of the Chicken Soup for the Soul books.

I think I'll be reading The Canterbury Tales for this one. My edition has the original text (in Middle English) on the left-hand page and the translation on the right-hand page, which I find very interesting to read. I'll probably spend way more time reading it this way, as old languages fascinate me. I've only read the prologue and The Miller's Tale (in uni), and I've been wanting to read the rest ever since.

I also considered reading Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales and Poems or The Awakening and Other Stories

So I've changed my mind. I will read A Malgudi Omnibus: Swami and friends / The bachelor of arts / The English teacher for this prompt. It has been sitting on my shelf for a while and I love the author.

would Language of Thorns count?

Florida by Lauren Groff

Probably going with Let it Snow for this category since it's been on my tbr list a long time and i recently bought a copy. Although i have quit a few I'll probably read this year regardless.. Curse you paranormal romance series' that always have mini stories included in anthologies. Haha. Those always suck me in..

Elizabeth wrote: "Probably going with Let it Snow for this category since it's been on my tbr list a long time and i recently bought a copy. Although i have quit a few I'll probably read this year regardless.. Curse..."

Let it Snow is very cute, and the stories link up which makes it more interesting than a lot of other anthologies. I hope you enjoy it!

I'm planning to read A Tyranny of Petticoats.

Would "The Last Wish" by Andrzej Sapkowski count? Want to fit this one into the challenge and the description says a "collection of stories."

I have a copy of The Best American Short Stories 1987. It has stories by Susan Sontag, John Updike, and Alice Munroe, among others, and it includes "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien. (I also got the 2019 edition for Christmas, but I'll be reading '87 first.)

My first thought was Norton also, and I almost chose it. I really enjoyed reading it when in college, but it’s so BIG! Then I remembered a collection I’ve had on my bedside table for way too long - “The Bazaar of Bad Dreams” by Stephen King! I need to finish the book I’m currently reading, “Catching Echos, Reconstructionist Book 1”, by Meghan Ciana Doidge, then I’m all set for the upcoming nightmares...

Would Modern Love: True Stories of Love, Loss, and Redemption work for this?

I'm hoping Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture counts.