Book Titles with Numbers in Them

Hello! It’s Tuesday again, and it’s also the biggest book release day of the year! I had three ARCs and two pre-orders for this day, and one of them is Rebel (which I’m probably reading right now or sleeping after staying up all night to read it, depending on when you’re visiting this page). Today’s Top Ten Tuesday topic is Book Title with Numbers in them. This sounds like such a fun topic! As usual, Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl!

Veronica Roth’s Four was the first book I thought of when I heard of this topic. I read Allegiant after it was released, but Four was the one book in this series I had to wait for. It’s the only book from this series I haven’t read in Spanish, but I did plan to at one point. Lately I’ve really wanted to reread Divergent (but probably in English). Probably in 2020.

I absolutely love the cover to Four Dead Queens. The book was good too.

Sticking to the number four for just one more book, I loved The Fourth Turning. It’s a nonfiction book, but I think about this book a lot when I see things happening in the news or I think about Millennials and Zs and things like that. It’s one of those books that seems so fundamentally true in many ways.

I’m sure I won’t be the only person to list A Thousand Perfect Notes this week. It’s such a beautiful book! Both inside and out.

This week I have a lot more nonfiction books than normal, because so many nonfiction books start with years. 1421: The Year China Discovered America was such an interesting book to me. I still haven’t gotten around to reading 1434, but I want to.

The 5th Wave was so good! I’ll probably read it again someday. Unfortunately, the rest of the series didn’t live up to the first book.

It seems like some numbers pop up more than others in books. A Thousand Perfect Notes. The Thousandth Floor. Then there are all those Four books. There are a few more books I can think of that have a thousand in it too.

From Dawn to Decadence, 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the Present is a really long book title. It has two numbers in it though. This was one of those monster books that took forever to read.

The weather is starting to cool down, so it’s almost time to start thinking about My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories. I live in Colorado, so at this time of year, you never know which is more appropriate from day to day: this one, or its companion book, Summer Days and Summer Nights.

Leigh Bardugo’s publishers must like numbers in the titles. I thought of listing her book Ninth House (which is out next week) for my last book (or more appropriately, the ninth), but I figure everybody will list that one. Then I thought of listing Red Famine: Stalin’s War on the Ukraine, 1921-1933, but then I realized that I haven’t read that one yet. I figured I’d limit this week’s list to books I’ve read and liked. Six of Crows, also by Leigh Bardugo, will probably be on a lot of lists today too. Oh well.

So that’s this week’s list. Next week we’re going to talk about Character Traits I Love. I’ll have to think about that one for a bit. See you then!