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Top Ten Tuesday was created by\u00a0The Broke and the Bookish\u00a0in June of 2010 and was moved to\u00a0That Artsy Reader Girl<\/a>\u00a0in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. <\/p>\n

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It is always as much a delight to look forward to upcoming releases in the next year as it is to review the previous year, isn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n

I do want to make more and better use of NetGalley this year, so keeping an eye on future releases is helpful! You can\u2019t ask for what you don\u2019t know will be available anyway!<\/p>\n

It is looking to be a great year with many authors whom I have loved or been impressed by releasing new books this year. Some like the Kiley Reid are writers whom I wasn\u2019t blown away by but who had potential, others like Oyeyemi, Katherine Arden and Natasha Pulley are already firm favourites. <\/p>\n

11th April in particular looks busy!<\/p>\n

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Come and Get It<\/em>, Kiley Reid \u2013 30th January 2024<\/h2>\n
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Everything comes at a price. But not everything can be paid for.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Millie wants to graduate, get a job and buy a house. She\u2019s slowly saving up from her job on campus, but when a visiting professor offers her an unusual opportunity to make some extra money, she jumps at the chance.<\/p>\n

Agatha is a writer, recovering from a break-up while researching attitudes towards weddings and money for her new book. She strikes gold when interviewing the girls in Millie\u2019s dorm, but her plans take a turn when she realises that the best material is unfolding behind closed doors.<\/p>\n

As the two women form an unlikely relationship, they soon become embroiled in a world of roommate theatrics, vengeful pranks and illicit intrigue \u2013 and are forced to question just how much of themselves they are willing to trade to get what they want.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Parasol Against The Axe<\/em>, Helen Oyeyemi \u2013 1st February 2024<\/h2>\n
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In Helen Oyeyemi\u2019s joyous new novel, the Czech capital is a living thing\u2014one that can let you in or spit you out.<\/p>\n

For reasons of her own, Hero Tojosoa accepts an invitation she was half expected to decline, and finds herself in Prague on a bachelorette weekend hosted by her estranged friend Sofie. Little does she know she\u2019s arrived in a city with a penchant for playing tricks on the unsuspecting. A book Hero has brought with her seems to be warping her the text changes depending on when it\u2019s being read and who\u2019s doing the reading, revealing startling new stories of fictional Praguers past and present. Uninvited companions appear at bachelorette activities and at city landmarks, offering opinions, humor, and even a taste of treachery. When a third woman from Hero and Sofie\u2019s past appears unexpectedly, the tensions between the friends\u2019 different accounts of the past reach a new level.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Greta & Valdin<\/em>, Rebecca K. Reilly \u2013 8th February 2024<\/h2>\n
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Siblings Greta and Valdin have, perhaps, too much in common. They\u2019re flatmates, beholden to the same near-unpronounceable surname, and both make questionable choices when it comes to love.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Valdin is in love with his ex-boyfriend Xabi, who left the country because he thought he was making Valdin sad. Greta is in love with fellow English tutor Holly, who appears to be using her for admin support. But perhaps all is not lost. Valdin is coming to realize that he might not be so unlovable, and Greta, that she might be worth more than the papers she can mark.<\/p>\n

Helping the siblings navigate queerness, multiracial identity, and the tendency of their love interests to flee, is the Vladisavljevic family: Maori-Russian-Catalonian, and as passionate as they are eccentric.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

What Feasts at Night<\/em>, T. Kingfisher \u2013 13th February 2024<\/h2>\n
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When Alex Easton travels to Gallacia as a favour to their friend, the excellent Miss Potter, they find their home empty, the caretaker dead, and the grounds blanketed by an uncanny silence. The locals won\u2019t talk about\u00a0what\u00a0happened to the caretaker. None of them will set foot on the grounds.<\/p>\n

