Top Ten Tuesday: A Few Classic Quotes

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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.’

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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

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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: New to Me Authors Discovered in 2025

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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:

Bookish Discoveries I Made in 2025: New to Me Authors Discovered in 2025

I actually read a surprising amount of new authors last year. Here are my ten favourites:

Greenteeth by Molly O’Neill

Incidents Around the House by Josh Malerman

Victorian Psycho by Virginia Feito

The Knight and the Moth by Rachel Gillig

The Bone Raiders by Jackson Ford

This Monster of Mine by Shalini Abeysekara

No Friend to This House by Natalie Haynes

No Women Were Harmed by Heather Mottershead

Too Old For This by Steve Jones

By Blood by Salt by JL Odom

Top Ten Tuesday: Most Anticipated Books Releasing in the First Half of 2026

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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

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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

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