We’re back with another Top Ten Tuesday, a weekly meme hosted by Jana @ That Artsy Reader Girl.
This week’s topic is a: Book Titles Featuring Ordinal Numbers (Ordinal numbers are numbers that define an item’s place in a series. For example: first, second, third, fourth, tenth, fourteenth, thirty-third, one hundredth, etc.) (submitted by Joanne @ Portobello Book Blog)
I liked today’s topic—it was fun without being too difficult and I don’t recall having done this topic before. I think one of my reading challenges last year (or the year before) did have this as a prompt but I can’t remember which or what I read for it! 🤭 I wanted to see if I could find books that hit all numbers from 1-10 but I don’t know if I’ll be able to do that. If not, I’ll continue going up the scale until I get ten titles. All but three are from my TBR (the ones I’ve read are marked with the ♡). Let’s see how it goes!
At First Spite by Olivia Dade
That Second Chance by Meghan Quinn ♡
The Third Daughter by Adrienne Tooley ♡
Grief in the Fourth Dimension by Jennifer Yu
The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
The Seventh Veil of Salome by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
The Tenth Circle by Jodi Picoult ♡
Twelfth Knight by Alexene Farol Follmuth
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
I clearly ran into trouble with sixth, eighth and eleventh but I’m kind of surprised that I managed to find so many options from my shelves for books featuring ordinal numbers! Have you read any of these or are they on your TBR?
dinipandareads 
The Fifth Season was also on my list!
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Oh, I like how you did this Dini organized by ascending numbers is very satisfying! 🙂 I want to read The Fifth Season, The Thirteenth Tale , and Gideon The Ninth. Twelfth Knight sounds fun too, reminds me of that Disney Channel movie, Avalon High. lol.Here’s my TTT.
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You did really well! Twelfth Knight is on my TBR list, and I may read At First Spite and The Thirteenth Tale at some point as well.
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The Thirteenth Tale has been on that vague ‘someday’ TBR of mine forever!
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We have 2 in common this week 🙂
My TTT: https://laurieisreading.com/2026/03/10/top-ten-tuesday-books-with-ordinal-numbers-in-the-title/
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GREAT JOB!! You even did it in order. This reminds me that I need to continue Fifth Season! Every year, I tell myself that I’ll read, Gideon the Ninth. I never do and I MUST this year!! haha.
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I think ordinal numbers is part of the Buzzwords challenge from Books and Lala for this year. But I could be wrong. LOL! Great job!
Here’s my TTT for the week: https://readbakecreate.com/first-or-last-book-titles/
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