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2023 Challenge - Regular > 15 - A Book with a Song Lyric as Its Title

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message 51: by Ron (last edited Dec 18, 2022 04:33AM) (new)

Ron | 2645 comments Sweet, by chance I stumbled across one. I was searching for general books from an indigenous bookstore and one that caught my attention was When It Rains: Tohono O'odham and Pima Poetry .

As I was listening to my spotify a random song came on during my shuffle and the lyrics were "when it rains, it pours." The song is Live Like Legends by Ruelle.

Guess I found my book!



Even better, since I made the challenge even more challenging by doing mainly Indigenous authors/themes, this works perfectly.


message 54: by John (new)

John Warner (jwarner6comcastnet) Mary-jo wrote: "I'm planning to read Man on the Run: Paul McCartney in the 1970s."

Technically, the song title is "Band on the Run." There are several books, however, including another biography of Paul McCartney called Band on the Run.


message 55: by Danny (new)

Danny Attfield | 2 comments I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb is also a great one. The lyric is from True by Spandau Ballet.


message 56: by Marie-Eve (new)

Marie-Eve Mailhot (indieegirll) | 138 comments John wrote: "Mary-jo wrote: "I'm planning to read Man on the Run: Paul McCartney in the 1970s."

Technically, the song title is "Band on the Run." There are several books, however, including ano..."


But it doesnt have to be the title though, just song lyrics... I guess it depends how close you wanna stick to the prompt.

I was planning to read Kiss Her Once for Me anyways, so that will be my pick!


message 57: by Dea (new)

Dea (maidmirawyn) | 201 comments I got lucky with this one! I have to read Eat Your Heart Out by Kelly deVos in the next six weeks. (I'm a judge for a reading quiz bowl.)

And as it happens, both Dio and Molly Hatchett have songs called "Eat Your Heart Out," and it's in the lyrics.

If you have a book you think must fit, go to lyrics com, and search. Select "lyrics" and "exact match."


message 58: by Kaia (new)

Kaia | 235 comments Breakfast at Tiffany's and Three Stories came into the library the last week of December, so it was perfect for this category. Must admit, I liked the last story (A Christmas Memory) better than Breakfast at Tiffany's, but still an enjoyable read.


message 59: by Christina (new)

Christina (chrissy__) | 127 comments I feel like most book titles are probably found in one song or another if they're not a song title already. Last year I read the graphic novel Brave Face which is a song title by Delta Goodream (Australian artist), and for a mystery/thriller I can recommend Every Vow You Break. Gotta love The Police!


message 60: by Erika (last edited Jan 09, 2023 09:27PM) (new)

Erika | 6 comments Christina wrote: "I feel like most book titles are probably found in one song or another if they're not a song title already. Last year I read the graphic novel Brave Face which is a song title by De..."

Side note: I saw Delta Goodrem live last year when she opened up for Backstreet Boys! Her set was really good!

Edit: This could be a good opportunity to read a novel length fanfic, lol. Fanfic authors steal titles from song lyrics all the time.


message 61: by Christina (new)

Christina (chrissy__) | 127 comments Erika wrote: "Christina wrote: "I feel like most book titles are probably found in one song or another if they're not a song title already. Last year I read the graphic novel Brave Face which is ..."

aw I'm so glad you enjoyed it! I finally saw her live in London and Berlin in October last year, it still feels surreal. It's hard being a European fan of hers haha.


message 62: by Barbara (new)

Barbara (soulflame1) | 60 comments Might be reading Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter for this prompt. I have a used copy of the paperback.


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message 64: by L Y N N (new)

L Y N N (book_music_lvr) | 4836 comments Mod
Ron wrote: "This one was easier than I thought:

The Highwayman

It's a poem in which Celtic artist Loreena McKennitt added music to. It's simple but it's good. First read the poem and heard the ..."


One of my favorites of McKennitt's!


message 65: by Ron (new)

Ron | 2645 comments Lynn wrote: One of my favorites of McKennitt's

Mine too! I love that one and her song 'The Mystic's Dream'. Funny, I haven't come across many people who listen to her music.


message 66: by Michelle (new)

Michelle Boyer | 5 comments Wrong Place Wrong Time filled this category for me! But this book could be used in several places, including celebrity book club pick (Reese Witherspoon book club).


message 67: by Diane (new)

Diane Johnson | 3 comments Don't Fear the Reaper is available soon. If you like horror/slashers.


message 68: by Ellie (new)

Ellie (patchworkbunny) | 1748 comments Diane wrote: "Don't Fear the Reaper is available soon. If you like horror/slashers."

