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 Bookish Wishes, the idea being participants grant the bookish wishes of others and have theirs granted in return.
I’ve gone off on a slightly different tack with my list being the last ten books added to the ‘wishlist’ shelf I’ve created on Goodreads. Links from the titles will take you to the book description on Goodreads.
Sparrow by James Hynes – described as an ‘unnerving, exhilarating, unflinching portrayal of sex, slavery and sisterhood’ set in the waning years of the Roman Empire
The Train House on Lobengula Street by Fatima Kara – ‘the story of a traditional Indian Muslim family living in Southern Rhodesia in the 1950s and 60s, who enjoy a wealth of new opportunities but are held down by white racism and torn apart by their own changing values’
The City (City of Victory #2) by Adrian Goldsworthy – I’ve read books one and three – The Fort and The Wall – but for some reason missed out this one!
Prize Women by Caroline Lea – described as ‘an evocative and engrossing novel of motherhood, survival, and the heartbreaking decisions we make to protect the ones we love’
Edith and Kim by Charlotte Philby – described as a ‘finely worked, evocative and tense novel’ that tells the story of the woman who introduced Kim Philby (the author’s grandfather) to his Soviet handler
My Name Is Yip by Patrick Crewe – longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2023. ‘A bold, revisionist take on the Western novel set in the Georgia gold rush’ say the publishers
Blackout by Simon Scarrow – a WW2 thriller and the book that preceded Dead of Night which I read recently
No Sweet Sorrow by Denzil Meyrick – the eleventh book in the author’s DCI Daley crime series, a series which to my sweet sorrow I only discovered at book ten, The Death of Remembrance
How to be Brave by Louise Beech – part of my Backlist Burrow reading challenge (that isn’t going too well as of now)
All Day at the Movies by Fiona Kidman – ditto
Have you read any of the books on my list?
