Top 5 Tuesday: Top 5 books with ballgowns on the cover

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Top 5 Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by Meeghan Reads — check out the next batch of upcoming topics here.

This week’s topic is Top 5 books with a ballgown on the cover, with the prompt: We are hitting it old school and FANCY this week. Your top five books with ballgowns on the cover, if you please. State of the ballgown is up to you.

My first thought was that I could just go with five books from the Bridgerton series! But I’ll try to expand my reach just a bit beyond that.

Here are a few from my shelves that fit the theme:

Marry Me By Midnight by Felicia Grossman (I ended up DNFing this book, but I still like the cover!)
Romancing Mr. Bridgerton (Bridgertons, #4) by Julia Quinn (I couldn’t entirely omit Bridgerton books!) (review)
The Ladies Rewrite the Rules by Suzanne Allain (review)
Cotillion by Georgette Heyer (review)
Valour and Vanity (Glamourist Histories, #4) by Mary Robinette Kowal (review)

What covers did you feature this week? Do you have a favorite “ballgown” books on your shelves?

If you wrote a T5T post, please share your link!

13May2025

Top 5 Tuesday: Top 5 books with stars on the cover

Posted in Top Ten Tuesday by Lisa @ Bookshelf Fantasies

Top 5 Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by Meeghan Reads — check out the next batch of upcoming topics here.

It’s been a while since I’ve done a T5T post — not for any specific reason, but just because my blogging habits have been a bit scattered lately. Too many real life distractions! Anyway, this topic caught my eye and seemed like fun, so here I am.

This week’s topic is Top 5 books with a star on the cover, with the prompt: Time to find your fave books with a (or multiple) star(s) on the cover. And in the immortal words of Nicola Yoon: The Sun is Also a Star. (Just saying!).

Here are a few from my shelves that fit the theme:

The Dog Stars by Peter Heller (review)
A Brilliant Night of Ice and Stars by Rebecca Connolly (on my TBR!)
Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki (review)
Winter’s Orbit by Everina Maxwell (review)
The Midnight Watch by David Dyer (review)

Interesting… my five include two Titanic books!

So, those are my five top books with actual (astronomical/celestial) stars… but I’ll add two more books as a bonus, since I loved them both. These books’ covers have stars representing military service — another type of star!

Blue Stars by Emily Gray Tedrowe (review)
You Know When the Men Are Gone by Siobhan Fallon (excellent book of linked stories; I read it before I started posting reviews)

What “star” covers did you feature this week? What other books with stars on their covers do you especially love?

If you wrote a T5T post, please share your link!

3Dec2024

Tuesday’s topic: Favorite book covers from 2024

Posted in Top Ten Tuesday by Lisa @ Bookshelf Fantasies

Lately, I’ve been bouncing back and forth for my Tuesday posts, switching between the Top Ten Tuesday and Top Five Tuesday memes, depending on their topics for the week. This week, I’m doing them both!!

First up… Top Ten Tuesday:

Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, featuring a different top 10 theme each week. This week’s topic is a freebie… and since I like the Top 5 Tuesday topic this week, I’ll use it for both memes.

And speaking of Top 5 Tuesday:

Top 5 Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by Meeghan Reads — check out the next batch of upcoming topics here.

This week’s topic is Top 5 covers of 2024, and the prompt is: What are some of your favourite covers that you have seen this year? Maybe these were reprints, redesigns or alternate covers that came out this year, or maybe they are brand new books!! Whatever they are, tell us all the pretties you have been coveting.

For my list of favorite covers, I’m looking at books I’ve read in 2024 — not necessarily books published in 2024. (My list, my rules!)

Here’s a selection of covers I loved this past year:

Weyward by Emilia Hart
The Answer is No by Fredrik Backman
Schemes & Scandals by Kelley Armstrong
The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler
Until Next Summer by Ali Brady
The Teller of Small Fortunes by Julie Leong
Hula by Jasmin Iolani Hakes
Camp by L. C. Rosen
The Guncle by Steven Rowley
The Lost Story by Meg Shaffer

What do you think of my cover choices? Do any particularly catch your eye? What were your favorite book covers this past year?

Also, I’d love to know what freebie topics other people came up with!

If you posted a list for TTT or T5T, please share your link!

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5Nov2024

Top Ten Tuesday: Books with BOOKSTORES on the cover

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Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, featuring a different top 10 theme each week. This week’s topic is Covers with [Item] on the Cover (You choose the item! It can be anything at all.)