I don't know how my brain did not make this connection before, it's the more cowbell song!


message 69: by Reagan (new)

Reagan Styrt (reaganhahn) | 1 comments I'm reading This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub. The title is featured in the song "Tom Dooley" by the Kingston Trio


message 70: by Laura (new)

Laura (llpeace) | 8 comments A Cry in the Dark by Denise Grover Swank


message 71: by Heather L (new)

Heather L  (wordtrix) | 780 comments I reread Breakfast at Tiffany's by Capote for another group, which also fits this prompt.


message 72: by Katelyn (new)

Katelyn Broad (katelynb) | 6 comments I read Never Let Me Go for this one and it was good. :)


message 73: by Sherri (new)

Sherri Harris | 758 comments I read Memphis


message 74: by Michelle (new)

Michelle Boyer | 5 comments Wrong Place Wrong Time: A Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick

"Wrong place, Wrong time" is a song by S-X
"Wrong place, Wrong time" is a song by Don Broco

Admittedly, I'm unfamiliar with both of the songs above. However, it fits!


message 75: by Lisa Marie (new)

Lisa Marie Kemmerer (readingwithlisamarie) | 177 comments For the prompt I read:

Here I Go Again by Jen Lancaster
Here I Go Again by Jen Lancaster


message 76: by Barbara (last edited Feb 13, 2023 07:52PM) (new)

Barbara (soulflame1) | 60 comments I ended up reading You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi. It is from a line in Florence + The Machine's "Hunger."
You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi


message 77: by Milena (new)

Milena (milenas) | 1195 comments I read Friday I'm in Love. The book was just OK, but I love the song. And the song is quoted a few times in the book.


message 78: by Anshita (new)

Anshita (_book_freak) | 244 comments This prompt is difficult, I also had problems with a similar prompt in Popsugar 2021 reading challenge. This year, after considering 3-4 options, like Stardust, and Motherthing, I decided to read Friday I'm in Love.


message 79: by Milena (new)

Milena (milenas) | 1195 comments Anshita wrote: "This prompt is difficult, I also had problems with a similar prompt in Popsugar 2021 reading challenge. This year, after considering 3-4 options, like Stardust, and [book: Motherthing..."

Hope you enjoy. I just read it.


message 80: by Anshita (new)

Anshita (_book_freak) | 244 comments Milena wrote: "Anshita wrote: "This prompt is difficult, I also had problems with a similar prompt in Popsugar 2021 reading challenge. This year, after considering 3-4 options, like Stardust, and [b..."

I have read a quarter of the book now and I am liking it, Young adult is not my favorite genre but Garrett writes it well.


message 81: by Milena (new)

Milena (milenas) | 1195 comments Anshita wrote: "Milena wrote: "Anshita wrote: "This prompt is difficult, I also had problems with a similar prompt in Popsugar 2021 reading challenge. This year, after considering 3-4 options, like [book: Stardust..."

It was not a bad book at all. It was enjoyable, just not my favorite.


message 82: by Anshita (last edited Feb 17, 2023 01:10AM) (new)

Anshita (_book_freak) | 244 comments Milena wrote: "Anshita wrote: "Milena wrote: "Anshita wrote: "This prompt is difficult, I also had problems with a similar prompt in Popsugar 2021 reading challenge. This year, after considering 3-4 options, like..."

I understand completely, there are times when I have read 2 books of the same genre but one was better than the other, because of certain elements I liked in one.

BTW, I made a Spotify playlist of the mixtape from the book. If anyone is interested in listening, you can find it here:



message 83: by Milena (new)

Milena (milenas) | 1195 comments Anshita wrote: "Milena wrote: "Anshita wrote: "Milena wrote: "Anshita wrote: "This prompt is difficult, I also had problems with a similar prompt in Popsugar 2021 reading challenge. This year, after considering 3-..."

How wonderful, Anshita. I never think to do anything like that. Since you seem so into music, have you read This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You? The book encourages you to listen along to the songs on Spotify.
Sorry, outside the scope of this prompt.


message 84: by Ron (new)

Ron | 2645 comments Milena wrote: How wonderful, Anshita. I never think to do anything like that. Since you seem so into music, have you read This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You? The book encourages you to listen along to the songs on Spotify.
Sorry, outside the scope of this prompt.


Slightly is, but I second that book. It's absolutely amazing! I read it last year and it's a book I'm more than open to reading again.


message 85: by Heather (new)

Heather (heatherbowman) | 882 comments I read It's in His Kiss by Julia Quinn for this prompt. The lyrics are from The Shoop Shoop Song (It's In His Kiss) by Betty Everett.

