Top Ten Tuesday: Extraordinary Book Titles

🔖 The Brilliant Death by Amy Rose Capetta

Another book to hook me with just the title. Because how can the death be brilliant?

Those clashing words intrigue and tempt you to ask that question. They lure you in so you can come and find out. 

🔖 The Art of Escaping by Erin Callahan

The Art of Escaping is a book about the art of escapology but it also refers to the MC’s social anxiety and making yourself scarce when faced with people. It’s about escaping yourself sometimes. Escaping your past. Escaping the truth.

Couldn’t find a better title if I tried.

🔖 Spellbook of Lost and Found by Moïra Fowley-Doyle

I love how it promises magic and some philosophical aspect and letting go of things and maybe finding yourself and your place and  a bit of a pretensional voice to it? 

I love it managed to pack so much into so few words.

🔖 Dark and Deepest Red by Anna-Marie McLemore

Red is associated with so many things — it easily brings up images of both blood and love. It’s good for ambiguity in the title. And many used that, let’s be honest.

Yet, this one still manages to sound original and intriguing?

🔖 These Witches Don’t Burn by Isabel Sterling 

It sounds fun. It tells me there are witches. It refers to the bloody history of burning women for witchcraft. It promises no such death here.

What else do I need to know?

🔖 This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone 

Who enjoys losing? Why advertise the losing part of the book then? And what’s the time war?

This title rises so many questions. It’s an instant intrigue and so fitting for enemies to lovers timetravellers romance!!

🔖 Run in the Blood by A.E. Ross

Ok, so there will be blood here. There will be running. 

And it’s in Imperative.

This title screams a d v e n t u r e. I feel a need to run for my life and knock out some asshats on the way every time I read it.

🔖 The Abyss Surrounds Us by Emily Skrutskie

It’s dramatic. It suggests that they’re in a situation without an easy way out. Or any way out. It has ‘us’ included so it says that they are in this together somehow. Who? 

Come to find out, I guess.

🔖 Wilder Girls by Rory Power

Who doesn’t love wild girls? If that person exists, I don’t need to know them anyway. But they’re not only wild but wildrer. Wilder than who? Or what? 

Intrigue. Intrigue. Intrigue.