Greetings you guys! It’s Tuesday and therefore time for Top Ten Tuesday, hosted by Jana @ That Artsy Reader Girl.
Today’s prompt is one that you can actually have a whole reading challenge on and not only 10 books. Books with names/Character names in the title. My Mommy actually really want to use this as a yearly challenge somewhere soon and I just know that we will get a whole list of new titles today.
As my Mommy was falling asleep the other night, instead of counting kittens, she was thinking of names for this prompt. Always the teacher, she of course started with names in Alphabetical order. The first name that popped in her head, was Alice. And the second. And the third, and the fourth… Surely we can get at least 10 Alices!
- Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass and what Alice found there by Lewis Caroll
- A Town like Alice by Nevil Shute
- Still Alice by Lisa Genova
- The Alice Network by Kate Quinn
- What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty
- Alice I have been by Melanie Benjamin
- The Strange Journey of Alice Pendelbury by Marc Levy
- Go ask Alice by Beatrice Sparks
- The Truth about Alice by Jennifer Mathieu
- Alice in Zombieland by Gena Showalter
And we actually have one or two spares here. Ha. Who ever would have imagined Alice to be such a popular name in literature. Let’s don’t forget about the awesome authors who are named Alice too!
- Alice Hoffman
- Alice Walker
- Alice Sebold
- Alice Feeney
Did we forget to add any Alice here today? Let us know please! I do hope that most of you can get a bit further in the alphabet than my Mommy did before she fell asleep.
Happy TTT!
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Fun! I like that you decided to center the list on one name. Great way to up the challenge. 🙂 Thanks so much for visiting Finding Wonderland on this week. 🙂
Hi Rissi! So glad you’ve enjoyed our post. I love being creative with TTT and sometimes inspiration just struck.
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Now that’s a very neat twist! And I definitely remember that song!
I really should have added the YouTube link….
wow, now that’s super super impressive!!
I haven’t read any other with Alice in the title, but I have read the author Alice Kaplan, who wrote this excellent book: Looking for The Stranger: Albert Camus and the Life of a Literary Classic
And there’s another Alice author. I actually didn’t search for authors, but just used the ones that popped in my head.
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I love your take on the prompt this week!
Thanks Pam! Glad you enjoyed it!
Wow! I can’t believe you found so many Alice’s! I immediately went to my Goodreads list and I only have one Alice!!! It is Alice and the Wonderland…so obviously I need to read more books about Alice 😉
Hi Cindy! Oh there’s a few that I will definitely recommend for sure. What Alice Forgot, A Town Like Alice, Still Alice… I hope you get the chance to read a few of these.
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Oh I love the twist with all the Alices! Who knew there were so many literary Alices?
I honestely didn’t know it myself until it popped into my head and I just ran with it!
Glad you enjoyed it.
Very clever twist. Thanks for the assist on my bad link. I fixed it, but now I am at the bottom of the pile. Ha! My list of book titles with names
Hi there Anne! No problem. I just thought I’d rather let you know. Don’t want other people to miss out on your post.
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what a fun twist on this topic!
Glad you liked it! We sure had fun with this one.
I love your “A” theme. 🙂 I have only read Still Alice from your list. I hope to get to The Alice Network this year. Thank you for sharing!
The Alice Network was soo good! I do hope you will get to it this year. Have you read The Rose Code? Also a good read and actually my favorite Kate Quinn. So far.
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Alice in Zombieland looks so scary!
Here is our Top Ten Tuesday.
It’s not my type of read at all, but I have added it because it seemed to be a popular choice on Goodreads. The first 6 on my list I have read though.
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What an interesting spin! I never realized that there were so many books with the name Alice in the title.
Hi Leah! Neither did I! I really just popped into my head and I have actually read more than half of these. Finding the other 4 was rather easy as well!
Still Alice was on my list, too! What a great story that was.
Hi Lydia! I know! It was beautiful and I’ve always thought that the movie was handled very well too.
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Wow… all about Alice. Nicely done!
All about Alice… That can so easily be another book title!!
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What a great list 😄 I would’ve definitely struggled even more if I had tried to stick to just one name lol but I loved your idea!
Hi Dini! I need to see if there are other books with so many repetitive names. It really was pure luck that I thought of all of these!
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Who IS Alice? Clearly there are many Alice’s. 🙂 And ooh a Liane Moriarty- I haven’t read that particular one by her. 🙁
I should have added a music or a YouTube link to the famous Smokie song as well. Thought about it too late!
What Alice forgot is one of my favorite Liane Moriarty books. I hope you can get to it soon.
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Goodness! And you didn’t have to go past the letter A!
No I didn’t! Sometimes my own mind surprises me so much….
So cool.
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Great list! What a fun twist to the prompt, I’ve never really thought about how many books there are out there using the same name in the title.
I honestly also didn’t think about it, until it hit my straight in the face! LOL!! Must actually see if there are more names that are used so often.
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Great job! I had a similar thought about the name Eleanor. Maybe not only titles but certainly books with characters named Eleanor!!
Gosh, I need to think about Eleanor now… From the top of my head I can only think of Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine. But that is also a great idea!
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