For today the topic for top ten tuesday (as always hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl) is outrageous things you’ve done for the love of books. I quite honestly can’t think of a thing. I’ve never skipped a meal, I’ll just eat and read at the same time. Nor have I ever camped outside a bookstore for a release.
This is why I decided to scroll through the old list on The Broke and the Bookish and pick out a different topic that I hadn’t done before. Which is a lot harder than you think after 182 top ten tuesday’s. In the end I settled on older books I don’t want people to forget about. That seems fitting with how we all seem to be talking about wanting to catch up on our backlist books.
Perfume, the Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind / 1985
The Dragonbone Chair (Memory, Sorrow and Thorn 1) by Tad Williams / 1988
The Snow-Walker’s Son (Snow Walker 1) by Catherine Fisher / 1993
The Amulet of Samarkand (Bartimaeus 1) by Jonathan Stroud / 2003
The Crown Conspiracy (The Riyria Revelations 1) by Michael J. Sullivan / 2008
Indigo Springs (Astrid Lethewood 1) by A.M. Dellamonica / 2009
The Demon King (Seven Realms 1) by Cinda Williams Chima / 2009
Angelfall (Penryn and the End of Days 1) by Susan Ee / 2011
Seraphina (Seraphina 1) by Rachel Hartman / 2012
The Golem and the Djinni by Helene Wecker / 2013
I haven’t skipped a meal for books either, although I had been late for supper at school a few times 😝 this is such a cool topic! I haven’t actually read any of these books though, which genre are they?
My list: https://bookslifeotheroddities.wordpress.com/2019/04/09/10-crazy-things-all-bookworms-have-done/
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That kind of counts. 😉 All of these are subgenres of fantasy except Perfume the Story of a Murderer which is historical fiction.
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Ooh what’s it about? I’m trying to read more historical fiction!
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Thanks for the list! I kept intending to read The Golem and The Djinni.
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It is an interesting read!
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Great list! Seraphina is one that I recently rediscovered – I bought a copy years ago and still haven’t read it, but now I’d really like to cross it off my TBR soon. 🙂 I’ve heard really good things about The Amulet of Samarkand, too!
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Seraphina is great as is The Amulet of Samarkand 😀
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Ah, Perfume is really good!
Bought the english translation recently for the re-read. I wish i remembered enough German to read the original 😀
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Its been years since I read it. (I was 15-16) so I need to reread it at some point too. 🙂
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I hadn’t done much for the list either this week so I had to go with something else. I love this topic – i really need to do this one at some point. I actually haven’t read any of these but I’m really interested in Seraphina.
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Yes its great to see what kind of older books people come up with. 😀 Seraphina is great!
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This was a good list. 🙂
Here is our Top Ten Tuesday.
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Thank you. 🙂
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This is a cool list! And I LOVED Catherine Fisher when I was a teen! Have you read any of her other books?
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No! But I have Incarceron to read at some point.
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I hope all of these books find lots of new readers this week.
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I hope so too!
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I loved Perfume when I read it way back when! Such a great story.
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It was. I really need to reread it.
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Angelfall and Seraphina are two of my favorites. I don’t know if it’s because we’ve been blogging so long and there are now other books to discuss, but it never feels like people are talking about either enough. P.S. I’d be down for a buddy reread of either in the future with you.
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I agree. Shadow Scale came out a few months before I started blogging but I only saw a few people talking about it. Tess of the Road never ended up getting the same attention as other releases at the time either when it came out last year.
And YES I’d love that. ❤
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This is a great list, and a great prompt! I’ve added some more books to my TBR (like it needed it, ha!). I really need to get to Angelfall and The Golem and the Djinni soon!
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Haha you’re welcome. 😉 And yes, yes youd do!
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Great list! I’ve been wanting to read Angelfall for a while. I think I’ve had a copy of it on my kindle for the longest time.
Krystianna @ Downright Dystopian
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Angelfall is a great read so I hope you’ll like it when you get to it.
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Haha I’m also not an outrageous reader 🙂 Love the Seven Realms series!
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The seven realms series was great.
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Thanks for the recs! The Crown Conspiracy has been on my list for a while, I definitely want to check it out at some point.
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I have the third book waiting at the library for me. They are some great fun fantasy books. 😀
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I’ve honestly been meaning to read The Bartaemius Trilogy for like, twelve years now. Yikes.
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Get on it! 😉
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Oh, this was such a good list! I definitely need to give more love to some older releases. I’ve heard such great things about Seraphina and the Seven Realms series! 🙂
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Its hard to balance it with all the new releases to be honest. Both are super great!
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I haven’t skipped a meal either… although what I have done is way crazier…
I haven’t heard of any of these books though. There are so many good books out there.
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I hope you’ll find something nice in here. 😉
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I thought the same thing about this week’s topic. I just haven’t done anything all that crazy for books. I mean, nothing that would seem crazy to fellow bookworms.
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Right? Nothing is strange to us anymore haha.
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I need to get to The Golem and the Djinni, and also try to tackle Seraphina again; although I think I will probably end up reading Tess of the Road, first. 😉
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I do think Tess of the Road is more up your alley. Though you might want to wait for the sequel I think…
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This week’s topic was a hard one. I’ve heard great things about The Golem and the Djinni so I definitely want to read that one some day.
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Its an interesting read. 🙂
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This is a cool topic! Book bloggers are always obsessed with the newest thing. It’s good to remember some great oldies.
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It is! We need to do it more.
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I really enjoyed Rachel Hartman’s Tess of the Road! I’m not sure if it’s just coincidence but the title and storyline somehow reminded me of Tess d’Ubervilles. I’ll have to give Seraphina a read ❤
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I think that might have been on purpose. 🙂 And yes read Seraphina. Its in the same world as Tess of the Road so you might come across something familiar. 😉
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Oh, Het parfum. Dat is echt zo ontzettend lang geleden. Ik denk dat ik dat boek in 1997 of 1998 las. Dat boek zou bij mij ook in het lijstje zijn terechtgekomen.
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Ja ik iets later denk ik. Ik was 15-17 dus ergens in 2002-2005. Pff what klinkt dat allemaal lang weg haha.
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Bij mij was het rond dezelfde leeftijd maar dan wel al iets langer geleden. Ik denk dat het in 1998 was.
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