This week’s Top Ten Tuesday over at the Broke and Bookish is

top ten books we’d recommend to x person

I’m not going to choose an actual person – I’m going to go for something a bit different, because if I say ‘suchabody’ should read this it will be meaningless to you all.  So, these are my 10 – and I recommend them to everybody:

1. For beautiful writing: If you love descriptive, evocative writing: Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
2. Ditto the above – Witch Light by Susan Fletcher – such a gorgeous book
3. Dark Fantasy – The Broken Empire series by Mark Lawrence
4. For twisted, creepy and totally unusual fantasy – any of the books by Robert Bennett, The Troupe, Mr Shivers, American Elsewhere
5. For fairytales retold – that are no longer sugary sweet – Poison, Charm and Beauty by Sarah Pinborough
6. For dark, dirty, smelly evil vampires, The Danilov Quintet by Jasper Kent
7. For depth, worldbuilding and characters that you love the Gentlemen Bastards by Scott Lynch
8. For phwoar factor – The Trueblood series by Charlaine Harris – I’m sorry but there are some hotties in these books not to mention a lot of fun
9. For plenty of fun – The Anvil of the World by Kage Baker
10. And, you know that I’m not going to forget – Neil Gaiman, for just about anything he writes!