02 - A book with "20" or "twenty" in the title

[Sara]

Who's up for more hunting? What books can you find that have 20 in the title?

Listopia link: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...

[Sarah]

20th Century Ghosts has been on my list for ages!

[Jenn]

I really enjoyed Twenties Girl by Sophie Kinsella if romcoms are your thing!

There’s also Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne, or if we can count any book with a 20s number there is 11/22/63 by Stephen King.

[Suzanne]

I had this cookbook/memoir on my TBR shelf so I'm going with it.

Make the Bread, Buy the Butter: What You Should and Shouldn't Cook from Scratch -- Over 120 Recipes for the Best Homemade Foods

[Melody]

Last year I read The Twenty Days of Turin for an author who is a musician and it was really excellent. A dystopian thriller about a library that functions like social media, written over a decade before the invention of the internet.

Or if you prefer non-fiction, I also recommend Democracy Now!: Twenty Years Covering the Movements Changing America.

[Sarah]

I guess I'm going to have to read The Three Musketeers next year so I can read the sequel, Twenty Years After

[Linda]

I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After Twenty Years Away by Bill Bryson

[Nicole]

Girl, 20
The Twenty-One Balloons
Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights
Women Heroes of the American Revolution: 20 Stories of Espionage, Sabotage, Defiance, and Rescue

[EllenZReads]

A Map Is Only One Story: Twenty Writers on Immigration, Family, and the Meaning of Home

[Deborah]

For some fun fluffy reads, Janet Evanovich has the Stephanie Plum series - the latest is Twisted Twenty-Six and all the titles from 20-26 have "twenty" in the book name.

[Chrissi]

Catch-22 perhaps

[Nancy]

Sarah wrote: "20th Century Ghosts has been on my list for ages!"

Mine too!

[Rachel]

Jenn wrote: "I really enjoyed Twenties Girl by Sophie Kinsella if romcoms are your thing!

There’s also Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne, or if we can count any book with a 20s number there ..."

Seconding the recommendation of Twenties Girl, I think it's my favourite Sophie Kinsella book.

[Rachel]

I've found a sneaky way to include a lot more books here. In Italian, which is my second language, the word for "twenty" is the same as the word for "winds": venti. This means I have plenty of options (and less of an excuse for not reading in Italian!)

I'm curious... does this work in any other languages?

[Johanne]

Good one Rachel! In Danish the word for 'twenty' is 'tyve' which is... the same word as 'thieves'! Thank you :)

[K.L.]

James Patterson's newest Women's Murder Club novel, The 20th Victim, is supposed to be released in May.

[Alexa]

I'll be reading The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter--And How to Make the Most of Them Now!

[Sarah]

I'm torn on how I want to interpret this prompt. Theoretically- if you wrote out the words for any titles with numbers in the 20's range, they would all have twenty in them, but that's not how they are written.

E.G. 2312 could be written, Twenty-three twelve.

But no one would really write it that way.

[Lindsay]

Revolution Twenty20 is perfect for this.

[Ellie]

I have 2084 and Metro 2033 on my TBR (and if I include subtitles Rife: Twenty-One Stories from Britain's Youth).

[Alisia]

I guess it's time I finally read 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne.

[Nadine in NY]

I keep trying to quit the Stephanie Plum series (because they are just not very engaging any more, but they can still be fun at times), and something keeps dragging me back in ;-) This time it’s this challenge. The only “twenty” titles I can really see myself reading are these. I’ve received a few as gifts so I’ll just rustle around and see what I’ve got. Possibly:
Top Secret Twenty-One
Tricky Twenty-Two
Turbo Twenty-Three

I think I added all of the relevant Evanovich books to the Listopia.

[Heather L]

For mystery buffs: Twenty Blue Devils by Aaron Elkins (note: this is book 9 of a series, for those who prefer to read series in order)..

For nonfiction sports fans: My Life with the Green and Gold: Tales from 20 Years of Sportscasting by Jessie Garcia. This would also fit the “gold/silver/bronze” category or “book by a journalist.”

[VanesGirl]

Would this book count ?

Dollface: A Novel of the Roaring Twenties

[Ann]

Haw about 420 by Kenya Wright?

[dalex]

I saw this in a catalog of recent publications - Twenty-One Truths About Love by Matthew Dicks. It sounds intriguing and I enjoyed Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend by the same author.

[Pam]

I have 2 choices from my bookshelves:
The Twenty-Year Death by Ariel S. Winter
Nebula Awards Showcase 2002 edited by Kim Stanley Robinson (Also an anthology option)

A library option is Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas - a 788 page sequel to The Three Musketeers. Not likely since I haven't read The Three Musketeers but I could watch the movie and call it good.

[Kels]

If I can make myself wait until next year, Twisted Twenty-Six (Stephanie Plum series) by Janet Evanovich just came out this month!

[SibylM]

Twenty Days with Julian and Little Bunny by Papa by Nathaniel Hawthorne -- very short, sweet, and funny little book that not many people have read.

