{"id":48173,"date":"2023-07-27T06:00:40","date_gmt":"2023-07-27T11:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=48173"},"modified":"2023-07-03T13:48:49","modified_gmt":"2023-07-03T18:48:49","slug":"books-with-numbers-in-their-titles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/books-with-numbers-in-their-titles\/","title":{"rendered":"Books with Numbers in Their Titles"},"content":{"rendered":"

Are you trying to figure out what to read next? When I’m in a bind, I look for books that have numbers in their titles. It’s a fun diversion and I usually find a new-to-me book pretty quickly! (Be careful though. Some numbered books are actually part of a series- like the Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evanovich<\/a>). If you’re ever in doubt if a book is part of a series, check out Fantastic Fiction<\/a> where you can search by author or title.<\/p>\n

Below I have gathered a list of newer fiction novels with a number in their title. Descriptions are provided by the publishers.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>The Only One Left<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Riley Sager<\/p>\n

At seventeen, Lenora Hope<\/em>
\nHung her sister with a rope<\/em><\/p>\n

Now reduced to a schoolyard chant, the Hope family murders shocked the Maine coast one bloody night in 1929. While most people assume seventeen-year-old Lenora was responsible, the police were never able to prove it. Other than her denial after the killings, she has never spoken publicly about that night, nor has she set foot outside Hope\u2019s End, the cliffside mansion where the massacre occurred.<\/em><\/p>\n

Stabbed her father with a knife<\/em>
\nTook her mother\u2019s happy life<\/em><\/p>\n

It\u2019s now 1983, and home-health aide Kit McDeere arrives at a decaying Hope\u2019s End to care for Lenora after her previous nurse fled in the middle of the night. In her seventies and confined to a wheelchair, Lenora was rendered mute by a series of strokes and can only communicate with Kit by tapping out sentences on an old typewriter. One night, Lenora uses it to make a tantalizing offer\u2014I want to tell you everything.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cIt wasn\u2019t me,\u201d Lenora said<\/em>
\nBut she\u2019s the only one not dead<\/em><\/p>\n

As Kit helps Lenora write about the events leading to the Hope family massacre, it becomes clear there\u2019s more to the tale than people know. But when new details about her predecessor\u2019s departure come to light, Kit starts to suspect Lenora might not be telling the complete truth\u2014and that the seemingly harmless woman in her care could be far more dangerous than she first thought.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Two Nights in Lisbon<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Chris Pavone<\/p>\n

You think you know a person . . .<\/em><\/p>\n

Ariel Pryce wakes up in Lisbon, alone. Her husband is gone\u2014no warning, no note, not answering his phone. Something is wrong.<\/em><\/p>\n

She starts with hotel security, then the police, then the American embassy, at each confronting questions she can\u2019t fully answer: What exactly is John doing in Lisbon? Why would he drag her along on his business trip? Who would want to harm him? And why does Ariel know so little about her new\u2014much younger\u2014husband?<\/em><\/p>\n

The clock is ticking. Ariel is increasingly frustrated and desperate, running out of time, and the one person in the world who can help is the one person she least wants to ask.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>The Three of Us<\/a><\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong> by Ore Agbaje-Williams<\/p>\n

Long-standing tensions between a husband, his wife, and her best friend finally come to a breaking point in this sharp domestic comedy of manners, told brilliantly over the course of one day.<\/em><\/p>\n

What if your two favorite people hated each other with a passion?<\/em><\/p>\n

The wife has it all. A big house in a nice neighborhood, a ride-or-die snarky best friend, Temi, with whom to laugh about facile men, and a devoted husband who loves her above all else\u2014even his distaste for Temi.<\/em><\/p>\n

