Ultimate Popsugar Reading Challenge discussion

A book about debt

I recently read Margo's Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe and, IMO, it would fulfill this prompt. Plus, it was quite thought-provoking and poignant in many ways. Definitely much more interesting to me than I assumed it might be...

Lists that might help:
Characters In Debt From Student Loans
Financial Literacy

Listopia: A book about debt

Wouldn't you know it, I JUST finished The Payback, which was outstanding. It's a dark comedy where 3 women plan a heist to wipe out the records of their crushing student loans.

Laura Ruth wrote: "Wouldn't you know it, I JUST finished The Payback, which was outstanding. It's a dark comedy where 3 women plan a heist to wipe out the records of their crushing student loans."

This is the book I'm planning on using for this prompt! Read the synopsis for it when it first came out and remembered the student debt premise would fit this prompt

Currently reading The House of Mirth and the main character and her family are in debt.

A couple of novels I've liked:

Memoirs of a Geisha
Proxy
Little Man, What Now?

I feel like I've read a bunch of books where the MC gets sold into slavery or servitude to pay off debts, but they're not coming to me.

I'm picking something with a little bit of Picard in it:

Debtors' Planet

Besides financial debt, I'm sure there are lots of books about debts of honor or other types of obligation.

Lucky Stars: A sci-fi comedy series is about a woman who takes a job working for an interplanetary dating service. Her reason for taking the job is a gigantic student debt.

Debt-Free Graduate, The - How to Survive College or University Without Going Broke by Murray Baker

The Vanishing Station looks like it will work.

Not much immediately comes to mind but maybe Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family as the blurb mentions bankruptcy or The Night Guests: A Novel where the protagonist is in debt.

Alternatively, any non fiction about the various financial crises would feature debt heavily, e.g. The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine or Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World.

I'm going to read by Collective Debt.

I might read Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America. I thought about reading it before but was a bit turned off by the premise (she pretends to be just another low-income person).

Denise wrote: "I might read Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America. I thought about reading it before but was a bit turned off by the premise (she pretends to be just another low-income pers..."

It's a great book about poverty, but I can't remember if there was a specific mention of debt. Same with Hand to Mouth: Living in Bootstrap America.

I might interpret this one with fairy bargains and debts because I read a lot of fantasy.

Liar's Poker and several other books by Michael Lewis - engaging even if NF

The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron

Confessions of a Shopaholic

I'm trying Writers & Lovers as apparently one of the characters is in debt at the start.

Erica wrote: "I might interpret this one with fairy bargains and debts because I read a lot of fantasy."

I like that take on it!

Does anyone know if Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah would fit? The description mentions "how consumerism hurts us," and I was wowed by the author's Chain-Gang All-Stars.

Dark Places - yes, debt is at the heart of the Day family's woes. Among other things, but debt and poverty is the background and the horizon.
I read this at a very ( VERY ) dark time in my life, and it is intense - but my cats and this book kept me on this side of the ground.

I'd give it 10 stars if I could.

The Rooster Bar by John Grisham

It's about "The novel follows three law school friends who discover their mediocre, for-profit school is a scam designed to trap students in debt. They drop out and attempt to expose the corrupt bank behind the operation. " (via Google AI overview)

I really enjoyed this book.

Sounds good. I don't mind a good John Grisham ever now and then.

I Survived Capitalism and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt: Everything I Wish I Never Had to Learn About Money was a great read!

I've got a couple of books about female transportation to Australia that I want to read, niche, I know. But most of those women were in debt and desperate.

Gw wrote: ""

I enjoyed this book so much ! Highly recommend.

Just started One for the Money and yup, our curly-haired protagonist needs money and fast--car repo chasing her and everything.

I haven't read it, but just ran across What Debt Demands: Family, Betrayal, and Precarity in a Broken System, by a woman who got hit with ridiculous amounts of debt after identity theft - by one of her own family members.

Woohoo I found my book! Haven’t had a chance to read it this year.

I read enough mysteries that somebody is bound to commit a murder to get money to pay off a debt

I have already read by Collective Debt.

Jennifer wrote: "Woohoo I found my book! Haven’t had a chance to read it this year.

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I thought of this one immediately for this category.

Laura Ruth wrote: "Wouldn't you know it, I JUST finished The Payback, which was outstanding. It's a dark comedy where 3 women plan a heist to wipe out the records of their crushing student loans." loved this book, highly recommend

Laura Ruth wrote: "Wouldn't you know it, I JUST finished The Payback, which was outstanding. It's a dark comedy where 3 women plan a heist to wipe out the records of their crushing student loans."



that book is so perfect for this category that I suspect this is the book Popsugar had in mind when they wrote the list

I am going with The House of Mirth

I was going to use THE BOONDOCK SAINTS, VOL 1: BLOOD ORIGIN by Troy Duffy for the "doesn't fit other prompts" prompt, then realized the McManus brothers owed the coyote that got them into the U.S. a debt.

I decided The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff counted for this category. It's not strictly "about" debt, but debt drives several important plot points. This is a really dark comedy where abusive men get what's coming to them. Trigger warnings for (view spoiler)[ domestic violence, sexual assault, suicide, addiction, bigotry, acid attack, and animal cruelty. But don't worry - unlike the abusers, the dog will be fine. (hide spoiler)]

http://www.lauraruthloomis.com/whats-...

So I'm the weirdo who will tackle Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, where the lead character has a rather macabre solution to his debt problem.

I read Finlay Donovan Rolls the Dice.

Unsettled Ground is a book following the lives of two middle-aged siblings following the death of their mother, with whom they have always lived. Debts, both financial and moral, play a huge part in the story.

This was a beautifully written book, with a real feel for life in the English countryside. It is certainly not a sweet pastoral, and I didn't altogether enjoy it, though I could always appreciate the author's skill.

I think it would also fit the garden prompt.

In The Night We Met, the MC struggles to pay down debt after identity theft.

Finished
King of Ashes by S.A. Cosby

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

Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser and The First Four Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder both work for this category. Debt was a constant struggle in her early life.

I read The House of Mirth

I am reading Lies and Weddings and at first no debt is mentioned and I was starting to worry that it wouldn't really work for this category. But finally (20% in) they talked about it.