This is book #7 in the Bridgerton series and Hyacinth's story. I liked this book a lot! It’s my favorite Bridgerton since The Viscount Who Loved Me. Hyacinth and Gareth are a lot more sensible than Antony and Kate, which makes for a less funny book, but also a less frustrating one.


message 86: by Ron (new)

Ron | 2645 comments Sweet, I can use Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking . Demi Lovato has a song with the title, "Quiet".


message 87: by Heather L (new)

Heather L  (wordtrix) | 780 comments Ron wrote: "Sweet, I can use Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking . Demi Lovato has a song with the title, "Quiet"."

“Quiet� is also the title of a song from the musical “Once Upon a Mattress.�


message 88: by Ron (new)

Ron | 2645 comments Heather L wrote: “Quiet� is also the title of a song from the musical “Once Upon a Mattress.

Cool. I've never heard of that musical. I just don't follow them, but thanks for the heads up on that one.


message 89: by Heather L (new)

Heather L  (wordtrix) | 780 comments Ron wrote: "Heather L wrote: “Quiet� is also the title of a song from the musical “Once Upon a Mattress.

Cool. I've never heard of that musical. I just don't follow them, but thanks for the heads up on that one."


Several friends were in our high school production, so I know it well. It’s a modern take on “The Princess and the Pea.� There’s also a song titled “Shy,� though the person singing it is anything but. Carol Burnett originated the role of Princess Winifred on Broadway, Sarah Jessica Parker played her in the 1996 reproduction.


message 90: by Nicole (new)

Nicole | 8 comments I'll Stop the World is a Kindle First Reads this month and titled after the song I'll Stop the World to Melt With You. It is a time travel mystery set in the '80's. I really enjoyed it!


Ayesha (Seokjin's Version) ☾ (ayereads10) | 3 comments I read Carry On and it was such a pleasant surprise


message 92: by Jaime (new)

Jaime | 34 comments Nicole wrote: "I'll Stop the World is a Kindle First Reads this month and titled after the song I'll Stop the World to Melt With You. It is a time travel mystery set in the '80's. I really enjoyed..."

I'm reading this one now.


message 93: by Melissa (new)

Melissa | 26 comments I just read Good Enough. (Full disclosure, the author is a friend of mine.) "Good Enough" is also the title of a song by Sarah McLachlan, and the phrase is included in the lyrics.

The book is a middle-grade novel about a 12-year-old girl going through inpatient treatment for an eating disorder. The author is herself an eating disorder survivor and recovery advocate. I thought the book was beautiful and powerful, and also important. I'm glad it exists.


message 94: by LeahS (new)

LeahS | 473 comments Changing the prompt for this book... Lyric is forsook his foster-mother from A Many Years Ago by Gilbert O'Sullivan.

I read Foster by Claire Keegan, a beautifully written novella. A child is brought by her feckless father to spend the summer with distant relatives while her mother waits to give birth to the latest baby in a large family. Her life on the summer farm seems idyllic and she is given the love and care she lacks in her own home, but there are shadows, both in her foster family and in Ireland at large, in the 1970s. The author does an excellent job of portraying the girl's growth in understanding of the adults around her.


message 95: by Ron (new)

Ron | 2645 comments Wow this one is still harder than I thought. So many lyrics from so many songs and so many song titles.

I don't know how or what to choose from.


message 96: by Ron (new)

Ron | 2645 comments Wahoo, found one!

Elton John- The Road to El Dorado

Dreams of El Dorado: A History of the American West


message 98: by Jessica (new)

Jessica (zumbajess) | 175 comments I am planning to read Heart-shaped Box by Joe Hill for this one.


message 99: by Heather L (last edited Apr 15, 2023 04:35PM) (new)

Heather L  (wordtrix) | 780 comments It just occurred to me that one of the books I am currently reading, The Road by Jack London, would fit here. It is a memoir of Landon’s years crisscrossing the US and Canada as a hobo, and I am reading a free ebook edition found on Amazon.

“The Road� is a song by Jackson Brown, but is also part of other song titles such as “I Play the Road� and “On the Road Again.�

It would also fit last year’s prompt of a book set on a train.


message 100: by Jenny Dahl Bakken (new)

Jenny Dahl Bakken | 34 comments I just started reading «I believe in a thing called love» by Maurene Goo for this one. Yes, it is a song title - but also a prominent part of the lyrics / main sentence in the Chorizo.

And this title reminds me of how much I did this The Darkness song! Gets stuck in my head every time. That falsetto is amazing


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