On a seemingly normal day, Temi comes over to spend a lazy afternoon with the wife: drinking wine, eating snacks, and laughing caustically about the husband\u2019s shortcomings. But when the husband comes home and a series of confessions are made, the wife\u2019s two confidantes are suddenly forced to jockey for their positions, throwing everyone\u2019s integrity into question\u2014and their long-drawn-out territorial dance, carefully constructed over years, into utter chaos.<\/em><\/p>\n

Told in three taut, mesmerizing parts\u2014the wife, the husband, the best friend\u2014over the course of one day, The Three of Us is a subversively comical, wildly astute, and painfully compulsive triptych of domestic life that explores cultural truths, what it means to defy them, and the fine line between compromise and betrayal when it comes to ourselves and the people we\u2019re meant to love.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Four Treasures of the Sky<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>by Jenny Tinghui Zhang<\/p>\n

A propulsive and dazzling debut novel set against the backdrop of the Chinese Exclusion Act, about a Chinese girl fighting to claim her place in the 1880s American West<\/em><\/p>\n

Daiyu never wanted to be like the tragic heroine for whom she was named, revered for her beauty and cursed with heartbreak. But when she is kidnapped and forced across an ocean from China to America, Daiyu must relinquish the home and future she imagined for herself. Over the years that follow, she is forced to keep reinventing herself to survive. From a calligraphy school, to a San Francisco brothel, to a shop tucked into the Idaho mountains, we follow Daiyu on a desperate quest to outrun the tragedy that chases her. As anti-Chinese sentiment sweeps across the country in a wave of unimaginable violence, Daiyu must draw on each of the selves she has been\u2014including the ones she most wants to leave behind\u2014in order to finally claim her own name and story.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Stephen Buoro<\/p>\n

Fifteen-year-old Andrew Aziza lives in Kontagora, Nigeria, where his days are spent about town with his droogs, Slim and Morocca, grappling with his fantasies about white girls \u2013 especially blondes \u2013 and wondering who his father is. When he’s not in church, at school or attempting to form ‘Africa’s first superheroes’, he obsesses over mathematical theorems, ideas of black power and HXVX: the Curse of Africa.<\/em><\/p>\n

Sure enough, the reluctantly nicknamed ‘Andy Africa’ soon falls hopelessly and inappropriately in love with the first white girl he lays eyes on, Eileen. But at the church party held to celebrate her arrival, multiple crises loom. An unfamiliar man claims, despite his mother’s denials, to be Andy’s father, and the gathering of an anti-Christian mob is headed for the church \u2013 both set to shake the foundations of everything Andy knows and loves.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six<\/a><\/em><\/strong> by Lisa Unger<\/p>\n

Three couples rent a luxury cabin in the woods for a weekend getaway to die for in this chilling locked-room thriller.<\/em><\/p>\n

What could be more restful than a weekend getaway with family and friends? An isolated luxury cabin in the woods, spectacular views, a hot tub and a personal chef. Hannah\u2019s generous brother found the listing online. The reviews are stellar. It’ll be three couples on this trip with good food, good company and lots of R & R.<\/em><\/p>\n

But the dreamy weekend is about to turn into a nightmare.<\/em><\/p>\n

A deadly storm is brewing. The rental host seems just a little too present. The personal chef reveals that their beautiful house has a spine-tingling history. And the friends have their own complicated past, with secrets that run blood deep.<\/em><\/p>\n

How well does Hannah know her brother, her own husband? Can she trust her best friend? Meanwhile, someone is determined to ruin the weekend, looking to exact a payback for deeds long buried. Who is the stranger among them?<\/em><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Shehan Karunatilaka<\/p>\n

Colombo, 1990. Maali Almeida\u2014war photographer, gambler, and closet queen\u2014has woken up dead in what seems like a celestial visa office. His dismembered body is sinking in the serene Beira Lake and he has no idea who killed him. In a country where scores are settled by death squads, suicide bombers, and hired goons, the list of suspects is depressingly long, as the ghouls and ghosts with grudges who cluster round can attest. But even in the afterlife, time is running out for Maali. He has seven moons to contact the man and woman he loves most and lead them to the photos that will rock Sri Lanka.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Eight Weeks in Paris<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by S.R. Lane<\/p>\n

