Top Ten Tuesday: Books With Single-Word Titles

My choices for this week are books on my shelves that I haven’t read yet. Maybe writing about them would get me excited to pick up these reads. I haven’t been really making time for reading, but maybe one of these will break the reading slump.

Scythe by Neal Shusterman 

Scythe is a really popular series in the book community. I’m not sure about the contents of the book except that it is set in the world where people don’t die anymore, and there are chosen people called Scythes who are given the power to decide who is going to die. I really don’t know much else beyond that. 

Whisper by Chrissie Perry 

I saw this book on instagram, and it interested me enough to get myself a copy. I haven’t read much reviews about it, but according to goodreads it is about a teenager who was left deaf after an illness, and tries to adapt to her new situation. I think the post I read this from gave a good pitch as to why one should pick up this book, and I was sold. 

Crudo by Olivia Laing 

Honestly I got a copy of Crudo because I had a copy of her non-fiction book, The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone and thought her fiction book would be an interesting one. 

Educated by Tara Westover 

Educated is another popular book in the book community, where the author, who was raised in a survivalist sort of home left her family and studied in a prestigious university. In hindsight, I am doing a bad job pitching this book. I got curious about it, so I went ahead and got a copy. 

Touch by Courtney Maum 

I’m not exactly sure what this is about, or if this is still a book I would want to read. The reason I picked this one up is because I adored “I am Having So Much Fun Here Without You”, and I was hoping for a repeat reception. This is a sci-fi sort of a book, I think? 

Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams 

I placed this on my to-read list based on ‘Bridget Jones’s Diary Meets Americanah’. While I have not yet read Americanah (but love Adichie’s writing!), I think the vibe of the book is one I’m going to like. This is possibly the book I’m most excited to read. 

Expectation by Anna Hope 

I saw this book on a YouTube video, a book haul I think. I liked the simplicity of the cover, and the description. It was a book I don’t hear a lot of people talk about, and I wanted to get to it before the hype does. This is another book I’m excited to read. 

Twisted by Steve Cavanagh 

After reading ‘Thirteen’, I went ahead and picked up the first three books in that series (Eddie Flynn series), and this standalone. The Goodreads synopsis gives you nothing, and some reviews say it’s best to go in it blind. I’m hoping to get to this before the next Eddie Flynn book comes out. 

Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman 

One of these days I am going to get over my fear of Neil Gaiman. He’s one of those authors whose works I find intimidating because everyone seems to like his books and there’s this pressure that I have to like them too. His works are a bit of a hit or miss, but this is one I’m hoping I like. 

Unconventional by Maggie Harcourt 

I picked this one to add to my book collection because I’m always on the look out for young adult books set in the UK. It’s a teen contemporary book, and the Goodreads synopsis doesn’t say much about it so I guess I’m going in blind.

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