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The topic this week is: books with one-word titles.
I found a TON of book for this (see below), even when I set arbitrary rules like "A" and "The" count as words and subtitles count as words too, unless it's "volume one" or such. I thought about finding the 10 least-known books to highlight, or just sharing my favorites, then I finally decided to choose one for each letter of the alphabet, which is a few more than ten, but we'll all survive my wild refusal to follow the rules. Maybe TTT stands for Top Twenty-six Titles, who knows?
Of course, then I had to go BACK to Goodreads to find books I read longer ago that would qualify for Q, W, X, and Y. I have no single-word titles that start with Q or X, so I dug around and found some on my TBR. Phew!
Then I added a one sentence comment for each, since that actually seemed easier than getting pictures of all the covers.
I found a TON of book for this (see below), even when I set arbitrary rules like "A" and "The" count as words and subtitles count as words too, unless it's "volume one" or such. I thought about finding the 10 least-known books to highlight, or just sharing my favorites, then I finally decided to choose one for each letter of the alphabet, which is a few more than ten, but we'll all survive my wild refusal to follow the rules. Maybe TTT stands for Top Twenty-six Titles, who knows?
Of course, then I had to go BACK to Goodreads to find books I read longer ago that would qualify for Q, W, X, and Y. I have no single-word titles that start with Q or X, so I dug around and found some on my TBR. Phew!
Then I added a one sentence comment for each, since that actually seemed easier than getting pictures of all the covers.
- Autoboyography Gay Californian transplant meets closeted Mormon.
- Birthday Terrific story of transitioning, friendship, and love.
- Chomp My daughter's favorite in fifth grade, "Florida man" mystery shenanigans for middle grade.
- Digger The best graphic novel series about a wombat ever.
- Educated Gritty memoir of growing up without school, medicine, or government.
- Fireborne Cybils winning Spec Fic novel with dragons.
- Ghost Jason Reynolds takes on middle grade with books about a track team.
- Heroine Harrowing story of addiction that avoids "Movie of the Week" shallowness.
- Inkling A sentient ink blot, because why not?
- Jackaroo I love this 90s swashbuckling fantasy way more than Jackaby.
- Kingdom Very British graphic novel about a bored teen spending a boring week at the beach.
- Lizzie Borden took an axe...
- Mockingbird Middle grade book about a girl on the autism spectrum.
- Noggin Teen gets a whole body transplant after his head's been frozen for five years, and now all his friends are adults.
- Oddity A quirky town with many secrets.
- Pet You can wipe out all the monsters, and humans will just keep becoming monstrous.
- Quiver According to Goodreads, it's about the unlikely friendship between two teens from opposite sides of the culture wars.
- Release Patrick Ness's small town novel that was inspired by Mrs. Dalloway and Forever, two titles that have probably never been considered for a mash-up before.
- Spin Tragically under-read YA mystery in which two enemies band together to solve the murder of their common friend.
- Thunderhead The middle book in the Scythe series, which you can now all read because the third book is out so you won't have to suffer through 8 months of that cliffhanger like I did.
- Unsheltered Two time periods, one setting.
- Vicious Anti-heroes like only V. E Schwab can write them.
- Wrecked A campus sexual assault--at my alma mater.
- X One of the few Kinsey Milhone novels I haven't read yet.
- Yo! Julia Alvarez returns to the García girls in this semi-autobiographical novel.
- Zenobia Horribly sad Danish grahpic novel about a Syrian refugee child.
And if that wasn't enough for you...
Behold, seventy-six one-word titles, culled from the last 500 books I've read.
WOW! Great post, great take on the theme.
ReplyDeleteWow! It seems I am drawn to books with multi word titles, because I had a hard time with this one, but I eventually found ten from the past year. I didn't go back that far, but Autoboyography is a favorite. I love the name too, because it has some meaning to the story.
ReplyDeleteMockingbird was such a good book. And, wow, you came up with a lot of responses to this prompt!
ReplyDeleteMy TTT .
That's a fun list - so many are quirky and unusual.
ReplyDeleteKaren @ For What It's Worth
Oh my goodness. I love it that you were able to come up with a title for all the letters of the alphabet. And, wow, that's a lot of one-word titles.
ReplyDeleteThere are so many good and evocative one word titles out there!
ReplyDeleteWhat a list! I have only read Educated and Vicious from your original list of 26. I appreciate the much longer list, too! I'm impressed you've read so many one-word book titles. There are more of them in my Read list than I expected, as well. It was a fun adventure to make my own list.
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