Books with Honorifics in the Title

 Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. 

Books with Honorifics in the Title

I really like the topic for this week. We were meant to pick out books with honorifics in the title. Honorifics are words like: Mr., Mrs, Miss, Lord, Lady, King, Mother, Father, etc. This had me picking out books I wouldn't normally talk about on this blog and many of them are ones I highly enjoy.

1. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien

    ~ Two of my favorite movies as a child were The Secret of Nimh and it's sequel The Secret of Nimh 2: Timmy to the Rescue. The first movie is one of Don Bluth's best. This year, I finally read the book that the movie was based on and loved it so much. Such a great story.

2. Mr. Willowby's Christmas Tree by Robert E. Barry

    ~ I worked in childcare for almost ten years and four of those years I was a preschool teacher. This was one of my preschoolers favorite books to read at Christmastime. It's a favorite children's Christmas story for me along with The Grinch that Stole Christmas. Apparently, there is a Muppet special of this with Robert Downey Jr. and Leslie Nielsen that I am definitely going to watch it this Christmas. 

 

3. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

    ~ I do not love this book but have very fond memories of studying it in one of my college courses. It was even better when I saw a play performance of it about six months later at the Virginia Woolf and her Contemporaries conference we held at my college. I delivered a paper on Mina Loy and her poetry. Now over ten years later, that weekend is still one of my favorite memories from college and this book is part of that. 

4. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Lewis Stevenson 

    ~ I did not enjoy reading this in my Brit Lit class in college, but I always found the story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde interesting as a concept. I first learned about it from the movie The Pagemaster. 

5. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (author is unknown and has been translated/retold by many)

    ~ I have been wanting to reread this with the version by J. R. R. Tolkien. King Arthur stories are favorites for me and this deals with one of his knights. I was not a fan of the translation we read in my Brit Lit class but I always wanted to give it another chance with another one. Tolkien sounds like a great choice.

6. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs

    ~ I love the idea behind this book and the rest of the series but I was never the biggest fan of this book. It is neat that Ransom found so many images to use in this story, many of them are quite eerie. 

 

7. The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien 

    ~ The conclusion to one of my favorite trilogies. I adore Tolkien's writing and this story so much. 

 

8. Darth Vader- Dark Lord of the Sith, Vol 1: Imperial Machine by Charles Soule 

    ~ A great Star Wars comic series that I have to finish sometime soon. This volume picks up right after the events of Revenge of the Sith and follows Vader as he gets his famous red lightsaber. 

 

9. Lords and Ladies by Terry Pratchett

    ~ Another great Discworld novel for me. This is one of the Witch subseries and deals with  elves. 

10. Letters from Father Christmas by J. R. R. Tolkien 

    ~ J.R.R. Tolkien was one of the greats and this book is just one of the many examples of that. The story that he created through the countless letters that he wrote to his children over the course of twenty-three years is just incredible. I loved learning more and more about the world he created for Father Christmas and North Polar Bear. I never knew how great an illustrator Tolkien was before this book. The illustrations were stunning.