Category: Top Ten Tuesday

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.

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This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic is Most Recent Additions to My Book Collection. My list is a combination of gifts from others, gifts to myself, prize wins and recent NetGalley approvals (denoted by asterisks). Links from each title will take you to the book description on Goodreads.

1. A Year in a Small Garden by Frances Tophill (BBC Books)
2. The Ghosts of Rome by Joseph O’Connor (Harvill Secker)
3. The Midnight Hour by Eve Chase (Penguin)
4. A Maigret Christmas And Other Stories by Georges Simenon (Penguin)
5. The Mouthless Dead by Anthony Quinn (Abacus)*
6. Woman in Blue by Douglas Bruton (Fairlight)*
7. The Paris Dancer by Nicola Rayner (Aria)*
8. The Silence Factory by Bridget Collins (William Morrow)
9. The Spoiled Heart by Sunjeev Sahota (Harvill Secker)
10. Broken Country by Clare Leslie Hall (John Murray) *

What’s new on your bookshelves or wishlist?

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.

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This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic is Bookish Goals For 2025. I’m someone who likes setting themselves goals so this topic is perfect for me. Full disclosure: some of these may have appeared on last year’s post!

1. Achieve my Goodreads goal of reading 104 books 
2. Read more of the books I already own, including:
   • at least 20 books that have been in my TBR pile for longer than two years, i.e. January 2023 or prior
   • the five remaining books on my Backlist Burrow list, a challenge I started in 2023 but have made little progress with
3. Attend Henley Literary Festival and at least one other literary event
4. Complete the When Are You Reading Challenge – see my sign-up post here – and Historical Fiction Reading Challenge – see my sign-up post here
5. Complete the What’s in a Name Challenge – see my sign-up post here
6. Read all the books on The Walter Scott Prize 2025 longlist before the shortlist is announced
7. Reach the point where I’m read and reviewing every book on my NetGalley shelf in advance of publication
8. Take part in a reading challenge I haven’t done before. Don’t know what yet!
9. Finally bite the bullet and update my blog’s theme
10. Embrace audiobooks and aim to listen to one per month

What bookish goals, if any, have you set for 2025?