Ultimate Popsugar Reading Challenge discussion

What books are you reading in this category? What recommendations do you have?

Edgar Allen Poe comes to mind for this one!

Love Poe! I don't know if I will go with Poe or Joyce Carol Oates or someone else. Those two are my usual go to for short stories. :-)

I love Poe as well. I just received "The Complete Works of Edgar Allen Poe" for Christmas. It's a special edition leather bound book that is so pretty. I'm not sure I even want to crack it open!

I was thinking maybe Stephen King as well. I might use this category to really branch out and read someone I've never even heard of.

Roald Dahl's - the Best of Roald Dahl definitely needs a mention :) Very adult, very strange and has a great atmosphere.

I was thinking of M is for Magic by Neil Gaiman!

I'm going to read a book of Arthur Conan Doyle's short stories.

I'm working my way through his bibliography, but I've only tried novels so far.

I love the Oates and Doyle suggestions! I may go in that direction.

Ann, I don't know if I could bring myself to open it either! Sounds beautiful!

I'm a big fan a flash-fiction. If I can can find a book I have not read then that will me my pick. Cory Doctorow has a good book of short stories called Overclockers if anyone is into him.

Oh, and If you like horror David Morrel has a few books of short stories, too.

I was thinking of reading some Arthur Conan Doyle short stories but I think I'll go Agatha Christie for this goal. I'll choose between Three Blind Mice and Other Stories or The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories.

Tenth of December-George Saunders

I think I'll read the mammoth book of ghost stories by women, there is a lot of writers I like in it, and how to say no to a collection of (I hope) good ghost stories ?

The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

^^Oooooo....The Yellow Wallpaper is perhaps one of the creepiest stories of all time for obvious reasons at the end of the story as well as the truth in how women were treated during that time period.

I'm read my short stories book today, Through the Woods by Emily Carroll which is a graphic book of short, super scary stories. I'm so freaked out, I'm not letting my husband move around without me for the rest of the night. Eeep!

The Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri, or maybe Birds of America by Lorrie Moore

I read "Eat the Sky, Drink the Ocean " by Kirsty Murray and many others. It was a very good collection, all easy and interesting reads.

This is one of those tricky prompts....after approximately 11 minutes of Google/Goodreads searching - I am looking at:

Bin Laden's Bald Spot Other Stories by Brian Doyle

It has got rather good reviews and thankfully isn't as long as some of the other collections I have seen.

What I'm hoping to do in this category is fine a big fat book of short stories - maybe from the library. Then I'm going to keep it by my night stand and work on it through the year. There is a list here on Goodreads that had some good choices. I will post the link when I'm back on my computer. Both Oscar Wilde and Ernest Hemingway have collections I would like to check out.

Here are a few lists for this category:

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...

Some of these are single short stories (they could maybe be used for the 'finish in a day' prompt) and some are collections

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

I just ordered a few books for this prompt.

I got The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction which is a whopping 1776 pages long. My plan on tackling this one is to put it on my night stand and read one or two stories per night before bed.

I also ordered one from the U.K. called That Glimpse of Truth that I have read really good things about. It includes authors like Julian Barnes, Angela Carter, Anton Chekhov, Roald Dahl, Penelope Fitzgerald, Gustave Flaubert, Henry James, Rudyard Kipling, Ian McEwan, Alice Munro, V.S. Pritchett, Thomas Pynchon and Muriel Spark. I think this one will be fun to read and I might use it for a different prompt since I'll likely use the Anthology above for this prompt (12).

M Is for Magic

The Settling Earth

I would definitely recommend this one!

I've read Love Hurts by Malorie Blackman

Anybody reading Rogues?

I read Palo Alto by James Franco. I know kind of embarrassing, but I do like the actor, and the book was given to me as a gift. The book can also be used for a book that you can read in a day and a book with bad reviews.

Is My True Love Gave to Me under this prompt?

@dayanyan sorry the app won't let me reply directly. I found a few books with that title. Which one are you asking about? Do you know the author or is it by various authors?

Ann wrote: "@dayanyan sorry the app won't let me reply directly. I found a few books with that title. Which one are you asking about? Do you know the author or is it by various authors?"

The one by Stephanie Perkins, John Green, Rainbow Rowell etc...

dayanyan wrote: "Ann wrote: "@dayanyan sorry the app won't let me reply directly. I found a few books with that title. Which one are you asking about? Do you know the author or is it by various authors?"

The one b..."

Yes I definitely think that book works for this prompt!

@Ann - Thank you :)

@Ann - Thank you :)

I read Neil Gaiman too!

I read Tales of Beedle the Bard by JK Rowling!
The Tales of Beedle the Bard

Magical stories, I'm totally in love ：）

I can recommend The Elephant Vanishes by Haruki Murakami!

I read "t zero" for this prompt :)

Heidi wrote: "I'm going to read a book of Arthur Conan Doyle's short stories.

I'm working my way through his bibliography, but I've only tried novels so far."

Just finished The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.

Currently reading One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories by BJ Novak.

I read The Happy Prince and Other Tales by Ocar Wilde to my daughter for this prompt.

They were children's stories that don't talk down to children. Remarkable Rocket was probably the weakest story and The Happy Prince was the best, in my opinion.

I've just finished more short fuses by Stephen leather

For this challenge I read:

Confederacy of the Dead edited by Richard Gilliam, Martin H. Greenberg, Edward E. Kramer

I read James Salter's 'Last Night'. Proved to me that I need to take a short story course.

For this one I read Haruki Murakami - "Von Männern, die keine Frauen haben" (Men without Women)

Alexis wrote: "I read The Happy Prince and Other Tales by Ocar Wilde to my daughter for this prompt.

They were children's stories that don't talk down to children. Remarkable Rocket was probably th..."

I love "The Happy Prince"! That short story is a favorite from my childhood as well! I read it on my own, but I think it's super sweet you are reading them with your daughter.

I read This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz for my short story collection. I'm not a fan of Diaz's work actually, but recently came across this collection of his short stories while sorting through storage and decided to read them. While the style of Diaz's writing is intoxicating and inimitable, it was really difficult for me to get over the sexist viewpoints of the main character, Yunior. Ultimately, while I really liked a couple of the stories such as the final piece, "A Cheater's Guide to Love", it was difficult for me to stomach most of the other pieces, though the quality of the writing was undeniably very good.

I read Einstein's Beach House: Storiesby Jacob M Appel. I was not sure how I felt about this after finishing it, but then I found myself telling the stories to other people and laughing at the ridiculousness of them.

Twisted: The Collected Stories is great if you like suspense

I read A Good Man Is Hard To Find And Other Stories by Flannery O'Connor. Very dark stories.

I read Lady Susan, The Watsons, Sanditon by Jane Austen.

I read The Warren Witches which has short stories from several different authors.