#TopTenTuesday My Favourite Books by My Favourite Authors #TuesdayBookBlog

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish and now hosted by Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl.

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  • 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.
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This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic is My Favourite Books by My Favourite Authors, a topic suggested by… me! I didn’t realise how difficult this was going to be when I proposed it because I could have come up with many more ‘favourite’ authors. However the authors I’ve chosen are ones who when I learn they have a new book coming out it invariably gets added to my wishlist. And in some cases it wasn’t that easy to pick out just one book from their backlist as I’ve loved so many of them.

For those who know me well, it will come as no surprise they’re pretty much all historical fiction. Links from each title will take you to my review.

  1. Small Pleasures by Clare Chambers
  2. The Romantic by William Boyd
  3. The Winter Soldier by Daniel Mason
  4. Corpus by Rory Clements
  5. V2 by Robert Harris
  6. Old God’s Time by Sebastian Barry
  7. The Seventh Son by Sebastian Faulks
  8. The Heart’s Invisible Furies by John Boyne
  9. There Are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak
  10. Transcription by Kate Atkinson

Was it easy to come up with your list?

My Week in Books – 24th May 2026

Tuesday – My take on this week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic was Two-Hander Book Titles. I also published my review of Bane of Bernicia by Matthew Harffy.

Wednesday – As always WWW Wednesday is a weekly opportunity to share what I’ve just read, what I’m currently reading and what I plan to read next… and to take a peek at what others are reading.

Saturday – I joined other gardeners for #SixonSaturday, sharing six things happening in my garden this week. I also published my review of Goodbye Chinatown by Kit Fan.

Not a sausage…

I’m reading Dwell, published in paperback on 11th June by Northodox Press, and from my NetGalley shelf, Carrion Crow which will be published in paperback on 30th June by Pushkin Press.


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