Top Ten Tuesday | The Four Winds

Hi and welcome to another Top Ten Tuesday post! Hope you all had a nice long Easter weekend, but now it’s back to business. This week’s topic is submitted by Rachel over at Sunny Side and is Books About/Set In Places on My Bucket List. I to be honest have no bucket list, so I decided to tweak this one a bit. But hey, what’s new? I therefore decided to go with the four winds. This stays close to the original topic while being different at the same time. What this means? That I will be listing books with north, south, east or west in their titles. Again, this list is put together at random, so let’s take a look!

Top Ten Tuesday 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.

  1. The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah – Read and honestly the inspiration for this topic as I hovered over my review just the other day.
  2. The North Wind by Alexandria Warrick – Read this one and the entire series could be listed for this prompt. Find my review here.
  3. When the Cranes Fly South by Lisa Ridzén – This one is on my TBR for this spring.
  4. The South by Tash Aw – Another one from that same TBR.
  5. East of Eden by John Steinbeck – Random pick after entering a search query.
  6. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque – Never read it, but this title somehow rang a bell when I found it in a search query.
  7. North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell – Heard of the movie, but never read the book. Apparently there are two novels with this title, so I’m not sure whether this is the one the movie is based on. It is the first one I found however.
  8. South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami – Random pick as I never read a book by this author before and am honestly never planning to do so.
  9. Eastern Lights by Brittainy C. Cherry – This is the second book in the “Compass” series by this author and I’ve read Southern Storms years ago. Even though I wasn’t fully convinced back then, I still want to read the rest of the books.
  10. Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell – Just another general title to round of this list. I haven’t read this classic either.

Compiling this list was interesting, because I apparently haven’t read many titles with the four winds in them. I didn’t want to include multiple titles in the same series, that would have been too easy.

What title with north, south, east or west comes to your mind immediately?


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16 responses to “Top Ten Tuesday | The Four Winds”

  1. I think you did a great job finding titles with the four winds, and I love the variety of genres.
    Here’s my TTT for the week: https://readbakecreate.com/books-set-in-iceland-books-set-in-bucket-list-locations/

  2. A nice twist on the topic. The books look interesting.

    Have a great week!

    Emily @ Budget Tales Book Blog
    My post:
    https://budgettalesblog.wordpress.com/2026/04/07/top-ten-tuesday-books-about-set-in-places-on-my-bucket-list/

  3. I read Gone with the Wind in high school but don’t remember much about it!

  4. What a clever twist! John Steinbeck’s East of Eden is the first book that comes to mind though I’ve never read it.
    Thanks for sharing your #TTT

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    Lauren Always Me

    I like your take on the topic. I need to read North and South too.

  6. great topic!! My TTT

  7. Ooh this is a fun topic! I’ve somehow not read Gone With the Wind, so should definitely get on that.

  8. I love your tweaking of the topic! Still TTT-adjacent and a fun one to read! All Quiet was a great read, although admittedly better when you read it on your own that when you’re (or at least when I was) forced to read it for school

  9. i love the spin you put on the prompt! east of eden was the first book that jumped to my mind. it’s definitely a classic i would like to read one day along with north and south.

  10. I like your take on this, The Kristin Hannah book instantly came to mind. I want to read North and South, I watched the BBC miniseries and it was really good.

  11. I have read The North Wind and both The Four Winds and The South are on my TBR. Great twist on the topic.

  12. What a great idea for a TTT topic! I’ve read The Four Winds, East of Eden, and Gone with the Wind, and they are all really intense reads! I enjoyed them all!

    Haze
    https://thebookhaze.com/

  13. Fun topic! I’ve actually read a bunch of these… North and South is great (it was one of my book group’s classic reads a few years ago, and the movie version is terrific too)

  14. This is a great topic! I still haven’t read Gone with the Wind. North and South was a great movie.

    https://thebookconnectionccm.blogspot.com/2026/04/top-ten-tuesday-top-ten-books-aboutset.html

  15. EAST OF EDEN is the first book that springs to mind when thinking about “North, South, East, or West.”

    It is one of those books that is on my TBR since I’ve had a TBR. 🤷🏼‍♀️

  16. Nice twist, Laurie. And not too far from the original topic.
    I don’t have a bucket list as such but there are always places I’d still like to visit, so I stuck to the subject this time.
    https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2026/04/top-ten-tuesday-places-on-my-bucket-list.html

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