Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish and now hosted by Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl. For the rules see her blog.
The topic this week is Bookish Wishes. List the top 10 books you’d love to own. In no particular order these are the books on my Amazon Wish List:
- Stormbird: The Wars of the Roses (Book 1) by Conn Iggulden
- The Fake Wife: An absolutely gripping psychological thriller with jaw-dropping twists by Sharon Bolton
- The Jewel That Was Ours (Inspector Morse Series Book 9) by Colin Dexter
- Normal Women by Philippa Gregory
- Green for Danger by Christianna Brand
- These Names Make Clues by E C R Lorac (Chief Inspector Macdonald Book 12)
- Voices of the Dead (A Raven and Fisher Mystery Book 4) by Ambrose Parry
- Injury Time by Beryl Bainbridge
- Silent Bones by Val McDermid (Karen Pirie Book 8)
- A Postillion Struck by Lightning by Dirk Bogarde (Autobiography)
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I would also love to read The Miniaturist and Weyward. Hopefully one day! If you finally get to the Go-Between, I hope you enjoy it as much as I did, Margaret.
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It’s good to know you enjoyed The Go-Between. I hope we both enjoy The Miniaturist and Weyward!
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Unusually for a list like this, I have actually read all of them. They are all great books so I hope that you get around to reading at least some of them quite soon. I think The Prince and the Spy and The Miniaturist would be the two I would recommend the most. But then again……………they are all brilliant.
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Thanks, Janette! I hope to read a few of these over the summer.
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Weyward is one I also need to read still.
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I’m glad I’m not the only one who hasn’t read it!
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This is an absolutely fabulous theme, Margaret! And what a great way to do something about the TBR. I’ve been wanting to read The Go-Between very much (but haven’t!), and there are a few others here I should read, too. There’s never enough time…
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That’s the problem – there’s never enough time.
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My spouse loved the TV adaptation of The Queen’s Gambit.
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I was enjoying it and have no idea why I didn’t finish it.
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I find it hard sometimes to go read a book after I’ve watched the tv series. That said – if you haven’t finished watching The Queen’s Gambit yet, it’s so good and worth watching the rest of the episodes.
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I’m hoping to finish it over the summer.
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I’ve seen the 1971 film of The Go-Between but didn’t realise there were more modern versions, I’ll have to have a look after I’ve read it for my 10 books of summer! The Miniaturist is great, I hope you get round to it.
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Thanks, Jane.
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I didn’t think I would like The Queen’s Gambit, but my boyfriend loves chess and decided this would be our netflix binge show. We binged this show into the early morning hours (when it released on Netflix). He loved it so much, he ended up buying the book… let me just add, he is NOT a reader and he’s invested so far!
I hope you love all these books when you read them.
Have a great day!
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Thanks, Alecia.
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You’re welcome!
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Harold Fry is one of my all-time favorite characters. I hope you enjoy reading all of these when you get the chance.
Pam @ Read! Bake! Create!
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Thanks Pam. I wish I’d read Harold Fry when I first bought it.
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I MUST read Rory Clements! I’ve looked at so many reviews. I LOVED Harold Fry! Enjoy your reading.
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Oh do read Rory Clements books!
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I loved DAISY DARKER! It’s the only book I’ve read by Feeney. I need to read more by her.
Happy TTT (on a Wednesday)!
Susan
http://www.blogginboutbooks.com
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I’ve read two of Feeney’s book – Sometimes I Lie and His and Hers, both are very good.
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We share Weyward and Daisy Darker on our lists. I could’ve added The Queen’s Gambit too, which I bought after watching the TV series, but haven’t read it yet.
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I hope we both enjoy them when we get round to reading them.
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Oddly, it was during the 2020 lockdown that I actually bought books and read them immediately. I can think of three off the top of my head that were mailed to me and then I read them.
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I’m guilty of buying books and then leaving them to gather dust – sometimes for years. When I do one of my periodic tidy up of the bookshelves I invariably find books I’d forgotten I had and also books that I wonder, in hindsight, why I ever bought them
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The Gregory book sounds interesting. I’m not sure why she’d be surprised about a lack of women in the Bayeux Tapestry, though….it was about the Norman conquest of England, and so would be soldier-heavy. My list is here, if you are interested. 🙂
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Have you read other books in the Inspector Morse series? It sounds fun.
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