Top Ten Tuesday
is an original feature/weekly meme created at The Broke and the Bookish. This feature was created because we are particularly fond of
lists here at The Broke and the Bookish. We'd love to share our lists
with other bookish folks and would LOVE to see your top ten lists!
June 3: Top Ten Books That Should Be In Your Beach Bag or Ten Books That Will Be In My Beach Bag This Summer
Here is a list of ten books that I will be reading this summer:
Here is a list of ten books that I will be reading this summer:
1. The Book of Life by Deborah Harkness being released July 15th, so excited!!!
With more than one million copies sold in the United States and appearing in thirty-eight foreign editions, A Discovery of Witches and Shadow of Night
have landed on all of the major bestseller lists and garnered rave
reviews from countless publications. Eagerly awaited by Harkness’s
legion of fans, The Book of Life brings this superbly written series to a deeply satisfying close.
2. Revenge & Retribution by Anna Belfrage is the sixth book in Anna Belfrage's time slip series
featuring time traveller Alexandra Lind and her seventeenth century
husband, Matthew Graham.
I LOVE THIS SERIES!!!
3. The Lost Sisterhood by Anne Fortier - I loved Juliet and can't wait to read this one. Lovin' that cover too!
The Lost Sisterhood features another group of iconic, legendary characters, another grand adventure--you'll see in these pages that Fortier understands the kind of audience she has built with Juliet, but also she's delivering a fresh new story to keep that audience coming back for more.
4. Flight of the Sparrow by Amy Belding Brown - being released July 1st, however I was lucky to get an advanced copy
Based on the compelling true narrative of Mary Rowlandson, Flight of the Sparrow
is an evocative tale that transports the reader to a little-known time
in early America and explores the real meaning of freedom, faith, and
acceptance.
From the highly
acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, a stunningly ambitious
and beautiful novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose
paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation
of World War II.
6. Daughter of the Gods by Stephanie Thornton - because I LOVED The Secret History and adore all things Egypt.
Egypt, 1400s BC. The
pharaoh’s pampered second daughter, lively, intelligent Hatshepsut,
delights in racing her chariot through the marketplace and testing her
archery skills in the Nile’s marshlands. But the death of her elder
sister, Neferubity, in a gruesome accident arising from Hatshepsut’s
games forces her to confront her guilt...and sets her on a profoundly
changed course.
7. The Queen's Gamble by Barbara Kyle - book 4 in the Thornleigh Series, started it this year on audio and love it.
Young Queen Elizabeth
I's path to the throne has been a perilous one, and already she faces a
dangerous crisis. French troops have landed in Scotland to quell a rebel
Protestant army, and Elizabeth fears once they are entrenched on the
border, they will invade England.
8. Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin - I am feeling the need for a big book, coming in at 768 pages this fits the bill. Plus I have to read the book before watching the movie (one of my quirks).
New York City is
subsumed in arctic winds, dark nights, and white lights, its life
unfolds, for it is an extraordinary hive of the imagination, the
greatest house ever built, and nothing exists that can check its
vitality. One night in winter, Peter Lake, orphan and master-mechanic,
attempts to rob a fortress-like mansion on the Upper West Side.
9. The Midnight Rose by Lucinda Riley - I wasn't really thrilled with another book this author wrote and want to give her another chance.
Spanning four generations, The Midnight Rose
sweeps from the glittering palaces of the great maharajas of India to
the majestic stately homes of England, following the extraordinary life
of a remarkable girl, Anahita Chaval, from 1911 to the present day . . .
10. A King's Ransom by Sharon Kay Penman - being a big fan of this author I am embarrassed to say that I haven't read this yet - it was released in March - what is wrong with me??!
Traveling home from
the bloody battlefields of the Holy Land, the Crusader King Richard the
Lionheart is shipwrecked in the Mediterranean after an encounter with
pirates. He should be protected by a papal decree, but he is betrayed
and captured by the Duke of Austria – a man who has good reason to
loathe him – and is immediately claimed by the Holy Roman Emperor, who
also bears him a bitter grudge.
