Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature hosted at That Artsy Reader Girl. Each week you compile a list of ten books which coincide with that week’s theme. You can find everything you need to know about joining in here!
This week’s theme is ‘Book Titles with Numbers In Them (You could really challenge yourself and do numbers 1-10 or just any numbers at all. Submitted by Emma @ Words and Peace)’, so I’m sharing ten books – five I’ve read, and five on my TBR – that have numbers in the title! For the most part I’ve used books with numbers written in words rather than numbers.
Books I’ve read
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini: I read this book this summer and absolutely loved it. It’s heartbreaking, but it’s such a good story and I loved Hosseini’s writing. He’s definitely an author I’ll be reading more of in future.
One of Us is Lying by Karen M. McManus: I’ve mentioned plenty of times before that I don’t tend to read a lot of contemporary YA, but I had so much fun with this YA thriller! To be honest I think YA thrillers are a genre I need to read more of, so if you have any recommendations feel free to leave them below.
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo: I’ll be surprised if I don’t see this book on a lot of lists this week. I finally read this novel last year and it instantly became an all-time favourite. I adore it.
The One Hundred Nights of Hero by Isabel Greenberg: This chunky graphic novel is an f/f retelling of The Arabian Nights, with stories within stories within stories. I really enjoyed it!
The Two Princesses of Bamarre by Gail Carson Levine: This is another novel I read for the first time last year after hearing wonderful things about it for years, and it’s the kind of MG novel that I’m sure I would have loved when I was a little girl. I did like it, but I didn’t love it as much as I hoped I would.
Books on my TBR
A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes: I saw Natalie Haynes at the Hay Festival earlier this year and she was fantastic. Her latest novel is a retelling of the Trojan War from the perspective of all of the women, both mortal and divine, who play a part in it, however big or small. I’ve heard it’s amazing and I can’t wait to read it!
NOS4R2 by Joe Hill: I don’t know why, but I’ve always had the feeling that I’ll love Joe Hill’s books when I finally get around to picking one of them up. NOS4R2 is one I’ve heard nothing but good things about so I’d really like to give it a try.
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold: This piece of non-fiction sounds amazing and so very important. Jack the Ripper was a Victorian serial killer who was never caught (to our knowledge – it could be a criminal was executed with no one knowing he was Jack the Ripper) and a lot of people are obsessed with him and honestly it’s gross. In this book, though, Hallie Rubenhold shines the light on the five women he murdered and the lives they led and it sounds fantastic.
A Thousand Nights by E.K. Johnston: This book is visually stunning, it’s honestly one of the prettiest books on my shelves, and somehow I still haven’t read it. I loved The City of Brass earlier this year, so I want to read more Middle Eastern-inspired fantasy and fantasy inspired by The Arabian Nights.
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N. K. Jemisin: I love, love, love Jemisin’s Broken Earth trilogy so I’d like to go back and read her two earlier series, and this is the one I’m most intrigued by. Honestly I’m not entirely sure what it’s about, but it’s Jemisin so I’m intrigued.
Six of Crows made my list this week too. 🙂
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Six of Crows is at least on my list!
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It’s such a good book. 🙂
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Six of Crows made my list as well, but I haven’t read it yet. I need to remedy that soon! Great list! Here’s my TTT.
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Ahh I hope you enjoy it, it’s one of my favourites! 😀
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I still need to read One of Us Is Lying and A Thousand Nights! Great list. 🙂
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Thanks! I hope you enjoy them both when you read them. 🙂
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Thank you 🙂
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I thought this topic would be so hard, so I skipped it, but now that I’m seeing everyone’s lists, I’m realizing HOW MANY books have numbers in the title!
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Haha my mind drew a blank at first, too!
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I’ve seen “Six of Crows” on SO many lists this week. It’s one I should have included on mine, but oh well! I found ten easily enough (for once!). Seeing it continues to remind me that I’ve yet to read it. Hopefully soon-ish. 🙂 Thanks for visiting Finding Wonderland, Jess.
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I hope you enjoy it when you do read it! 🙂
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One Of Us Is Lying was so good, and I liked her next one Two Can Keep A Secret even more.
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I really need to give Two Can Keep a Secret a go – glad to hear you enjoyed it!
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A few of these are new to me. A Thousand Ships sounds interesting!
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I’m looking forward to checking that one out!
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Six of Crows was on our list this week, too.
Here is our Top Ten Tuesday.
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It’s made an appearance on a lot of lists this week, but that’s not surprising considering how well loved it is. 😀
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I really want to read more YA thriller too, and One of Us Is Lying has been on my TBR for ages now but I keep forgetting that it exists 🙃 Hopefully I’ll get around to it someday!
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I enjoyed it and found it a really quick read, so I’d recommend it next time you’re in the mood for a YA thriller! 🙂
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You chose such great ones! And I don’t know how I totally forgot about One of Us is Lying! I think I really liked that one 😀 Great list. I need to try some of these.
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Thanks! 🙂 I’m looking forward to One of Us is Next.
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Ooh, nice list! I loved NOS4A2 (and hey, I’m going to a Joe Hill event today!). I need to finally read The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms — her books have been on my TBR for far too long.
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Thanks Lisa! Oh cool, I hope you enjoyed the Joe Hill event. 😀
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*hiding head* I ended up not going… silly me. But I do want to get a copy of his new book!
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I really want to read NOS4A2 (I seriously love the word play of the title–it took me a while to get it haha)! I had One of Us Is Lying and SoC on my list this week too. Great TTT 🙂
My TTT post
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Thanks! I’m always hearing such good things about NOS4R2, so I need to pick it up soon. 🙂
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I was amazed at how many books I’ve read with numbers in the title, this week was pretty easy for me. Great list! I still need to read NOS4A2 as well.
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I must admit I drew a blank when I first started thinking about this topic until I realised just how many books I’ve read or are on my TBR with numbers in the title!
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Awesome choices! NOSS4R2 sounds really good. I’ve been meaning to read A Thousand Splendid Suns for years, seems like one of those read-before-you-die type books. Clever choices, the number thousand never came to mind when trying to think of choices for this topic for some reason lol.
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I hope you enjoy A Thousand Splendid Suns when you pick it up – it’s such a good novel!
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I read The Five. It was such a good story! And I totally agree that we should focus on the victims instead of the serial killer. They’re the important ones. The killers should be given as little attention as possible.
My TTT.
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I’m so glad to hear you enjoyed it! I need to read it soon. 🙂
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I loved The Broken Earth Trilogy as well so I really need to get on Jemisin’s other series!
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I feel you, especially with her new novel coming out next year!
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I’ve seen NOS4R2 a lot but have never seen that particular edition. What a cool cover!
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It’s such a great cover, isn’t it? I’m hoping I might be able to get my hands on that edition.
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OMG we both had the same idea for this topic! I divided them into the books I’ve read (included Six of Crows) and the books I want to read (included A Thousand Nights)! Great minds think alike!
Genesis @ Whispering Chapters
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Great minds think alike. 😉
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I want to give that Joe Hill book a try as well. I have no idea why I keep putting it off. Great list.
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Thanks! I hope you enjoy NOS4R2. 😀
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