#TopTenTuesday Book Hangovers

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 The Last Ten Books That Gave Me a Book Hangover. If a book hangover is reading a book so brilliant nothing that follows can live up to it, then I can say I’ve been lucky enough never to experience one. Or perhaps it’s just that I adopt ‘the hair of the dog’ approach and pick up the next book.

However, here are some books with titles that might give you a real hangover…especially if taken one after the other!  Links from the book titles will take you to the book description on Goodreads.


Whisky Galore by Compton Mackenzie

Three-Martini Lunch by Suzanne Rindell

The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe

Cakes and Ale by W. Somerset Maugham

Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee

Blackberry Wine by Joanne Harris

Cocktail Time by P.G. Wodehouse

Champagne for Breakfast by Maggie Christensen

Why Mummy Drinks by Gill Sims

Just as well it’s time for…

Last Orders by Graham Swift

#TopTenTuesday Love Island(s)

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 it’s a freebie where we’re invited to put our own spin on the theme of Love. My list is made up of books that involve a love story of one kind or another and which are set on islands (real and fictional). Links from the book titles will take you to my review or the book description on Goodreads.


The Isle of Wight – Stealing Roses by Heather Cooper

San Domino – Mussolini’s Island by Sarah Day

Martinique – Island On Fire by Sophie Schiller

Madeira – Joseph Barnaby by Susan Roebuck

Seal Island – I Will Find You by Daniela Sacerdoti

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Santaniki – The Olive Garden Choir by Leah Fleming

Cephalonia – Captain Corelli’s Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres

Rathlin – The Watch House by Bernie McGill

Crete – The Secret Life of Alfred Nightingale by Rebecca Stonehill

Plakos – The Dancing Floor by John Buchan

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