#TopTenTuesday Books I Can’t Believe I’ve Never Read #TuesdayBookBlog

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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 I Can’t Believe I’ve Never Read. For this one I’m taking inspiration from last week’s topic – My Favourite Books By My Favourite Authors – and picking books from their backlists I really should have read by now, often their debut or prize-winning books. In some cases, I even own copies of the books so there’s really no excuse…

Links from each title will take you to the book description on Goodreads.

  1. Learning to Swim by Clare Chambers
  2. Any Human Heart by William Boyd
  3. The Piano Tuner by Daniel Mason
  4. Invitation from a Dictator by Rory Clements (This is a bit of a cheat because it’s not published until August but I’ve read all his others!)
  5. Conclave by Robert Harris
  6. The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry
  7. Human Traces by Sebastian Faulks
  8. A Ladder to the Sky by John Boyne
  9. The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak
  10. Case Histories by Kate Atkinson

Have you read any of these? Which books would be on your list?

36 thoughts on “#TopTenTuesday Books I Can’t Believe I’ve Never Read #TuesdayBookBlog”

  8. I don’t think I recognize any of these titles, but I hope you enjoy them all and find amazing stories inside the pages. :) Thanks for visiting my list today.

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  10. Ah, this is a nice take on the topic! Now I’m wondering if I’d have had any unread books from the authors I picked last week. Hope you enjoy all these when you get to them!

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  15. Oh man, if I don’t even want to think about going through the backlog of some of my favorite authors. I took a bit of a hiatus for a handful of years after covid, and I am SO far behind on books. Everyone is talking about 4th Wing and I’m over here like, What happened to Richelle Mead?!

    Kristin @ Book Sniffers Anonymous

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      1. I loved it, actually. After reading it, I decided that it was quite a retrospective of Sligo and the McNaulty family. Because of that, it made me think that reading the other books with all these characters… um… superfluous. He does write really well, too.

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      3. Not a series per se, but that he tends to stick with writing characters from a few families, and in the beginning all of them are in Sligo. I think he branched out when he moved some of them to the US.

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