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 today is Books I Hope Santa Brings/Bookish Wishes, I’ve picked the Ten Most Recent Additions To My Wishlist.
- The Eye in the Door by Pat Barker – the 2nd book in her World War One trilogy (Regeneration Trilogy Book 2).
- Quartet in Autumn by Barbara Pym, a funny, poignant and hopeful story of human connection.
- Venetian Vespers by John Banville, an eerie, Venice-set novel.
- Victim of the Aurora by Thomas Keneally. In the waning years of the Edwardian era, a group of gentlemen wait out a raging blizzard in the perpetual darkness of the Antarctic winter, poised for a strike at the South Pole.
- Tolstoy: A Russian Life by Rosamund Bartlett, a biography of Count Lev Tolstoy.
- Voices of the Dead (A Raven and Fisher Mystery Book 4) by Ambrose Parry.
- The Ghost Ship (The Joubert Family Chronicles Book 3) by Kate Moss, a swashbuckling tale of adventure and buccaneering, love and revenge, stolen fortunes and hidden secrets on the high seas.
- Green for Danger by Christianna Brand, book 7 of the Inspector Cockerill Mysteries.
- Normal Women: 900 Years of Women Making History by Philippa Gregory
- Unfinished Portrait by Agatha Christie writing as Mary Westmacott. Agatha Christie also wrote about crimes of the heart, six bittersweet and very personal novels, as compelling and memorable as the best of her work.
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Quartet for Autumn is on my wishlist, too.
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Normal Women sounds excellent.
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You have some excellent choices here, Margaret. I very much want to read Venetian Vespers. And Green For Danger is, I think,, a well-written mystery with a strong sense of place and time. Your other choices look very appealing, too.
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Good stuff–the Mary Westmacott novels are interesting. I’ve read one [two?] Victim of the Aurora sounds like one I’d want to read. Enjoy your holidays.
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Since Venetian Vespers was my book of the year, I do hope Santa brings you that one! All depends on whether you made his Nice list this year, though, I suppose… 😇 🎅 Merry Christmas, Margaret!
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I’ve not heard of any of these but I hope they come off your wishlist soon! :)
Heres a link to my TTT – https://justreadjessie.blog/2025/12/23/top-ten-tuesday-books-i-hope-santa-brings/
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I love the cover of Venetian Vespers. Happy reading! 📚
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Some interesting selections here! Merry Christmas!
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I hope you enjoy reading all of these when you get the opportunity.
Pam @ Read! Bake! Create!
https://readbakecreate.com/2026-releases-to-get-excited-about/
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Great selections, Wishing for your bookish dreams to come true!
Thanks for sharing your TTT list.
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I hope the big guy comes through for you this year. Merry Christmas and Happy TTT (on a Wednesday)!
Susan
http://www.blogginboutbooks.com
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The Ghost Ship looks amazing! I hope your bookish wishes come true 😊
If you’d like to visit, here’s my TTT: (I didn’t have many bookish wishes for once, so I chose to do an older prompt I missed)
https://thebooklorefairyreads.wordpress.com/2025/12/22/top-ten-tuesday-books-on-my-winter-2025-2026-to-read-list/
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