#TopTenTuesday Ten Favorite Books from Ten Series #TuesdayBookBlog

Top Ten TuesdayTop 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 Ten Favorite Books from Ten Series.  This was harder than I imagined because by definition a series evolves over time, each book expanding the story and your involvement with the characters.  Sadly, as well, some of these series have now reached their conclusion. Links from each title will take you to my review or the book description on Goodreads.

  1. The American Agent (Maisie Dobbs #15) by Jacqueline Winspear – Maisie and Mark Scott, yes!
  2. The English Führer (Tom Wilde #7) by Rory Clements – in which Lydia, Tom’s wife, plays a vital role
  3. The Heretic’s Mark (The Jackdaw Mysteries #4) by S. W. Perry – in which the action moves from 16th century London to Padua
  4. The Great Darkness (Nighthawk #1) by Jim Kelly – the book that first introduced visually impaired Cambridge policeman, Detective Inspector Eden Brooke
  5. Storm of Steel (The Bernicia Chronicles #6) by Matthew Harffy – hero of the series, Beobrand, sets out to rescue a  kidnapped girl
  6. Wolf at the Door (A Bradecote & Catchpoll Investigation #9) by Sarah Hawkswood – the vicious death of a man at the teeth of a wild animal does not add up
  7. Gaudy Night (Lord Peter Wimsey #12) by Dorothy L. Sayers  – the one where Lord Peter finally gets the girl 
  8. Mr Standfast (Richard Hannay #3) by John Buchan – the one that always leaves me tearful at the end 
  9. Betrayal (The Englishman #2) by David Gilman – someone’s trying to start a war and former Foreign Legion fighter, Dan Raglan’s just walked into the kill zone
  10. The Magpie Tree (Cornish Mysteries #2) by Katherine Stansfield – Jamaica Inn, 1844: the talk is of witches

#TopTenTuesday More or Less … Book Titles Containing Antonyms #TuesdayBookBlog

Top Ten TuesdayTop 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 Books I Wish Had More/Less […] In Them. Interpreting ‘more’ as the opposite of ‘less’, I’ve selected ten book titles made up of opposing elements. Links from each title will take you to the book description on Goodreads.

  1. Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty
  2. The Agony and the Ecstasy by Irving Stone
  3. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
  4. North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
  5. Angels & Demons by Dan Brown
  6. Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason
  7. Night and Day by Virginia Woolf
  8. Heroes and Villains by Angela Carter
  9. All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot
  10. River East, River West by Aube Rey Lescure

What other examples can you think of?