
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 a freebie so we’re invited to come up with our own topic. Today being the first of July, here are ten books I’ve read that are the first in a series. Sorry, romance, fantasy, etc fans, they’re all historical fiction. Links from the title will take you to my review .
- Fortune’s Wheel by Carolyn Hughes (The Meonbridge Chronicles)
- Corpus by Rory Clements (Tom Wilde)
- Essex Dogs by Dan Jones (Essex Dogs)
- The Serpent Sword by Matthew Harffy (The Bernicia Chronicles)
- The Burning Chambers by Kate Mosse (The Joubert Family Chronicles)
- The Drowned City by K. J. Maitland (Daniel Pursglove)
- None So Blind by Alis Hawkins (Teifi Valley Coroner)
- The Angel’s Mark by S. W. Perry (Nicholas Shelby)
- The Great Darkness by Jim Kelly (Nighthawk)
- The Way of All Flesh by Ambrose Parry (Raven, Fisher and Simpson)











What a fantastic and clever theme for Top Ten Tuesday! I absolutely love finding the first book in a series, as it promises so many more hours of reading if I enjoy it. Thanks for sharing your brilliant picks, it’s given me some new series to investigate.
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No, I can’t look! I have more series on the go than you can shake a stick at. Fine, Teifi Valley Coroner Series only has 4 books so far and set in Wales too. Adding that one. 🤦♀️📚💕
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None of them sound familiar to me!
My TTT: https://laurieisreading.com/2025/07/01/top-ten-tuesday-2025-backlist-mid-year-check-in/
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None So Blind has an interesting cover.
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Great topic, Cathy. Love the covers of the last three. The Angel’s Mark needs to go on my wish list. Thanks for sharing.
https://thebookconnectionccm.blogspot.com/2025/07/top-ten-tuesday-top-ten-bookish.html
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I don’t think I’ve ever considered historical fiction having series.
Pam @ Read! Bake! Create!
https://readbakecreate.com/celebrating-more-canadian-authors-ten-more-authors-from-canada/
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There are a lot of historical crime/mystery series
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Lots of series!
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I love historical fiction, but I haven’t read any of these. I’ll have to take a closer look at them.
Happy TTT!
Susan
http://www.blogginboutbooks.com
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