05 A book with a number in the title

[Evelyn]

This should be a fun one. The two that jumped to mind for me were Life of Pi and The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins, but I know there are oodles of options out there.
Share your recommendations!

[Evelyn]

Just for fun I went through my reading list for the past few years and found a bunch of books that qualify for this prompt:
A Thousand Beginnings and Endings
The Three-Body Problem
The Fifth Season
Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets
A Biography of Maria Gaetana Agnesi, an Eighteenth-Century Woman Mathematician: With Translations of Some of Her Work from Italian Into English
13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl
The Discovery of Musical Equal Temperament in China and Europe in the Sixteenth Century
11/22/63
Forty Stories
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[Amie]

The 57 Bus

[Jessie]

There's a goodreads list for this! And if we find more, we can add them to the list.

Some middle grade and YA suggestions:
The Last 8 and the upcoming sequel The First 7
Odd One Out
You in Five Acts
My Seventh Grade Life in Tights
Three Dark Crowns (and its sequels)
A Thousand Nights
The Hundredth Queen
Six of Crows
Seven-Day Magic

Some adult suggestions:
Two Dark Moons
Six Good Innings
Seven Years Among Dragons

[Sam]

A few I've enjoyed:

1Q84
1984
The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared

[Christian]

here's a suggestion that also allows you to catch up on some classics too: Shakespeare's Henry the 5th or Richard the 3rd (there's several others).

[Colin]

With the passing of Alasdair Gray, my attention was drawn to 1982, Janine, but my partner ooosthed and said "hard work".

Instead, I think Slaughterhouse-Five is more my pace, and The 39 Steps comes recommended as an easy romp.

[Evelyn]

So many great suggestions! I happened to pick Mary Oliver's Twelve Moons off my shelf before bed last night and started reading it. It will either be my last book read in 2019 or first in 2020, and a good one for this prompt.

[Colin]

I went for The 39 Steps. I prefer my thrillers’ ughs to be plot-related rather than down to casual racism. It’s a quick read, but not one I’d recommend.

[Michelle]

Am I correct in thinking the topic doesn't have to be related to math, it just has to have a number in the title.

[Evelyn]

Yes, that's how I'm interpreting it! But you're welcome to choose a math book with a number in the title.

[Svenja]

Some that I just read this past year: The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle; Four Dead Queens; First Grave on the Right and others in this series

[Evelyn]

Adding The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle to my tbr list because of the title alone! :)

[Ron]

I'm going with: The 4% Universe, a book on Dark Matter and Dark Energy by Richard Panek.