Tuesday, June 10, 2025

Top Ten Tuesday: Book titles that remind me of a song

Welcome to this week's edition of Top Ten Tuesday which is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. This week's theme is Bookish Wishes (List the top 10 books you’d love to own and include a link to your wishlist so that people can grant your wishes. Make sure you link your wishlist to your mailing address or include the email address associated with your e-reader in the list description so people know how to get the book to you. After you post, jump around the Linky and grant a wish or two if you’d like. Please don’t feel obligated to send anything to anyone!). 


I always feel a bit uncomfortable with this topic. I don't really have a wishlist and I would feel uncomfortable putting one up in the hope that someone would gift me something, and feeling uncomfortable if no one did!

Instead, I am bringing you 10 books with titles that remind me of a song. And you are welcome for any earworms that you might receive as a result of this post. I certainly gave myself some!



Best Days of Our Lives by Helen Rolfe - This phrase reminds me of the chorus of Thank You by Dido where one of the lines is  I want to thank you for giving me the best day of my life. (my review)

Is She Really Going Out with Him? by Sophie Cousens - Makes me think of the Joe Jackson song that was released in 1978. It's a very catchy tune!

Girls Just Want to Have Sun by Jo Lyons - This is an obvious play on the title Girls Just Want to Have Fun by the fabulous Cyndi Lauper

You Can't Hurry Love by Susan Buchanan - Phil Collins anyone? And look, there's a sloth on the cover. 

Someone I Used to Know by Paige Toon - The song title is actually Somebody That I Used to Know by Gotye and Kimbra, but it's close enough to make me thing of the song. 




I Knew You Were Trouble by Sandy Barker - Now we are in our our Taylor Swift earworm era. I feel like if I went looking hard enough I would find quite a few Taylor adjacent titles. (my review)

Don't You Forget About Me by Mhairi McFarlane - Back to the 80s with Simple Minds for this one!

Over the Sea to Skye by Sue Moorcroft - The title of this song is actually The Skye Boat Song and it is a very old song, originating in Scotland in the 19th century. You may also be familiar with it as the theme song for the Outlander TV series. I will have my review up for this book later in the week.

Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow by Claudia Carroll - Not quite as old given that it was originally released in 1960  the title of this song by The Shirelles is sometimes shown as Will You Love Me Tomorrow but the lyrics include the word still. 

Suspicious Minds by Martin Edwards - Edwards has a whole series featuring detective Harry Devlin where several of the books have song titles. I chose this one because I love both the Elvis and Fine Young Cannibals versions.


Can you think of other titles which remind you of a song. I am sure there are lots!

28 comments:

  1. I bet if you really tried, you could have done an entire post of Taylor Swift adjacent titles. This was a fun list and now I've got some songs to knock out of my brain hole. I hope you have a great week. - Katie

    Here's my TTT if you wish to visit - https://justanothergirlandherbooks.blogspot.com/2025/06/top-ten-tuesday-bookish-wishlist.html

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    1. I did think that maybe a whole list of Taylor Swift songs could be possible Katie!

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  2. I agree some of these titles do sound like the title of a song. Fun tweak for the day.

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  3. This is such a fun list! I read the Cousens book earlier this year and thought the title felt like a song. Another one of hers that I've read is Just Haven't Met You Yet, which is the title of a Michael Buble song.
    Pam @ Read! Bake! Create!
    https://readbakecreate.com/the-ms-have-it-ten-titles-starting-with-m/

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    1. That's a great example of a book with a song title Pam!

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  4. This is a fun alternative topic! And, yeah, the bookish wishes topics make me a little uncomfortable, too.

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    1. I am glad I am not alone in feeling this way Lydia!

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  5. I love Gotye! This is a fun post!

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    1. I don't think I know any other songs by Gotye even though he is Australian!

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  6. I love your take on this week's theme! Lots of earworms to be had, especially "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow" ❣️

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  7. What a great list. Lots of earworms here. I always thought the title was "Will You Still Love Me, Tomorrow".

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    1. It was a bit unclear as to what the title actually is when I was looking. It could be either as far as I can tell!

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    1. It was fun to put together this list Cindy!

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  9. Great and original topic idea!

    My TTT: https://laurieisreading.com/2025/06/10/top-ten-tuesday-did-i-read-my-spring-2025-tbr/

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  10. I love this topic! I feel like I’ve read a lot of books recently with song titles as their titles. I loved your examples!

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  11. Love your theme! And saving it for some other week when I will definitely end up needing it :) so many songs playing a mashup tune in my head now :)

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    1. Feel free to use it whenever you want!

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  12. Is She Really Going Out with Him? is a Taylor Swift song for sure. :)

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