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 a freebie around the theme of genre. One of the reading challenges I’ve taken on this year is the When Are You Reading? Challenge 2023 hosted by Sam at Taking on a World of Words. It involves reading a book set in one of twelve time periods. Inspired by that, here are ten novels set in ascending time periods from 25BC to the present day.

Links from each title will take you to my review.   

Pre-1200 – Bellatrix by Simon Turney
1200 to 1499 – The Painter of Souls by Philip Kazan
1500 to 1699 – Rivers of Treason by K. J. Maitland
1700 to 1799 – The Warlow Experiment by Alix Nathan
1800 to 1899 – A Gift of Poison by Bella Ellis
1900 to 1939 – Sepulchre Street by Martin Edwards 
1940 to 1959 – The English Führer by Rory Clements
1960 to 1979 – Nothing Special by Nicole Flattery
1980 to 1999 – Old God’s Time by Sebastian Barry
2000 to 2023 – Ponti by Sharlene Teo

Do you have a favourite period for books to be set?

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 Characters from Different Books Who Should Team Up, a topic suggested  by Cathy at What Cathy Read Next. Wait a minute, that’s me! I felt obliged to make an extra effort with this one so have come up with characters I think would make great crime-fighting partnerships.

1. Sherlock Holmes and Christopher John Francis Boone from The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon, who together should be able to solve the mystery in ‘The Adventure of Silver Blaze’ by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
2. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Dr John Watson and Anthony Horowitz’s Anthony Horowitz from the The Word is Murder – two literary sidekicks probably keen to take centre stage
3. Colin Dexter’s Endeavour Morse and Dorothy L. Sayer’s Lord Peter Wimsey who, both being Oxford University men, should be able to solve the latest murder to take place in ‘the city of dreaming spires’
4. Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple and Alexander McCall Smith’s Mma Ramotswe, both expert observers of village life and of the clues that will solve a crime 
5. I think J. K. Rowling’s Hermione Grainger and Cormoran Strike would be magic together
6. Agatha Christie’s famously fastidious Belgian detective Hercule Poirot and Roger Hargreaves’ Little Miss Tidy I’m confident would clear up the messiest of mysteries 
7. Ian Fleming’s James Bond and Lee Child’s Jack Reacher were surely born to take on the world’s baddies together and, if not, they could always challenge each other to a cage fight ala Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk
8. Sir Ian Rankin’s John Rebus and Henning Mankell’s Kurt Wallander who, if they couldn’t solve the case, could at least drown their sorrows together
9. Edgar Allan Poe’s C. Auguste Dupin and Wilkie Collins’ Sergeant Cuff who, having apprehended the culprit, could discuss which of them was the first fictional detective
10. And finally, in the event you find yourself accused of a crime, Mr Jaggers from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens and Sir Wilfrid Robarts from Witness for the Prosecution by Agatha Christie would make a formidable defence team

What fictional dream teams did you come up with?