Top Ten Tuesday – Forgotten Backlist Titles That Deserve More Love
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 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. Top Ten Tuesday has been one of my favorite memes ever since I started blogging, so huge thanks to Jana for taking over the hosting duties!
This week’s TTT topic is Forgotten Backlist Titles (Spread love for books that people don’t talk about much anymore!). I decided to approach this topic by looking back through the earliest days of my blog and see what books I used to write about all the time. The ten I chose to feature today are ten that I absolutely loved but just rarely ever think about or talk about anymore. They’re definitely worth a read if you have them sitting on your TBR. 🙂 You’ll also see a lot of YA books featured since YA was a huge part of my reading and blogging experience when I first started out and honestly up until the last year or two when I migrated almost exclusively to romance and adult books.
Ten Forgotten Backlist Titles That Deserve More Love
THE LUNAR CHRONICLES by Marissa Meyer
WORDS IN DEEP BLUE by Cath Crowley
SHADES OF MAGIC TRILOGY by V.E. Schwab
STALKING JACK THE RIPPER by Kerri Maniscalco
WHEN DIMPLE MET RISHI by Sandhya Menon
JELLICOE ROAD by Melina Marchetta
THE BEAR AND THE NIGHTINGALE by Katherine Arden
LETTERS TO THE LOST by Brigid Kemmerer
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I still need to read When Dimple Met Rishi.
Words in Deep Blue is one I would recommend to all. It was perfection. I wish Cowley would write another book. Dimple, Fangirl, and Letters were great too. Jellicoe was such a mind trip, but when it all came together, brilliant.
Fun list! I love seeing Cinder and A Deeper Shade of Magic on here, I LOVED those too😁
I still have my copies of The Lunar Chronicles and I really love the series!
I really liked When Dimple Met Rishi when I listened to it a few years ago! Also recall really liking Fangirl, though it’s been a good while since I read that one!
Omg, how on earth could I forget Words in Deep Blue!? That’s one of my favourites and definitely not a title that I see mentioned a lot, if ever. Such an underrated backlist! 😍 I also loved Cinder and I’m currently re-reading the Shades of Magic series and I’m happy to say that I’m enjoying it on my first re-read. Great list 🙂
I adored Letter to the Lost and Stalking Jack the Ripper!
I loved A Darker Shade of Magic! Such a fun fantasy book with all those different worlds. Great list. 😀
Words in Deep Blue was so good!
It’s funny to look back and see what we were talking about in the early days of blogging! I remember Fangirl was huge and I really liked it.
I still want to read Cinder. I LOVED LOVED The Bear and the Nightingale and also A Darker Shade of Magic
While I haven’t read any of these books, I have heard of several in the past few years.
Pam @ Read! Bake! Create!
https://readbakecreate.com/summer-2023-additions-to-my-tbr/
Letters to the Lost is still on my TBR, and I should probably prioritize it — I’m so bummed to see that my home county library has already weeded it entirely, and the other one I’m registered in has only one copy left. It really looks incredible, I’ve only been holding out because I go through regular bouts of wanting strong male friendship in a YA novel, and this is the only one I have in my back pocket so if I burn through it now, I’ll be up a creek when I specifically want that.
tl;dr I definitely wish it was still talked about as much as it once was.
I’ve read about half of these. I loved The Lunar Chronicles when I read it. It’s a great series, but it’s definitely not talked about as much as it used to be. WORDS IN DEEP BLUE is one that’s still on my TBR list that I still really want to read. Just haven’t gotten around to it yet. One of these days!
Happy TTT (on a Wednesday)!
Susan
http://www.blogginboutbooks.com
Fangirl is the only one of these that I’ve actually read. But I remember seeing all of these on blogs and Booktube when they were released. Happy reading. My TTT https://readwithstefani.com/book-with-one-word-titles/
A Darker Shade of Magic is one of my absolute favourite books, and I’m so excited for The Fragile Threads of Power to come out next month! I really enjoyed Stalking Jack The Ripper but found that the rest of the series didn’t really live up. I really hated The Bear and The Nightingale, I know a lot of people really love it, but it just didn’t work very well for me. I read the first two Lunar Chronicles books, but again, I don’t really think they were for me because I just didn’t feel the urge to continue with the other two.
Nice list! I’ve read both When Dimple Met Rishi and Fangirl, but it’s been a long time.
I enjoyed Letters in Deep Blue and Dimple too. I absolutely loved Jellicoe Road! Great list here!
I recently re-read A Darker Shade of Magic and it definitely revived my love for this series! I also used to love Cinder, Fangirl and Letters to the Lost, so maybe I need to do a re-read there as well 🙂