Top Ten Tuesday: A Few Classic Quotes
24 February 2026
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Tags: book-blog, Books, Classic Books, Quotes, reading, That Artsy Reader Girl, The Broke and the Bookish, Top Ten Tuesday

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 prompt is:
Quotes from Books you Love
I decided to use classic books – some of the ones I really have loved over the years and the quotes are well known, so see how many of these you can guess.
‘Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again. It seemed to me I stood by the iron gate leading to the drive, and for a while I could not enter, for the way was barred to me.’
‘You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of underdone potato. There’s more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!’
‘May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out’
‘Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.’
‘It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.’
‘Tomorrow I’ll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day.‘
‘Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.‘
‘My father’s family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip‘
‘Curiouser and curiouser’
‘The most wonderful thing about Tiggers is, I’m the only one.’
And the answers are:
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Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell
The Princess Bride by William Goldman
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Winnie the Pooh by AA Milne
Top Ten Tuesday: Love Freebie
10 February 2026
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Tags: Cosy Fantasy, Heather Fawcett, Love Freebie, romantasy, Sarah Beth Durst, Stephanie Burgis, That Artsy Reader Girl, Top Ten Tuesday, Valentine's Day

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 prompt is:
Valentines/Love Freebie
Romantasy seems to be all the rage at the moment so I’m certain I shall have no problem finding ten books with a little bit of romance going on:










Don’t they all look lovely together?
Top Ten Tuesday: Most Anticipated Books Releasing in the First Half of 2026
13 January 2026
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Tags: Most Anticipated Books releasing in 2026, That Artsy Reader Girl, the broke and bookish, Top Ten Tuesday

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 prompt is:
Most Anticipated Books Releasing in the First Half of 2026
This week is so easy. I have so many books that I’m looking forward to that the only problem now is reining myself in. I may have already demonstrated my excitement for some of these books but a little more can’t hurt can it and I cannot tell a lie – this is a banging list!
Nightshade and Oak by Molly O’Neil
Agnes Aubert’s Mystical Cat Shelter by Heather Fawcett
Wolf Worm by T Kingfisher
Steel Gods by Richard Swan
Daughter of Crows by Mark Lawrence
The Children by Melissa Albert
The Summer Fun Massacre by Craig DiLouie
The Tinder Box by MR Carey (cover to be revealed)
The Intrigue by Silvia Moreno Garcia
The Tapestry of Fate by Shannon Chakraborty
Top Ten Tuesday: Best Books I read in 2025
6 January 2026
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Tags: Best Books I read in 2025, book-blog, Bookish Highlights for 2025, Books, My Top Ten books for 2025, reading, TBR, That Artsy Reader Girl, the broke and bookish, Top Ten Tuesday

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 prompt is:
Best Books I read in 2025
This is my first Top Ten Tuesday for 2026 so although I’ve actually already covered this topic (here) and also looked at my highlights for 2025 (here), I thought I might take a look at both posts and see if I could see which books coincide or not and maybe choose another ten books from my highlights. Here goes:
Grave Empire by Richard Swan
A Far Better Thing by HG Parry
My Ex, the AntiChrist by Craig DiLouie
Senseless by Ronald Malfi
It Was Her House First by Cherie Priest
No Women Were Harmed by Heather Mottershead
Paladins Grace by T Kingfisher
Forget Me Not by Stacy Willingham
Paved With Good Intentions by Peter McLean
The Last Witch by CJ Cooke

































