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Tiny Navajo Writes: Top Ten Book Titles That Are Complete Sentences

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Hi guys! It’s time for another Top Ten Tuesday! TTT was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together.

This is going to be a fun Top Ten Tuesday! Well, I think it will be at any point. Today’s theme is all about the book titles that form complete sentences. I don’t read many books whose titles form complete sentences, so it’ll probably end up being just the ten books I know of that form complete sentences. Either way, wish me luck!


  1. If I Never Met You by Mhairi McFarlane
  2. The Awakening of Malcolm X by Ilyasah Shabazz and Tiffany D. Jackson
  3. Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo
  4. Don’t Tell a Soul by Kristen Miller
  5. A Complicated Love Story Set in Space by Shaun David Hutchinson
  6. The Girls I’ve Been by Tess Sharpe
  7. Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook by Christina Henry.
  8. What I Leave Behind by Alison McGhee
  9. Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks by Jason Reynolds
  10. Apple in the Middle by Dawn Quigley

These are the top ten books titles that are sentences. What do you think of these sentences? Have you read any of these books? Comment below and let me know, I feel like these are all sentences, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that they are.

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Tiny Navajo Writes: Top Ten Books with Nature on the Cover

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Hi guys! It’s time for another Top Ten Tuesday! TTT was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together.

It’s May already and where is all of my sunshine? These past two weeks have been grey and cloudy and rainy, and I just want some sunshine…all well, I’ll make due by finding sunshine in the books for today’s theme, nature. So, basically, flowers, trees, shrubs, animals, anything in nature just has to be on the cover. So, here we go!


  1. Chlorine Sky by Mahogany L. Brown. The water and the clouds in the sky of this are excellent!
  2. The Star People by S.D. Nelson. The stars and what they mean in Lakota culture; a beautiful story.
  3. La Luna by Enrico Casarosa. Another starry night book, with faint spots of light for the stars.
  4. Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss. Greenery shaped into the figure out a skull, can’t get more nature-y than that!
  5. Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir. Skeletons are definitely a part of nature, even if it’s a part we don’t want to think about.
    Book covers for: Chlorine Sky, The Star People, La Luna, Ghost Wall, and Harrow the Ninth
  6. The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones. I would say an elk is definitely nature related. You should really read this Native American horror story; one of the good ones.
  7. A Slip of the Keyboard by Terry Pratchett. An illustration of Terry Pratchett floating in clouds, very intriguing.
  8. Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir. Again, skeletons. Need I say more?
  9. The Humane Gardener by Nancy Lawson. A yellow background with beautiful greenery surrounding the title. Very very beautiful in my opinion.
  10. Sorry for Your Loss by Jessie Ann Foley. A beautiful sunrise on this cover, which fits perfectly with the theme of the book as well.
Book covers for: The Only Good Indians, A Slip of the Keyboard, Gideon the Ninth, The Humane Gardener, and Sorry for Your Loss

There are my ten books with nature on the covers. I choose these ones mostly because they’re ones that I’ve read somewhat recently and have left some sort of impact on me. The covers are beautiful and they all connect with the story of the book as well. I highly recommend that you try out at least one of these books and see what you like. What are some of your favourite covers with nature on them? What drew you to those particular covers? Comment below and let me know; I’m a sucker for good cover art!

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Tiny Navajo Writes: Top Ten Favourite Animals in Books

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Hi guys! It’s time for another Top Ten Tuesday! TTT was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together.

Hello hello again my friends! It’s time for another Top Ten Tuesday and today’s theme is a fun one! Top ten favourite animals (real and fantasy) in books! I have so many favourites, so I’m really excited to talk about some of my favourite animals.


