
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 Top Ten Tuesday topic is Books that Surprised Me (in a good or bad way). I struggled to think of books to fit this, so my twist is book titles containing things that might come as a surprise – both good and bad.
Links from each title will take you to my review.
- Small Bomb at Dimperley by Lissa Evans
- Back Trouble by Clare Chambers
- A Stranger in my Grave by Margaret Miller
- Invitation to a Bonfire by Adrienne Celt
- Terra Incognita by Simon Turney
- A Complicated Matter by Anne Youngson
- Three Gifts by Mark A. Radcliffe
- Resurrection by David Gilman
- Bad Relations by Cressida Connolly
- Katastrophe by Graham Hurley











Nice twist, Cathy. Back Trouble made me smile – or grimace! There’s been some of that in this house recently.
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Oh dear 😦
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Good ideas!
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It’s cool you didn’t provide any hints about what surprised you!
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I’m curious about Three Gifts.
Here is our <a href=”https://www.longandshortreviews.com/miscellaneous-musings/top-ten-tuesday-books-that-surprised-me-in-a-good-or-bad-way/“>Top Ten Tuesday.</a>
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I love your twist on this week’s prompt.
Pam @ Read! Bake! Create!
https://readbakecreate.com/the-ks-have-it-ten-titles-starting-with-k/
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Nice tweak to the topic. I wish Lissa Evans book could find a US publisher.
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Oh! I love this twist on the theme! Very clever!
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