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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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They \u2013 whoever they <\/em>may be \u2013 say that buying books and actually reading them are two very different hobbies! They must say it, it is a google-able image!<\/p>\n

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And as I am in the process of moving house and trying to pack in advance. What were the first things I packed? Obviously my physical books! And \u2026 there have been quite a number of boxes filled already. Old favourites and a few that I have been intending to read and never quite got around to it. Nor will I be able to for a little while as they are all still sealed in boxes. As is my crockery (save for one plate, one bowl, one cup each) and my baking equipment. Clothes? I\u2019ll do that whenever!<\/p>\n

So, these are a selection of the unread books still waiting to be read.<\/p>\n

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Ithaca <\/em>(and House of Odysseus<\/em>), Claire North<\/h2>\n
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This is t<\/strong>he story of Penelope of Ithaca, famed wife of Odysseus, as it has never been told before. Beyond Ithaca\u2019s shores, the whims of gods dictate the wars of men. But on the isle, it is the choices of the abandoned women \u2013 and their goddesses \u2013 that will change the course of the world.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2018The greatest power we women can own is that which we take in secret.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n

Seventeen years ago, King Odysseus sailed to war with Troy, taking with him every man of fighting age from the isle of Ithaca. None of them has returned, and the women of Ithaca have been left behind to run the kingdom.<\/p>\n

Penelope was barely into womanhood when she wed Odysseus. While he lived, her position was secure. But now, years on, speculation is mounting that her husband is dead, and suitors are beginning to knock at her door.<\/p>\n

No one man is strong enough to claim Odysseus\u2019s empty throne \u2013 not yet. But as everyone waits for the balance of power to tip, Penelope knows that any choice she makes could plunge Ithaca into bloody civil war . . .<\/p>\n

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At Night, All Blood is Black<\/em> (and Beyond the Door of No Return<\/em>), David Diop<\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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Alfa and Mademba are two of the many Senegalese soldiers fighting in the Great War. Together they climb dutifully out of their trenches to attack France\u2019s German enemies whenever the whistle blows, until Mademba is wounded, and dies in a shell hole with his belly torn open.<\/p>\n

Without his more-than-brother, Alfa is alone and lost amidst the savagery of the conflict. He devotes himself to the war, to violence and death, but soon begins to frighten even his own comrades in arms. How far will Alfa go to make amends to his dead friend?<\/p>\n

At Night All Blood is Black<\/em>\u00a0is a hypnotic, heartbreaking rendering of a mind hurtling towards madness.<\/p>\n

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The Running Grave<\/em>, Robert Galbraith<\/h2>\n
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Private Detective Cormoran Strike is contacted by a worried father whose son, Will, has gone to join a religious cult in the depths of the Norfolk countryside.<\/p>\n

The Universal Humanitarian Church is, on the surface, a peaceable organisation that campaigns for a better world. Yet Strike discovers that beneath the surface there are deeply sinister undertones, and unexplained deaths.<\/p>\n

In order to try to rescue Will, Strike\u2019s business partner Robin Ellacott decides to infiltrate the cult and she travels to Norfolk to live incognito amongst them. But in doing so, she is unprepared for the dangers that await her there or for the toll it will take on her . . .<\/p>\n

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The Fraud<\/em>, Zadie Smith<\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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Truth and fiction. Jamaica and Britain. Who gets to tell their story? Zadie Smith returns with her first historical novel.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kilburn, 1873. The \u2018Tichborne Trial\u2019 has captivated the widowed Scottish housekeeper Mrs Eliza Touchet and all of England. Readers are at odds over whether the defendant is who he claims to be \u2013 or an imposter.<\/p>\n

Mrs Touchet is a woman of many interests: literature, justice, abolitionism, class, her novelist cousin and his wives, this life and the next. But she is also sceptical. She suspects England of being a land of fa\u00e7ades, in which nothing is quite what it seems.<\/p>\n

Andrew Bogle meanwhile finds himself the star witness, his future depending on telling the right story. Growing up enslaved on the Hope Plantation, Jamaica, he knows every lump of sugar comes at a human cost. That the rich deceive the poor. And that people are more easily manipulated than they realise.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Antarctica<\/em>, Claire Keegan<\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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The stunning debut story collection from the author of\u00a0<\/strong>Foster<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0and the Booker Prize shortlised\u00a0<\/strong>Small Things Like These<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2018A beautiful, tender work of great clarity.\u2019 Sebastian Barry<\/strong>
\u2018Simply put, Claire Keegan is one of the greatest fiction writers in the world.\u2019 George Saunders<\/strong>
\u2018Among the finest contemporary stories written recently in English.\u2019\u00a0<\/strong>Observer<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

A secret one-night tryst in the city. A sister\u2019s revenge. A love-struck doctor. A missing girl. In\u00a0Antarctica<\/em>, an astonishing sequence of stories, one of our most gifted writers illuminates human longing and fallibility in all its variety.<\/p>\n

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You Made A Fool of Death With Your Beauty<\/em>, Akwaeke Emezi<\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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It\u2019s the opportunity of a lifetime:<\/p>\n

Feyi is about to be given the chance to escape the City\u2019s blistering heat for a dream island holiday: poolside cocktails, beach sunsets, and elaborate meals. And as the sun goes down on her old life our heroine also might just be ready to open her heart to someone new.<\/p>\n

The only problem is, she\u2019s falling for the one man she absolutely can\u2019t have.<\/p>\n

