
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 Guaranteed to Put an End to Your Book Slump. I’m fortunate in that I’ve almost never experienced a book slump so feel ill-equipped to advise what to do. Therefore I’ve come up with my own topic, inspired by a scavenger hunt I saw on Instagram: Books With Buildings in the Title. Links will take you to my review.
- Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson
- The Surgeon’s House by Jody Cooksley
- The Cafe with no Name by Robert Seethaler
- Castle Gay by John Buchan
- The Last Apartment in Istanbul by Defne Suman
- Sanctuary Motel by Alan Orloff
- The Fort by Adrian Goldsworthy
- The Darlings of the Asylum by Noel O’Reilly
- The Man in the Bunker by Rory Clements
- The Doll Factory by Elizabeth Macneal











Great post! I have to do such fun topics more often tbh.
My TTT: https://laurieisreading.com/2025/08/12/top-ten-tuesday-books-to-diversify-your-reading-1/
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I’m glad you’ve never had that experience!
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Great idea! I’m going to use this sometime if that’s okay?
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Go ahead!
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Great idea and clever to have found ten different buildings!
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Thank you
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I skipped this week’s topic too, because any book can be the right one to get someone out of a slump. I love your list of buildings. I’m not sure I could do a list like this.
Pam @ Read! Bake! Create! https://readbakecreate.com/the-os-have-it-ten-titles-starting-with-o/
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As I said in my post, I don’t think I suffer from ‘book slumps’. In fact, I’m not sure I even know what one is! Is it when you don’t feel like picking up a book at all or you don’t know which book to choose or you start several books but quickly put them down because they’re not quite right?
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What a good topic!! Why not suggest it for Top Ten Tuesday?
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What a smart choice, Cathy! I still need to read Sanctuary Motel. Thanks for the reminder.
https://thebookconnectionccm.blogspot.com/2025/08/top-ten-tuesday-top-ten-books.html
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This is a great idea for a theme!
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Thank you, it’s years since I read a John Buchan novel.
https://rosieamber.wordpress.com/
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Not sure which ones you may have read but if you like historical fiction try Witch Wood. Mr Standfast is my favourite Richard Hannay adventure (set in WW1). I also love his final novel, Sick Heart River, which has a very elegaic quality. He wrote some pretty good short stories as well.
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Apart from The 39 Steps, I remember reading Prester John and one other that I cannot think of. This was years ago, I was hoping to do my A level English lit assignment on his work, but the teacher wouldn’t agree to it. I do like WW1 stuff, so must look his work out.
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Same. I don’t have reading slumps, thank goodness! This is a fun topic. I might have to steal it for my Book Covers Lovers Reading Challenge.
Happy TTT (on a Wednesday)!
Susan
http://www.blogginboutbooks.com
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Topic borrowing is allowed!
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Oh, I’d have never thought of that, but it’s an interesting prompt idea! Reminds me of some of the recent Top5Tuesday topics in a way. Very creative!
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[…] do like to regularly re-read my favourite books and series so I’ve decided to do a topic that Cathy picked recently, Books With Buildings in the […]
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Well done, you got some great ones there. They do say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery so I’m glad you enjoyed the topic.
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