Tuesday 18 May 2021

Top Ten Tuesday ~ Top Twelve Book Titles That Are Complete Sentences

"Top Ten Tuesday" is an original feature/weekly meme created on the blog "The Broke and the Bookish". This feature was created because they are particularly fond of lists at "The Broke and the Bookish".

It is now hosted by Jana from That Artsy Reader Girl.

Since I am just as fond of them as they are, I jump at the chance to share my lists with them! Have a look at their page, there are lots of other bloggers who share their lists here.

This week's topic is: Book Titles That Are Complete Sentences

I found so many of them, I just had to alter the title TTT a little, going from Top Ten to Top Twelve. I copied that from another blogger, so kudos go to Lindsey @ Lindsey Reads.

Christie, Agatha "And then there were none" - 1939

de Beauvoir, Simone "She came to stay" (French: L'invitée) - 1943

Dick, Philip K. "Do androids dream of electric sheep?" - 1968

Gavalda, Anna "I wish someone were waiting for me somewhere" (French: Je voudrais quelqu’un m’attende quelque part) - 1999

Grjasnowa, Olga "All Russians love birch trees" (German: Der Russe ist einer, der Birken liebt) - 2012

Hansen, Dörte "This house is mine" (German: Altes Land) - 2015

Kemal, Yaşar "The birds have also gone" (Turkish: Kuşlar da Gitti) - 1978

Lamb, Wally "I know this much is true" - 1998

Malouf, David "Fly away Peter" - 1979

Mantel, Hilary "Bring up the bodies" - 2012

Shriver, Lionel "We need to talk about Kevin" - 2003

Stanišić, Saša "How the soldier repairs the gramophone" (German: Wie der Soldat das Grammofon repariert) - 2006

After I put together that list, I thought, maybe one could write a story with all those sentences. Would certainly be a funny read.

18 comments:

  1. I Know This Much Is True was such a good read.

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    1. It was indeed, Lydia. As were all his other novels, I think I read most of them. He is a fantastic author.

      Thanks for your visit.

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  2. I just finished reading And Then There Were None. It was such an amazing mystery; I can't wait to explore more of Christie's work! Great list!

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    1. Thanks, Jeanna, it is indeed a great story. I'm not normally much into crime stories but this one was really good.

      Thanks for stepping by and leaving a comment.

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  3. Nice! I've only read AND THEN THERE WERE NONE from this list. WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN is on my TBR list. I'll get to it one of these days.

    Happy TTT!

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    1. Looks like Agatha Christie is well read. The Kevin book is quite heavy, it won't leave you but it's such a gret read. I'm looking forward to your review.

      As always, thanks for dropping by and for your comment, Susan.

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  4. Bring Up The Bodies is such a great title!

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    1. It is indeed, Stacy. Let's see what you came up with.

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  5. I couldn't come up with many for this week's topic, so I changed it. You chose some great ones though.
    My TTT: https://jjbookblog.wordpress.com/2021/05/18/top-ten-tuesday-316/

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    1. Not a problem, Jo, we all have those weeks that don't seem to "fit" with us. Looking forward to seeing your post.

      And thanks for dropping by.

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  6. I love the Agatha Christie one!!!

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    1. Thanks, Greg, it describes the story wonderfully.

      Thank you for your visit.

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  7. I also have the Wally Lamb novel on my list this week! Great minds think alike. ;)

    Here is my Top Ten Tuesday list for this week.

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  8. Wally Lamb is such a great author for full sentences, Lectrice. I could have also had: "We are water", "I'll take you there", "She's come undone", even: "The hour I first believed" fit the topic.

    As always, thanks for visiting and leaving a link. I'm looking forward to your page.

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  9. And then there were none and Bring Up the bodies! I can't believe these book titles never struck me. I began this TTT thinking there were hardly any sentence-titles, and ended up finding so many. Now I'm curious how the authors cook up these titles. Genius! :-)
    ~Lex (lexlingua.co)

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    1. I know, I thought the same and then I had to really sort them out, so many books with a whole sentence.

      I'm always curious how a book gets a certain title. I used to be in an international book club. Not only did we have completely different covers (even for the same language) but the translations of th titles were often so different. "She's come undone", for example, another Wally Lamb book, is called "The music of the whales" in its German translation.

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  10. These are all great examples for this post.

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    1. Thanks, Deanna, I really had fun with them, as you must have had with yours.

      Thanks for visiting.

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