Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme by The Artsy Reader. This week’s topic is Book Titles that Would Make Great Song Titles. I’ve never really thought about book titles this way, so this was a fun new lens to consider my books in. I can’t wait to see what everyone else comes up with!
- The Two Lives of Lydia Bird by Josie Silver – This sounds like some epic ballad from the 80s
- Too Much and Never Enough by Mary L Trump – I could swear that this was an Avril Lavigne power ballad if I didn’t know better
- The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins – This sounds like an old ballad passed down generation to generation
- Mayhem by Estelle Laure – Sounds like a 90s grunge song that I could get behind
- Simmer Down by Sarah Smith – this sounds like a great alternative song by like Hozier
- Pumpkinheads by Rainbow Rowell – this sounds like a bop from the 90s
- You’d Be Mine by Erin Hahn – Definitely a country song from and young and upcoming star
- You Have a Match by Emma Lord – Maybe a song from a hit Broadway play?
- Renegades – Marissa Meyer – This is a song and I love it
- What You Wish For by Katherine Center – This sounds like a Taylor Swift song for sure
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I love the songs you chose and how you meshed them with the books! I especially loved the Katherine Center one. It does totally scream TS. Great post!
Great list!
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You’ve absolutely nailed the song titles! The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes absolutely sounds like it could be a song that is passed down from generation to generation.
Here’s my TTT: https://leahs-books.com/2020/11/10/ttt-book-titles-that-would-make-great-song-titles/
Love these choices! I definitely will probably listen to Pumpkin Heads if it gets turned into a song. ❤️
I almost included A Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes on my list too, but felt it was too obvious a choice. I agree the Katherine Center book sounds like a T. Swift song.
Great list! The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes definitely sounds like it should be an old folk song.
Ooh, I’d love to listen to a ballad about The Two Lives of Lydia Bird.
My post.
I like that you can hear the music in the title. Wasn’t Pumpkin Heads the name of a band? https://pmprescott.blogspot.com/2020/11/ttt-111020.html
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes was basically made to be a song title!
My TTT: https://jjbookblog.wordpress.com/2020/11/10/top-ten-tuesday-289/
Renegades and Simmer Down sound like a couple of songs that I’d love to listen to! Great choices 🙂 Sometimes it’s so hard to think about song titles without hearing the song in your head but I love that you can!
I haven’t read any of these, but “Too Much and Never Enugh” sounds like SUCH a good song title! It is pulling me in as a book title for sure! lol we need Avril to come back on the scene and make that happen
Great list – fun titles. With this list it seems there is less duplication in the various posts – we’re all letting our playful side out! see mine: https://www.bookshelfjourneys.com/post/ttt-song-titles
Ooh, I like Mayhem. What a fun list of titles you have here! Great post.
My post: https://herbookishdesires.wordpress.com/2020/11/10/top-ten-tuesday-book-titles-that-would-make-great-song-titles/
You’d Be Mine! I loved that book and it would so be country! I think she sang that title as a lyric or something, right?
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes was on my list too!! This is such a fun TTT topic, love it
Great list! I would love to hear Pumpkin Heads 🙂
Here’s my post: https://www.nbiblioholic.com/2020/11/ten-book-titles-that-would-make-great.html
These are awesome. Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes for sure! Too Much & Never Enough sounds to me like a James Bond theme song title. 🙂
Too Much and Never Enough as an Avril Lavigne track would take me right back to my teens and the days of Complicated and My Happy Ending!
Here’s my TTT!
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes is such a good one! It practically writes itself.