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 Characters. For example, readers, writers, authors, librarians, professors, etc. My list contains a mixture of most of them.
- Reclusive author, Vida Winter in The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
- Author, bookshop owner and dispenser of ‘literary prescriptions’, Nancy Mitford in The Bookseller’s Secret by Michelle Gable
- Esme, would-be lexicographer in The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams
- J.D. Salinger, aspiring author in Sergeant Salinger by Jerome Charyn
- Temporary library assistant, Aleisha and widower Mukesh in The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams
- The Brontë sisters, authors and lady detectors in The Red Monarch by Bella Ellis
- Viktor, aspiring author and reluctant obituarist in Death and the Penguin by Andrey Kurkov
- Would-be author, ‘The Literary Innkeeper’ whom Richard Hannay meets in The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
- Emmett Farmer, apprentice bookbinder in The Binding by Bridget Collins
- Mr Penumbra, eponymous owner of Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