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Silver Nitrate<\/em>, Silvia Moreno Garcia <\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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Montserrat has always been overlooked. She\u2019s a talented sound editor, but she\u2019s left out of the boys\u2019 club running the film industry in \u201990s Mexico City. And she\u2019s all but invisible to her best friend Trist\u00e1n, a charming if faded soap opera star, even though she\u2019s been in love with him since childhood.<\/p>\n

Then Trist\u00e1n discovers his new neighbour is the cult horror director Abel Urueta, and the legendary\u00a0auteur\u00a0<\/em>claims he has a way to change their lives \u2013 even if his tales of a Nazi occultist imbuing magic into highly volatile silver nitrate stock sounds like sheer fantasy. The magic film was never finished, which is why, Urueta swears, his career vanished overnight. He is cursed.<\/p>\n

Now the director wants Montserrat and Trist\u00e1n to help him shoot the missing scene and lift the curse . . . but Montserrat soon notices a dark presence following her.<\/p>\n

As they work together to unravel the mystery of the film and the obscure occultist who once roamed their city, Montserrat and Trist\u00e1n might just find out that sorcerers and magic are not only the stuff of movies . . .<\/p>\n

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Yellowface<\/em>, R. F. Kuang<\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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THIS IS ONE HELL OF A STORY.<\/strong><\/p>\n

IT\u2019S JUST NOT HERS TO TELL.<\/strong><\/p>\n

When failed writer June Hayward witnesses her rival Athena Liu die in a freak accident, she sees her opportunity\u2026 and takes it.<\/p>\n

So what if it means stealing Athena\u2019s final manuscript?<\/p>\n

So what if it means \u2018borrowing\u2019 her identity?<\/p>\n

And so what if the first lie is only the beginning\u2026<\/p>\n

Finally, June has the fame she\u00a0<\/strong>always<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0deserved. But someone is about to expose her\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

What happens next is entirely everyone else\u2019s fault.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies<\/em>, Maddie Mortimer<\/h2>\n
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SMaps of Our Spectacular Bodies<\/em>\u00a0is a story of coming-of-age at the end of a life. Utterly heart-breaking yet darkly funny, Maddie Mortimer\u2019s debut is a symphonic journey through one woman\u2019s body: a celebration of desire, forgiveness, and the darkness within us all.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lia has only one child, Iris; her magical, awkward, endlessly creative daughter who has just entered the battleground of her teenage years. Lia and Iris have always been close, but there is a war playing out inside Lia\u2019s body, too, and everything is about to change.<\/p>\n

As she confronts what might be the end, memories of her own childhood and a passionate love affair come rushing into her present, unearthing buried secrets and her family\u2019s deepest fears. But Lia still has hope . . . for more time, for more love, for more Iris.<\/p>\n

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Blacklands<\/em>, Belinda Bauer<\/h2>\n
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Steven Lamb is 12 when he writes his first letter . . .\u00a0to a serial killer
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Every day after school, whilst his classmates swap football stickers, twelve-year-old Steven digs holes on Exmoor, hoping to find a body. His uncle disappeared aged eleven and is assumed to have fallen victim to the notorious serial killer Arnold Avery \u2013 but his body has never been found.<\/p>\n

Steven\u2019s Nan does not believe her son is dead. She still waits for him to come home, standing bitter guard at the front window while her family fragments around her. Steven is determined to heal the widening cracks between them before it\u2019s too late \u2013 even if that means presenting his grandmother with the bones of her murdered son.<\/p>\n

But when Steven realises this is an impossible task, he crafts a careful letter to Arnold Avery in prison. And there begins a dangerous cat-and-mouse game between a desperate child and a bored psychopath . . .<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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These are \u2013 trust me \u2013 only a small selection of the books I could have selected and they are still fairly current, The Belinda Bauer is perhaps the one that has been hanging around the longest\u2026 Which do you think deserve to be unboxed first? Please do let me know in the comments!<\/p>\n

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Upcoming Themes<\/h2>\n

April 30:<\/strong>\u00a0Petty Reasons You\u2019ve DNF\u2019d a Book (Or reduced its rating. You don\u2019t even have to say what the book was if you don\u2019t want to!<\/em>)
May 7:<\/strong>\u00a0May Flowers \u2014 Pick your own title for this one to reflect the direction you choose to go with this prompt (books with flowers on the cover, flower names in the title, characters whose names are flower names, stories involving flowers\/gardeners<\/em>)
May 14:<\/strong>\u00a0Favorite Book Quotes (You can pick your favorite quotes from books, or about books! You can set a theme like quotes from books about love, friendship, hope, etc. or you can just share quotes you loved from your recent reads!<\/em>)
May 21:\u00a0<\/strong>Authors I\u2019d Love a New Book From (These could be authors that have passed away, who have retired from writing, who have inexplicably gone quiet, or who might jut not be able to keep up with how quickly you read their books!<\/em>)
May 28:\u00a0<\/strong>Books I Was Super Excited to Get My Hands on but Still Haven\u2019t Read
June 4:<\/strong>\u00a0Books I Had VERY Strong Emotions About (Any emotion! Did a book make you super happy or sad? Angry? Terrified? Surprised?<\/em>)
June 11:<\/strong>\u00a0Bookish Wishes (List the top 10 books you\u2019d love to own and include a link to your wishlist so that people can grant your wishes. Make sure you link your wishlist to your mailing address or include the email address associated with your e-reader in the list description so people know how to get the book to you. After you post, jump around the Linky and grant a wish or two if you\u2019d like. Please don\u2019t feel obligated to send anything to anyone!<\/em>)
June 18:<\/strong>\u00a0Books on My Summer 2024 To-Read List
June 25:<\/strong>\u00a0Most Anticipated Books Releasing During the Second Half of 2024<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n