You'll love this one...!! A book club & more discussion

So, I was thinking about some of my reads and how the same words are used so frequently in book titles. For example, I find that "girl," "wife," and "daughter" are used really often. They are the first "popular" words in titles that I think of. What are some words that you see all the time?

As I was typing this I thought of "dark" and "river" as well. I think the words you find most commonly will relate to the type of stories you frequently read.

girl is in sooo many titles!

Yes! I just did a quick search for "girl" in my books and there were 124 hits. 10 of those were the series name or subtitle and 3 were imbedded, but that's still over 100 just on my shelves.

“House” is another one for me. I have almost 140 titles with house in the title either straight up, embedded or in a series title.

"You" is popular too. I have 100+ books with you or your in the title.

"Death" is a very popular word in my crime collection, followed by "dead" and "murder".

Oh, that is a lot, Roz!

I didn't think of "you," Jayme. There are a lot of those, but they don't jump out at me for some reason. I love how we notice different ones.

Kabrada - Those are definitely popular with the mystery/thriller books. Exactly what I was referring to with your popular words depending on your preferred genre. I'm sure people who read mostly romance or historical fiction, etc would have less of those. I have quite a few on my shelf though. I enjoy those types of reads.

Kabrada wrote: ""Death" is a very popular word in my crime collection, followed by "dead" and "murder"."

Mine too. I love my cozy mysteries!

"mystery" for me. And I have a bunch of "family", funnily most of them are thriller

Murder and Bone for me.

Another one that I'm a sucker for is any for of "book".

Oh yes, another good one.

Night seems to be very common for me, but I do not know why.
I have 120 titles between my Read and Want to Read books.

I have a lot (92) of those too Cherie. That doesn’t count titles with “night” in a subtitle or combined into midnight pre something like that.
My, look at this list of words….Murder, night, mystery, bone, death, dead, all taking place in a house to a girl, daughter or wife. The things we read!

Haha, yes, Roz. A bitt creepy if you put them together.

I was thinking "river" might be popular too, but I only have 15, not imbedded, etc.

I found that I have a lot of books with death/dead/dies, murder and mystery in the title.

Seems you have a genre, Fiona! lol

Margo wrote: "Another one that I'm a sucker for is any for of "book"."

Me too! If "book" is in the title I usually don't even read the synopsis; I just add it to the tbr.