#TopTenTuesday Ten Oldest Books in my TBR Pile #TuesdayBookBlog

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Top Ten TuesdayTop 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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  • Or if you don’t have a blog, just post your answers as a comment.

This week’s topic is Weird or Funny Things I’ve Googled Thanks to a Book, submitted by Astilbe at Long and Short Reviews. Unfortunately this topic stumped me (sorry, Astilbe) so instead here are the ten oldest books in my TBR pile. Links from each title will take you to the book description on Goodreads. The dates shown (sob!) are the date I added them to my Want-To-Read shelf according to Goodreads.

  1. When Christ and His Saints Slept by Sharon Kay Penman (May 2013) – historical novel set in 12th century England following the death of King Henry I
  2. Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson (September 2013) – the author’s debut novel that follows the life of Ruby Lennox, starting with her conception in 1951
  3. Case Histories by Kate Atkinson (September 2013) – the first in the author’s series featuring private investigator and former police detective, Jackson Brodie
  4. Elizabeth Is Missing by Emma Healey (June 2014) – Maud is forgetful but there’s one thing she is sure of: her friend Elizabeth is missing
  5. The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessey by Rachel Joyce (October 2014) – the parallel story to The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
  6. Trigger Mortis by Anthony Horowitz (September 2015) – a sequel to Ian Fleming’s James Bond novel, Goldfinger
  7. Nor Will He Sleep by David Ashton (November 2015) – the fourth book in the author’s historical crime series featuring Inspector Jame McLevy
  8. The Mirror & the Light by Hilary Mantel (January 2016) – the concluding book in the author’s Thomas Cromwell trilogy 
  9. Any Human Heart by William Boyd (January 2016) – the fictional biography of Logan Mountstuart
  10. The Ashes of London by Andrew Taylor (April 2016) – an historical thriller set during the time of the Great Fire of London

Which do you suggest I brush the dust off and read first? (Bear in mind, if you’re going to say The Mirror & the Light – which I know you all will now – that it’s nearly 900 pages long.) If you know, what’s the book that’s been longest in your TBR pile?

24 thoughts on “#TopTenTuesday Ten Oldest Books in my TBR Pile #TuesdayBookBlog”

    1. As I was compiling the list I was thinking I really want to read these. But I would probably have had the same thought about the next ten, and the ten after that. I just don’t have sufficient discipline to resist new books

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  10. I have only read Queenie Hennessy and I enjoyed it. I am assuming you read the Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold? Kate Atkinson is always a winner for me, but I have not read either of those.

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  12. Bizarrely, one of my oldest books is also by Sharon Kay Penman, The Sunne in Splendour, about the Wars of the Roses and Richard III. I’ve had it since 2015, read approximately half, but stopped at the Book Two stage. I recently picked it up again, but it’s 932 pages long and unreasonably heavy, so I will have to pace myself. Thank goodness for the family tree in the front! I also have Scenes and Case Histories on my TBR, but if I were you, I’d read the Hilary Mantel. I’ve only read her Beyond Black, which was wonderful, but I just read her Royal Bodies article in the LRB and her writing was stupendous.

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