Tuesday, March 3, 2020

Top Ten Tuesday: Favorite Books With Single-Word Titles

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly linkup of book bloggers hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl!This week, we're talking about books with one-word titles. I thought about doing my least favorite single-word titled reads, but decided to be positive about it so here are some of my favorites!



Less: I was reluctant to read this when it was a book club pick, but I wound up just adoring this story about a middle-aged man on a trip around the world to escape having to attend his younger ex's wedding.

Wicked: I picked up this book, which tells the "real story" of the Wicked Witch of the West, for the first time in high school and have loved it ever since, through many re-reads. I also love the musical!

Twilight: Shut up, I know this book (and the whole series) are objectively not great. But I found them very enjoyable to read despite my own better instincts, and I've re-read them all more than once.

Musicophilia: I talk pretty often about my love for Oliver Sacks' most famous book, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, but I also really enjoy this one, about the ways that music effects the brain.

Blindness: Bleak and kind of depressing and no quotation marks to indicate speech so a little confusing to read at first, but so incredibly good.

Stardust: I love fairy-tale-esque stories and Neil Gaiman's trademark wit makes this one a real treat!

Prep: This book plunged me so powerfully back into adolescence it was almost physically uncomfortable to read but so well-executed.

Gilead: I am not religious, and had previously not cared for a book by Marilynne Robinson, so my expectations going into this book were low. It seemed like I was going to be right through the early going but it eventually cast its spell on me and I found it intensely moving.

Battleborn: I'm not generally into short stories, but this Nevada-centric collection really blew me away!

Americanah: Such an incredible, rich book with amazing characters and powerful themes and beautiful prose.

8 comments:

  1. Blindness and Gilead are books I keep meaning to read and now I feel confident in bumping them up on my TBR. Great list!

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    1. Blindness has been divisive among people I know who have read it! It's very much love-it-or-hate-it.

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  2. Wicked was such an amazing book, too.

    My TTT .

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  3. I read Stardust because the film is one of my absolute favourites, I've seen it so many times. Although the book is quite different, I loved it as well.

    My TTT: https://thelastbookontheleft.com/2020/03/03/top-10-books-with-single-word-titles/

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    1. The movie is delightful. I definitely picture Claire Danes in my mind when reading about Yvaine!

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  4. Went on a trip and always listened to a book on tape. My daughter liked Twilight when it came out as a movie so we listened to it for about thirty minutes and she said turn it off. Way too much angst for even her. They kept it out of the movies. https://pmprescott.blogspot.com/2020/03/ttt-030220.html

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    1. It's SO angsty. I listened to the audio not too long ago and it felt like a LOT more when you couldn't just speed-read through it!

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