Ten Book Titles that Would Make Good Newspaper Headlines

I'm linking up with That Artsy Reader Girl for another Top Ten Tuesday.

This week's theme was tough! There are a lot of book titles that could be article headlines in a feature or special interest section, but I wanted ones that could theoretically be a front-page headline. Here's what I came up with!

1. The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson

2. The Celery Stalks at Midnight by James Howe

3. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library by Chris Grabenstein

4. Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann

5. Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng

6. Lord Edgware Dies by Agatha Christie

7. Murder with Peacocks by Donna Andrews

8. The Pushcart War by Jean Merrill

9. Wayside School Is Falling Down by Louis Sachar

10. When Endermen Attack by Cara J. Stevens

What other titles fit this category?

Looking back:
One year ago I was reading: Swallows and Amazons, The Art of Gathering, Girls Auto Clinic Glove Box Guide, and Creepers Crashed My Party
Five years ago I was reading: Stride Toward Freedom and March: Book Three
Ten years ago I was reading: Roots and Behind the Beautiful Forevers

Ten Books with Weather Events in the Title

I'm linking up with That Artsy Reader Girl for another Top Ten Tuesday.

This week's theme is book titles with weather events! Here's what I've read in that category.

1. The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein

2. Dear Mister Rogers, Does It Ever Rain in Your Neighborhood? by Fred Rogers

3. Drinking the Rain by Alix Kates Shulman

4. Freddie Ramos Stomps the Snow by Jacqueline Jules

5. The Hurricane Mystery by Gertrude Chandler Warner

6. A Madness of Sunshine by Nalini Singh

7. Night of the Twisters by Ivy Ruckman

8. Rainbow Boy by Taylor Rouanzion

9. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor

10. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

What other titles fit this category?

Looking back:
One year ago I was reading: Burnout, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, Girls Auto Clinic Glove Box Guide, and Creepers Crashed My Party
Five years ago I was reading: Special Topics in Calamity Physics and The Bluest Eye
Ten years ago I was reading: Roots and The Big Sleep

Ten Books with Water in the Title

I'm linking up with That Artsy Reader Girl for another Top Ten Tuesday.

This week's theme is "Water"! I decided to go with books I've read that have water of some kind in the title :)

1. The Color of Water by James McBride

2. A Fish Out of Water by Helen Marion Palmer

3. The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune

4. A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park

5. Mink River by Brian Doyle

6. The Sea of Tranquility by Katja Millay

7. The Unmapped Sea by Maryrose Wood

8. Walking on Water by Madeleine L'Engle

9. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

10. The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare

What "water" books have you read?

Looking back:
One year ago I was reading: How to Read Now and I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912
Five years ago I was reading: Kaffir Boy and Ancillary Justice
Ten years ago I was reading: Paper Towns

Ten (More) Good Books With One-Word Titles

I'm linking up with That Artsy Reader Girl for another Top Ten Tuesday.

This week we're sharing books with one-word titles. I last made a list of these books in 2020, so I am only including books I've read since then. I also left out books where the one-word title is a name; in 2020 I made a separate post of book titles that are female names. Here are the ten non-name one-word titles I'm sharing today!

1. Ace by Angela Chen

2. Burnout by Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski

3. Handsome by Holly Lorka

4. Heartstopper by Alice Oseman

5. Listen by Patty Wipfler and Tosha Schore

6. Loveless by Alice Oseman

7. Platonic by Marisa G. Franco

8. Scythe by Neal Shusterman

9. SLAY by Brittney Morris

10. Untamed by Glennon Doyle

What good books with one-word titles have you read?

Looking back:
One year ago I was reading: The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories, Tomorrow Will Be Different, 50 Women Every Christian Should Know, and Wayside School Is Falling Down
Five years ago I was reading: The Raven King and Sarah's Key
Ten years ago I was reading: The Book Thief and Thinking, Fast and Slow

Ten Titles with Animals in Them

I'm linking up with That Artsy Reader Girl for another Top Ten Tuesday.

This week's theme is a non-book freebie, but I decided to do last week's theme instead because I hadn't done it yet! These are ten books whose titles contain types of animals.

1. Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott

2. The Blue Parakeet by Scot McKnight

3. Call Down the Hawk by Maggie Stiefvater

4. Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese

5. Kingbird Highway by Kenn Kaufman

6. The Mouse and the Motorcycle by Beverly Cleary

7. The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater

8. The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough

9. The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare

10. The Year of the Dog by Grace Lin

What other great books have animals in the title?

Looking back:
One year ago I was reading: SLAY, Not Your Backup, and Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
Five years ago I was reading: A View from the Bridge, A Soldier of the Great War, The Shallows, and America's Public Schools
Ten years ago I was reading: American Voices of World War I, Thirteen Reasons Why, and Moby-Dick