Today's Top Ten Tuesday at The Broke and the Bookish is all about doing a top ten list you missed.
The one I missed and wanted to do was just last week: Ten Books You'd Buy Right This Second If Someone Handed You A Fully Loaded Gift Card
- A History of Modern Britain, by Andrew Marr
- Commonwealth, by Ann Patchett
- Young Pioneers, by Rose Wilder Lane
- The Edge of the Empire: From the Heart of Rome to Hadrian's Wall, by Bronwen Riley
- The Cambridge Companion to Charles Dickens
- The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606, by James Shapiro
- Lab Girl, by Hope Jahren
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Sloot
- Hadrian's Wall Path, by Henry Stedman
- The Fall of the House of Dixie, by Bruce Levine
These are but a fraction of the books that are in my Amazon cart and/or on my GoodReads To-Read shelf, but they are the ones I would get with a gift card!
How'd you narrow your list down to just ten? :)
ReplyDeleteFair question! I tended to pick non-fiction or new fiction that I couldn't pick up at the used book store.
DeleteI didn't know The Cambridge Companion to Charles Dickens even existed. I think I might need that book!
ReplyDeleteI would not even try to put together such a list. Because any list of wanted books has gone in to the hundreds or even thousands for me, I now just buy what I am ready to read right at the time that I am ready to begin it.
ReplyDeleteWith that your list looks super. I had not heard of The Edge of the Empire. I Googled it. It sounds very good. I would like to read it.
Nice to see some of your current and longstanding passions in this Top Ten!
ReplyDeleteWow there's quite a few nonfiction on your list. Are you off to visit Hadrian's Wall by any chance? I would like to someday ... I will look at your #4 to find out more about it.
ReplyDeleteAs a matter of fact, I am in the planning stages for a 2-week vacation next summer to walk the full Hadrian's Wall Path, all 84 miles from Solway on Bowness to Wallsend. I cannot wait--it will be a convergence of so many things I love (walking, UK history, national parks, birding, Roman history).
DeleteWow Jane --- that's terrific! How long does walking 84 miles take? Can you do it in 2 weeks? & What book is a good guide to walk the entire Hadrian's Wall? I think my husband would be interested in this as well.
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