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:

Books On My TBR I Predict Will Be 5-Star Reads

I think I pick up every book hoping for a 5* read – I imagine that’s the hope for most readers isn’t it, finding that special book?  But, with certain books and authors I definitely pick the book up with high expectations – maybe that’s wrong but it’s difficult not to do so.  With that in mind, here are 10 books that I’m greatly looking forward to and strongly expecting to be excellent:

Dead to Her by Sarah Pinborough because, basically, I have loved everything I’ve read by this author and so I’m always excited when she releases a new book.

A Time of Courage by John Gwynne the first two books in this series have been brilliant, they make me regret not having picked up his previous series because I know I probably won’t at this stage go back to pick them up.  I have very high hopes for the final book in the series.

The Wolf’s Call by Anthony Ryan – I loved the Raven’s Shadow series and so the idea of a return to this world and more than that, to read more of Vaelin Al Sorna’s adventures, well, colour me happy.

The Guest List by Lucy Foley.  This is definitely an author that made it onto my ‘keep my eye on this author’ list (yes, I do have such a list).  I really enjoyed the Hunting Party, it was such a good murder mystery and this promises another engrossing read.  Fingers crossed for much love for this book.

The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel – this ia an author that I’ve been patiently (not really patiently at all) waiting for more from.  I loved Station Eleven.  It was such a great book that I highly recommend.

The Deep by Alma Katsu.  Another author on my list (see above).  I love the style of writing and the concept for this novel sounds absolutely absorbing.  I can’t wait to pick it up.

Survivors by G X Todd.  I’m a little late for this one but that is certainly no indication of my desire to get started.  Just simply not enough hours in the day.  This is the final instalment of a series that has had me positively gripped.

The Girl with No Face M.H. Boroson.  The Girl with Ghost Eyes was totally kick ass.  Again, lack of time has stopped me picking this up in a timely fashion but I’m still excited to get started and I definitely have very high expectations given the reviews I’ve seen from some of my fellow bloggers.

The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison.  I know.  I’m probably the only person on the planet that hasn’t picked this up yet.  It enjoys such glowing reviews and comes highly recommend by a blogger who has very similar tastes to mine. Excitement am I.

The Girl and the Stars by Mark Lawrence.  I’m almost 100% certain that this author writes his books simply with me in mind.  Joking aside – I’ve been completely won over by everything he’s written so far so you could say my expectations with this book are a little bit ridiculous – they’re not just high, they’re astronomical.  No pressure at all then.