Top Ten Tuesday: Today's topic is favorite books with numbers in the title. Since we just did that post two years ago (If you want to see that list, here it is: 'TTT: Books with numbers in the title') I decided to tweak the theme and attempt to identify my favorite books in series by number.
Series / Author Title of book Number placement in series
Chaos Walking / Ness The Knife of Never Letting Go #1
The Chronicles of Narnia / Lewis The Voyage of the Dawn Treader #3
Hunger Games / Collins Hunger Games / Catching Fire Tie #1, 2
His Mark Materials / Pullman The Golden Compass/ The Subtle Knife / Tie #1-3
The Amber Spyglass
Dairy Queen / Murdock The Off Season #2
The Inheritance Cycle / Paolini Eragon #1
Tiffany Aching / Pratchett The Shepherd's Crown #5
The Lunar Chronicles / Meyer Cress #3
Bill Hodges Trilogy / King Mr. Mercedes #1
Harry Potter / Rawling The Goblet of Fire #4
Abhorsen / Nix Lirael #2
The Raven Cycle / Stiefvater Raven Boys / The Dream Thieves / Tie #1-4
Blue Lily, Lily Blue / The Raven King
As a teen librarian I felt an urge to read widely so I rarely would complete series once I got a feel for the story line and the author's writing. Of the many, many series I started it was rare that I would finish them. I did complete all the books in the series listed above, however.
-Anne
There are some great series here. I haven't read all of them, but the ones I have, I've enjoyed very much.
ReplyDeleteOh this is a cool way to do it. I have so many good memories of Dawn Treader. :)
ReplyDeleteWow! I love a good series and you've provided several great ones! How clever of you to list them in this manner! The Knife sounds so intriguing! I love the Chronicles of Narnia so much that I have the hard copy as well as the CD's. Yes, I bought them a while ago. Thank you so much for such a fabulous post!
ReplyDeleteI should consider trying The Chronicles of Narnia on audiobook. That would be a treat.
DeleteAah this is a very clever spin!
ReplyDeleteHappy TTT! Here's my Here's my 10 Agatha Christie books with numbers in the title
I need to read more Agatha Christie books. I enjoy them so much.
DeleteI love your picks. Adding to my TBR. Thank you for sharing.
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The Goblet of Fire is my favourite Harry Potter too!
ReplyDeleteMy TTT: https://jjbookblog.wordpress.com/2021/09/14/top-ten-tuesday-333/
I like what you did here. The first Chaos Walking book is my favorite as well.
ReplyDeleteThat's a creative twist on this week's topic! I love some of the same series—Narnia, Harry Potter, and the Lunar Chronicles—although I wouldn't necessarily choose the same books as my top favorites.
ReplyDeleteHere's my TTT list for this week.
Interesting tweak to this weeks list! I didn't know you were a teen librarian, so fun! I have two teens :) Here's my list if you would like to stop by: https://cindysbookcorner.blogspot.com/2021/09/top-ten-tuesday-numbers-in-title.html
ReplyDeleteWhat a fun twist on this week's TTT.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you on #1 and 3 for the Hunger Games series, but my favorite HP is #3.
ReplyDeleteI am *terrible* about finishing a series. I've been making more of an effort over the past year or so to continue them though. I've at least started most of these and I've even finished five of them. Yay for me! Great take on the topic!
ReplyDeleteI love your twist!
ReplyDeleteWhen you get the opportunity, I hope you'll stop by my post: https://readbakecreate.com/books-counting-down-from-ten/
Catching Fire is a great choice here. Great list!
ReplyDeleteFun! Some of my very favorite children's series are on this list.
ReplyDeleteHappy TTT!
This would made an excellent prompt for Top Ten Tuesday.
ReplyDeleteMy answer would almost always be #1 in the series because, in general, I only read book one. I, like you, felt compelled to read as many books as possible for the students in my library, and who had time to read all the books in the series?
I love how you tweaked the prompt this week. My answer would almost always be #1 since I rarely read past the first book in a series. I got in the habit of doing that when I was a school librarian and I felt like I needed to at least sample all the series.
ReplyDeleteI love how you tweaked the prompt this week. My answer would almost always be #1 since I rarely read past the first book in a series. I got in the habit of doing that when I was a school librarian and I felt like I needed to at least sample all the series.
ReplyDeleteI love how you tweaked the prompt this week. My answer would almost always be #1 since I rarely read past the first book in a series. I got in the habit of doing that when I was a school librarian and I felt like I needed to at least sample all the series.
ReplyDeleteI love how you tweaked the prompt this week. My answer would almost always be #1 since I rarely read past the first book in a series. I got in the habit of doing that when I was a school librarian and I felt like I needed to at least sample all the series.
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ReplyDeleteI love how you tweaked the prompt this week. My answer would almost always be #1 since I rarely read past the first book in a series. I got in the habit of doing that when I was a school librarian and I felt like I needed to at least sample all the series.
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't be able to decide between the Raven Cycle books either - all of them are fantastic. :D
ReplyDeleteLauren @ Always Me
This is a fun twist on the topic for this week!
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