#TopTenTuesday Most Anticipated Books Releasing During the Second Half of 2024 #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 Most Anticipated Books Releasing During the Second Half of 2024. Here are mine, many of which I’m fortunate to have ARCs of via NetGalley. Links from each title will take you the book description on Goodreads.

1. The Trap (Alias Emma #3) by Ava Glass (publishes 1st August) – ‘She has just one week to catch a killer’
2. Cabaret Macabre (Joseph Spector #3) by Tom Mead (publishes 1st August) – ‘An atmospheric and puzzling mystery that pays homage to the greatest writers of the genre’s Golden Age’
3. Berlin Duet by S.W. Perry (publishes 1st August) = ‘From silent era Hollywood and the nightclubs of pre-war Vienna to the ruins of Soviet Berlin, a moving, ambitious story of an enduring love amidst the devastation of war’
4. The Instrumentalist by Harriet Constable (publishes 15th August) – ‘From the jewelled palaces of Venice to its mud-licked canals, a story of one woman’s irrepressible ambition and rise to the top, of loss and triumph’
5. Heart, Be At Peace by Donal Ryan (publishes 15th August) – ‘A stunning, lyrical novel told in twenty-one voices’
6. Six Lives by Lavie Tidhar (publishes 29th August) – ‘Six lives, connected through blood and history, each rooted in the dirt of their inheritance, look to the future, and what it might hold’
7. Shy Creatures by Clare Chambers (publishes 29th August) – ‘A life-affirming novel about all the different ways we can be confined, how ordinary lives are built of delicate layers of experience, the joy of freedom and the transformative power of kindness’
8. Precipice by Robert Harris (publishes 29th August) – ‘A spellbinding novel of passion, intrigue, and betrayal set in England in the months leading to the Great War’ 
9. Gabriel’s Moon by William Boyd (publishes 5th September) – ‘From the vibrant streets of sixties London to the sun-soaked cobbles of Cadiz and the frosty squares of Warsaw, an accidental spy is drawn into the shadows of espionage and obsession’
10. Small Bomb at Dimperley by Lissa Evans (publishes 5th September) – ‘Funny, sharp and touching… a love story and a bittersweet portrait of an era of profound loss, and renewal’

There is so much to look forward to! What books are you eagerly anticipating?