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 a freebie — we choose whatever topic appeals to us! I enjoy finding patterns among my book titles — and I also enjoy having simpler TTT topics during weeks I know will be especially busy — so this week, I’ve chosen books with the word SECRET in their titles. There are a lot of them!
I’m focusing on books on my physical and virtual bookshelves. Some of these are books I’ve read, and some are from my TBR… and there are plenty of others I haven’t included, mainly because I’m trying to keep this list under control!
Reading now:
- The Deepest of Secrets (Rockton, #7) by Kelley Armstrong
Read previously:
- The Secret Christmas Library by Jenny Colgan (review)
- The Ladies of the Secret Circus by Constance Sayers (review)
- The Secret Commonwealth (The Book of Dust, #2) by Philip Pullman (review)
- The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna (review)
- The Secret Chord by Geraldine Brooks (review)
- The Secrets We Keep by Trisha Leaver (review)
- The Book of Secrets by Elizabeth Joy Arnold (review)
- The Secret Countess by Eva Ibbotson
- The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
Book on my TBR:
- The Baker’s Secret by Stephen P. Kiernan
- The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle by Matt Cain
- The Secret Book of Flora Lea by Patti Callahan Henry
- The Secret River by Kate Grenville
- Secret Santa by Andrew Shaffer
- Deep Secret by Diana Wynne Jones
Do you have any favorite “secret” books?
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Bookshelf Fantasies 
A great theme! I loved The Secret Life of Bees and want to read The Secret Christmas Library.
It’s been such a long time since I read The Secret Life of Bees — but I do remember how much I loved it!
Wonderful December word! 🎄
Thanks! I hadn’t even thought about it in the context of the holiday season but you’re right, it makes sense 🙂
Now I’m craving a baguette. 🙂
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Haha, that’s definitely the probably with reading books about bakers!
Fab topic and brilliant books picks!
Thank you!
Albert Entwistle and Flora Lea are on my TBR as well! I’ve read the Irregular Witches too.
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I’ve heard such good things about both of those!
I feel that secret is a word that can be used in titles across all genres.
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Definitely! I’m not sure if I have any “secret” sci-fi titles, but I’m sure there are plenty!
What a fun topic! And I love your book choices. ❤️
Thanks! It was a fun one to put together 🙂
Love this idea! Makes me curious how many secret titles I could find. I’ve read three of the books on your list and will be checking The Secret Christmas Library out this week. 😀
I hope you enjoy The Secret Christmas Library — I’ll look forward to hearing what you think of it!
Great choice of topic! My favorites of these would be The Secret Life Of Albert Entwistle, The Very Secret Society Of Irregular Witches and The Ladies Of The Secret Circus.
Other books that I can recommend are Secrets Of Malta by Cecily Blench, Everyone This Christmas Has A Secret by Benjamin Stevenson, The Last Secret Of Lily Adams by Sara Blaydes, Keep Her Secret by Mark Edwards, The Secret Society Of Salzburg by Renee Ryan, The Codebreaker’s Secret by Sara Ackerman, The Secret Diary Of Hendrik Groen by Hendrik Groen…
Ooh, so many! Thanks for the recommendations! The Sara Ackerman book is on my TBR, but the others are all new to me!
I never thought “secret” would be such a popular title word! I love seeing Ladies of the Secret Circus, it’s one of my favorites😁
I liked that one too… although not as much as I loved A Witch in Time
Lists that focus on particular words on the title always make me go and check out how many titles I have with the word in question in them – and I didn’t have as many ‘secret’ titles as I thought I would!
The Secret History would be my pick for a favourite though 🙂
Ah, I didn’t even think of The Secret History! (Probably because I’m one of the few people who really didn’t like it…)
I love your choice for this week’s TTT. Sadly, I haven’t read any of these.
I think we all have so many books that it’s hard to keep up! 🙂
What a fun topic! The Secret Christmas Library is perfect for right now! I have been wanting to get to The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches for so long!
Thanks! Irregular Witches was a really enjoyable read 🙂