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#TopTenTuesday Favourite Books of 2023 #TuesdayBookBlog

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Top Ten TuesdayTop 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 Favourite Books of 2023, always the toughest list to come up with. Links from the titles will take you to my review.

  1. Old God’s Time by Sebastian Barry (Faber & Faber)
  2. The Square of Sevens by Laura Shepherd Robinson (Mantle)
  3. The Hollow Throne by Tim Leach (Head of Zeus)
  4. The Seventh Son by Sebastian Faulks (Hutchinson Heinemann)
  5. Adama by Lavie Tidhar (Head of Zeus)
  6. North Woods by Daniel Mason (John Murray)
  7. Wolves of Winter by Dan Jones (Head of Zeus)
  8. The Unspeakable Acts of Zina Pavlou by Eleni Kyriacou (Head of Zeus)
  9. The Heart’s Invisible Furies by John Boyne (Transworld)
  10. The Storm We Made by Vanessa Chan (Hodder & Stoughton)

Favourite 2023

Highly commended: Three Gifts by Mark A. Radcliffe (epoque press), The Chosen by Elizabeth Lowry (riverrun), The House of Doors by Tan Twan Eng (Canongate), The Scarlet Papers by Matthew Richardson (Michael Joseph), The Painter of Souls by Philip Kazan (Orion), The Unheard by Anne Worthington (Confingo), The Black Crescent by Jane Johnson (Head of Zeus), Rebellion by Simon Scarrow (Headline), Things in Jars by Jess Kidd (Canongate)

What were your favourites of 2023? 

#TopTenTuesday The Ten Most Recent Additions to My Bookshelf #TuesdayBookBlog

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Top Ten Tuesday ChristmasTop 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 The Ten Most Recent Additions to My Bookshelf. Santa didn’t bring any of these, sadly. Links from the titles will take you to the full book description on Goodreads.

  1. His Bloody Project by Graeme Macrae Burnet – The year is 1869. A brutal triple murder in a remote community in the Scottish Highlands leads to the arrest of a young man by the name of Roderick Macrae.
  2. Closed Casket (New Hercule Poirot Mysteries #2) by Sophie Hannah – “What I intend to say to you will come as a shock…” With these words, Lady Athelinda Playford – one of the world’s most beloved children’s authors – springs a surprise on the lawyer entrusted with her will.
  3. Paris Spring (Will Flemyng #2) by James Naughtie – Paris in 1968, seething with revolutionaries and spies, sees Will Flemyng’s world turned upside down, after a mysterious encounter on the metro and a chance revelation from a rival operative.
  4. The Midnight Library by Matt Haig – When Nora Seed finds herself in the Midnight Library, she has a chance to make things right. 
  5. Munich Wolf by Rory Clements – Munich in the 1930s is a magnet for young, rich, aristocratic Brits. What they don’t see – or choose to ignore – is the cold, brutal, underbelly of the Nazi movement which considers Munich its spiritual home.
  6. Birds Without Wings by Louis de Bernières – Set against the backdrop of the collapsing Ottoman Empire, the novel traces the fortunes of one small community in south-west Anatolia – a town in which Christian and Muslim lives and traditions have co-existed peacefully for centuries.
  7. A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler – The 15 stories collected here, all written in the first person, blend Vietnamese folklore, the terrible, lingering memories of war, American pop culture and family drama. 
  8. A Dry Spell by Clare Chambers – In 1976, four students took a trip to the desert. Now the repercussions of that fateful summer are coming back to haunt them.
  9. The Shadow Network (Dempsey & Devlin #5) by Tony Kent – How do you take down an enemy when no one believes they exist?
  10. The Teacher (DS Cross #6) by Tim Sullivan – An eighty-year-old man is found murdered in his home. His age and standing in the community makes finding his killer difficult – why would anyone harm an elderly man? What threat could he possibly be to anyone?

What books have you added to your TBR pile recently?