Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, featuring a different top 10 theme each week. This week’s topic is The First 10 Books I Randomly Grabbed from My Shelf, with the prompt:
Stand in front of your book collection, close your eyes, point to a title, and write it down. If you have shelves, point to your physical books. If you have a digital library, use a random number generator and write down the title of the book that corresponds with the number you generated. You get bonus points if you tell us whether or not you’ve read the book, and what you thought of it if you did!
I do have lots and lots of books on my physical shelves… but I also know exactly where each book is, so I don’t think closing my eyes and pointing will help me be particularly random! So, I’m going with the virtual option. I have a spreadsheet (Excel nerd alert!) with all the books in my Kindle library, and I used a random number generator to help me pick books.
Here are the ten books that I landed on:
The Sky Vault (The Comet Cycle, #3) by Benjamin Percy
Read? No
Thoughts: The first two books in this trilogy were great… but I think by the time I got a copy of the 3rd, my interest had waned. I do still want to read this (eventually).
The Book of Hidden Things by Francesco Dimitri
Read? No
Thoughts: Honestly, I’d completely forgotten about this book! I picked up a copy over five years ago, after seeing positive reviews. Now that I’ve been reminded of it, I may still want to read it!
The Baker’s Secret by Stephen P. Kiernan
Read? No
Thoughts: I’ve read two other books by this author, and thought they were great. This is yet another “someday, maybe” book.
Feed (Newsflesh, #1) by Mira Grant
Read? YES!
Thoughts: I loved it! This series is amazing… I’d love to reread it at some point. (Check out my review of the trilogy, here)
Kilmeny of the Orchard by L. M. Montgomery
Read? Yes
Thoughts: Not the best of this author’s works (by a long shot!), but for those who want to explore beyond Anne and Emily, it’s an interesting stand-alone to check out. (review)
And Put Away Childish Things by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Read? No
Thoughts: I absolutely want to read this novella! Funnily enough, I’ve only read novellas by this author (although I have a few of his novels on my TBR too). The ones I’ve read have been excellent, so I look forward to checking this out.
The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan
Read? No
Thoughts: I think I grabbed a copy when there was a Kindle price break… but given that I’m not much of a non-fiction reader, I doubt I’ll ever get to this book (even though I’ve heard great things about it).
Razorblade Tears by S. A. Cosby
Read? No
Thoughts: Another one I’d forgotten! I remember hearing good things about it, so this is a helpful reminder that I should give it a try.
The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage by Philip Pullman
Read? Yes
Thoughts: Now that the 3rd book is out, this trilogy has been on my mind. I’m leaning toward reading #3 (The Rose Field), but I’ll need a major refresher on the previous book first. (Here’s my review of La Belle Sauvage)
Crazy Rich Asians trilogy by Kevin Kwan
Read? 1 of 3 books
Thoughts: This last item that came up randomly for me is a 3-in-1 edition of the Crazy Rich Asians books. I read the first book earlier this year (review), and I do want to read the rest!
Have you read any of my books? Any that you’d particularly recommend?
I’d love to see other people’s random book selections! If you wrote a TTT post, please share your link!
Bookshelf Fantasies 
Nice picks. I just put my books on the couch and picked that way. Here is my TTT. Click here for my TTT.
Books on the couch sounds like a great method! 🙂
I read Feed years ago! I love Mira Grant!
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Mira Grant is amazing! I didn’t finish her Parasite series, but otherwise, I’ve loved all her books!
I’ve not heard of a lot of these but such a great variety of books! 🙂
Here’s my TTT – https://justreadjessie.blog/2025/11/04/top-ten-tuesday-the-first-10-books-i-randomly-grabbed-from-my-shelves/
Thanks! It was fun to play with random picking!
The Book Of Hidden Things and The Baker’s Secret both look good to me.
Here’s a link to my TTT post
They do both look good! I’ll see if I can get to them in the coming year!
I hope you enjoy reading the books from this list that you haven’t read yet.
Pam @ Read! Bake! Create!https://readbakecreate.com/ten-books-i-own-randomly-selected-bygoodreads/
Thank you!
I loved Feed, too. And I liked Razorblade Tears. The author does a great job with his characters, I just found the story itself a little dark and a little sad. But still good. Haven’t read any of the rest but they look like fun books. 😀
Every time I see Feed pop up, I want to reread it! I haven’t yet… but it’s so tempting.
This is a book for maybe someday is SO relatable.
My TTT: https://laurieisreading.com/2025/11/04/top-ten-tuesday-tbr-roulette-round-2/
Ha, I feel like I say that about WAY too many books
I liked Feed too, though it wasn’t what I expected from a zombie story. I read it during Covid times, which probably wasn’t a good idea, lol.
And I highly recommend Book of Hidden Things. Loved the prose.
Great to know about Book of Hidden Things! And yeah, I can see why Feed might not be the best to read during a pandemic 🙂
I’ve read Razorblade Tears, and I had mixed feelings about it. Feed is still on my TBR!
I think you would really like Feed! It’s weird and different… and I fell in love with the characters 🙂
Great selection! I’ve been meaning to read Feed for years now.
It’s so good… and you won’t want to stop until you read the whole trilogy!
I loved Razorblade Tears and the Crazy Rich Asians trilogy!
That’s great to hear! I’ll probably read the next Crazy Rich Asians book in the coming months, and we’ll see about Razorblade Tears
I should have used a random number generator as I also know my shelves too well for an exercise like this to be TRULY random. Oh well, I had fun with it anyway. I haven’t read any of these books, although I am curious about some of them.
Happy TTT (on a Wednesday)!
Susan
http://www.blogginboutbooks.com
This really was a fun topic! Thanks for stopping by!