Top Ten Tuesday: Geographical Titles

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. This week's theme is Books with Geographical Terms in the Title. This was a fun topic to find books for; I've listed five books that I've read and five that are on my TBR.

Books I've Read:

Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne

The Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov

Fell Murder by E.C.R. Lorac

The Silent Shore by Ruth Elwin Harris

The Just City by Jo Walton

 

Books on My TBR:

The Secret River by Kate Grenville

Longitude by Dava Sobel

The Island of Sheep by John Buchan

One More River by Lynne Reid Banks

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens 

Top Ten Tuesday: Books Set in Places I'd Love to Visit

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. This week's theme is books set in a place I'd love to visit. Here are ten I came up with:

1. Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery (Prince Edward Island)
2. Tiger, Tiger by Lynne Reid Banks (Rome)
3. Creature of the Night by Kate Thompson (Ireland)
4. Bloomability by Sharon Creech (Switzerland)
5. Where is Susan? by Jane Shaw (Venice)
6. Peril in Paris by Katherine Woodfine (Paris)
7. Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder (Norway)
8. Emil and the Detectives by Erich Kästner (Berlin)
9. Names for the Sea by Sarah Moss (Iceland)
10. The Moon-Spinners by Mary Stewart (Greece)

Top Ten Tuesday: Books from past seasonal TBRs I still haven't read

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. This week's theme is books from my past seasonal TBR posts I STILL haven’t read.

 

I'm just starting to get back into blogging after a few years away from it, so I haven't made a seasonal TBR post since 2017 (not counting my summer 2022 list). However, despite this I've managed to compile a list of titles that are still on my TBR. (I've excluded books which I abandoned or no longer want to read, so these are all books that I plan to get to some day.)

1. A Woman's Place by Lynn Austin (Spring 2016)

2. Home by Marilynne Robinson (Spring 2016)

3. Lark Rise to Candleford (Spring 2016)

4. The Brontë Plot by Katherine Reay (Autumn 2016)

5. Five Magic Spindles by various authors (Autumn 2016)

6. Once by various authors (Spring 2017)

7. The Sound of Diamonds by Rachelle Rea (Spring 2017)

8. The Oxford Inklings by Colin Duriez (Spring 2017)

 

To get to 10, I'm also including my list of books I'm looking forward to reading in 2017.

9. Sylvia's Lovers by Elizabeth Gaskell (2017)

10. The Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge (2017)

Top Ten Tuesday: Authors I'd Like to Try

This week's Top Ten Tuesday is a freebie. I wasn't feeling inspired to come up with my own topic so decided to go with a previous one which I haven't done yet. Here are ten authors I haven't read, but am interested in reading. Let me know if there's a favourite author of yours you think I should read, and which book I should start with!

Ngaio Marsh

Known as one of the four Queens of Crime alongside Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers and Margery Allingham. I'm a big fan of Sayers and Christie, and of classic crime fiction generally, so Marsh is pretty high on my list to try.

Moray Dalton

Another classic crime author I've heard good things about, and some of her books have fairly recently been republished by Dean Street Press, so they are easy to get hold of.

K. J. Parker

I've come across her books at the library and thought they looked interesting, but I've yet to try reading one.

C. S. Harris

She is the author of a historical mystery series set in Regency England, which sounds interesting.

Edward Marston

Another mystery author I'm interested in.

Jun'ichirō Tanizaki

I'd like to read more classics from other cultures and I've heard good things about The Makioka Sisters, so I'd like to read it at some point.

Mary Renault

Amor Towles

Tove Jansson

E. M. Delafield

Some other authors I've generally heard good things about or am interested in reading.

Top Ten Tuesday: Books On My Summer 2022 To-Read List

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. This week's theme is: Books on my summer 2022 to-read list.

   

I'm notoriously bad at sticking to reading lists, so there's a good chance I won't actually read any of these (except the first one which I'm currently reading now). But anyway, here is a list of ten books that I am hoping to get to this summer!

Skyward by Brandon Sanderson

New Boy by Tracy Chevalier

A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman

Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro

Death in the Spotlight by Robin Stevens

Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome

Murder Before Evensong by Richard Coles

Finding My Voice by Nadiya Hussain

A Carpet Ride to Khiva by Christopher Aslan Alexander

Prisoners of Geography by Tim Marshall