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.

This week’s topic is Favourite Books of 2022, a topic I both look forward to and dread because it’s always so difficult to choose, especially when you read over 150 books in a year! But, in no particular order, here they are. Links from the titles will take you to my review.

1. Late City by Robert Olen Butler (No Exit)
2. Lean on Me by Serge Joncour, trans. by Jane Aitken & Louise Rogers Lalaurie (Gallic Books)
3. My Father’s House by Joseph O’Connor (published by Vintage on 26th January 2023)
4. The Woman with the Map by Jan Casey (Head of Zeus/Aria)
5. The Sunken Road by Ciaran McMenamin (Vintage)
6. The White Girl by Tony Birch (Harper Collins)
7. All the Broken Places by John Boyne (Doubleday)
8. Think of Me by Frances Liardet (4th Estate)
9. The Night Ship by Jess Kidd (Canongate)
10. Devils and Saints by Jean-Baptiste Andrea, trans. by Sam Taylor (Gallic Books)

A big shout out to Vintage and Gallic Books for each having two of their books on my list (three for the latter if you include books on my supplementary list). And to Head of Zeus who have one on my main list but three on my supplementary list. Talking of which, here are those books that so very nearly made the main list:

The Swallowed Man by Edward Carey (Gallic Books)
The Bone Road by N.E. Solomons (Polygon)
The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho by Paterson Joseph (Dialogue Books)
Mr Bunting at War by Robert Greenwood (Imperial War Museum)
The Coming Darkness by Greg Mosse (Moonflower Books)
The House of Birds by Morgan McCarthy (Tinder Press)
Essex Dogs by Dan Jones (Head of Zeus/Aries)
Katastrophe by Graham Hurley (Head of Zeus/Aries)
Seek the Singing Fish by Roma Wells (époque press)
Resurrection by David Gilman (Head of Zeus/Aries)

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.

From ‘An Edwardian Christmas’ by John S. Goodall

This week’s topic is Books I Hope Santa Brings This Year. I’ve compiled a list of books I’d love to receive, many of which appeared on the shortlists for the Historical Writers’ Association Crown Awards. However, the notion I will get any of them for Christmas is a complete fantasy as I’m rarely given books as presents. Friends and family just wouldn’t know which book to buy me unless I gave them a list. But… I’m hoping to get some gift vouchers I can spend on some of them. What would be your choices? (Links from the title will take you to the book description on Goodreads.)

The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell
The Romantic by William Boyd
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka
The Great Passion by James Runcie
The Spirit Engineer by A J West
The Plague Letters by V. L. Valentine
The Kingdoms by Natasha Pulley
Moonlight and the Pearler’s Daughter by Lizzie Pook
Hear No Evil by Sarah Smith
Limberlost by Robbie Arnott