43. A book whose title has ten or fewer letters

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

In honor of the 10th month in our 10th year of ATY, this week, we are reading a book whose title is 10 or fewer letters!

Use these lists at your own discretion - they are mostly for "short" titles, which may or may not be longer than 10 letters!
Shortest Titles Ever Listopia: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...
Books with One Word Titles: https://musewithmeblog.com/2023/07/18...
Popular One Word Title Books: https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...
100 Must Read Books with One Word Titles: https://bookriot.com/must-read-one-wo...

ATY Listopia: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...

What did you read for this prompt?

[LeahS]

Planning The Trees and Nutshell - and actually read them!

I thought the first one was very good, with a contrast between the light tone and the horrible realisations. The list included towards the end was a real shocker.

The second was fun, but best read if you are familiar with Hamlet.

[Charlsa]

Planning on The Fox Wife by Yangsze Choo.

[LeahS]

I really enjoyed The Fox Wife - hope you do too.

[Marie]

Continuing a favourite series - Game On by Janet Evanovich

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

I just finished The Fox Wife last week. It was excellent! And you get bonus points for a three word title that is still 10 letters or less lol.

[dalex]

I have a few titles that will work but for now I’m planning on In the Quick by Kate Hope Day. It doesn’t get much love on the internet but a friend raves about it so I’m going to give it a go (probably).

[Kathy]

These three look good to me:
Lucky Jim - Kingsley Amis
Ruth - Elizabeth Gaskell
Spring - Ali Smith

[NancyJ]

Kathy I will be reading Spring this spring too. I always like her books, but they are sometimes hard to get into right away.

I’ll probably end up using the shortest title that doesn’t fit elsewhere. Too choices atm:
Pod
Moo
Betty
Spring




I reread Binti this year and I highly recommend this sci-fi novella.

[Misty]

I have no idea what I am going to read - yet, but as always, I have suggestions! :) :) :)

It, Fairy Tale, Holly, The Stand, Duma Key, 11/22/63, Joyland, by Stephen King
Panic by Jeff Abbott
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
Abigail by Magda Szabo
Sick Puppy by Carl Hiaasen
Passing by Nella Larsen
Sphere by Michael Crichton
Inferno, and Origin by Dan Brown
Human Acts by Han Kang
Refugee by Alan Gratz
The Ruin by Dervla McTiernan
Incendiary by Zoraida Cordova
Skyward, Starsight, Sunreach, ReDawn, Cytonic, Evershore, and Defiant by Brandon Sanderson
Becoming by Michelle Obama
Afterlife by Julia Alvarez
Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao
The Guncle by Steven Rowley
Glory by NoViolet Bulawayo
Finding Me by Viola Davis
The Widow, Missing, Blink, Liar by K. L. Slater
Fourth Wing and Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros
Bloom by Delilah S. Dawson

[Dixie]

I have lots of books that would work for this, but I'm planning on reading Assembly and Martyr!.

[Pam]

I have som any to choose from but I'd like to read one that I bought in 2024. 2 choices are Violeta and Abigail.

[Denise]

I am leaning towards:
Still Alice
Blank
Meg and Jo

[John]

Any of these work for me"
-Annie Bot by Sierra Greer
-Fatherland or V2: A Novel of World War II by Robert Harris
-Weyward by Emilia Hart
-Seveneves by Neal Stephenson

[Joy D]

For this prompt, I read:
The Box by Mandy-Suzanne Wong - 3.5* - My Review

[Severina]

I read Necronado by RJ Roles -- this zombie-tornado book is not recommended. LOL

[Samantha]

I read James, very enjoyable.

Severina - Zombie -tornado sounds exciting though..

[J]

I read Dark Matter for this prompt. It would work for a lot of weeks, and was very good.

[Barbara]

I read The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo.

[Kathy]

I read Trilby by George du Maurier, published in 1894.

[Tracy]

Emily wrote: "I just finished The Fox Wife last week. It was excellent! And you get bonus points for a three word title that is still 10 letters or less lol."

I'm glad to hear you like The Fox Wife Emily! I'll be reading it soon for one of my IRL book groups.

[Tracy]

I read this novella from 1968 (my word, I don't know if it was characterized that way at the time). It was a quirky sci-fi-ish book. I didn't realize how old it was when I started, but the tone of the book stood out, so I looked it up. I ended up really liking it.

Chocky by John Wyndham

[Robin H-R]

I read:
Hungry: The Inspiring Tale of Three Donner Party Survivors by B.E. Baker

REJECT: A book that focuses on a journey

Finished: 06/16/2025
Rating: 5 stars

A fictional version of the journey of the Donner Party, told from the POVs of three women survivors. Excellent!

[Denise]

I read James Percival Everett

[Sherri]

I read My Friends

[Phil]

I read Revival by Stephen King for this topic (read August 3rd;4*)