Whispers of an unearthly breath-stealing creature from Gallacian folklore don\u2019t trouble practical Easton. But as strange visions disturb their sleep and odd happenings increase, they are forced to confront the dark shadow that hangs over the house\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The Warm Hands of Ghosts<\/em>, Katherine Arden \u2013 7th March 2024<\/h2>\n
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January 1918<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0<\/em>Laura Iven has been discharged from her duties as a nurse and sent back to Halifax, Canada, leaving behind a brother still fighting in the trenches of the First World War. Now home, she receives word of Freddie\u2019s death in action along with his uniform -but something doesn\u2019t quite make sense. Determined to find out more, Laura returns to Belgium as a volunteer at a private hospital. Soon after arriving, she hears whispers about ghosts moving among those still living and a strange inn-keeper whose wine gives soldiers the gift of oblivion. Could this have happened to Freddie \u2013 but if so, where is he?<\/p>\n

November 1917<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0<\/em>Freddie Iven awakens after an explosion to find himself trapped under an overturned pillbox with an enemy soldier, a German, each of them badly wounded. Against all odds, the two men form a bond and succeed in clawing their way out. But once in No Man\u2019s Land, where can either of them turn where they won\u2019t be shot as enemy soldiers or deserters? As the killing continues, they meet a man \u2013 a fiddler \u2013 who seems to have the power to make the hellscape that surrounds them disappear. But at what price?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The Hunter<\/em>, Tana French \u2013 7th March 2024<\/h2>\n
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It\u2019s a blazing summer when two men arrive in the village. They\u2019re coming for gold. What they bring is trouble.
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Cal Hooper was a Chicago detective, till he moved to the West of Ireland looking for peace. He\u2019s found it, more or less \u2013 in his relationship with local woman Lena, and the bond he\u2019s formed with half-wild teenager Trey. So when two men turn up with a money-making scheme to find gold in the townland, Cal gets ready to do whatever it takes to protect Trey. Because one of the men is no stranger: he\u2019s Trey\u2019s father.<\/p>\n

But Trey doesn\u2019t want protecting. What she wants is revenge.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The Mars House<\/em>, Natasha Pulley \u2013 19th March 2024<\/h2>\n
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In the wake of environmental catastrophe, January, once a principal in London\u2019s Royal Ballet, has become a refugee on Tharsis, the terraformed colony on Mars. In Tharsis, January\u2019s life is dictated by his status as an Earthstronger-a person whose body is not adjusted to Mars\u2019s lower gravity and so poses a danger to those born on, or naturalized to, Mars. January\u2019s job choices, housing, and even transportation options are dictated by this second-class status, and now a xenophobic politician named Aubrey Gale is running on a platform that would make it all worse: Gale wants all Earthstrongers to be surgically naturalized, a process that is always disabling and can be deadly.<\/p>\n

When Gale chooses January for an on-the-spot press junket interview that goes horribly awry, January\u2019s life is thrown into chaos, but Gale\u2019s political fortunes are damaged, too. Gale proposes a solution to both their problems: a five year made-for-the-press marriage that would secure January\u2019s future without immediate naturalization and ensure Gale\u2019s political future. But when January accepts the offer, he discovers that Gale is not at all like they appear in the press. They\u2019re kind, compassionate, and much more difficult to hate than January would wish. But as their romantic relationship develops, the political situation worsens, and January discovers Gale has an enemy, someone willing to destroy all of Tharsis to make them pay \u2013 and January may be the only person standing in the way.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Caledonian Road<\/em>, Andrew O\u2019Hagan \u2013 4th April 2024<\/h2>\n
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May 2021. London.<\/p>\n

Campbell Flynn \u2013 art historian and celebrity intellectual \u2013 is entering the empire of middle age. Fuelled by an appetite for admiration and the finer things, controversy and novelty, he doesn\u2019t take people half as seriously as they take themselves. Which will prove the first of his huge mistakes.<\/p>\n

The second? Milo Mangasha, his beguiling and provocative student. Milo inhabits a more precarious world, has experiences and ideas which excite his teacher. He also has a plan.<\/p>\n

