We’re at the halfway mark in our Reading Bingo Challenge and since we created this fun challenge, we feel like it’s our duty (and our privilege) to give you reading suggestions. When we started working on this post, we thought it might be a bit difficult to find books with numbers in the titles… boy, were we wrong! There are so many books past and present with number in their titles. These are just some of our favourites, please feel free to share additional suggestions in the comments below.
The Unlikely Hero of Room 13 B by Teresa Toten
Winner of the Governor General’s Award.
When Adam meets Robyn at a support group for kids coping with obsessive-compulsive disorder, he is drawn to her almost before he can take a breath. He’s determined to protect and defend her–to play Batman to her Robyn–whatever the cost. But when you’re fourteen and the everyday problems of dealing with divorced parents and step-siblings are supplemented by the challenges of OCD, it’s hard to imagine yourself falling in love. How can you have a “normal” relationship when your life is so fraught with problems? And that’s not even to mention the small matter of those threatening letters Adam’s mother has started to receive …
Ten Lords A-Leaping by C.C. Benison
A skydiving routine for charity goes horribly awry, leaving a wealthy lord dead and his household at odds over whether it was a tragic accident … or cold-blooded murder at twenty thousand feet. To fundraise for the parish in bucolic Thornford Regis, Father Tom Christmas skydives, plummeting for charity. While his landing is bumpy, it’s nothing compared to that of Hector, Earl of Fairhaven, who leaps from twenty thousand feet with disastrous results. Ten Lords A-Leaping is a fun mystery that will have you counting (get it?) down the days until the next book!
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Technically Pi is a number… 3.14159265359 so this title belongs in this list. Life of Pi is a masterful and utterly original novel that is at once the story of a young castaway who faces immeasurable hardships on the high seas, and a meditation on religion, faith, art and life that is as witty as it is profound. Using the threads of all of our best stories, Yann Martel has woven a glorious spiritual adventure that makes us question what it means to be alive, and to believe.
The Handsome Man’s Deluxe Café: No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency (15) by Alexander McCall Smith
The newest installment in Alexander McCall Smith’s beloved, bestselling No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series, The Handsome Man’s Deluxe Cafe.
Mma Ramotswe has her hands full both at home and in the office. To add to the challenge, her devoted assistant detective, Grace Makutsi, has decided to start her own business, The Handsome Man’s Deluxe Cafe. But even “Miss 97 percent” can’t quite meet all the challenges of running a business on her own. She’ll need to accept all the help she can get–even if it comes from an unexpected source.
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
“A gothic novel … [that] grabs the reader with its damp, icy fingers and doesn’t let go until the last shocking secret has been revealed… . Setterfield’s first novel is equally suited to a rainy afternoon on the couch or a summer day on the beach.” —Library Journal
Top Secret Twenty-One by Janet Evanovich
The newest book in the Stephanie Plum Series is in bookstores now! Death threats, highly trained assassins, highly untrained assassins, and Stark Street being overrun by a pack of feral Chihuahuas are all in a day’s work for Stephanie Plum.
Half a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
With her award-winning debut novel, Purple Hibiscus, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was heralded by the Washington Post Book World as the “21st century daughter” of Chinua Achebe. In her masterly, haunting novel, she recreates a seminal moment in modern African history: Biafra’s impassioned struggle to establish an independent republic in Nigeria during the 1960s.
Twice by Lisa Unger
Acclaimed artist Julian Ross has just been found standing over her husband’s bloody corpse in their New York City apartment. Julian claims that she slept peacefully beside him while he was violently stabbed in their bed. But police are skeptical, especially since Julian’s first husband was killed and mutilated in exactly the same way.
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell
“Let’s … call David Mitchell the David Bowie of contemporary fiction… . If Mitchell is Bowie, then, and if his novels are albums, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet is his Station to Station — sprawling, epic, infused with an elusive otherness yet with all the crowd-pleasing trappings of a popular blockbuster.”
— The Gazette
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
“I really, really loved READY PLAYER ONE…Cline expertly mines a copious vein of 1980s pop culture, catapulting the reader on a light-speed adventure in an advanced but backward-looking future.”— Daniel H. Wilson, New York Times bestselling author of Robopocalypse
Thirteen by Kelley Armstrong
The exciting, page-turning LAST episode of Kelley Armstrong’s acclaimed, bestselling Women of the Otherworld series!
Savannah Levine, a young witch of remarkable power and a dangerous pedigree, staggers away from a bomb blast in New Orleans, glad that she’s managed to rescue her half-brother Bryce from the supernatural revolutionaries who’d held him captive. But everyone and everything she holds dear is still at risk. The reveal movement has shaken the Otherworld to its core and the resulting chaos has thinned the boundaries between dimensions, allowing creatures of the deeper realms to break through and wreak havoc on supernaturals but also on innocent humans.
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