Top Ten Tuesday: Top ten books I really love… but haven’t talked about in a while.

Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish, featuring a different top 10 theme each week. This week’s topic is Top Ten Books Ten Books I Really Love But Feel Like I Haven’t Talked About Enough/In A While.

Hmmm. I guess that rules out Outlander! 🙂

Here are a bunch of books that I do really love, but don’t seem to have included on any of my lists in a while:

1) Kindred by Octavia Butler: A powerful tale of time travel, set in the 1970s and the antebellum South.

2) All Men of Genius by Lev AC Rosen: A clever, funny, fast-paced steampunk comedy.

3) Alive in Necropolis by Doug Dorst: Set in a graveyard, with cops and ghosts. Unique, to say the least.

4) 11/22/63 by Stephen King: Another time-travel masterpiece.

5) The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker: Such a beautiful story (here’s my review).

6) The Night Strangers by Chris Bohjalian: One of the spookiest ghost stories I’ve ever read.

7) My Year of Meats by Ruth Ozeki: A book about a Japanese TV show sponsored by the American beef industry? Yes, the topic sounds odd, but it’s an incredible book.

8) Deerskin by Robin McKinley: A fairy tale that’s dark and disturbing; not a children’s book.

9) The Mystery of Grace by Charles de Lint: Another ghost story, this one about love and connections.

10) Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn: Word lovers unite! If you enjoy clever word play, you can’t miss with this book.

What books made your list this week? Please share your links!

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21 thoughts on “Top Ten Tuesday: Top ten books I really love… but haven’t talked about in a while.”

Kindred sounds like a very interesting book. It was recommended to me right after I read The Color Purple by Alice Walker. I hope to find it soon. I also loved Stephen King’s book. Only book that I have read on time travel and it was great.

Great List.

That Stephen King book is indeed a masterpiece! 😀

Nice picks for this week! I haven’t read any of the books on your list… I’ll have to expand my reading horizons!!

Here’s a link to my TTT for this week:
http://captivatedreader.blogspot.com/2016/03/ten-books-i-really-love-but-feel-like-i.html

These look fabulous. I read The Golem and the Jinni but haen’t really talked much about it on the blog.

I’ve read a couple books by Chris Bohjalian – but not this one. Sounds like a great choice!

I loved 11/22/63. I totally didn’t expect to. Great pick for the list. 👍

I’ve been meaning to read 11/23/63 but it’s just so long! I’m having trouble getting up the courage to start.

My TTT: https://booksbeyondmeasure.wordpress.com/2016/03/22/top-ten-tuesday-8/

Wow, interesting list Lisa! I’m only familiar with a few of these titles–and yay for The Golem and the Jinni 😀 –but the others do sound very interesting too 🙂 I have yet to read anything by Charles de Lint; really need to fix that one of these days haha.

My TTT

Some of these look really good. I’m adding a few to my TBR. Thanks for that! Haha. Great list! 🙂
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I haven’t read many of these but love love love DEERSKIN!!! So good! I have heard wonderful things abotu the Golem and the Jinni from many people; I guess I’ll have to try it one day 🙂

I read Kindred back in college and it was absolutely amazing – I need to read more by Butler. 🙂

Check out my TTT.

Ella Minnow Pea! I loved that book! Gah! Also, I really need to read Golem and the Jinni. It’s been on my tbr for forever. I will get to it one day! Here’s my TTT. 🙂

Man, I haven’t thought of Deerskin in like a decade! Thanks for reminding me of that book 🙂

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Hey, Kindred made my top ten list too! That was my first Octavia Butler book, but it will not be my last. I loved her writing.

The Golem and the Jinni is a book I’ve been meaning to read but haven’t for ages. Seeing it here reminded me just how much I wanted to read it. Thank you for the wonderful list!

My Year of Meats looks interesting, I think the cultural differences in eating would be fascinating to read about (not sure if that’s what it’s about per se) but I might have to take a look at that one.

oooo Ella Minnow Pea sounds fun! My TTT

That Stephen King book sounds interesting!

Here’s my TT: http://pitchblacksky.net/top-ten-tuesday/

Great list. I have Ella Minnow Pea on my list too, and Kindred is on my short list of books that I need to get to soon.

Loveee your pics. I’m bookmarking this one for future references. Especially piqued with Deerskin and Alive in Necropolis. These are graphic novels, are they?