Hello and a very warm welcome to damppebbles. It’s Tuesday which means it’s time for this week’s Top Ten Tuesday post. I’ve decided to take part in That Artsy Reader Girl’s Top Ten Tuesday meme to mix things up a little here at damppebbles. Add a little bit of variety to our bookish weeks.
The meme was originally created by The Broke and the Bookish but has lived with Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl since January 2018. It was created to encompass a love of books, of lists and to bring readers together. If you would also like to take part then you’re very welcome: the more, the merrier. Just make sure you link back to Jana’s post every week. If you don’t have a blog then no problem, just add your list to the comments below.
This week’s theme is Books with Honorifics in the Title (“…an honorific is a form of address conveying esteem, courtesy or respect. These can be titles prefixing a person’s name, e.g.: Mr., Mrs., Miss, Ms., Mx., Sir, Dame, Dr., Cllr, Lady, or Lord, or other titles or positions that can appear as a form of address without the person’s name, as in Mr. President, General, Captain, Father, Doctor, or Earl.” Submitted by Joanne @ Portobello Book Blog). Crikey! Not sure how this one is going to go but we’ll give it a good try. I’m not sure many crime novels tend to have honorifics in their titles (saying that as I can’t bring a single one to mind as I type…) but let’s see how I get on.
UPDATE: I was right to panic! I can’t find a single book with an honorific in the title. What I came up with was, at best, pants! So then I came up with a variation on the theme, a ‘sort of’ variation, got a few books in and then thought it best to check and see if it was scheduled to be a list in the future and guess what, it is. It is 🙂↔️ So plan C is a list from the archives. I’ve chosen Auto-Buy Authors. After everything, this should be a fairly easy list to compile…
From L to R (in no particular order):
1. Chris Whitaker
2. M.W. Craven
3. Louise Jensen
4. Ronald Malfi
5. Anna Bailey
6. Janice Hallett
7. Stephen Graham Jones
8. Peter Swanson
9. Riley Sager
10. Sam Holland
Wow. After the numerous missteps at the start of this post, my list actually ended up being the easiest I think I’ve ever compiled. Anna Bailey has only written two books, by the way, but oh my gosh, I would purchase everything and anything they write! I think if you’re a regular here at damppebbles you will recognise some, if not all, of these names.
Have you read any books by these authors? Who is your number one auto-buy author? How did you get on with the honorifics theme this week? Is it just crime fiction titles honorifics aren’t used for? Are you taking part in Top Ten Tuesday this week? Let me know in the comments.
So there we have it! If you fancy joining in next week then head on over to That Artsy Reader Girl’s blog to find out what the next topic is!
