Today I’m joining That Artsy Reader Girl for Top Ten Tuesday, for which this week’s topic is your favorite theme in books. I had a hard time summing up my favorite theme for the title of this post and settled on Grumps + Kids, because one thing that I really love in a book is when there is a person who is kind of grumpy and lonely and maybe unhappy but gets their life changed by a kid who makes them see life differently. I have also referred to this theme as the “curmudgeon finds someone to care about” and the “older curmudgeon meets child who changes them” genre of books.
1. Skye Falling by Mia McKenzie
2. A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
3. All The Lonely People by Mike Gayle
4. A Million Things by Emily Spurr
5. The Guncle by Steven Rowley
6. The House In The Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune
7. The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams
8. The Brilliant Life of Eudora Honeysett by Annie Lyons
9. The Missing Treasures of Amy Ashton by Eleanor Ray
Do you know what I mean when I talk about the theme of Grumps + Kids in books? Do you have any more to recommend to me?