  1. I absolutely love the firelizards from Anne McCaffrey’s Harper Hall Trilogy. They are so little and cute, and basically tiny dragons!
  2. All of the dragons from Marie Brennan’s Memiors of Lady Trent series. This is a world where dragons are a part of natural life and Lady Trent becomes a leading voice in the study of dragons! How cool is that?!
  3. Wally from Amelia Unabridged. He is the sweetest dog! I do like dogs, big dogs tend to make me nervous, but I think I would enjoy being around Wally, just for a little while.
  4. Bini, a fennec fox pet owned by Poppy in Sleepless by Sarah Vaughn. This is the most adorable pet, and while I don’t agree with having fennec foxes as pets in real life, this is fantasy and I love Bini!
  5. Sankofa’s fox companion in Remote Control by Nnedi Okorafor. For a girl who has the power of death in her touch, there is a fox that continuously follows her.
  6. Hannah’s pet dog in Manners and Monsters series by Tilly Wallace. Hannah deserves so much, and I love that she gets a little dog to be her companion.
  7. Roach, Geralt’s horse in The Witcher by Andrzej Sapkowski. Geralt names ever single horse he has “Roach” and I love the continuity of it.
  8. Sandor from Animosity by Marguerite Bennett. In a world where animals develop consciousness, Sandor does what he can to protect his girl, his Jessie. Girl’s best friend, indeed.
  9. Dewey, the small town library cat from Dewey, the Small Town Library Cat That Touched the World by Vicki Myron. He was an actual library cat, and that just sounds so adorable to me!
  10. Bob, from A Street Cat Named Bob by James Bowen. A wonderful story about how taking care of something else (a.k.a. a cat) can make you focus on something other than yourself.

These are my top ten favourite animals in books! I loved their interactions as well as their relationships with everyone in their stories. How someone treats an animal is indicative of how they treat other people. What are some of your favourite animals in books? Why are they your favourite? Comment below and let me know!

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Tiny Navajo Writes: Top Five Books I’ll Toss In the Ocean

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Hi guys! It’s time for another Top Ten Tuesday! TTT was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together.

Today’s theme is one that I quite like actually: books I’ll gladly toss in the ocean. I’m not sure if it’s because that’s something just so satisfying about throwing something as hard as you can to watch it disappear below the water, or just the idea of throwing something and not have it come back. I don’t know, but it feels cathartic and I’m all for it!

Now, I don’t actually condone you throwing a book you don’t like into the ocean, that just seems wasteful and not useful, and you’re polluting the environment. Don’t do it. If you truly don’t like a book, sell it, give it away, or donate it, just don’t toss it in the trash (unless it’s infected with mold or such, then please throw it away! Don’t give it to a library which will do the exact same thing). Anyway, onto the five books I would toss into the ocean.


  1. Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia. I really enjoyed her other book, Gods of Jade and Shadow, but Mexican Gothic just rubbed me wrong and I would gladly toss it in the drink.
  2. The Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick. I’m not one for contemporary fiction and this one just not a good one for me. It was okay at best and I would feel much better if I could throw it into the ocean.
  3. Stalking Jack the Ripper by Kerri Maniscalco. This had so much potential!!!! And that’s what really makes me mad about it!!! This nice, beautiful hardcover would splash so nicely into the ocean!
  4. The Magicians by Lev Grossman. Lord save me with this one…I wanted to like it but the main character was a whiney, pretentious little snot and the rest of his “classmates” were just as bad! And I know that everyone loved/loves the TV show but it’s just a horrid book that can go back to the depths.
  5. Indiana Jones and the Genesis Deluge by Rob MacGregor. It was okay. Indiana Jones definitely belongs on the big screen and not in a book. Far too flat a character to belong in a book.

There you go, my top five picks to toss into the ocean! What would you toss into the ocean? Why would you do so? Comment below and let me know! I’m curious as to what you thought of my picks as well.

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Tiny Navajo Writes: Top Ten Spring Clean

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Hi guys! It’s time for another Top Ten Tuesday! TTT was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together.

Today’s theme is all about the spring cleaning! And that is definitely something that the Husband and I have been doing this past week. The weather here has turned nice, I can open the back door to enjoy the breeze and the warmth, I can watch the birds fly around our bird feeder and I can feel rejuvenated with spring on the way.

This is a bit of a freebie theme this week, so I’ll be doing the top ten books I’ll be cleaning from my TBR this week. Let’s get to it!