BREAKING: Lost novel of Bell Epoque Paris, The Throne, comes to the silver screen with an A-list cast. But will on-set drama doom the filming of this gay love story before it starts?<\/em><\/p>\n

Nicholas Madden is one of the best actors of his generation. His personal life is consistently a shambles, but he’ll always have his art\u2014and The Throne is going to be his legacy.<\/em><\/p>\n

Then his costar walks off the runway and into rehearsal. The role of a lifetime is about to be sunk by a total amateur.<\/em><\/p>\n

Chris Lavalle is out, gorgeous and totally green. He has thousands of Instagram followers, a string of gorgeous exes and more ad campaigns to his name than one can count. But he\u2019s more than just a pretty face, and The Throne is his chance to prove it.<\/em><\/p>\n

If only Nicholas wasn\u2019t a belligerent jerk with a chip on his shoulder and a face carved by the gods.<\/em><\/p>\n

Eight weeks of filming, eight weeks of 24\/7 togetherness bring Nicholas and Chris closer than the producers had dared to dream. Chemistry? So very much not a problem. But as The Throne gets set to wrap and real life comes calling, they\u2019ll have to rewrite the ending of another love story: their own.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Nine Lives<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Peter Swanson<\/p>\n

Nine strangers receive a list with their names on it in the mail. Nothing else, just a list of names on a single sheet of paper. None of the nine people know or have ever met the others on the list. They dismiss it as junk mail, a fluke\u2014until very, very bad things begin happening to people on the list.<\/em><\/p>\n

First, a well-liked old man is drowned on a beach in the small town of Kennewick, Maine. Then, a father is shot in the back while running through his quiet neighborhood in suburban Massachusetts. A frightening pattern is emerging, but what do these nine people have in common? Their professions range from oncology nurse to aspiring actor, and they\u2019re located all over the country. So why are they all on the list, and who sent it?<\/em><\/p>\n

FBI agent Jessica Winslow, who is on the list herself, is determined to find out. Could there be some dark secret that binds them all together? Or is this the work of a murderous madman? As the mysterious sender stalks these nine strangers, they find themselves constantly looking over their shoulders, wondering who will be crossed off next\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Ten Rules for Faking It<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Sophie Sullivan<\/p>\n

What happens when your love life becomes the talk of the town?<\/em><\/p>\n

As birthdays go, this year\u2019s for radio producer Everly Dean hit rock-bottom. <\/em>Worse than the \u201ctonsillectomy birthday.\u201d Worse than the birthday her parents decided to split (the first time). But catching your boyfriend cheating on you with his assistant? <\/em>Even clich\u00e9s sting.<\/em><\/p>\n

But this is Everly\u2019s year! She won\u2019t let her anxiety hold her back. She\u2019ll pitch her podcast idea to her boss.<\/em><\/p>\n

There\u2019s just one problem. <\/em>Her boss, Chris, is very cute. (Of course). Also, he’s extremely distant (which means he hates her, right? Or is that the anxiety talking)? <\/em>And, Stacey the DJ didn\u2019t mute the mic during Everly\u2019s rant about Simon the Snake (syn: Cheating Ex). <\/em>That\u2019s three problems.<\/em><\/p>\n

Suddenly, people are lining up to date her, Bachelorette-style, fans are voting (Reminder: never leave house again), and her interest in Chris might be a two-way street. It\u2019s a lot for a woman who could gold medal in people-avoidance. She\u2019s going to have to fake it \u2018till she makes it to get through all of this.<\/em><\/p>\n

Perhaps she\u2019ll make a list: The Ten Rules for Faking It. <\/em>Because sometimes making the rules can find you happiness when you least expect it.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Do you have a favorite book with a number in the title? Let us know in the comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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