#TopTenTuesday Books on My Autumn 2026 To-Read List #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 Books on My Fall 2026 To-Read List. There are still new releases to look forward to in the next couple of months but I’ve also included a few books from my TBR pile I’m itching to get to. Links from each title will take you to the book description on Goodreads.

  1. The Marchesa by Sarah Dunant (ARC, publishes 7th October)
  2. The Wolf’s Oath by Tim Hodkinson (eARC, publishes 8th October)
  3. In One Brief Moment All Eternity by Elif Shafak (wishlist, publishes 15th October)
  4. The Farther Shore by Seth Fleisher (eARC, publishes 20th October)
  5. The Taper Man by Nick Harkaway (ARC, publishes 5th November)
  6. Dead Men Don’t Ski by Patricia Moyes (Review copy)
  7. Mithim by Carina McNally (Review copy)
  8. Three Summers by Karen Swan (October book club pick)
  9. The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout
  10. Elizabeth and Ruth by Livi Michael

Which books are you eagerly anticipating?

My Week in Books – 20th September 2026

Monday – I published my review of The Newer World by Sebastian Barry.

Tuesday – I went off-piste for this week’s Top Ten Tuesday with a list of Books with Alliterative Titles.

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 from my garden this week. I also shared my review of V is for Venom by Kathryn Harkup.

The Marchesa by Sarah Dunant (ARC, Weatherglass Books)

Inside the opulent world of the Italian Renaissance, Isabella d’Este ruled not just by birth-right, but by wit, will, and an unquenchable thirst for power.

In The Marchesa, Isabella tells her own story: a girl transcending a loveless marriage to become both the first and greatest female art collector of her time and its most formidable woman political operator, navigating an unstable Italy of fragile alliances, high art and brutal warfare.

Through her eyes, the vanished splendour of Mantua and the great Renaissance courts are brought back to life, contrasting their surface beauty and artistic brilliance with an underbelly of infighting, treachery and sexual transgression.

I’m reading Doom Painting by A. K. Blakemore from my NetGalley shelf and May We Feed the King by Rebecca Perry, longlisted for the Booker Prize 2026.


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