  • The Restaurant Critic’s Wife by Elizabeth LaBan. I have had this book on my list for years, it’s not even in a genre I’ll consistently dip into. It’s got to do. I ain’t gonna read it!
  • In Need of a Good Wife by Kelly O’Connor McNees. Again, had this on my TBR for a while and it’s just not gonna happen…why do I do this to myself? Why did my younger self do this to me?!
  • The Grimm Prequels Book 5 by Cameron Jace. These all sound fascinating and I have several on my list, but I know me by now and I don’t think I’m ever going to read them…or if I do, it’s going to be a “I’m desperate” kind of reading…so yeah, they gonna leave my TBR.
  • The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan. Again! But this time it’s a book I know to be a good book, it’s been recommended by everyone and just about everyone knows about it. It’s just not for me, so bye!
  • Enchantee by Gita Trelease. I had gotten an ARC of this a few years back and I tried to read it and just got nowhere with them…so. Probably safe to say that I’m not going to be reading this one.
  • GI Brides: The Wartime Girls Who Crossed the Atlantic for Love by Duncan Barrett. Eh…just, this one just sounds eh now and I have no time to spend on books that make me think “eh…”
  • The Tell All by Libby Howard. I don’t read mysteries all that often and being honest, they’re only by authors I know and love, like Agatha Christie. So, it’s highly unlikely that I’ll be reading this one at any point.
  • The Bone Collector by Jeffery Deaver. Why? I honestly don’t remember why I placed this one on my TBR…and just no…
  • The Diviners by Libba Bray. I’ve tried reading other books by this author and I just can’t get into them. So…this will leave the list, and it honestly doesn’t interest me anymore either.
  • The Wrath and the Dawn by Renée Ahdieh. I know this is supposed to be so good, but being honest if it’s been on my TBR for the last 4 years and I haven’t even looked at the book…then maybe it’s time for it to go!

There we go, the top ten books to leave my TBR this spring cleaning day and honestly. My list looks better and feels better now. I still have a LOT of books I need/want to read, but I’ll make my way though my list little by little to see what gets to stay and what will be leaving next. What books would you take off of your TBR? What that particular book? Comment below and let me know!

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Tiny Navajo Writes: Top Five Book Characters Jobs I’d Like

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Hi guys! It’s time for another Top Ten Tuesday! TTT was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together.

My dudes! It’s a late Tuesday post for me, and I’m tired and just so excited for the weekend to come so I can sleep and just rest and get me some sunlight! There is so much sunlight now and I want ALL OF IT!!!

Anyway, today’s topic is all about the jobs of book characters I wish I could have. And while I love my job, there are some other jobs I would love to try out. So, here we go!


  • Tiffy Moore in The Flatshare by Beth O’Leary. Books and publishing so that sounds like it’d be interesting at least.
  • Gideon from Gideon the Ninth because being the swole bodyguard seems like it’d be interesting at least.
  • Jess Brightwell from Ink and Bone as he’s got a job in the Library of Alexandria that never burned down. Though the circumstances is very weird and I’m not sure I’d like it for a long time, but I would like to see the Library.
  • Lady Isabella Trent from A Natural History of Dragons becaues show doesn’t want to work with dragons!? I would love to study dragons and make that my career!
  • Adventurer in Dragma’s Keep by Vance Pumphrey. Granted, this review is not that good (holy shit, this is how I used to review!?!!?!?) but I have started playing D&D and I would love to explore a fantasy world and being an adventurer in some sort. That would be AWESOME!

These are the top five jobs I would like to try out at least, some normal and some fantastical, either way they would be great jobs! What types of jobs would you like to try out? Comment below and let me know!

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Tiny Navajo Writes: Top Ten Books That Made Me LOL

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Hi guys! It’s time for another Top Ten Tuesday! TTT was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together.

