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 topic is Books I Recommend to Others the Most. I’ve focused on book series, specifically historical crime/mystery series.

1. The John Shakespeare series by Rory Clements set in Elizabethan times, including Holy Spy
2. The Tom Wilde series by Rory Clements set in the 1940s, the latest being The English Führer
3. The Jackdaw Mysteries series by S. W. Perry, the latest being The Sinner’s Mark 
4. The Maisie Dobbs series by Jacqueline Winspear set in the 1930s and 1940s, the latest being A Sunlit Weapon 
5. The Giordano Bruno series by S. J. Parris set in the 16th century, the latest being Alchemy (to be published in July 2023)
6. The Bradecote and Catchpoll series by Sarah Hawkswood set in 12th century England, the latest being A Taste for Killing
7. The Nighthawk series by Jim Kelly set in 1940s Cambridge, including The Mathematical Bridge
8. The Raven, Fisher and Simpson series by Ambrose Parry set in 19th century Edinburgh, the latest being Voices of the Dead (to be published in June 2023)
9. The Rachel Savernake series by Martin Edwards set in 1930s London, the latest being Sepulchre Street (published this week)
10. The Matthew Shardlake series by C. J. Sansom set in 16th century England, including Tombland 

What books or book series do you regularly recommend to others?

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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 topic is The First 10 Books I Randomly Grabbed from My Shelf. We’re invited to close our eyes and touch/grab/point to 10 random titles and tell everyone what they are, and what we thought if we’ve read them. 

Since randomly grabbing books from my packed shelves could result in the literary equivalent of an avalanche or a headline such as ‘Woman crushed by unread books’,  I’ve picked ten titles from the top shelf of one of my more organised bookcases. (Apologies to anyone who was expecting the sort of titles that used to appear on a newsagent’s top shelf.) And, yes, I am an alphabetical order kind of girl…

Titles in bold are the ones I’ve read (and liked enough to keep) and the link will take you to my review.  The others… well, they’re still patiently waiting.

The Haunting of Lamb House by Joan Aiken
Shrines of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson
According to Queenie by Beryl Bainbridge
The Improbable Adventures of Miss Emily Soldene by Helen Batten
A Three Dog Problem by S. J. Bennett
Jericho by Dirk Bogarde
The Romantic by William Boyd
The Assassin of Verona by Benet Brandreth
Two Women in Rome by Elizabeth Buchan
The Secrets of Primrose Square by Claudia Carroll

What books did you randomly grab – or, like me – not so randomly grab?

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