Over the course of an incendiary year, a web of crimes and secrets and scandals will be revealed, and Campbell Flynn may not be able to protect himself from the shattering exposure of all his privilege really involves. But then, he always knew: when his life came tumbling down, it would occur in public.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

James<\/em>, Percival Everett \u2013 11th April 2024<\/h2>\n
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The Mississippi River, 1861.\u00a0<\/strong>When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a new owner in New Orleans and separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby Jackson\u2019s Island until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck Finn has faked his own death to escape his violent father who recently returned to town.<\/p>\n

Thus begins a dangerous and transcendent journey by raft along the Mississippi River, toward the elusive promise of free states and beyond. As James and Huck begin to navigate the treacherous waters, each bend in the river holds the promise of both salvation and demise.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The Familiar<\/em>, Leigh Bardugo \u2013 11th April 2024<\/h2>\n
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In a shabby house, on a shabby street, in the new capital of Madrid, Luzia Cotado uses scraps of magic to get through her days of endless toil as a scullion. But when her scheming mistress discovers the lump of a servant cowering in the kitchen is actually hiding a talent for little miracles, she demands Luzia use those gifts to better the family\u2019s social position.<\/p>\n

What begins as simple amusement for the bored nobility takes a perilous turn when Luzia garners the notice of Antonio P\u00e9rez, the disgraced secretary to Spain\u2019s king. Still reeling from the defeat of his armada, the king is desperate for any advantage in the war against England\u2019s heretic queen\u2015and P\u00e9rez will stop at nothing to regain the king\u2019s favor.<\/p>\n

Determined to seize this one chance to better her fortunes, Luzia plunges into a world of seers and alchemists, holy men and hucksters, where the lines between magic, science, and fraud are never certain. But as her notoriety grows, so does the danger that her Jewish blood will doom her to the Inquisition\u2019s wrath. She will have to use every bit of her wit and will to survive\u2015even if that means enlisting the help of Guill\u00e9n Sant\u00e1ngel, an embittered immortal familiar whose own secrets could prove deadly for them both.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The Morningside<\/em>, Tea Obreht \u2013 11th April<\/h2>\n
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There\u2019s the world you can see. And then there\u2019s the one you can\u2019t.\u00a0Welcome to The Morningside.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

When Silvia and her mother finally land in a place called Island City, after being expelled from their ancestral home in a not-too-distant future, they end up living and working at The Morningside, a crumbling luxury tower where Silvia\u2019s aunt, Ena, serves as the superintendent. Silvia feels unmoored in her new life because her mother has been so diligently secretive about their family\u2019s past. Silvia knows almost nothing about the place she was born and spent her early years; nor does she know why she and her mother had to leave. But in Ena there is an opening: a person willing to give a young girl glimpses into the folktales of her demolished homeland, a place of natural beauty and communal spirit that is lacking in Silvia\u2019s lonely and impoverished reality.<\/p>\n

Enchanted by Ena\u2019s stories, Silvia begins seeing the world with magical possibilities, and becomes obsessed with the mysterious older woman who lives in the penthouse of the Morningside. Bezi Duras is an enigma to everyone in the building; she has her own elevator entrance, and only leaves to go out at night and walk her three massive hounds, often not returning until the early morning. Silvia\u2019s mission to unravel the truth about this woman\u2019s life, and her own haunted past, may end up costing her everything.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Parade<\/em>, Rachel Cusk \u2013 6th June 2024<\/h2>\n
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Sadie Smith \u2013 a sardonic, strikingly sexy, 30-something American undercover agent of questionable morals \u2013 is sent by her mysterious but powerful employers to a remote corner of France. Her instructions are to infiltrate a commune of radical eco-activists led by the charismatic svengali Bruno Lacombe and coax them into violent action, provoking the French state to crush them and their dangerous ideas for good.<\/p>\n

