Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme where every Tuesday we look at a particular topic for discussion and use various (or more to the point ten) bookish examples to demonstrate that particular topic.  Top Ten Tuesday (created and hosted by  The Broke and Bookish) is now being hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl and future week’s topics can be found here.  This week’s topic is :

The Last Ten Books That Gave Me a Book Hangover

I’ve literally scrolled through my list of books and picked out the ten most recent books that immediately jumped out at me.  All for different reasons – but all good books.

1. The God Game by Danny Tobey.  I loved this, a Big Brother type game that starts innocent enough but quickly escalates.
2. The Other People by CJ Tudor – I was gripped.  How could I not be. A man who thinks his daughter has been taken but nobody believes him.
3. The Strawberry Thief (Chocolat #4) by Joanne Harris.  An absolutely gorgeous book full of enchantment that felt like it was written just for me.
4. One Word Kill by Mark Lawrence – fantastic sci fi.  Any author that can make me enjoy time travel (and all the paradox headaches) is definitely winning.
5. A Boy and His dog at the End of the World by CA Fletcher.  This book is so good.  I couldn’t stop thinking about it for such a long time.
6. Storm of Locusts by Rebecca Roanhorse.  This is the second in series -the first is also really good but I think this one was even better – no middle book syndrome here.
7. House of Sacrifice by Anna Smith Spark.  This is the concluding book in a trilogy.  It’s an absolutely fantastic ending, brutally honest and true to itself.
8. Ration by Cody T Luff.  This is a hard hitting and brilliant read.  Not for the faint hearted maybe but I still think about it months after putting it down.
9. The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E Harrow – a story for story lovers.
10. The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock by Imogen Hermes Gowar.  This gave me the feeling of reading a classic – but something along the lines of Moll Flanders.  Very cheeky and with light fantasy.  I can’t wait to see what this author does next.