Top Ten Tuesday: Books with “Night” in the Title

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Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl

This week’s prompt: Books with _____ in the title.

I chose the word “night” for this challenge! And, I sort of played it loose – I included a title even if a word had night in it.

Endless Night by Agatha Christie was one of the first I read when I started reading her books. I still haven’t read them all, there are so many and I tend to hop skip around genres and authors when reading. This book just kept surprising me!

The next two are books I recently added to my TBR, despite their own vintage ages. Gaudy Night by Dorothy Sayers and Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald. I can’t believe I haven’t read Tender is the Night honestly, I went through a whole phase where I was reading his work. I saw both of these on the Goodreads 100 years of beloved books list.

Karen White always writes a good book, in my opinion. The Night the Lights Went Out is one of my favorites.

Half Spent Was the Night by Ami McKay is the second in the Witches of New York series and is set during Yule. I read it in the weird limbo time between Christmas and New Year and it was the perfect read.

Middle of the Night by Riley Sager is still sitting on my TBR. I am not sure when I will read it, as it is about a ten year old boy going missing, and I have a ten year old boy. Not sure I can emotionally handle that!

Nevernight by Jay Kristoff was such a good read!! I read it after my husband told me I needed to read it, and was so drawn into this world. However, the end was not to my liking and so I never read on! **So I have learned that Jay Kristoff is a problematic author, something I was not aware of prior to posting. He has shown racism toward Black people, Jewish people, Asian people, and people with disabilities, and I wanted to add that up here. **

You’re Not Supposed to Die Tonight by Kaylynn Bayron (whom I love) is a YA horror and if you like that sort of thing, I definitely recommend it for “summerween” for some summer camp horror.

Daughter of Smoke and Bone is another series that my husband and I read together. I ;oved this little novellla, Night of Cake and Puppets. This story of Mik and Zuzana was so adorable and I just loved everything about it! I will say I was all in on this series for a while, and even made goulash and lavender honey bread because of it. I reviewed it over on my old blog here.

Lucy Foley’s The Midnight Feast was one of my favorite reads last year! I just loved the whole concept and idea of it, and the surprises involved!

And I feel like I flew through this post this time!

I am excited to see what everyone else picked as their word!

63 thoughts on “Top Ten Tuesday: Books with “Night” in the Title”

  10. I haven’t read any of these books, but Tender is the Night is on my list as I’m also doing a classics challenge. The only book that came to mind for me with night in the title is The Midnight Library by Matt Haig. I’ve seen a lot of people dislike it, but personally I loved it!

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  12. I’ve heard of Riley’s books and seem to see lots of high praise for those books. But I haven’t read any. Agatha Christie books continue to interest me… and I continue to ignore them. 😉 Thanks so much for visiting my list!

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  22. Rachel @Waves of Fiction's avatar Rachel @Waves of Fiction

    I almost chose night for my word! I have an Agatha Christie on my list too. I’ve enjoyed Lucy Foley so I need to look this one up, especially if it was a favorite! Great list, Erin!

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  23. RAIN CITY READS's avatar RAIN CITY READS

    I love your choice of word – wish I’d thought of it! I also love your decision to include any word with “night” in it, as that really opens up the possibilities! You’ve got a great range of books as well, starting with some older ones right up into YA series! I have to admit I’m amazed I haven’t read any of your picks!

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  31. I have The Midnight Feast on my TBR, maybe I need to move it up.

    And most people don’t realize this, but Jay Kristoff is a hugely problematic author who has displayed a shocking range of racism towards Black people, Jewish people, Asian people, and people with disabilities.

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      1. No problem – a lot of people don’t realize, so I try to share about it. He’s supposedly made some changes to Nevernight (like not using the Jewish name for our God as a CHARACTER name) but I’m pretty sure it still includes Jewish-coded dogwhistles, and a major part of the story was the siblings with albinism, and according to readers with albinism, it is horribly ableist.

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      3. That means so much to me! You’d be surprised how many people just conveniently shove that under the rug. I think we’ve all read books by problematic authors without knowing until afterwards, but it is so much more powerful to add a note instead of deleting it.

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