TTT: Top Ten Instant attention grabbers

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Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. 

This week's theme: Top Ten Things That Will Make Me Instantly Want To Read A Book

This is a fun theme! Here are 10 things that will make me grab a book before I've even finished reading the entire synopsis.

  1. Heist stories

     23437156
  2. Parallel universes/many worlds

    22055262
  3. Dragons

    28876
  4. Based on Asian mythology/folklore

    10852343
  5. Pirates

    865293
  6. Fairy tale retellings

    11235712
  7. POC SF/F authors

    19161852
  8. Favorite author: Brandon Sanderson, Scott Lynch, VE Schwab, Patrick Ness, Neal Shusterman

    68428
  9. Friendships

    11925514
  10.  AIs/robots
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