My dudes! These past two weeks have been some of the weirdest that I have ever experienced and I am NOT a fan! As you probably read in my posts last week, OK was experiencing a lot of extreme winter weather that lead to my library system essentially being closed for the last two weeks. And when I mean extreme, I mean extreme for OK. We had below freezing temperatures, snow up to my knees, a large chance of our pipes freezing and losing power. Thankfully for us, I grew up in Idaho and know mostly how to deal with the weather itself, but that doesn’t mean our house is built to deal with said winter weather. So, I had to prep our house to deal with very cold temps. Things turned out okay, and I’m back at work now so yay! Also, you couldn’t tell this by looking outside today, but nearly all of the snow is gone…just the drifts and piles from plows are left.

Anyway, onto today’s theme for Top Ten Tuesday! It’s all about the books that make you laugh out loud. And I have several that I turn to when I need a good laugh, but you’ll just have to take a look through my list to see what I’m talking about.


  • The Martian by Andy Weir. Seriously, one of the funniest books I own and all thanks to the way Mark Watney is written and the way that R.C. Bray brings him to life.
  • Sourdough by Robin Sloan. Loise speaks so clearly and her descriptions are spot on and hilarious. It’s definitely a book that gets quite a few laughs out of me.
  • The Flatshare by Beth O’Leary. While this is a book that deals with some dark themes, it is most a light fluffy book about two completely different people seeking to make the best of their situations and talk to each other through sticky notes posted around their shared apartment.
  • Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan. Again, the main character, Clay is a sharp wit and he uses that to his advantage to bring the book to life. His descriptions of the people who use the bookstore are great, and I really really want to visit this bookstore to find Clay and Mr. Penumbra and explore their fabulously tall space.
  • Saint Young Men, Omnibus Vol. 1 by Hikaru Nakamura. This is a great manga as it explores what Jesus Christ and Buddha would be like if the were vacationing on Earth in modern day Japan. I love their characterizations and how they act and they perceive certain things concerning their own religions.
Book Covers for: The Martian, Sourdough, The Flatshare, Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore, Saint Young Men Omnibus Vol. 1
  • The Way of the Househusband, Vol. 1 by Kousuke Oono. This is a hilarious book about a former mob boss turned househusband. And he still has the same personality of a mob boss, he’s just now using it to keep wife and home happy.
  • Sass and Sorcery (Rat Queens Vol. 1) by Kurtis J. Wiebe and John “Roc” Upchurch. A wonderful graphic novel about a group of adventurers who adventures don’t always end up well. If you like D&D, you’ll definitely enjoy this!
  • Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir. I just love Gideon’s voice and how she talks about what’s going on in her work, it’s hilarious and I want to be her friend.
  • Here There Be Gerblins by Clint McElroy, Griffin McElroy, Justin McElroy, and Travis McElroy. An illustrated comic based on their podcast D&D adventures! Very good and very funny and I kind of want to listen to their podcast now so I know what the voices sound like.
  • Bloodlust and Bonnets by Emily McGovern. If you haven’t seen Background Slytherin floating around on social media, then you need to read that and then you need to read this because how else do you get Lord Byron, vampires, and a bloodthirsty girl all in one story?

These are the top ten books that have made me laugh out loud and some that will continue to make me lol. Have you read any of these books? And if you haven’t what books have you read that make you laugh out loud? Comment below and let me know! I’m always up for a good laugh.

Book Covers for: The Way of the Househusband Vol. 1, Sass and Sorcery (Rat Queens Vol. 1), Gideon the Ninth, Here There Be Gerblins, Bloodlust and Bonnets
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Tiny Navajo Writes: Top Ten Books on My TBR

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Hi guys! It’s time for another Top Ten Tuesday! TTT was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together.

My dudes! Guess what?! I haven’t been in for work since Saturday, and I hadn’t worked a day of work the week before that because of abnormal winter weather here in the OK. You probably know some of what’s going on if you’ve been reading my posts this past week. So, I was supposed to work Sunday and Monday, but due to a winter storm warning that’s was in effect from Saturday night to Monday morning, and we’re due for anywhere from 5-10 inches of snow. This is unusual weather for OK, so my library system decided to close for Sunday and Monday to keep us safe. So, I haven’t really worked a whole lot this past week and I’m not mad at it. But I do hope to get back into the building this week again. I got some things that I can only really do while at the building, but we’ll see what happens.

