Top Ten Tuesday is a meme created over at Broke and the Bookish, but has now been taken over by That Artsy Reader Girl where every Tuesday, Top Ten things of anything are listed. Todays Top Ten things are:
Top Ten Frequently Used Words In Book Titles on my Shelves
This week you were supposed to pick a genre or a reading age group and find common words used in whatever you picked, but I thought it would be more interesting for me to look at what is on my shelves and find what words I am apparently attracted to. This list probably isn’t the most accurate as I found it hard to actually the words that appear more than once then keep track of which ones I have already counted. I have also counted plurals and singulars in the same group, for example, shadow and shadows have been mashed together. Lets get started after my large disclaimer~
1. Heart – Takes the winning place appearing on my shelves a total of 8 times.
2. Fire – Liking fantasy I think really helped out here with a total of 7 times.
3. Glass – 7 times. Series of books helped out a little here.
4. City – 7 times. Cassandra Clare is pretty much solely responsible for this word appearing so high on the list.
5. King – 6 times. Again, fantasy.
6. Queen – 6 times. Gotta be equal. I will be honest and a say that my multiple copies of Red Queen helped a little.
7. Shadows – 6 times.
8. Study – 5 times. Maria V. Snyder and her Study series making a strong appearance. It is literally every single one haha.
9. Storm – 4 times.
10. Court – 4 times. Sarah J. Maas pretty much holds this place.
What words are you attracted to when picking out books? I chose to leave out my manga because you can have literally 22 things with the same name and thought it would be pointless. I also didn’t use any words that were not a serious part of the title like ‘the.’
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I wouldn’t purposely seek out books with fire in the title, I think. Or shadows. It’s interesting the words authors pick for their titles.
Glass is definitely one I didn’t think of but now that I see it, i’m picturing so many novels in my head with the word in the title! Lovely list :)
Great list! I went a different route this week. I wish I would have thought about my bookshelf!
https://booksarethenewblackblog.wordpress.com/2018/04/24/top-10-tuesday-favorite-words/
I have seen a lot of these words on lists today. This week’s topic has been an eye opener. I never realized how often these words appear! Here is our Top Ten Tuesday
I like your twist on the topic! I didn’t even think about the title words that I’m attracted to, but I’m sure I would find tons of the same ones if I glanced through my shelves. I’m sure the words we’re attracted to says something about our personalities :)
I think it just shows I really like fantasy XD
Several of these were on my list this week too!
My TTT: https://jjbookblog.wordpress.com/2018/04/24/top-ten-tuesday-156/
I like study and storm for some reason from this list, and maybe heart as well. Guess I just like those words. :) Great list though, and yes these words show up ALL the time!
Glass is one that never occurred to me. I can see how it can be an appealing word. Authors can’t wait to shatter a character’s perfect world.
Maria V. Snyder has a trilogy with the name so it made it really easy to put on the list haha
A series I still need to get to!
I read a lot of romance, so heart and such things like that appear often on my shelves. I noticed a lot of fantasy readers talking about many of the words you included. It’s sort of shocking how many words are repeated so often in fantasy titles.
So many classic words 🙂
It’s odd but I actually don’t know/own many books with ‘heart’ in the title but yeah, shadow, queen, storm are very frequently used. I own a lot of those on my shelf!
Thanks for stopping by my top ten! We definitely do have similar tastes in books! I almost put heart on mine as well. I noticed a lot of books with it in the title. It’s amazing how many books have these certain words in the titles.
I like this take on the TTT this week — it’s sucha positive view on it, because the one I went with annoys me endlessly lol
Nice list :D Cassandra Clare did a good work with ‘city’ in her titles. I wish authors would come up with something new though
Oh man…I’d be way too intimidated to try to figure out the most used words on my bookshelves, but I love the way you tackled the topic.
Have a great week.
Loved reading your list! :-)
Some kind of “royal” word (like ‘queen,’ ‘king’ or ‘crown’) probably could have made my list to ten as well. Glad to know I’m not the only one with lots of ‘heart’ books on my shelf. :)
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Titles with dragons in them are my natural draw haha.
I’m not sure what words I’m attracted to when picking out books.I never really thought much about it before but, come to think of it, I do have a lot of books with the words heart and fire in them. Great list! I love your twist on this topic.
It’s true that a lot of fantasy titles share the same words and still… I’ll want to pick them up every single time :)