Last time this topic came up for a TTT post, I went with books on the cover… and this time I’m doing books with bookstores on the cover. So, yeah, I’m not particularly thinking outside the box here!

Without further ado, my bookstore book covers are:

Midnight at the Christmas Bookshop by Jenny Colgan (review)
The Bookshop of Second Chances by Jackie Fraser (review)
The Bookshop on the Shore by Jenny Colgan (review)
The Bookshop on the Corner by Jenny Colgan
Bookshops & Bonedust by Travis Baldree (review)
84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
The Bookshop of the Broken Hearted by Robert Hillman (review)
The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald
Days at the Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa
Better Than Fiction by Alexa Martin (review)

Yes, that’s three by Jenny Colgan! What can I say? Her bookshop books are hard to resist!

I’ve read all of the above except #6 and #9, and both are on my to-read list.

Do you have any great books to recommend with bookshops on the cover?

What was your cover topic this week? If you wrote a TTT post, please share your link!

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22Oct2024

Top 5 Tuesday: Top 5 orange books

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Top 5 Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by Meeghan Reads — check out the next batch of upcoming topics here.

This week’s topic is Top 5 orange books, and the prompt is: Earlier this year we did yellow books and red books, but it’s now time for Halloween. What are your favourite orange covered books?

What fun… and a great excuse to shuffle books on my bookshelves and check out all the covers! I ended up with more orange books than I expected to find — here are five that stand out:

There There by Tommy Orange (even the author’s name fits the theme!)
Never Fall for Your Fiancé by Virginia Heath
The Dead Romantics by Ashley Poston
Dragonfly in Amber by Diana Gabaldon
Ravensong by TJ Klune

Definitely getting a fall vibe from all these!

What orange books are on your shelves?

2Jul2024

Top Ten Tuesday: Books with my favorite color on the cover

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Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, featuring a different top 10 theme each week. This week’s topic is Books with My Favorite Color on the Cover.

I don’t know if this is my favorite color… but at this time of year, it’s the color I most yearn for: The blue of a beautiful sea!

Summer sea blue… I don’t know if that’s an actual color name, but it’s something I love. I guess I’m just dying for a beach vacation!

Here are ten books with shades of sea blue:

Don’t these book covers make you want to head to the beach?

What color did you choose for this week’s TTT? Please share your links!

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11Apr2023

Top Ten Tuesday: Books with animals on the cover

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Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, featuring a different top 10 theme each week. This week’s topic is Titles with Animals In Them and/or Covers with Animals On Them. I love looking at interesting book covers, so I’m going with the book cover theme. Here are my 10:

Hollow Kingdome by Kira Jane Buxton
100 Sideways Miles by Andrew Smith
The Queen of Nothing by Holly Black
Down the Mysterly River by Bill Willingham
Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry
American Hippo by Sarah Gailey
The Spare Man by Mary Robinette Kowal
Hunting Ground by Patricia Briggs
Winter Rose by Patricia A. McKillip
The Chronicles of Chrestomanci by Diana Wynne Jones

What books made your list this week? If you wrote a TTT post, please share your link!

26Apr2022

Top Ten Tuesday: Books with BOOKS on the cover

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Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, featuring a different top 10 theme each week. This week’s topic is Books with [___] On the Cover (Pick a thing (a color, an item, a place, an animal, a scripty font, a sexy person, etc.) and share covers that have that thing on the cover.). I took what seemed like an easy-ish approach and went with books!

I love books about books and readers — how about you? Do you have a favorite?

What was your TTT theme this week? Share your links, and I’ll come check out your top 10!

11May2021

Top Ten Tuesday: Books with Nature on the Cover

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Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, featuring a different top 10 theme each week. This week’s topic is Books with Nature on the Cover.

I thought I’d focus on flowers and plants, but a few landscapes and animals snuck into the mix as well!

Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon
Orfeia by Joanne M. Harris
The Familiars by Stacey Halls
America Pacifica by Anna North
Bleaker House by Nell Stevens
The Thorn and the Blossom by Theodora Goss
The Fall of Koli by M. R. Carey
New Moon by Stephenie Meyer
If You Lived Here, I’d Know Your Name by Heather Lende
In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson

If you did a TTT post this week, please share your link!

20Apr2021

Top Ten Tuesday: Colorful Book Covers

Posted in Top Ten Tuesday by Lisa @ Bookshelf Fantasies

Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, featuring a different top 10 theme each week. This week’s topic is Colorful Book Covers. I misread the topic, so I had a completely different list ready to go… but I guess I’ll save that one for another time! I went back to my shelves and looked through all the covers there, and came up with this collection of colorful book covers: