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 is Books On My Spring 2026 To-Read List. My list is a combination of review copies of books publishing in the next couple of months, a book from my Classics Club list, a couple of recent purchases and the four books from the longlist for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction I haven’t yet read. I’d like to say I’ll be able to read the latter before the shortlist is announced next month but this is probably overambitious. Links from each title will take you to the full book description on Goodreads.
- A Far-flung Life by M. L. Stedman – ‘Western Australia, 1958. A truck rumbles along a lonely outback road. A moment’s inattention, and in a few muddled seconds the lives of the MacBride family are shattered.’
- The King’s General by Daphne du Maurier – From my Classics Club list
- The Artist by Lucy Steeds – Longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction
- Once the Deed Is Done by Rachel Seiffert – Longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction
- Boundary Waters by Tristan Hughes – Longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction
- Edenglassie by Melissa Lucashenko – Longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction
- The Perfect Circle by Claudia Petrucci, trans. by Anne Milano Appel (published 7th April) – ‘Two women far apart in time, a mysterious unsellable mansion in Milan that connects two lives that start to overlap as impossible parallels are revealed‘
- The Draw of the Sea by Wyl Menmuir – ‘A book about the fishermen, surfers, swimmers, beachcombers, conservationists, sailors and boatbuilders who make their living on the Cornish Coast.‘
- Paper Sisters by Rachel Canwell – ‘Lincolnshire, 1914. As the First World War approaches, three women are living, trapped between the unforgiving marsh, the wide, relentless river, and the isolation of the fen.’
What books are you hoping to read in the next few months? Have you read any on my list?
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