Ultimate Popsugar Reading Challenge discussion

A book written during NaNoWriMo

The only one I know of that comes to mind immediately is The Night Circus, which I adore!!

Nadine's helpful link is HERE

Do you know of others not included on that listing?

Listopia is HERE

LOL I used my MOD POWERS to sneak in here and add this super helpful link from Melissa:

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

Nadine in NY wrote: "LOL I used my MOD POWERS to sneak in here and add this super helpful link from Melissa:

https://www.goodreads.com/blog/show/1..."
I love that you sneak around using those magical powers! LOL

Hard to find any nonfiction so I think I'll stick with a YA. I'm hoping this will be the only fiction book I do from the entire challenge.

Fangirl

OutSiders, Fangirl (which can also be used for selfpublished, I saw that on some list, and I think on started out as fan fiction as well. )

I've added several books to the Listopia. I tried to find ones that weren't as well known or were more recent.

If you want to stretch the prompt, here are a list of authors who have given 'Pep Talks' for Nano. Some of them have even participated:

https://nanowrimo.org/pep-talks

And here is a link for the 'Writers Board' which includes nano-novelists:

https://nanowrimo.org/writers-board

The Davenports which comes out in January was partially written during NaNoWriMo. It says that on the back of the ARC :)

The Wicker King sounds great, so I'm going to read that.

I hope to read this one...but will see what 2023 brings

I'm reading water for elephants for this one

Sunshine same here!

I read The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal for the 2022 challenge and definitely recommend it. What if we had to colonize space in the fifties and sixties, not just land on the moon? What if the fate of earth depended upon it?

Not only is it fascinating women-centered sci fi with great characters, but this book and the sequels address a lot of important issues without getting heavy handed. Racism and sexism—in the workplace, in government, in society—and how necessity can help us work through them are central to the plot. There's also xenophobia, both from American and non-American viewpoints. Environmental disaster is a key plot point, too. If I recall, there's also some religious tension, since the main character is Jewish and this is the 1950s.

If you want to read the whole series but need ideas for prompts:
The Fated Sky and The Relentless Moon are 1960s.
Since we're talking about married lady astronauts, family is a theme in both of those.
Book four, The Mars Contingent, was delayed and comes out in 2023.

Legends & Lattes was completed during NaNoWriMo. Just started reading it and there’s an interview with the author at the back that says so.

The good thing about being an author is I know a lot of other authors so I asked for their nanowrimo books. Here's a few for you

The Guardian of Machu Llaqta by Ariel Tachna

A Matchless Man by Ariel Tachna

Outlast the Night by Ariel Tachna

Fallout by Ariel Tachna

Stasis by Kim Fielding

Sand & Water by Shae Connor

Wolfhaven by Jay Shaw

I read Let's Talk About Love a few years back, and really liked it. Would also work for queer lead as the main character is on Asexual spectrum.

I keep meaning to read The Night Circus so I guess I'll read that, or With the Fire on High. I have both on my TBR so that could be the push I need!

I feel like we've had this discussion before but - how much of the book has to have been done during NaNoWriMo to count? For example, I just finished Clockwork Boys and in the acknowledgements the author says the very first version of it was started during NaNo 2006, but that the book went through various rewrites and iterations before being completed and published... 11 years later.

Edit: Oh, I just figured out I can use it for another prompt anyway! Still curious about the NaNo thing though.

Cendaquenta wrote: "I feel like we've had this discussion before but - how much of the book has to have been done during NaNoWriMo to count? For example, I just finished Clockwork Boys and in the ackno..."

Nanowrimo is really about writing a rough first draft in a month. They even have events in other months now for rewriting and editing, so I would say as long as it started out as a nanowrimo thing, it counts.

Cendaquenta wrote: "I feel like we've had this discussion before but - how much of the book has to have been done during NaNoWriMo to count? For example, I just finished Clockwork Boys and in the ackno..."


I'd say that counts. I would hope all books go through edits and rewrites. Even if only part of the book was written during NaNoWriMo, I'd count it. In my head, this category is "a book that was started during NaNoWriMo."

I read With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo, a lucky dip pick from the Listopia, and thoroughly enjoyed it.

I read Legends & Lattes for this prompt

Okay so I found this list so I'm going to base mine off it:

https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...

It shows that Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You is on the list.

My plan now is to shift things. I had used it for the banned book, but I'll move that one here and find another nonfiction for the banned book.

Ron, great list. Thanks for sending.
I see that I've read and enjoyed five of the books. So I'm eager to mine this list & see if I can find another. :)

- Verity by Colleen Hoover (my favourite)

Finished Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree

My Review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Ron wrote: "Okay so I found this list so I'm going to base mine off it:

https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...

It shows that Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You is on the list..."
Ohh thank you for posting this, I have this prompt finally covered.

Melissa0919 wrote: Ohh thank you for posting this, I have this prompt finally covered.

Excellent, glad I was able to help.

I just finished American Panda for this category and I really enjoyed it!!

It seems to be somewhat challenging to determine if a book was written during NaNoWriMo, so I thought I’d share about a new book that fits this prompt.

My Lucky Star by Enni Amanda is releasing this week.
She’s an indie author and wrote this book November ‘22. I think it’ll be on Kindle Unlimited when first released. She’s Finnish and lives in New Zealand, writing in English as her non native language. I’ve loved some of her books! Romance/romcom/travel genres. I haven’t read this one yet, but I think it’s open door (some spice.)

Hopefully some of you might read it for this prompt and tell others - and give some support to this Indie author. 📚❤️

I just finished reading "Wool" by Hugh Howey. It started out as 5 short stories/books, but has now been combined into one book. Books 2, 3 and 4 were written during NaNoWriMo, so even though it wasn't started then, the majority of the final book was written during that month.

This was a 5-star read for me. Incredible.

Even though Fangirl was written during NaNoWrMo, I'm going to end up reading the manga versions of it since vol. 3 comes out this coming month.

I am reading Let's Talk About Love. I feel like I had seen this book so many times, on friend's tbr lists, and bookstores, and now I get to finally read it.

Teri wrote: "I just finished reading "Wool" by Hugh Howey. It started out as 5 short stories/books, but has now been combined into one book. Books 2, 3 and 4 were written during NaNoWriMo, so even though it was..."

You need to watch the TV show if you loved the book. It's called The Silo on Apple TV