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 on My Spring 2023 To-Read List. My list is made up of books on the longlist for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2023 – I’m trying to read as many of them as possible before the shortlist is announced in April – and April ARCs. 

Books on the Walter Scott Prize longlist

The Romantic by William Boyd
Act of Oblivion by Robert Harris
The Chosen by Elizabeth Lowry
The Second Sight of Zachary Cloudesley by Sean Lusk
Ancestry by Simon Mawer
I Am Not Your Eve by Devika Ponnambalam
The Settlement by Jock Serong

Books publishing in April

No Place to Hide by J. S. Monroe
The Sinner’s Mark by S. W. Perry
Rivers of Treason by K. J. Maitland

What books are on your Spring 2023 reading list? 

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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 a freebie on the theme of genres. We’re invited to pick a genre and build a list around it. I’ve gone for alternate history novels, a genre (or perhaps sub-genre) which combines my love of historical fiction with a little fantastical thinking. 

Links from the title will take you to my review or the book description on Goodreads.

The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick – Premise: It’s America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again.
False Lights by K. J. Moran – Premise: Wellington was defeated, not victorious, at the Battle of Waterloo
Fatherland by Robert Harris – Premise: Nazi Germany won the Second World War
SS-GB by Len Deighton – Premise: It’s 1941 and England has been invaded – and defeated – by the Germans
The Infinities by John Banville – Premise: Greek gods are still with us and meddling in human affairs
11/22/63 by Stephen King – Premise: A man goes back in time to prevent the assassination of President Kennedy
Dominion by C. J. Sansom – Premise: Britain surrendered to Nazi Germany after Dunkirk
The Kingdoms by Natasha Pulley – Britain has been a colony of the French Republic since they won the Napoleonic Wars 
To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara – Premise: Three alternate versions of America, set in the past and the future
Rodham by Curtis Sittenfeld – Premise: Hillary Rodham never married Bill Clinton

Do you have any alternate history novels to recommend or add to my list? 

 

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