Top Ten Tuesday is a tag hosted by Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl. This week's prompt is "Books with the Word –– in the Title"!
For this prompt, I went with the word "star". Other words I considered were blade, house, spell, glass, and darkness, but I came up with ten books with "star" in the title first.
These picks are in alphabetical order, and all covers are linked to Goodreads.
1. All the Stars and Teeth, by Adalyn Grace
Genre: YA Fantasy
Release Date: February 2020
This should have been on my list of series I didn't finish. But at least it has a pretty cover! The one thing I did like about it was that it mentioned the main character's period. We need more representation of female bodily functions in books!
2. Enchantress from the Stars, by Sylvia Engdahl
Genre: YA Sci-Fi
Release Date: February 1970
I need to reread this! I read it for school years ago and I remember it being so good.
3. Forging Silver into Stars, by Brigid Kemmerer
Genre: YA Fantasy
Release Date: June 2022
I really enjoyed this. I still need to read the sequel, Carving Shadows into Gold.
4. Starless, by Jacqueline Carey
Genre: Fantasy
Release Date: June 2018
This was probably my favorite book that I read last year. I need to read more by Jacqueline Carey!
5. Swimming in a Sea of Stars, by Julie Wright
Genre: YA Contemporary
Release Date: August 2023
This book is on my paper TBR, so I haven't actually read it yet! The cover is stunning, though.
6. The Fault in Our Stars, by John Green
Genre: YA Contemporary
Release Date: January 2012
It was okay, but not something I'd choose to reread.
7. The Starless Sea
Genre: Fantasy
Release Date: November 2019
I read this while I was doing a work trade at a farm in West Virginia, and I remember looking forward to the end of the day when I could curl up with this and lose myself in its beautiful weirdness.
8. The Stars Did Wander Darkling
Genre: Middle Grade Horror
Release Date: September 2022
This was excellent, and a perfect level of horror for me 😁
9. The Sun is Also a Star
Genre: YA Contemporary
Release Date: November 2016
Wasn't a fan of this book.
10. Under the Same Stars, by Libba Bray
Genre: YA Historical Fiction
Release Date: February 2025
This is the only other book on this list that I haven't read. But I'm excited to!
I hope you enjoy the books on this list you haven’t read yet. Thanks for stopping by earlier.
ReplyDeleteThank you! I'm especially excited to read Libba Bray's new book.
DeleteHey! Thanks for stopping by. The only ones I've read on your list was The Fault In Our Stars, which was revolutionary to 14 year old me! Though I don't think I'd enjoy it so much now. And I also really didn't enjoy The Sun is Also a Star, I tried many years ago and I think I gave up half way through. I can't even remember what it was about!
ReplyDeleteFor some reason I get The Sun is Also a Star and Everything Everything mixed up in my head, maybe because I read them around the same time and didn't enjoy either of them terribly much lol. Thanks for stopping by!
DeleteI love Libba Bray. Is this book, Under the Same Stars, got her signature sense of humor on display? I also loved The Fault in Our Stars. I just read John Green's book Everything is Tuberculosis and thought I need to reread The Fault in Our Stars. My word is WORLD: https://headfullofbooks.blogspot.com/2025/04/ttt-strange-collection-of-books-all.html
ReplyDeleteI loved her Gemma Doyle series. I'm hopeful that Under the Same Stars is written in her signature style–I'll find out when I read it! Did you enjoy Everything is Tuberculosis? I've been seeing it all over Goodreads!
DeleteI see some books I want to read. Thank you. You’re a star. Have a beautiful day.
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I hope you enjoy them when you have time to read them! Hope you're doing well :)
DeleteOf course I read The Fault in our Stars! I also think of To Sleep in a Sea of Stars by Christopher Paolini and The Stars and the Blackness Between Them by Junauda Petrus.
ReplyDeleteWe have one book in common, but with a different prompt :)
My TTT: https://laurieisreading.com/2025/04/29/top-ten-tuesday-books-with-the-word-sun-in-the-title/
Ooh, I haven't read either of those other "star" titles! And it's fun that we both thought of the same book with different prompts!
DeleteThis is one of the words I considered, so glad somebody did it! My word was "wish"!
ReplyDeleteOoh, wish is a good one! I was actually overwhelmed with possibilities for this prompt, so I'm hoping it's an annual one!
DeleteLovely pick for word, I've read a couple of these, have several others on my TBR. Happy reading! My TTT https://readwithstefani.com/books-with-the-word-wind-in-the-title/
ReplyDeleteThank you! I hope you enjoy the ones you haven't read yet when you get around to them!
DeleteI need to get to The Sun is Also A Star! I enjoyed The Starless Sea and love The Fault In Our Stars. Here is my post https://paigesofnovels.wordpress.com/2025/04/29/top-ten-tuesday-books-that-suppressed-me-in-a-good-way/
ReplyDeleteThe Starless Sea was so good! I enjoyed it more than The Night Circus, tbh.
DeleteThe Sun is also a Star has a beautiful cover! Great word choice for today.
ReplyDeleteIt does! And it's one of the two on this list that doesn't have blue on the cover!
DeleteEnchantress from the Stars looks interesting.
ReplyDeleteHere is our Top Ten Tuesday.
It is! I'm thinking of rereading it for the June Fantasy/Sci-Fi Reading Challenge prompt, which is "a book that takes place on another planet".
DeleteOhhh I like star as a word choice! Some great ones here. And I didn't know Libba Bray had a new novel out!!
ReplyDeleteThank you! One of the things I love about reading other people's blogs is that it alerts me to authors I like who have new books out–usually I have no idea lol
DeleteI've read and enjoyed three of these---Sun is Also a Star, Starless Sea, and Fault is in Our Stars!
ReplyDeleteOf those three, The Starless Sea is my favorite! Thanks for stopping by!
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