#TopTenTuesday Series I’d Like To Finish

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 Series I’d Like to Start/Catch up on/Finish. My list includes ones where I’ve read several but not all of the books in a series. The majority are historical crime series. As you’ll see I have a habit of discovering series part way through. The books I’ve read are shown in bold, with links to my review if I reviewed them on my blog. 

  1. ‘Nicholas Shelby’ series by S W Perry (Corvus) – The Angel’s Mark, The Serpent’s Mark, The Saracen’s Mark, The Heretic’s Mark, The Rebel’s Mark
  2. ‘Nighthawk’ series by Jim Kelly (Allison & Busby) – The Great Darkness, The Mathematical Bridge, The Night Raids
  3. ‘Teifi Valley Coroner’ series by Alis Hawkins (The Dome Press) – None So Blind, In Two Minds, Those Who Know, Not One of Us
  4. ‘Matthew Shardlake’ series by C. J. Sansom (Mantle) – Dissolution, Dark Fire, Sovereign, Revelation, Heartstone, Lamentation, Tombland
  5. ‘Maisie Dobbs’ series by Jacqueline Winspear (Allison & Busby) – Maisie Dobbs, Birds of a Feather, Pardonable Truth, Messenger of Truth, An Incomplete Revenge, Among the Mad, The Mapping of Love and Death, A Lesson in Secrets, Elegy for Eddie, Leaving Everything Most Loved, A Dangerous Place, Journey to Munich, In This Grave Hour, To Die But Once, The American Agent, The Consequences of Fear, A Sunlit Weapon
  6. ‘The Bernicia Chronicles’ by Matthew Harffy (Head of Zeus/Aries) – The Serpent Sword, The Cross and the Curse, Blood and Blade, Killer of Kings, Warrior of Woden, Storm of Steel, Fortress of Fury, For Lord and Land
  7. ‘Bradcote and Catchpoll Mystery’ series by Sarah Hawkswood (Allison & Busby) – Servant of Death, Ordeal by Fire, Marked to Die, Hostage to Fortune, Vale of Tears, Faithful unto Death, River of Sins, Blood Runs Thicker, Wolf at the Door, A Taste for Killing
  8. ‘Gower Street Detective’ series by M.R.C. Kasasian (Head of Zeus) – The Mangle Street Murders, The Curse of the House of Foskett, Death Descends on Saturn Villa, The Secrets of Gaslight Lane, Dark Dawn over Steep House
  9. ‘Joe Wilderness’ series by John Lawton (Grove Press) – Then We Take Berlin, The Unfortunate Englishman, Hammer to Fall, Moscow Exile (coming in 2023)
  10. ‘Giordano Bruno’ series by S. J. Parris – Heresy, Prophecy, Sacrilege, Treachery, Conspiracy, Execution

Are you a ‘completer/finisher’ when it comes to series? Is it worth going back to the beginning of a series if you’ve read later books?


My Week in Books – 6th November 2022

MyWeekinBooksOn What Cathy Read Next last week

Monday – I shared my proposed reading list for #NetGalleyNovember and published my review of historical novel The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho by Paterson Joseph.

Tuesday – I shared My Five Favourite October 2022 Reads

WednesdayWWW Wednesday is a weekly opportunity to share what I’ve just read, what I’m currently reading and what I plan to read next… and to take a peek at what others are reading. 

Thursday – I made another trip Down the TBR Hole.

Friday – I published my review of Best of Friends by Kamila Shamsie.

Saturday – I took part in the #6Degreesof Separation meme forging a chain from The Naked Chef by Jamie Oliver to These Days by Lucy Caldwell. (Click on the link to find out how.)


New arrivals

Night-Time StoriesNight-Time Stories edited by Yen-Yen Lu (eARC, The Emma Press)

A child waits for the tooth fairy; a mother spends a night watching a recording of the previous night; two women face the ghosts that haunted their grandmothers. The nights in these ten stories are thick and substantial, ambiguous and alluring.

Eerie, magical, hushed and surprisingly alive, this anthology shows the night as a place where connections are made and daylit lives can be changed.

With stories from Valentine Carter, John Kitchen, Winifred Mok, Leanne Radojkovich, Angela Readman, Jane Roberts, Rebecca Rouillard, Miyuki Tatsuma, Zoë Wells and Sofija Ana Zovko.


On What Cathy Read Next this week

Currently reading

Planned posts

  •  Book Review: The Weather Woman by Sally Gardner
  • Book Review: Mother of Valor by Gary Corbin
  • Blog Tour/Book Review: The Coming Darkness by Greg Mosse
  • Blog Tour/Book Review: Death to the Emperor by Simon Scarrow