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 Books I Hope Santa Brings/Bookish Wishes.  I think it unlikely Santa will bring me any books but if I’m lucky he might bring me the means to acquire some.  Here are some likely candidates in the form of the most recent additions to my wishlist.  (I have Susan at A Life in Books or Cathy at 746 Books to thank for many of these. ) Links from each title will take you to the full book description on Goodreads. 

1. The History of Sound: Stories by Ben Shattuck – ‘A collection of interconnected stories set in New England, exploring how the past is often misunderstood and how history, family, heartache, and desire can echo over centuries’
2. That Beautiful Atlantic Waltz by Malachy Tallack – ‘A story of unlikely friendship, longing, the power of music and the pull of home. It is about a life revisited – and reimagined’
3. Night Boat to Tangier by Kevin Barry – ‘Late one night at the Spanish port of Algeciras. two fading Irish gangsters are waiting on the boat from Tangier. A lover has been lost, a daughter has gone missing, their world has come asunder – can it be put together again?’
4. 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World by Elif Shafak – ‘In the first minute following her death, Tequila Leila’s consciousness began to ebb, slowly and steadily, like a tide receding from the shore…’
5. A Woman of Opinion by Sean Lusk – ‘An illuminating and beautiful novel which gives a voice to the tragically unremembered yet extraordinary life of pioneering poet and feminist, Mary Wortley Montagu’
6. The Disappearance of Adèle Bedeau by Graeme Macrae Burnet – ‘A masterful play on literary form featuring an unreliable narrator makes for a grimly entertaining psychological thriller that questions if it is possible – or even desirable – to know another man’s mind’
7. Hope Never Knew Horizon by Douglas Bruton – ‘Three cultural objects associated with hope, their stories told from the perspective of those marginalised from history: the model, the maid, and the coxswain’s girlfriend’
8. Night Climbing by Sarah Day – ‘A poignant tale of lives damaged by lies and propaganda’
9. Our London Lives by Christine Dwyer Hickey – ‘A rich and moving portrait of an ever-changing city, and a profound inquiry into character, loneliness and the nature of love’
10. The Plains by Federico Falco, trans. by Jennifer Croft – ‘After a loss, a year in the four seasons to transform a garden and a self’

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

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 Books On My Winter 2024/25 To-Read List.  Looking ahead at the books I’m hoping to read next year is one of my favourite things and there are already a number of enticing titles on my NetGalley To-Read shelf . Links from each title, which are listed in publication date order,  will take you to the full book description on Goodreads. 

1. Another Man in the Street by Caryl Phillips – “an unforgettable story of loss, displacement, belonging, and the triumph of Black resilience – epic in scope and yet profoundly intimate; and a radical and timely portrait of immigrant London”
2. Homeseeking by Karissa Chen – “An epic tale of one couple spanning decades as world events pull them together and apart”
3. The Bookseller (DS Cross #7) by Tim Sullivan – “Someone’s about to turn their last page…”
4. The House with Nine Locks by Philip Gray – “a compelling and sweeping historical suspense novel that follows a master forger, the menacing detective on their tail, and an ambitious young woman who becomes embroiled in a deadly game of cat and mouse”
5. The Endeavour of Elsie Mackay by Flora Johnston – “Three women, a fearless aviatrix, a jaded wife and a secretive academic strain to reach for their dreams on the cusp of an uncertain future”
6. A Cold Wind from Moscow by Rory Clements – “At the dawn of the Cold War, a new breed of spy is born…”
7. The Ghosts of Rome by Joseph O’Connor – “A beautifully written and expertly crafted historical suspense novel bursting with action, atmosphere, and unforgettable characters”
8. The Café with No Name by Robert Seethaler, trans. by Katy Derbyshire – “An unforgettable novel about how we carry each other through good and bad times, and how even the most ordinary life is, in its own way, quite extraordinary”
9. Mrs Hudson and the Capricorn Incident by Martin Davies – “The latest in the bestselling series inspired by the great detective’s housekeeper at 221B Baker Street”
10. The Language of Remembering by Patrick Holloway – “A mother and son embark on a journey of personal discovery and as past traumas are exposed, they begin to understand what has shaped them and who they really are”