Category: Discussion posts

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 topic is Books Written Before I Was Born, either books we’ve read or books we want to read. My list is made up of the latter. And, no, I’m not going to disclose my birth year!

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson (first published in 1938)
The Town House by Norah Lofts (first published in 1959)
Invitation to the Waltz by Rosamond Lehmann (first published in 1932)
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (first published in 1958)
The Greengage Summer by Rumer Godden (first published in1958)
The Scapegoat by Daphne du Maurier (first published in 1957)

Republished by Pushkin Press:
Vanish in an Instant by Margaret Millar (first published in 1952)
A Stranger In My Grave by Margaret Millar (first published in 1960)

Republished by Handheld Press:
There’s No Story There and Other Wartime Writing by Inez Holden (first published in 1944)
Business As Usual by Jane Oliver & Ann Stafford (first published in 1933)