#TopTenTuesday My Spring 2020 TBR

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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.

This week’s topic is My Spring 2020 TBR . ThIs is an easy one for me because it just requires a quick glance at my reading schedule for March, April and May. Gosh, there are some enticing looking reads coming up! Links from the titles will take you to the full book description on Goodreads (where available).


The Saracen’s Mark by S.W. Perry – Third in the series of historical crime mysteries set in 16th century London

The Far Field by Madhuri Vijay – In the wake of her mother’s death, Shalini, a privileged and restless young woman from Bangalore, sets out for a remote Himalayan village in the troubled northern region of Kashmir. One of the books on the longlist for the Dylan Thomas Prize

Summer in Provence by Lucy Coleman – We’re promised a ‘feel good’ romance that poses the question “Is a change as good as a rest?”

I Am Dust by Louise Beech – Described as “a bewitching, beguiling and terrifyingly dark psychological thriller”

Patrol by Fred Madjalany – part of the Imperial War Museum’s wartime classics series

The Wheelwright’s Daughter by Eleanor Porter – ‘A brilliant and accomplished novel that perfectly captures the febrile atmosphere of Elizabethan village life in an age when suspicion and superstition were rife.’

The Figure in the Photograph by Kevin Sullivan – Described as a ‘page-turning historical whodunnit

When We Fall by Carolyn Kirby – Published to coincide with the 75th anniversary of VE Day, a moving story of three lives forever altered by one fatal choice.

A Wedding in the Olive Garden by Leah Fleming – Described as a ‘gorgeous, warm-hearted and uplifting novel’ that conjures the local colour, traditions and close bonds of Greek island life.

People Like Us by Louise Fein – Set in 1930s Germany, perfect for fans of The Tattooist of Auschwitz and The Book Thief.

What are you looking forward to reading in the next few months?

#TopTenTuesday In A Word Book Titles

Top Ten Tuesday new

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 Books With Single Word Titles. I’ve selected books that are in my TBR pile in an attempt to make up for my neglect of them. Links from the titles will take you to the full book description on Goodreads.


Liar by Ayelet Gundar-Goshen, trans. by Sondra Silverston – “One mistake can have a thousand consequences”

Treason (Christian Hardy #3) by James Jackson – “Remember, Remember, the Fifth of November… Behind the famous rhyme lies a murderous conspiracy that goes far beyond Guy Fawkes and his ill-fated Gunpowder Plot…”

Sympathy by Olivia Sudjic – “An electrifying novel of blood ties, online identities, and our tormented efforts to connect in the digital age.”

Deposed by David BarbareeMore gripping than Game of Thrones and more ruthless than House of Cards – this a stunning new thriller of power, treachery and revenge”

Munich by Robert Harris September 1938. Hitler is determined to start a war. 
Chamberlain is desperate to preserve the peace. The issue is to be decided in a city that will forever afterwards be notorious for what takes place there. Munich.

Tidelands by Philippa Gregory “England 1648. A dangerous time for a woman to be different”

Containment (Sam Shepherd #3) by Vanda Symon – “Chaos reigns in the sleepy village of Aramoana on the New Zealand coast, when a series of shipping containers wash up on the beach and looting begins.”

Little by Edward Carey – “The wry, macabre, unforgettable tale of an ambitious orphan in Revolutionary Paris, befriended by royalty and radicals, who transforms herself into the legendary Madame Tussaud.”

Elmet by Fiona Mozleyan unforgettable novel about family, as well as a beautiful meditation on landscape

Eureka by Anthony Quinn Sexy, funny, nasty, Eureka probes the dark side of creativity, the elusiveness of art and the torment of love.