#TopTenTuesday Books By ‘Flowery’ Authors #TuesdayBookBlog

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 May Flowers, a great topic capable of being interpreted in multiple ways. I’ve chosen authors whose first names are the names of flowers or plants. Extra points please where a book title also includes the name of a flower!

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

  1. Daphne du Maurier, author of Mary Anne
  2. Rose Tremain, author of Lily
  3. Iris Murdoch, author of The Bell
  4. Flora Johnston, author of The Paris Peacemakers
  5. Heather Cooper, author of Stealing Roses
  6. Daisy Goodwin, author of Diva
  7. Olive Collins, author of The Tide Between Us
  8. Hazel Gaynor, author of The Last Lifeboat
  9. Rosemary Sutcliff, author of The Flowers of Adonis
  10. Rowan Coleman, author of The Summer of Impossible Things

Sorry, chaps!

#TopTenTuesday Revisiting My Winter 2025-2026 To-Read List #TuesdayBookBlog

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 Authors You Wish Were Still Writing Today. It’s an excellent idea for a topic but I spent far too much time trying to come up with something so I decided to revisit an earlier topic – Books On My Winter 2025-2026 To-Read List. Did I read any of the ten books I said I wanted to by the end of February? Let’s find out…

  1. Helm by Sarah Hall (Faber & Faber) Read & reviewed
  2. A Granite Silence by Nina Allan (Riverrun) Read & reviewed
  3. Whale Fall by Elizabeth O’Connor (Picador) Read & reviewed
  4. Benbecula by Graeme Macrae Burnet (Polygon) Read & reviewed
  5. Room 706 by Ellie Levenson (Headline Review) – Read & reviewed (on Goodreads only)
  6. Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT and the Race That Will Change the World by Parmy Olson (Macmillan) Read & reviewed
  7. Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy (Macmillan) Read & reviewed
  8. Female, Nude by Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett (Tinder Press) No longer on TBR
  9. The Shock of the Light by Lori Inglis Hall (The Borough Press) Read & reviewed
  10. Julia Sleeps by Zoe Caryl (Self-published) Read & reviewed

Well I think this proves I like to create a reading list, generally stick to it and will never be admitted to the ‘mood reader’ or ‘Don’t know what to read next’ club.