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#TopTenTuesday Books That Spring Surprises #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.
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This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic is Books that Surprised Me (in a good or bad way). I struggled to think of books to fit this, so my twist is book titles containing things that might come as a surprise – both good and bad.

Links from each title will take you to my review.

  1. Small Bomb at Dimperley by Lissa Evans
  2. Back Trouble by Clare Chambers
  3. A Stranger in my Grave by Margaret Miller
  4. Invitation to a Bonfire by Adrienne Celt
  5. Terra Incognita by Simon Turney
  6. A Complicated Matter by Anne Youngson
  7. Three Gifts by Mark A. Radcliffe
  8. Resurrection by David Gilman
  9. Bad Relations by Cressida Connolly
  10. Katastrophe by Graham Hurley

#TopTenTuesday Maturing Nicely – The Oldest Books On My To-Read List #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 My Unpopular Bookish Opinions. Unpopular opinion (sorry), this one didn’t appeal. Instead here are the ten books (poor little things) that have spent the longest time on my Want-To-Read shelf on Goodreads.

  1. Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson – this one has been on my shelf so long (ahem, since 2013) it could be in a museum
  2. Case Histories (Jackson Brodie #1) by Kate Atkinson – Kate, it’s nothing personal, honestly
  3. Elizabeth Is Missing by Emma Healey – she’s tucked away with all the other unread books on my Kindle most likely
  4. Trigger Mortis by Anthony Horowitz – I know, shoot me Anthony, why don’t you
  5. The Mirror & the Light by Hilary Mantel – Hilary, if you write a book nearly 900 pages long what do you expect?
  6. Any Human Heart by William Boyd – …would forgive me for not having read this yet
  7. The Ashes of London by Andrew Taylor – it’s OK, there are only another five books in the series after this one, I‘ll catch up in no time
  8. Go Set A Watchman by Harper Lee – it took over 60 years for this to see the light of the day so the nine years it’s spent on my shelf is a mere fragment of time, surely?
  9. Everyone Brave Is Forgiven by Chris Cleave – but will I be?
  10. Mutiny on the Bounty by John Boyne – John, I’ve read lots of your other books, don’t make me walk the plank because of this one

See anything in my list you think I should blow the dust off, in some cases literally? What’s the oldest book you have in your TBR pile?