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’ve Read/Want to Read Because of Top Ten Tuesday, a topic suggested by Ellie at Curiosity Killed the Bookworm. It’s a great idea for a topic and I probably have read books or added titles to my wishlist as a result of seeing them mentioned by participants in Top Ten Tuesday but I’d struggle to remember any specific examples. Instead I’ve looked back at one of my previous Top Ten Tuesday posts – Most Anticipated Reads Releasing July to December 2022 – to see how many of the books I said I was itching to read I actually did. Links from each title will take you to my review or the book description on Goodreads.

Katastrophe by Graham Hurley – Read & reviewed
That Bonesetter Woman by Frances Quinn – Read & reviewed
The Last Party by Clare Mackintosh – Read & reviewed
The Night Ship by Jess Kidd – Read & reviewed
The Iron Way by Tim Leach – Read & reviewed
Act of Oblivion by Robert Harris – Still sitting on my bookshelf 😦
Essex Dogs by Dan Jones – Read & reviewed
All The Broken Places by John Boyne – Read & reviewed
Shrines of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson – Still sitting on my bookshelf 😦
Maureen Fry and the Angel of the North by Rachel Joyce – Not only unread but I don’t even own a copy! 😦

So that’s seven books read of the ten I said I wanted to read. What did we learn? I like lists and I like to stick to them…

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 Forgotten Backlist Titles, the idea being to spread the love for books that people don’t talk about much anymore. I’ve focused on the first ten books I ever reviewed on my blog. They may not all fall into the category of untalked about books but in many cases they’re ones I’d forgotten I’d read! Revisiting my early attempts at reviews has been a little painful so show some compassion to the newbie blogger that was me in 2016. 

The Hour of Daydreams by Renee M Rutledge 
World’s End by Upton Sinclair 
Spaceman of Bohemia by Jaroslav Kalfar
Miss Treadway and the Field of Stars by Miranda Emmerson
The Fortunate Brother by Donna Morrissey
Operation Finisterre by Graham Hurley Thomas Hoover
Stay With Me by Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀
Legacy of the Lynx by Clio Gray
Hell’s Gate by Laurent Gaudé
The Ashes of Berlin by Luke McCallin

Having compiled my list, I was interested to see how many (if any) books the authors have written since the ones I reviewed, and if I’ve read any of them. Here’s what I found:

Renee M Rutledge has written children’s books but no further adult novels
Upton Sinclair died in 1968 but, amongst others, wrote ten further books in the series that started with World’s End
Jaroslav Kalfar has written one further novel, A Brief History of Living Forever, which I read and reviewed recently
Miranda Emmerson‘s next novel was A Little London Scandal which I read and reviewed in 2020
Donna Morrissey has a new novel, Rage the Night, which is due to be published in August 2023 and is available to request on NetGalley
Graham Hurley is a prolific author and since Operation Finisterre I’ve read and reviewed four more of his books – Last Flight to Stalingrad, Kyiv, Katastrophe and his latest, The Blood of Others. He has also written at least two crime series
Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀‘s latest novel, A Spell of Good Things, was published earlier this year
Clio Gray‘s latest book, Stumblestone, was published in 2022
Laurent Gaudé has written further novels but none appear to have been published in English
Luke McCallin wrote a fourth novel in his Gregor Reinhardt series, Where Gods Does Not Walk, which I read and reviewed in 2021