Anyway, as you can see, today is Tuesday and it’s time for this week’s Top Ten Tuesday which is all about the Spring TBR list. Now, I don’t keep a quarterly or even seasonal TBR list, I’m a book goblin in that matter that every pretty book I see that has a good synposis goes immediately onto my TBR read list. But! I do have specific books that I need to make my way through in the near future, if only so they can get back into circulation at my library. So, here are the top ten books I need to read! Soonish…


Book Covers for: Don’t Tell a Soul, The Girls I’ve Been, A Complicated Love Story Set in Space, Last Night at the Telegraph Club, and One of the Good Ones

Here are the top ten books that I should read soonish if only because they’re going to keep staring at me until I do. Here’s hoping I can get my attention span under control in order to get what reading I can done and still enjoy what I’m doing. What’s your TBR list look like right now? Anything that you plan on reading soon? Or is your attention span saying “NO!” as loudly as it can, like mine is? Comment below and let me know what your plan is! I need help!

Book Covers for: A Pho Love Story, Muted, Concrete Rose, Persephone Station, and Axiom’s End
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Tiny Navajo Writes: Top Ten Books I Love on My Shelves

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Hi guys! It’s time for another Top Ten Tuesday! TTT was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together.

Today is a day of love as Valentine’s Day in on its way. I’m not much a fan of Valentine’s day, or celebrating of holidays in general. The Husband and I have come to realize this after our ten years together, and eight of those years married, that we don’t really celebrate the usual holidays for couples very much like Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Valentine’s Day. We ABSOLUTELY love Halloween and any time we’re able to get off together with no one else in sight! But when we do celebrate, it’s our own celebration. This is all to say that our celebrations are for ourselves and no one else. And today’s theme is all about the books on my shelves that I love!


  1. Lord Brocktree by Brian Jacques. I have always loved this book and it was one that I turned to a lot in high school. If you read my review from yesterday, you’ll know that I wasn’t the most social in high school and books were my friends. There is just something warming and beautiful about Lord Brocktree that continues to call me back and lift me up when I need it.
  2. I Will Always Write Back by Caitlin Alifirenka and Martin Ganda. This is a beautiful book about the authors who started writing to each other as a penpal program in middle school and it follows them both as they continue to write to each other until Martin is able to make it to the States for college.
  3. Sourdough by Robin Sloan. I love this book and if you want to read my review you’ll see how much I want to make a sourdough starter and my own sourdough bread. That’s how much this book makes me want to try things out!
  4. Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan. He’s starting to become one of my favourite authors, but I’ll let you know once I’ve read some more of his books. But this is the first one that I read of his and I love them!
  5. The Emperor’s Soul by Brandon Sanderson. I keep mentioning this book and I still have reviewed it here for you guys! I need to reread it and write a review so that you know what I’m talking about!
  6. The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden. Honestly, this was one of the books of the year for me back in 2018. It is amazing and I love the atmosphere this book is able to bring to make me believe that all of this is happening.
  7. Holes by Louis Sachar. I read this book in middle school and loved the almost Wild West vibe it had to it. I have my own copy now but it isn’t one that I haven’t touched in a while. I know that I need to reread it, if only to see with adult eyes what I enjoyed about this book when I was younger.
  8. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien. Another book that I read in middle school that I truly remember as being a full fantasy book that felt it was written for adults. I know now that’s it was conceived as bedtimes stories for J.R.R. Tolkien’s kids and then written down into a book format. I just love how it feels like an epic fantasy yet someone as young as 12 years can read and enjoy it. You don’t really get that with other epic fantasy books.
  9. The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern. A book that makes me absolutely want to jump into the middle of its pages and just live there forever and ever. I love the world of Le Cirque des Rêves and I want to visit this circus and taste the popcorn, the hot chocolate, see the high flying acts, and wander through the tents of fantasy and magic.
  10. A Natural History of Dragons by Marie Brennan. A sort of alternative universe where dragons are part of the world and they are actual organisms and there are people who STUDY them! I want to study them! How do I get to this world and get to study dragons?!

