#TopTenTuesday One Word Book Titles

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 a Top Ten Tuesday Rewind. In other words, pick a previous topic you missed or would like to do again. I’ve gone for one from March 2020 – One Word Book Titles – but I’ve given it a twist by choosing only books nominated for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction. Links from the titles will take you to my review or the book description on Goodreads.

Ancestry by Simon Mawer (2023 longlist)
Fortune by Amanda Smyth (2022 shortlist)
Learwife by J.R. Thorp (2022 longlist)
Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell (2021 shortlist)
Hinton by Mark Blacklock (2021 longlist)
Afterlives by Abdulrazak Gurnah (2021 longlist)
Shadowplay by Joseph O’Connor (2020 shortlist)
Warlight by Michael Ondaatje (2019 shortlist)
Little by Edward Carey (2019 longlist)
Tombland by C J Sansom (2019 longlist)