I was watching the Try Guys the other week and their video of celebrating their four-year anniversary by playing a game where they pick a slip of paper with titles of videos they made and try to explain it to their partners in four words in four seconds. I thought that would be fun to apply to books, so here we are.
Because I don’t make videos or write books, I’m using a list of books that I’ve read. I wrote down a whole bunch of (hopefully) well-known YA books and selected 15 of them to try and make a summary in four words (or less).
The two rules I have are:
- I’m not allowed to use any words in the book title
- I’m not allowed to use any character names.
If you want to play along, you can try and guess what book I’m talking about after reading my short summary and then click the drop down to reveal the title. For the most part, if a book is part of a series, I used the first book just so there would be less spoilers.
1. E-mails and oreos
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Simon vs the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli
2. Spaceship pilot, red hair
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Scarlet (The Lunar Chronicles, #2) by Marissa Meyer
3. Impossible heist for money
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Six of Crows (Six of Crows, #1) by Leigh Bardugo
4. Am I not merciful?
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Illuminae (The Illuminae Files, #1) by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
5. Fire breathing bitch queen
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Throne of Glass (Throne of Glass, #1) by Sarah J. Maas
6. Weird colorless children photos
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Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children, #1) by Ransom Riggs
7. Under the mountain madness
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A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #1) by Sarah J. Maas
8. Teen prodigies, death, cure
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Legend (Legend, #1) by Marie Lu
9. Obsessed with Carry On
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Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
10. Four factions, SAT words
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Divergent (Divergent, #1) by Veronica Roth
11. The Bachelor: royalty edition
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The Selection (The Selection, #1) by Kiera Cass
12. World War II girl
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The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
13. Blood color determines class
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Red Queen (Red Queen, #1) by Victoria Aveyard
14. Virtual reality gaming championship
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Warcross (Warcross, #1) by Marie Lu
15. Sleep-related super power
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Renegades (Renegades, #1) by Marissa Meyer
How did you do?
What are your thoughts on this “challenge”?
Until next time….
The Awkward Book Blogger 
This is so clever!! You chose great words. I got most of the books that I have read.
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Good to hear! I felt like some of my summaries were too generic and could easily be confused for a different book, but I’m glad you got most of the ones that you’ve read. 😀
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I really like this one and am going to pinch it and do it if that’s ok? I will tag back to you so people know where I got the idea from! This looks like fun 🙂
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Yes of course you can try this! I hope you have fun with it 😀
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