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.
The rules are simple:
- Each Tuesday, Jana assigns a new topic. Create your own Top Ten list that fits that topic – putting your unique spin on it if you want.
- Everyone is welcome to join but please link back to The Artsy Reader Girl in your own Top Ten Tuesday post.
- Add your name to the Linky widget on that day’s post so that everyone can check out other bloggers’ lists.
- Or if you don’t have a blog, just post your answers as a comment.
Top Ten Tuesday: Books Set in Boarding Schools
This week’s topic is a back-to-school freebie so we decided to do: Books Set in Boarding Schools. We decided to place them in order of least-to-most favorite.
10. Fallen by Lauren Kate – This angel book is set in a boarding school you couldn’t pay me to walk into. The whole place is full of people with mental issues and juvenile delinquents. Then add in the ridiculous storyline and you have my least favorite boarding school book.
9. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro – While this is a gorgeous and heartbreaking book, I never want to attend a school that is training people to give up their organs later on in life.
8. A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray – Okay, historical boarding schools…. Sounds great, right? But the whole finishing school aspect has us going “Nope.” We like being unfinished ladies, personally.
7. The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater – Ok, so we love these guys, but living in a world where Ronan’s dream creatures can come to life is not on my list of things to do.
6. The Magicians by Lev Grossman – The Chronicles of Narnia meets Harry Potter? Magical graduate school? Brakebills is a *NOT* what my grad school experience was like! But I made it out alive which I feel isn’t a guarantee for Quentin and the gang.
5. Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead – A school of magic sounds pretty amazing, but as much as I am a night owl, I don’t think I want ALL of my classes to be at night.
4. The Unearthly & Rhapsodic series by Laura Thalassa – Okay, you had us at Isle of Mann and castle. Sign us UP!
3. House of Night series by P.C. and Kristin Cast – This story is basically vampire Harry Potter and I dig it. Sure, I never finished it but I fully admit wishing I went to this school! Plus, I’m all about boarding schools that let you have cats.
2. Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson – I 100% want to go here and play crime detective with Stevie. Plus hanging out in the Vermont mountains is not exactly a hardship.
1. Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling – Duh. Would a list even exist for us without Harry Potter? And obviously it’s our favorite boarding school setting. I mean who didn’t hope they’d get their Hogwarts letter?
Have you read any of these? Let us know what you thought in the comments!
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Bahahha the boarding school in Fallen is a huge nope from me 🤣
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Sameeee. Noooope.
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Great list! A Great and Terrible Beauty is on my TBR. 🙂
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Thank you!! Oh! I hope you like it – the series is really good!
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Hogwarts is what every school should aspire to be, honestly😆 Great post!!
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Right?? I want to eat all the food in the great hall!! Thank you!
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Great list! Some of these also made my list for this week, so I totally agree with you wanting to avoid Hailsham but being more than up for attending Hogwarts 🙂
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We all want to go to hogwarts!!!! Where are our letters?
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Love your list, ladies! 😉
I bloody love watching the Magicians. But I’m so worried the book may not live up to the show
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Same!!!!! Thank you!!
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Why are so many YA’S set in boarding schools. I can think of a few more:
Hex Hall
Shades of London
The Secrets of Drearcliff Grange School
Rose Blood
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Its a serious trend but I like it!
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I loved the House of Night books. I have Truly Devious in my Kindle app but have been procrastinating on reading it, I’ve seen it mentioned a few times today so now I want to make it a priority.
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House of Night was so good! Always glad to meet another HON fan!
Yes! You definitely need to read Truly Devious immediately!’n
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These sound great! A great and terrible beauty has been on my tbr for a while and I NEED to get to it!
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You definitely should! It’s so good!!!
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I think my favorite books set in schools would be Hex Hall by Rachel Hawkins and the Gallagher Girls series by Ally Carter!
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I haven’t tried Hex Hall but its been on a lot of TTT lists today so i’m thinking I should check it out!
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You should! It’s light, quirky, and amusing! Hope you like it.
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Gallagher Girls was my first thought when I read the title of the post!! ❤
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Hogwarts for the win!! ❤ Although I did love the school in Vampire Academy (although I agree with the nocturnal schedule)…
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Vampire academy is amazing!!
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OOh nice list! Only ones I’ve read were Harry–of course! and Vampire Academy! Though Truly Devious is in my TBR pile! Can’t wait to pick that one up!
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Truly Devious is amazing! I hope you love it.
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Great post. I would also hate to have all my classes at night! Truly Devious is on my TBR! I need to move it up!
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Yes you do!!! It’s so good!!
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Great! I tend to agree with your book recs and reviews. 🙂
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Keep us posted on what you think!!!
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I am so glad that Truly Devious made your list because that is the one book that came to mind! I totally want to go here and unravel these mysteries.
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I know! I cannot wait for The Vanishing Stair!
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Obviously I read Harry Potter but I also read Fallen and House of Night. I do like the boarding school aspect but I’ll probably never read Fallen and House of Night again. Those books were good then but I wouldn’t like them now.
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It’s amazing how we grow out of some books, but others stick with us forever!
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