Hi and welcome back to another Top Ten Tuesday post! I accidentally put the blog on hiatus this past week, and I have no excuse as of why. What I do know however, is that I had no brain capacity to think of another Top Ten Tuesday topic as I wasn’t feeling last week’s one. I’m not feeling this week’s one either, so guess what? Yes, I’m giving it a small spin! This week’s topic is April showers, which includes multiple options as you may interpret it how you like. I was considering to pick weather elements as topic, as April often treats us with four seasons in one day, week or month, but I apparently have done the same topic in October 2023. So I had to take a different route and decided to compile a list of books with emotions in the title. I treat this topic the same way I treat all these kind of topics, it’s a mixture of read titles, to be read titles and random picks. So let’s take a look what my brain came up with today!
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.
- The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins – Yep, hunger is an emotion, because feeling hungry is the worst.
- Excuse Me While I Ugly Cry by Joya Goffney – I have this book on my TBR, but it has been there for ages. It’s a young adult novel, so no wonder why it’s still left unread. I will pick it up eventually though, because I already own a copy.
- Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner – This book is the first one that came to mind actually. Have I read it? Nope. Is it on my never-ending TBR? Yes.
- Happy Place by Emily Henry – Who doesn’t want to be at their happy place every time they can? The characters in this book definitely do, but maybe their happy place isn’t as happy as they once thought it to be… Or is it still? To be honest, this was one of the very few books by this author I enjoyed, especially after my disastrous reading experience with Book Lovers. I saw this one as my last chance for this author. Find out more in my review.
- More Happy than Not by Adam Silvera – Okay okay, this is a book I felt sad about, because I had to DNF this one.
- Storm and Fury by Jennifer L. Armentrout – Fury can be interpreted in multiple ways, but main character Trinity feels a lot of fury during this series so for me it counts. I still enjoy Armentrouts older work way more than her newer books, because I devoured this series back in the day and was hardly able to finish her latest novels. I highly enjoyed the first few books in the “Blood and Ash” series, but the most recent release in this series left me shocked and not in a good way. I had to DNF.
- You With the Sad Eyes by Christina Applegate – This one is for the lovers of memoirs. Christina Applegate is a beloved actress, who unfortunately has to live with MS after being diagnosed a few years ago. I’m sure people would love to read this memoir, but I don’t think this will be for me.
- The Lucky One by Nicholas Sparks – This is actually a random pick, although I’m certain this book has been on my TBR for a long, long while. My mom used to read and love Nicholas Sparks, I have read only one book by this author. Well, we don’t read his work anymore it seems.
- The Long Way to a Small, Angry planet by Becky Chambers – This book has been on my TBR for years as well, if I haven’t removed it yet. Scifi is not really my cup of tea, so I doubt if I will ever pick this up. Although I hear good things about this one. Hmm…
- Dreams of Joy by Lisa See – This is a random pick as I ran out of emotions to think of, or I found popular titles I didn’t want to include. This is the second book in the “ Shanghai Girls” series I haven’t read (yet), but heard many people talk about.
Now, it’s up to you. What books with an emotion in the title directly comes to mind? And have you read any of these titles?