At first Sadie finds Bruno\u2019s idealism laughable \u2013 he lives in a Neanderthal cave and believes the path to enlightenment is a return to primitivism. But over time she falls for his narrative about the futility of civilisation and his promise of a new dawn for humanity. His ingenious counter-histories, his artful laments, his own devastating story, become impossible to turn away from.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Creation Lake<\/em>, Rachel Kushner 5th September<\/h2>\n
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Sadie Smith \u2013 a sardonic, strikingly sexy, 30-something American undercover agent of questionable morals \u2013 is sent by her mysterious but powerful employers to a remote corner of France. Her instructions are to infiltrate a commune of radical eco-activists led by the charismatic svengali Bruno Lacombe and coax them into violent action, provoking the French state to crush them and their dangerous ideas for good.<\/p>\n

At first Sadie finds Bruno\u2019s idealism laughable \u2013 he lives in a Neanderthal cave and believes the path to enlightenment is a return to primitivism. But over time she falls for his narrative about the futility of civilisation and his promise of a new dawn for humanity. His ingenious counter-histories, his artful laments, his own devastating story, become impossible to turn away from.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Somewhere Beyond the Sea<\/em>, T. J, Klune 12th September 2024<\/h2>\n
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A magical house. A secret past. A summons that could change everything.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Arthur Parnassus lives a good life built on the ashes of a bad one. He\u2019s the master of a strange orphanage on a distant and peculiar island, and he hopes to soon be the adoptive father to the six dangerous and magical children who live there.<\/p>\n

Arthur works hard and loves with his whole heart so none of the children ever feel the neglect and pain that he once felt as an orphan on that very same island so long ago. He is not alone: joining him is the love of his life, Linus Baker, a former caseworker in the Department In Charge of Magical Youth. And there\u2019s the island\u2019s sprite, Zoe Chapelwhite, and her girlfriend, Mayor Helen Webb. Together, they will do anything to protect the children.<\/p>\n

But when Arthur is summoned to make a public statement about his dark past, he finds himself at the helm of a fight for the future that his family, and all magical people, deserve. And when a new magical child hopes to join them on their island home \u2013 one who finds power in calling himself monster, a name that Arthur worked so hard to protect his children from \u2013 Arthur knows they\u2019re at a breaking point: their family will either grow stronger than ever or fall apart.<\/p>\n

Welcome back to Marsyas Island. This is Arthur\u2019s story.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Ooops\u2026 that is both going a little beyond the first half of the year \u2013 but I couldn\u2019t resist with the Kushner and the Klune! \u2013 and significantly beyond the ten books we are urged to select! And I am urge you all to suggest more for my growing tentative TBR for the year!<\/p>\n

May I wish everyone a wonderful and joyous 2024 \u2013 may your year be full of whatever gives you joy and peace, whether that be books or anything else.<\/p>\n

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Upcoming Top Ten Tuesday Themes<\/h2>\n

J<\/strong>anuary 16:<\/strong>\u00a0Bookish Goals for 2024
January 23:<\/strong>\u00a0Books I Meant to Read in 2023 but Didn\u2019t Get To
January 30:<\/strong>\u00a0New-to-Me Authors I Discovered in 2023
February 6:<\/strong>\u00a0Top Ten Quick Reads\/Books to Read When Time is Short (Books under 150 pages, or if you\u2019re not a novella reader maybe spin this to be books you could read in a day or a single sitting.<\/em>) (Submitted by Jennifer @ FunkNFiction.com and Angela @ Reading Frenzy<\/em>)
February 13:<\/strong>\u00a0Love Freebie (in honor of Valentine\u2019s Day tomorrow<\/em>)
February 20:<\/strong>\u00a0Bookish Superpowers I Wish I Had (e.g. never accidentally buying the same book twice, every book I buy would be automatically signed\/personally dedicated by the author, the ability to read faster, etc.<\/em>) (Submitted by Cathy @WhatCathyReadNext<\/em>)
February 27:<\/strong>\u00a0Covers\/Titles with Things Found in Nature (covers\/titles with things like trees, flowers, animals, forests, bodies of water, etc. on\/in them<\/em>) (Submitted by Jessica @\u00a0a GREAT read<\/a><\/em>)<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n