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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.

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This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic is Satisfying Book Series. I’m terrible at completing book series or reading all the books in a series, and in the right order, so I’ve come up with my own topic.

With autumn well and truly making its presence felt here in the UK, I’ve chosen Books Featuring Storms, actual or metaphorical. Links from the title will take you to my review or the book description on Goodreads.

1. The Coming Storm by Greg Mosse – a race to prevent a man-made natural disaster in a world ravaged by climate change
2. The Storm We Made by Vanessa Chan – a woman realises she has helped to set in motion a train of events that will wreak havoc on her family
3. Two Storm Wood by Philip Gray – ‘War poisons everything that it does not destroy’
4. A Stranger from the Storm by William Burton McCormick – a scarred, shambling man arrives at an Odessa boarding house during a thunderstorm 
5. The Wrecking Storm by Michael Ward – two Jesuit priests are brutally murdered as the threat of civil war looms
6. After the Storm by Isabella Muir – when a violent storm blasts England’s south coast, retired Italian detective Giuseppe Bianchi must sift through the devastation left in its wake
7. The Storm by Amanda Jennings – an Atlantic storm changes lives forever in a Cornish fishing village
8. Storm of Steel by Matthew Harffy – Northumbrian thegn Beobrand and his war band are ambushed by pirates during a raging storm
9. The Wager by David Grann – the true story of a British vessel wrecked in stormy weather off the coast of Patagonia in 1742
10. The Raging Storm by Ann Cleeves – ‘Fierce winds, dark secrets, deadly intentions’

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.

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This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic is Book Covers that Give off Autumn Vibes. I’ve taken inspiration from words that appear in John Keats’ poem ‘To Autumn’. (You can find the complete poem on The Poetry Foundation website). Links will take you to my review or the book description on Goodreads.

1. ‘To Autumn’ – Autumn by Ali Smith
2. ‘Season of…‘ – The Cutting Season by Attica Locke
3. ‘…mists and mellow fruitfulness’ – The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng
4. ‘Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun‘ – The Sun Walks Down by Fiona McFarlane
5. ‘To bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees’ – Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty
6. ‘To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells’ – The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert
7. ‘And still more, later flowers for the bees‘ – Secrets of the Bees by Jane Johnson
8. ‘Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies’ – The Western Wind by Samantha Harvey
9. ‘The red-breast whistles from a garden-croft’ – The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
10. ‘And gathering swallows twitter in the skies’ – Before the Swallows Come Back by Fiona Curnow