Hello and a very warm welcome to damppebbles. It’s Tuesday which means it’s time for this week’s Top Ten Tuesday post. I’ve decided to take part in That Artsy Reader Girl’s Top Ten Tuesday meme to mix things up a little here at damppebbles. Add a little bit of variety to our bookish weeks.

The meme was originally created by The Broke and the Bookish but has lived with Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl since January 2018. It was created to encompass a love of books, of lists and to bring readers together. If you would also like to take part then you’re very welcome: the more, the merrier. Just make sure you link back to Jana’s post every week. If you don’t have a blog then no problem, just add your list to the comments below.

This week’s theme is Villains (favourite, best, worst, lovable, creepiest, most evil, etc.) but I’m writing this post fairly late on Monday evening and I’m afraid I don’t have the brain power (or the memory!) for that particular theme at this time! Despite feeling it’s one of the few TTT themes that is made for me and my blog 😂 So I’m going with something a lot simpler, books with the word FIRST and books with the word FINAL in the title. I probably should have chosen the word LAST rather than FINAL but I did share a list of books with ‘last’ in the title in April 2024. So ‘final’ it is 😉

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1. FINAL Girls by Riley Sager

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2. The FIRST Day of Spring by Nancy Tucker

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3. The FINAL Vow by M.W. Craven

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4. FIRST Lie Wins by Ashley Elston

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5. The FINAL Child by Fran Dorricott

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6. Good Girls Die FIRST by Kathryn Foxfield

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7. The FINAL Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix

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8. FIRST Born by Will Dean

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9. The Last FINAL Girl by Stephen Graham Jones

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10. You Killed Me FIRST by John Marrs

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Lots of ‘final girls’ unsurprisingly! Started to struggle a little towards the end there. That’s why you have a book I have read but not reviewed (I loved it, I was just going through a bit of a review slump) and a book I haven’t read yet but can’t wait to make a start on! Can’t go wrong with a John Marrs novel.

Have you read any of these books? Going back to today’s original theme, who is your favourite fictional villain Are you taking part in Top Ten Tuesday this week? Let me know in the comments.

So there we have it! If you fancy joining in next week then head on over to That Artsy Reader Girl’s blog to find out what the next topic is!