Ultimate Popsugar Reading Challenge discussion

Huh...this may be a bit challenging. We all love good cover art. What can you find that is words only?

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

This could be a tough one. I only found three on my TBR list:



And a few more I've already read, that may or may not work depending on how particular you want to get with it:

Found more on my TBR than I expected:

The Penguin Mini Modern Classics (https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...), Art of the Novella series (https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...) and most books published by Persephone (https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...) would work for this prompt as well.

This is great for me, since I absolutely have to read Big Wonderful Thing: A History of Texas for work and was dreading figuring out how to fit a 900+ page book into next year's challenge.



For people who don't want a deep dive into Texas history, here are some other options:



There's also a list of text only books on Goodreads: Text-Only Covers.

Oh, Swing Time would be great for this for me as it’s one of the few Zadie Smith books I haven’t read yet.

I may also use Know My Name by Chanel Miller. UK cover just has black and white with text.

I'm going with . Hans Rosling is amazing with presenting data in a readable format.

If you want to finally tackle , this copy is only words (with a few images within the text). Depends on how strict you're being, I guess.


(and many of the JoJo Moyes books have covers like this one)

Would Exhalation: Stories count? The words are a bit of a flourish, but there aren't any images or graphics.

Would Stay Sexy and Don't Get Murdered work?

So, if you've got any old hardbacks that lost their dust jackets, you could probably use those lol. I know I have a few...

Sarah wrote: "This could be a tough one. I only found three on my TBR list:

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And if you liked Dark Matter, his latest one will work

Jojo Moyes, or her publishing company, is really fond of word covers. Jojo Moyes

Karin wrote: "Sarah wrote: "This could be a tough one. I only found three on my TBR list:

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And if you liked Dark Matter, his latest one will work

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This is on my TBR, but it has an infinity symbol on the cover so I personally wouldn't count it. I'm definitely hoping to fit this one in somewhere - I LOVED Dark Matter!

From my TBR list- Room by Emma Donoghue and The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

I have a few SFF books with this cover:


and a few classics with this one:


so I should be able to find something

Someone added this one to the listopia:



(as it's hard to see, the book is The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of September 11, 2001 )

I was planning to read it very soon, but I think I'll just wait a bit longer and add it to my challenge for 2020.

I went through my TBR and found a few already mentioned, plus

I was going through my books on my TBR list and came across the cover of this book and I'm wondering if this would work

Sarah wrote: " [bookcov..."

Ooh I highly recommend The Strain trilogy. I really enjoyed it when I read it a few years ago.

@Tobey- I’m actually listening to that one now and loving it! I’ll have to see if the sequel would work for this option also.

Would this count ?

Question regarding challenge. If it's a librartly copy with the Dust Jacket missing would it count?

VanesGirl wrote: "Would this count ?

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Not technically. There's a picture of a plant.

Some nonfiction recommendations:

Does this count?

4 3 2 1 by Paul Auster

I'm using several of the books from the Stephanie Plum series for prompts next year (I stopped at 18, so I have some catching up to do) and I realized that a lot of the books in that series fit this prompt:

I just borrowed the ebook of Lanny from the library, and realized its text-only, so I’m going to borrow it again to read in 2020.


(I thought that white line was a tree or a sprout, but it’s nothing, not even what I would consider a graphic.)


Alternatively, I’m already planning to read W is for Wasted for “>20 books in a series,” so I could just carry on and read X or Y is for Yesterday or use here. (tbh, I’m not really sure if I feel “X” counts, since the X looks like a steel structure, not mere text. But Y counts!)

Anyone who is looking for a picture book because you want to read with your kids or you just like picture books, may I suggest:



It's hilarious!

I love the Book with no pictures!!

I've had this on my TBR for a while, maybe this is the year!

What about, the graphics are really just more words.

Crystal wrote: "What about, the graphics are really just more words.

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don't they all say "Babel" - I'd say that counts as "words only"!!

I'm using

Frankly in Love

Oops, I meant to post the cover of the book.

Tania wrote: "I'm using several of the books from the Stephanie Plum series for prompts next year (I stopped at 18, so I have some catching up to do) and I realized that a lot of the books in that series fit thi..."

Although some have digits as well, so those won't count unless you can find alternate covers, of course! :) I just read a number of them before tiring of certain aspects of it although some of them are VERY FUNNY.

A lot of non-fiction will work for this. I'm going with .

For fiction, some ideas:


Or, if someone wants to do poetry, all of Amanda Lovelace's books are words only, like:

There's also:

I just found this one while looking for a book with a pink cover ... Just a Little Southern: Short Stories.

Found this on my TBR, as this has been there for quite a long time. I'll probably go with it

If anyone wants to read older books this year (such as those in the public domain), you can often find ebooks (usually free) on Amazon with text only covers. I have several in my Kindle library and will probably go that route.

I’m going to read Room by Emily Donoghue

Looking through the Listopia, I found a lot of books that I've read and loved!

For this one, I think I'll do Swing Time