[Rachel]

The Twenty-Three by Linwood Barclay

[Clare]

(this is obviously very niche but still...) if anyone here is a teacher: I'm reading Unshakeable: 20 Ways to Enjoy Teaching Every Day...No Matter What

[Jackie]

If you would like a nonfiction book:

20/20: A Total Guide To Improving Your Vision And Preventing Eye Disease

[Cheryl]

From my library search:

Twenty Wishes by Debbie Macomber
Four and Twenty Blackbirds by Cherie Priest
Twenty Teachers by Ken Macroie
Treasure at Twenty Fathoms by Leonard Wibberley

I know nothing about any of them. :)

[Nadine in NY]

The Cherie Priest book was good. It’s a weird sort of paranormal with zombies rising from the riverbanks in Tennessee, with a gritty take-no-nonsense protagonist. Or maybe the zombies were on a civil war battlefield, or maybe they were ghosts, it’s been a while since I read it! But it was good.

[Darci]

Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages has been on my TBR for awhile.

[Suzie]

On my shelves I've got What Matters in Jane Austen?: Twenty Crucial Puzzles Solved and The Actual One: How I tried, and failed, to remain twenty-something for ever which would fit this challenge

[Jen W.]

I can't speak to the quality of any of them, but there seem to be a whole bunch of books with some variation of the game Twenty Questions in the title.

[Rachel]

I don't know why, but I keep struggling to see titles with words for numbers in the 20s spelled out as containing 20. I think I just process it as one whole number, so without it being exactly 20, it doesn't seem to fit to me.

[Karin]

Rachel wrote: "I don't know why, but I keep struggling to see titles with words for numbers in the 20s spelled out as containing 20. I think I just process it as one whole number, so without it being exactly 20, ..."

You might pick some where the digits in the title are spelled, such as Top Secret Twenty-One and Tricky Twenty-Two (I haven't read these,but they came to mind because I read some this year for a series challenge, mostly very earl in the series).

[Rachel]

Karin wrote: "Rachel wrote: "I don't know why, but I keep struggling to see titles with words for numbers in the 20s spelled out as containing 20. I think I just process it as one whole number, so without it bei..."

Even in that case, even though I can clearly see that it contains twenty, my brain takes it is "twenty-one" or "twenty-two" as a whole number, so it feels weird to count it. Such a weird mental block, lol!

[Drakeryn]

Sarah wrote: "I'm torn on how I want to interpret this prompt. Theoretically- if you wrote out the words for any titles with numbers in the 20's range, they would all have twenty in them, but that's not how they are written.

E.G. 2312 could be written, Twenty-three twelve.

But no one would really write it that way."

Yeah, I was wondering that too. But you definitely pronounce it as "twenty-three twelve" (because it's a year), so maybe it counts?

(I wouldn't count, say "The King's 2312 Horses" because that is clearly two thousand three hundred and twelve.)

[Sarah]

Rachel wrote: "I don't know why, but I keep struggling to see titles with words for numbers in the 20s spelled out as containing 20. I think I just process it as one whole number, so without it being exactly 20, ..."

I'm the same. I am only counting exactly twenty in the title, whether it is in digits or written out

[SadieReadsAgain]

Bit of a random one, but I've had Scottish Women's Fiction, 1920s to 1960s: Journey into Being on my shelf for years, so this is a good excuse to get it off my TBR.

[Karin]

Rachel wrote: "Karin wrote: "Rachel wrote: "I don't know why, but I keep struggling to see titles with words for numbers in the 20s spelled out as containing 20. I think I just process it as one whole number, so ..."

Okay, I understand, but of course you know it's technically correct. I have weird mental blocks like this at times, but in this instance I can clearly see that it's "in" the title if it is spelled out in words--not if it is in digits--and can think of it as Four and Twenty which is how people used to say it and still do in German :). We're all rather different!

[Rachel]

Karin wrote: "Rachel wrote: "Karin wrote: "Rachel wrote: "I don't know why, but I keep struggling to see titles with words for numbers in the 20s spelled out as containing 20. I think I just process it as one wh..."

Of course, and I'm definitely not trying to judge anyone for their choices! If anything, it would be so much easier on me if I didn't have this random mental block about it, lol.

[Bex]

Metro 2033 has been on my TBR for so long, yiss!!

[Audrey Kellar]

It's a bit of a stretch, but I'm planning on reading Theft by Finding: Diaries 1977-2002. It's been on my TBR for way too long, and it has a 20 in it! That's good enough for me!

[Katie]

I haven't read it, but for YA fans: Twenty Boy Summer.

[Lindsey]

Sarah wrote: "I'm torn on how I want to interpret this prompt. Theoretically- if you wrote out the words for any titles with numbers in the 20's range, they would all have twenty in them, but that's not how they..."

I'm struggling with this as well. So, I came to a compromise with myself. I won't count Theft by Finding: Diaries from 1977-2002 (though it's cool if someone else does and interprets it this way!) but I will count 21 Lessons for the 21st Century because if you say it out loud, you say the word "twenty."

Who knows if that's "right" but I'm a rule follower and I can sleep at night with that, lol.

[Zoe]

Lindsey wrote: "Sarah wrote: "I'm torn on how I want to interpret this prompt. Theoretically- if you wrote out the words for any titles with numbers in the 20's range, they would all have twenty in them, but that'..."

I'm using a similar thought process to finally read Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore