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#TopTenTuesday Books With Buildings in the Title #TuesdayBookBlog

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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 Top Ten Tuesday topic is Books Guaranteed to Put an End to Your Book Slump. I’m fortunate in that I’ve almost never experienced a book slump so feel ill-equipped to advise what to do. Therefore I’ve come up with my own topic, inspired by a scavenger hunt I saw on Instagram: Books With Buildings in the Title. Links will take you to my review.

  1. Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson
  2. The Surgeon’s House by Jody Cooksley
  3. The Cafe with no Name by Robert Seethaler
  4. Castle Gay by John Buchan
  5. The Last Apartment in Istanbul by Defne Suman
  6. Sanctuary Motel by Alan Orloff
  7. The Fort by Adrian Goldsworthy
  8. The Darlings of the Asylum by Noel O’Reilly
  9. The Man in the Bunker by Rory Clements
  10. The Doll Factory by Elizabeth Macneal

#TopTenTuesday Historical Fiction Featuring Real Historical Figures #TuesdayBookBlog

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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.

For this week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic we’re invited to pick a genre and build a list around it.  My favourite genre being historical fiction, I’ve picked Historical Fiction Featuring Real Historical Figures. Links from the title will take you to my review.

  1. Queen Macbeth by Val McDermid – Gruoch, the real Lady Macbeth
  2. The Endeavour of Elsie Mackay by Flora Johnston – pioneering female aviator, Elsie Mackay,
  3. Precipice by Robert Harris – Prime Minister Herbert Asquith and socialite Venetia Stanley
  4. The Instrumentalist by Harriet Constable – violinist Anna Maria della Pietà and composer Antonio Vivaldi
  5. The King’s Mother by Annie Garthwaite – Cecily Neville, Duchess of York
  6. Agricola: Invader by Simon Turney – Roman general Gnaeus Julius Agricola
  7. Diva by Daisy Goodwin – opera singer Maria Callas
  8. A Tapestry of Treason by Anne O’Brien – Constance of York, Lady Despenser
  9. The House of Doors by Tan Twan Eng – author W. Somerset Maugham
  10. The Chosen by Elizabeth Lowry – author,Thomas Hardy