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This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic from That Artsy Reader Girl<\/a> invites us to share ten books with titles that contain ordinal numbers. I wanted to give you just one for each, but capped out of individual numbers I’d read at nine. I’ve doubled up on “first,” which is also the number that appears most in books I’ve listed as to-read.<\/p>\n

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  1. First Among Sequels<\/em> by Jasper Fforde<\/li>\n
  2. The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight<\/em> by Jennifer E. Smith<\/li>\n
  3. The Bookshop of Second Chances<\/em> by Jackie Fraser<\/li>\n
  4. The Fourth Bear<\/em> by Jasper Fforde<\/li>\n
  5. The Last Fifth Grade of Emerson Elementary<\/em> by Laura Shovan<\/li>\n
  6. Ninth Ward<\/em> by Jewell Parker Rhodes<\/li>\n
  7. Twelfth Knight<\/em> by Alexene Farol Follmuth<\/li>\n
  8. The Thirteenth Tale<\/em> by Diane Setterfield<\/li>\n
  9. Miracle on 34th Street<\/em> by Valentine Davies<\/li>\n
  10. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street<\/em> by Karina Yan Glaser<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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