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This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic is Books On My Winter 2025-2026 To-Read List. Here are ten books I want to read between now and the end of February. It’s a mix of 2026 ARCs, book club picks and books from my TBR pile. Links from each title will take you to the book description on Goodreads.
Wednesday – As always WWW Wednesdayis a weekly opportunity to share what I’ve just read, what I’m currently reading and what I plan to read next… and to take a peek at what others are reading.
Saturday – I shared my review of thriller Then He Was Goneby Isabel Booth.
New on my shelves
Two historical novels from my wishlist and another book received as a prize to mark achieving Diamond level of Penguin’s Bookmarks community.
Helm is a ferocious, mischievous wind – a subject of folklore and wonder – who has blasted the sublime landscape of the Eden Valley since the very dawn of time.
This is Helm’s life story, formed from the chronicles of those the wind enchanted: the Neolithic tribe who tried to placate it, the Dark Age wizard priest who wanted to banish it, the Victorian steam engineer who attempted to capture it – and the farmer’s daughter who fell in love. But now Dr Selima Sutar, surrounded by measuring instruments, alone in her observation hut, fears the end is nigh.
Vital and audacious, Helm is the elemental tale of a unique life force – and of a relationship: between nature and people, neither of whom can weather life without the other.
A Granite Silence is an exploration – a journey through time to a particular house, in a particular street, Urquhart Road, Aberdeen in 1934, where eight-year-old Helen Priestly lives with her mother and father.
Among this long, grey corridor of four-storey tenements, a daunting expanse of granite, working families are squashed together like pickled herrings in their narrow flats. Here are Helen’s neighbours: the Topps, the Josses, the Mitchells, the Gordons, the Donalds, the Coulls and the Hunts.
Returning home from school for her midday meal, Helen is sent by her mother Agnes to buy a loaf from the bakery at the end of the street. Agnes never sees her daughter alive again.
PROVENCE, 1920. Ettie moves through the remote farmhouse, silently creating the conditions that make her uncle’s artistic genius possible.
Joseph, an aspiring journalist, has been invited to the house. He believes he’ll make his name by interviewing the reclusive painter, the great Edouard Tartuffe.
But everyone has their secrets. And, under the cover of darkness, Ettie has spent years cultivating hers.
Over this sweltering summer, everyone’s true colours will be revealed. Because Ettie is ready to be seen. Even if it means setting her world on fire.
What I’m currently reading
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I’m reading Odin’s Game (the final title I need to complete the What’s In A Name 2025 reading challenge), historical novel Helm on my Kindle and listening to the audiobook of Atmosphere (the final book I need to complete the When Are You Reading? 2025 Challenge).
What Cathy Read Next... 