Every Tuesday over at the  The Broke and Bookish we all get to look at a particular topic for discussion and use various (or more to the point ten) examples to demonstrate that particular topic.  The topic this week is :

Ten Books I’ve Read Because Of Another  Blogger

One of the beauties of blogging is the number of amazing books that I’ve picked up as a result of great recommendations.  This list barely scratches the surface of course – not to mention I can’t in fairness always remember who recommended a book.  Of course a lot of books I’ve stumbled on purely by good fortune (or dumb luck)  but here are a few examples of books that I probably would have overlooked (at least for a while):

1. I am Legend by Richard Matheson – this is one of many titles that I came to read courtesy of Jenny at Wondrous Reads.
2. The Troupe by Robert J Bennett – recommended to me by Andrea at The Little Red Reviewer – again, one of many titles that I’ve picked up from this excellent blog!
3. The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman – I first read about this on Carl’s Stainless Steel Droppings blog – I can also credit Sanderson’s Way of Kings and Butcher’s Dresden files to my early exploration of this blog.
4. The Kushiel books by Jacqueline Carey.  To be honest I had already read Kushiel’s Dart but hadn’t continued with the series.  Thanks to Susan at Dab of Darkness and a number of readalongs involving a host of other bloggers I’m now in the process of reading my sixth book from this series (Kushiel’s Mercy).
5. My favourite UF of the moment – the Toby Daye series by Seanan McGuire.  Currently reading book six as part of a readalong.  I wouldn’t have picked up this series without the readalongs organised by Lisa at Over The Effing Rainbow.
6. Danya at Fine Print recommended to me Burn for Me by Ilona Andrews which was a rather sizzling first in series that I really look forward to continuing with!
7. Mogsy at the Bibliosanctum first drew my attention to Dreamer’s Pool by Juliet Marillier which I loved.
8. Lisa at Tenacious Reader recently wrote a review for Rae Carson’s Walk on Earth a Stranger.  Now, I had seen this around the blogosphere a number of times and I like the look of it already but this review I think really pushed me over the edge with this one.  I haven’t yet picked it up but it’s on the top of my list now.
9. The next two are slightly different.  The Classics Club blog is a blog where people come together to talk about classic literature and to set themselves up with a list of books that they would like to way.  It’s a way of encouraging us all to pick up some of the older books that we might otherwise not get to.  I’ve read some good books so far – my last one was the very dark and spooky House of Usher by Poe.
10. Finally, three different sci fi events hosted by Rinn Reads, Stainless Steel Droppings and Little Red Reviewer that have increased my sci reading enormously.  For example, I never would have read Flowers for Algernon or Fahrenheit 451 without these events and that would have been a crying shame.

And now, a little buffet of covers: