Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together.
Oh, this was such a fun prompt! I’m playing loose with the genre here, mostly because mystery, thriller, and crime novels blur the lines for me. All of the covers link to the Goodreads pages of the books if you’re interested in checking any out.
Secret
Missing
Woman
Killing
Gone
Good
Neighbor
Perfect
Lie
Girl
Those are my picks! Most of them come from my shelves or are ones I’ve seen floating around the blogosphere. Which ones are familiar to you?
Feel free to link your posts this week – I’d love to see all your picks. Check out That Artsy Reader Girl’s host post for even more inspiration!
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The Traveling Inkwell 
This was fascinating, thank you for sharing! I love thrillers myself. I love to listen to them as audiobooks in the car – do you have a favorite you think would make excellent driving material?
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I’m so glad you enjoyed this list! I’m actually not a big audiobook listener (something I hope to change!), so I can’t vouch for the quality of any of these as audiobooks, but some of my favorite thrillers I’ve read recently have been the UNSUB series by Meg Gardiner, the Stillhouse Lake series by Rachel Caine, The Echo Killing by Christi Daugherty, and the Rockton series by Kelley Armstrong.
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Great picks! I would have picked the same ones, especially girl, woman, and neighbour!
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Thanks, Zuky! It’s ridiculous how many similar titles, especially with “girl”, are out there!
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Reblogged this on Angie Dokos.
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Thanks, Angie!
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You’re welcome.
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Yup, totally agree!! I would have picked several of these words too!
https://booksarethenewblackblog.wordpress.com/2018/04/24/top-10-tuesday-favorite-words/
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Hah, it was hilarious how overused some of these words are in titles!!
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Girl is definitely a popular choice this week. Reading predominantly fantasy the words I noted all tended to be a bit ‘grim’ – dark, blood, graves, death, wolves, etc.
Lynn 😀
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I’ve definitely seen a lot of those in the fantasy genre! I really do love how each genre has its own ‘trend’ with title words!
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This was such an awesome theme that you went with! The list was so fun to go through, I definitely expected to see words such as ‘lies’ and ‘neighbor’ but not ‘perfect’ or ‘good’ so that was a surprise! Lovely post 🙂
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Thanks, Taylor! It’s so funny, isn’t it, since most of the “good” and “perfect” characters have nothing “good” or “perfect” about them, especially in thrillers!
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It’s interesting that “good” is used so often in these types of books, especially since it’s usually meant ironically 🙂
Happy TTT!
Susan
http://www.blogginboutbooks.com
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I thought that was so amusing, too! Thanks, Susan, happy TTT and reading to you, too!
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I have to assume they put “good” and “perfect” in the titles just so the reader can then immediately know that nothing in the thriller will be good, or perfect! lol
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I mean, that’s how I interpret it at this point! Haha 😀
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I haven’t seen anyone else do a thriller one! Clearly neighbors are not to be trusted.
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I had so much fun throwing this list together, hah, if there’s anything that thrillers have taught me, it’s definitely don’t trust the person next door!
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Great picks! I like secret, and ooh gone is a good one as well. Wouldn’t have thought of that! Lie is another great one. I’ve been reading a lot of thrillers so I guess I gravitate towards those titles lol.
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Thanks, Greg! I’ve definitely noticed I tend to gravitate towards certain titles in the genre, too. Titles with “lies” and “secrets” always catch my eye!
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I love the way you presented this! I was stumped on how to answer this top ten! lol I love thrillers and this made me laugh! Awesome post.
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So glad to hear, Dana! I’ve really enjoyed looking at everyone’s posts for other genres because I would be so stumped for anything other than thrillers!
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These are great titles! I have many of them on my tbr. It’s interesting seeing all of them linked together like this. Good job. 😊
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It was a blast stacking them up next to one another and realizing how similar titles in a genre can be. Thanks so much, Laurie!
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