#TopTenTuesday Earliest Published 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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This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic is Earliest Published Books On My TBR, a topic suggested by Nicole at BookWyrm Knits. I had to rely on Goodreads for this so I suspect there are books with earlier publication dates I’ve missed. I’d have expected most of the books on my list to be on my Kindle, which is where unread books go to hide, but strangely they’re not. Links from the titles will take you to the book description. Apologies to any author who spots one of their books on my list.

  1. The Greengage Summer by Rumer Godden (January 1958)
  2. Jericho by Dirk Bogarde (January 1992)
  3. The Night Manager by John le Carré (June 1993)
  4. Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson (March 1995)
  5. Any Human Heart by William Boyd (January 2002)
  6. Pompeii by Robert Harris (January 2003)
  7. Instances of the Number 3 by Salley Vickers (January 2003)
  8. In the Company of Cheerful Ladies (No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency #6) by Alexander McCall Smith (January 2004)
  9. Birds Without Wings by Louis de Bernières (April 2004)
  10. Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult (March 2007)

21 thoughts on “#TopTenTuesday Earliest Published Books in my TBR Pile #TuesdayBookBlog”

  7. With exception to Jodi Picoult, I don’t think I’ve heard of any of these. I’ve never read any of Jodi’s books though because they always seem bittersweet. Hope you enjoy all of these! 🙂 Thanks so much for visiting my list today.

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  9. I liked Nineteen Minutes but the book made me think of Jodi Picoult in a new way — her formula is to get you hooked to the point you know what will happen then present a twist. Now I expect the twist.

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  12. A Killing Term by Robyn Sheffield, pub May 1993 is my oldest, Cathy, although I am currently reading The White Cottage Mystery by Margery Allingham which was published in 1927.

    I loved the Kate Atkinson, and I too have the Jodi Picoult still to read.💖📚

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  13. Great list! I loved The Night Manager as a show, and didn’t even realize that it was a book first, but I had to add that one and Pompeii to my TBR. I have a copy of Nineteen Minutes that I bought after a friend told me I needed to read it.

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      1. I always did too, but I’ve discovered that if I’m doing something that doesn’t take up all my attention, I can listen to an audiobook. It comes in handy when folding laundry, cooking, doing other chores, or even playing a game on my phone.

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