#TopTenTuesday Books Added To My TBR Pile

Top Ten Tuesday newTop 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 I’ve Added to my TBR and Forgotten Why. Now I know exactly why I add books to my TBR pile. It’s you lot, right? Yes, all you book bloggers out there. You will insist on reading books and then writing great reviews of them. And then sharing those reviews all over the place so I can’t help but see them. Or it’s those pesky authors who keep on writing irresistible books.

So I’ve gone slightly off-topic and listed the last ten books to join the many others in my To Be Read pile. (It excludes review copies and books for blog tours.) Recently I’ve decided to “reinvest” any Premium Bond wins into the purchase of books from small, independent publishers. (No begging letters, please; invariably they’re the £25 prize. If I ever hit the million pound jackpot, it will be a long, long list of books, and I will make a lot of authors, publishers and bookshops very happy 😁)


Business As Usual by Jane Oliver & Ann Stafford (Handheld Press)
Blitz Writing by Inez Holden (Handheld Press)
A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende
The Girl Who Fell From the Sky by Simon Mawer
Then We Take Berlin by John Lawton
Tidelands by Philippa Gregory
Anna of Kleve by Alison Weir
The Mirror & the Light by Hilary Mantel
The Fortunate Englishman by John Lawton
All The Lives We Never Lived by Anuradha Roy

What books have been added to your TBR pile recently?

#TopTenTuesday Books That Give Off Summer Vibes

Top Ten Tuesday newTop 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 that Give Off Summer Vibes. Here are a few things I associate with summer, in the UK at least.

Heatstroke by Hazel Barkworth
Instructions for a Heatwave by Maggie O’Farrell
Sunburn by Laura Lippman
The Ice Cream Girls by Dorothy Koomson
The Girls in the Garden by Lisa Jewell
This Green and Pleasant Land by Ayisha Malik
Swimming Lessons by Claire Fuller
A Wedding in the Olive Garden by Leah Fleming
The Beach House by James Patterson
The Strawberry Thief by Joanne Harris

I was going to include The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks but that seemed too much like tempting fate for your next picnic or barbeque…