#TopTenTuesday Season of Mists and Mellow Fruitfulness

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

The rules are simple:

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. Everyone is welcome to join but please link back to That Artsy Reader Girl in your own Top Ten Tuesday post. Add your name to the Linky widget on that day’s post so that everyone can check out other bloggers’ lists. Or if you don’t have a blog, just post your answers as a comment.

This week’s topic is Books With An Autumn Vibe. I’ve taken my inspiration from the first stanza of John Keats’ well-known poem, ‘To Autumn’. Links from the book titles will take you to my review or the book description on Goodreads.

To Autumn

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;
To bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees,
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells
With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,
And still more, later flowers for the bees,
Until they think warm days will never cease,
For Summer has o’er-brimm’d their clammy cells.

Autumn by Ali Smith
The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Bitter Orange by Claire Fuller
At the Edge of the Orchard by Tracy Chevalier
The Shady Side of Town: Reading’s Trees by Adrian Lawson & Geoff Sawers
Blackberry and Wild Rose by Sonia Velton
Jonah’s Gourd Vine by Zora Neale Hurston
The Bees by Laline Paul
The Summer Springsteen’s Songs Saved Me by Barbara Quinn

Bitter OrangeThe Shady Side of TownBlackberry & Wild RoseThe BeesTheSummerSpringsteen'sSongsSavedMe

13 thoughts on “#TopTenTuesday Season of Mists and Mellow Fruitfulness”

  2. Ali Smith’s Autumn has been on a few different lists this week. Now I’m even more interested in reading it. 🙂

    My TTT.

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    1. Thanks! I was struggling too and had almost decided to skip this week until I had a sudden flash of inspiration. I’ve loved looking at the autumnal covers some people have featured. That must have taken a lot of work.

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