Here are ten books that I love and are all on my shelves. If you’ve been around here a while, you’ll recognize several of these titles. What are your favourite books that live on your shelves? What favourites don’t live on your shelves? Comment below and let me know!

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Tiny Navajo Writes: Top Ten Books Written Before I Was Born

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Hi guys! It’s time for another Top Ten Tuesday! TTT was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together.

My dudes! It’s officially February and it’s actually going to be somewhat warm this week! I’m so excited to get some warm weather again, and sunlight! Granted, it’s still winter and I still need to wear layers, but I just love being able go for a walk when there’s warmth and sunlight. Anyway, today’s theme for Top Ten Tuesday is all about the books that were written before you were born. For me, that’s all books written BEFORE the year 1992. I know that I have books that I’ve read from before then that I really enjoyed, so we’ll be focusing on books I liked that were published before 1992. Let’s see what I got below!


  • Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradberry. I read this book a few years ago, and I was surprised by how much I enjoyed it. It was one that had been on my TBR for a while if only because I thought that all librarians/lovers of books should read it at some point and I’m so glad that I did!
  • Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton. I most certainly had watched the movies first, but when I realized that the movies were based off of books(!) I had to find them in order to read them and see how good the book was compared to the movie! I think that is what started off my interest in reading the book first before I watched the movie of book-to-movie adaptations.
  • Dealing with Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede. I read this book in middle school and I loved it! I even did more reading, because we had a thing in middle school where if you read a certain amount of books and earned a certain amount of AR points from those books, you’d get a free book from the school library! They would buy you a book for your very own! So, I started reading more and eventually got all three books thanks to Mr. Crow (middle school librarian) and all of my reading!
  • The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis. I remember this book being read to the class by one of my grade school teachers after lunch recess. It was a way to calm us down and get us ready to focus on school work again, I think. I think got the HUGE omnibus of all 7 books in one for Christmas a few years after and it was glorious! I remember being so excited to get that huge book and I started reading it right after gifts that Christmas morning.
  • The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien. Alright, who hasn’t read this? And if you haven’t, then I highly recommend you do! It was another book that I read along with my English class in middle school, with each student reading a paragraph. I was so invested in the story though, that I would read ahead and have to quickly find where we were before my turn to read came up. It was so good and fun! I need to reread this book…
  • Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey. An excellent book set in a world of dragons! How could I not love this book?! I have so many of her books now that I have a whole shelf dedicated to just her books! Crazy? Yes, fantastic books? Also yes!
  • Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card. This was a trippy book to me when I first read it, but I could understand why a lot of bookish acquaintances in high school really liked it. But it wasn’t until Mrs. Poulson, the high school librarian, let me have a really beat up copy of the second book in the series that I realized that I liked it as well. I had to keep reading about Ender and what was going on up in space.
  • A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle. I loved reading all of Sherlock Holmes’s adventures with his trusty sidekick, Dr. John Watson. Both characters were fantastic, and it made me want to be a sort of inspector for a while after I first read this book.
  • Adjustment Team by Philip K. Dirk. You ever seen the movie The Adjustment Bureau? If you haven’t it’s got Matt Damon in it and there are people who freeze and mess with time and others to “adjust” them back on the track for their lives, if they happen to get off it. It is based off a short story called Adjustment Team and it is kind of weird. A good weird, mind you, but weird nonetheless. Go watch the movie and read the story!
  • The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett. This is one of my favourite stories and it definitely makes me want to visit an old manor house in England and go running about the moores and gardens myself! It’s a lifting of the snow and a renewing of life and I think it’s one I need to reread for this year to get rid of last year’s miasma.

There are my top ten books written before I was born and it was fun to go through my books and see what books I could find. There were a few times when I looked through a book and thought, “Oh yeah, this was definitely written before I was born,” and when I would look up its publication date, it would be in the early 2000s, making me go O.o when I thought about it. I enjoyed this though and I’m really curious about the books that were written before you were born. Have you read them? What did you like about them? How did you come to read them? Comment below and let me know! I’m always on the lookout for intriguing books and ones written a while ago are always a good start!