Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created by The Broke and Bookish) and is now being hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. Future week’s topics can be found here. 📚

August 6: Cover Redesigns I Loved/Hated

August 13: Book Characters I’d Love to Be Besties With

Next Week:
August 27: Books I’ve Read That I’d Like In My Personal Library

This Week: My Top 10 Fav Book Tropes 😸

#10 Quest

The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle
The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton

#9 Historical Clues, Ancient Treasure, Puzzles

The Gilded Wolves by Roshani Chokshi
The Diviners by Libba Bray
Dragon Pearl by Yoon Ha Lee
Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor

#8 Bookish Themes (set in a bookstore, bookstore owner, Librarian etc)

Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore by Matthew Sullivan
The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books #1) by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

#7 Small Towns

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Salem’s Lot by Stephen King
Dress Codes for Small Towns by Courtney Stevens
Carrie by Stephen King

#6 Female Noir

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
Rebecca by Dauphne du Maurier|
The Grownup by Gillian Flynn

#5 When Friends Fall in Love

Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
The Fault in our Stars by John Green
The Raven Cycle (series) by Maggie Stiefvater
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

#4 Damsels in Shining Armour

Cinder by Marissa Meyer
Divergent by Veronica Roth
The Golden Compass by Phillip Pullman
Graceling by Kristin Cashore

#3 Unlikely Hero

Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling
Cinder by Marissa Meyer
The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
Wizard’s First Rule (Sword of Truth series) by Terry Goodkind

#2 Concealed Identity

The Diviners by Libba Bray
The Doll Factory by Elizabeth Macneal
Cinder by Marissa Meyer
The 71/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton

#1 Diversity and Own Voices!

Winter by Marissa Meyer
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
History is All You Left Me by Adam Silvera
When the Moon Was Ours by Anna-Marie McLemore
The Weight of Feathers by Anna-Marie McLemore
Summer of Salt by Katrina Leno
Together at Midnight by Jennifer Castle
Dress Codes for Small Towns by Courtney Stevens

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