April 24, 2018

Top Ten Tuesday: Frequently Used Words In Young Adult Titles

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.

Topic:

Frequently Used Words In Young Adult Titles

1. King

ex. The Wicked King, The Summer King, King's Cage, The Mirror King, The Demon King, The Iron King, Daughter of the Pirate King, The Raven King, The Runaway King 

2. Queen

ex. Red Queen, The Shadow Queen, Queen of Air and Darkness, Queen of Shadows, The Orphan Queen, The Exiled Queen, The Iron Queen, Queen Song, Daughter of the Siren Queen, The Queen's Rising, The Forest Queen, The True Queen

3. Shadow/s

ex. From The Earth To The Shadows, Lord of Shadows, Shadow of the Fox, The Shadow Cabinet,
Shadows, Shadows In The Silence, Sweet Shadows, Shadow & Bone, Shadow Souls, Radiant Shadows, Reign of Shadows 

4. Star/s

ex. The Stars Never Rise, The Midnight Star, Ignite The Stars, Raging Star, The Chaos of Stars, Star Cursed, The Fault In Our Stars, For Darkness Shows The Stars, The Name of the Star, Blood of a Thousand Stars, Defy The Stars, The Darkest Star, The Last Star

5. Dark

ex. Give The Dark My Love, Dark Inside, Dark Triumph, A Beautiful Dark, Dark Flame, Pitch Dark, The Dark and Hollow Places, The Dark Calling, Our Dark Stars, Three Dark Crowns

6. Blood

ex. Blood Red Road, Because It Is My Blood, Children of Blood and Bone, Blood of a Thousand Stars, Isle of Blood and Stone, Days of Blood & Starlight, Half-Blood, Anna Dressed In Blood

7. Crown

ex. Cruel Crown, Three Dark Crowns, The Crown's Game, The Crown, Crown of Midnight, The Crown of Embers, The Crimson Crown

8. Glass

ex. The Glass Arrow, Glass Sword, The Glass Spare, Throne of Glass, Glass Heart, City of Glass, Winter Glass, Through The Zombie Glass, Storm Glass, Burning Glass, Spy Glass, Ink, Iron & Glass

9. Earth

ex. Walk on Earth a Stranger, The Last Girl on Earth, From The Earth To The Shadows, Earth & Sky, Reign the Earth, Shades of Earth, Earth Girl

10. Sky

ex. Earth & Sky, Sky In The Deep, Sky On Fire, Let The Sky Fall, Under The Never Sky, Beneath the Sugar Sky, Nothing But Sky, Daughter of the Earth and Sky

Did you guys notice some of these titles have more than one of these frequently used words in them??? Also, there's a lot more titles that have some of these words in other ways, like Darkness, Starcrossed, etc. I had a lot of fun doing this topic!