Books with One Word Titles

Hello! Welcome to Top Ten Tuesday, where we talk about books! Top Ten Tuesday has a new topic every Tuesday, and is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl! Today we’re going to talk about books with one word titles. There were a lot of ways I could go about this, but I decided to use titles from “My Books” on Goodreads, oldest ones first (to bring a little variety into the picture), arranged by date added. I’m also not going to include the articles the, a, or an. Let’s get started!

I went through four pages of books on Goodreads before I came across The Century. Here’s where I realized that it’s not going to be very easy to come up with 10 books that only have one word titles (especially if I don’t include books that start with articles). This book is over 20 years old now, but I still might reread it someday. It is a book that gives a broad overview of the history of the 20th century, using the words of people that lived through it. It also has tons of pictures.

I read Rora last year and… it was just okay. I liked reading about the Waldensians, who were considered heretics by the Catholic church, but the story didn’t grab me. Which is sad because this is an unknown but interesting part of history.

I didn’t use Goodreads much until recently, which is why we’re already up to Divergent, which I had never heard of before the movie came out. There are three other books in this series with one word titles (Insurgent, Allegiant, and Four) and we’ll just skip over them for variety’s sake.

I added a lot of books with one word titles in 2014 because there are three of them on this one page alone. Both Legend and Divergent are some of my favorite books. Like the book before, Legend‘s sequels are also one word titles (Prodigy, Champion, and Rebel) so I won’t mention them here.

Another book I added in 2014 was Mockingjay, the third book in The Hunger Games series. All of the other books in this series have more than one word in the title.

Ōkami is a short story that is part of the Flame in the Mist series. Another short story in the series, Yumi, is also one word.

Warcross is another book that only has one word (as does Wildcard, the second book in the series). It’s a story about a girl who hacks her way into a video game and was my favorite book from 2017.

Marissa Meyer’s Heartless is really good Alice in Wonderland fanfiction. I haven’t had the opportunity to read The Lunar Chronicles yet (also using one word titles) but I did like this one.

Stephen King’s The Stand is another book with one word (and an article) in the title. It’s also the longest book on my list today.

Last but not least, Caraval is a trilogy whose books all have one word in the title (the others are Legendary and Finale). If you like magical books with a circus-like atmosphere, you might like this series.

That wasn’t as difficult as I thought. I only went through nine pages on my Goodreads books to come up with these. Evidently most of the books I read have multiple words in the title, but there are some with only one word. What books did you come up with?

Next week we’re going to talk about authors with a fun social media presence. I’m not sure about that, I might just talk about authors who I like following on Twitter. Close enough.