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 is a Freebie with participants asked to come up with their own topic. I’ve chosen to look ahead to the nine (yes, only nine!) books left on my 20 Books of Summer list, the annual challenge hosted by Cathy at 746Books . I’ve added one – The Wanderers – which is the previous book to The Redeemed in Tim Pears’ The West Country Trilogy.
- The Truth Must Dazzle Gradually by Helen Cullen – described as ” a celebration of the complex, flawed and stubbornly optimistic human heart”
- The Gap in the Curtain by John Buchan – five people are given a glimpse of the future but how will that knowledge affect them?
- A Prince of the Captivity by John Buchan – the story of the courage of a man imprisoned for a crime he did not commit
- The Wanderers by Tim Pears – continuing the story of Leo Sercombe begun in The Horseman
- The Redeemed by Tim Pears – the final book in the trilogy, shortlisted for The Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2020
- A House of Ghosts by W. C. Ryan – described as “a gripping mystery with a classic feel…And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie meets The Silent Companions by Laura Purcell”
- The Music Shop by Rachel Joyce – a novel about learning how to listen and how to feel, about second chances and choosing to be brave despite the odds
- Liar by Ayelet Gundar-Goshen – how one mistake can have a thousand consequences
- Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult – described as a book that tackles “race, privilege, prejudice, justice, and compassion – and doesn’t offer easy answers”
- Those Who Are Loved by Victoria Hislop – historical novel set against the backdrop of the German occupation of Greece in WW2, the subsequent civil war and a military dictatorship

i loved Small Great things! it was one of my first NetGalley books and the formatting was awful, but being a newbie book blogger I didn’t think to mention it and just struggled on wit it. I hope you enjoy it Cathy!
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Thanks. Luckily I have a physical copy that I won ages ago in a giveaway. I’ve experienced the same problem with formatting on my Kindle, especially with those converted from a pdf. I had to give up reading one the other day because it had the watermark showing on each page. Fortunately I had a physical copy as well.
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I’ve not come across the watermark problem before, that would drive me mad!!
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Me neither!
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Continued happy summer reading, Cathy! 😃
Here’s my TTT post for this week: https://thebookwormchronicles.wordpress.com/2020/07/28/top-ten-tuesday-historical-fiction/ , where I share the last 10 historical-fictions I have enjoyed. 🙂
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I also loved The Poison Bed and have her new book, The Honey and the Sting, that is coming out on 6th August (along with tons of others it seems) from NetGalley.
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Great to hear you enjoyed The Poison Bed too and we both have a copy of The Honey and the Sting to look forward to. 🙂
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I hope you enjoy all of these books!
My TTT .
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I hope you are able to read all nine and complete the challenge. I need to take another look at my books on my list and see how I did.
I have a big author party going in Paris, after the pandemic, and I’d love to have you stop by and join in. All our favorite writers are there. Join us here!
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I really enjoyed Small Great Things, I hope you do too.
My TTT: https://jjbookblog.wordpress.com/2020/07/28/top-ten-tuesday-274/
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I think you’re brave to tackle so many long books. They rather intimidate me as well. Probably why the 900 page Mirror & the Light is still sitting on my bookshelf. However, I might have to pluck up the courage to tackle it now it’s been longlisted for the Booker Prize.
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Thanks! 900 pages, whoah, I would definitely find that offputting too.
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Besides Liar, I feel like you have a book cover theme going 😉
My TTT: https://ichlese.blog/2020/07/28/top-ten-tuesday-my-favorite-seasonal-book-movie-sustenance-pairings/.
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Not familiar with any of these titles to be honest, but hope you manage to get round to them.
Here’s my TTT if you want to check it out https://readwithstefani.com/10-books-i-want-to-read-by-the-end-of-2020/ Have a great day ahead!
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I haven’t read any of these, but I hope you enjoy them! Here is our Top Ten Tuesday.
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I just read a review for that Jodi Picoult book today. They loved it. I hope you do, too!
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Good luck with getting these read and completing the challenge!
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I loved The Music Shop (but I love Rachel Joyce so…)! Let me know about Liar – she’s an Israeli author and I am thinking of reading this!
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