The actual title of this week’s Top Ten Tuesday is Ten Books You’d Buy Right This Second If Someone Handed You A Fully Loaded Gift Card.
Well. A bit much for a post title, but an easy one to participate in! I can always call to mind a list of titles that I definitely want to read, can’t get from the library, would definitely buy if I had the spare funds, but am waiting to buy till I have the spare funds and/or can catch a sale. Here’s what heads the list at the moment:
America Moved: Booth Tarkington’s Memoirs of Time and Place, 1869-1928. You probably know by now how much I love Tarkington’s novels, so I’m eager to read his memoirs of 19th into 20th-century America.
Christmas at Thompson Hall: And Other Christmas Stories by Anthony Trollope. I would have snapped this up the first time I saw it, had it not been rather staggeringly priced for a fairly short book (in both print and ebook). I’m going to get hold of it sooner or later, though, because I love Trollope and I love Christmas stories and the combination of those two things sounds wonderful.
Indian Country by Dorothy M. Johnson. Her other short story collection, The Hanging Tree, is one of my favorite Western books, and I’m hoping this one turns out to be just as good.
Baker’s Dozen by Kathleen Thompson Norris. Ditto for this one. Norris’ Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby and Other Stories recently made my list of top ten favorite books—will lightning strike twice? (And no, I couldn’t find a single image of this one online, which is not at all a new experience for me when it comes to book lists.)
The Rhodes Reader: Stories of Virgins, Villains and Varmints by Eugene Manlove Rhodes. I’ve thoroughly enjoyed the handful of Rhodes’ public-domain Western novels and short stories I’ve already read, and I’d like to read more of his short fiction—as a matter of fact I’ve had my eye on this anthology ever since the late Ron Scheer reviewed it on his blog a few years ago.
Miss Seeton Draws the Line by Heron Carvic. The first book in this series, Picture Miss Seeton, was a bargain impulse-buy on Kindle this summer, and proved to be such fun—a quirky, even zany, but cozy mystery from the 1960s—that I’m keen to see if the next book lives up to it.
Friendship and Folly by Meredith Allady. I enjoyed the free companion novella to Allady’s Regency-era Meriweather Chronicles (Letters From Bath) so much that the first novel in the series immediately went onto my Kindle wish list. (Are you starting to notice a pattern here?)
Launch to Market by Chris Fox. This recently-published guide for self-publishers intrigues me because of some reviews that mention advice on locating and launching to a target audience, a task that has baffled me since I began publishing. I’m interested in having a look at it before the next time I release a (non-series) book.
Rumbin Galleries by Booth Tarkington. Because I haven’t read a good new-to-me full-length Tarkington novel in a while (Seventeen is a bit of summer confectionery that doesn’t really count), and from its one brief review on Goodreads this one looked appealing. Plus it’s set in 1930s New York City!
Tin Can Sailor: Life Aboard the USS Sterrett, 1939-1945 by C. Raymond Calhoun. Okay, this may be cheating a bit, because I am going to buy this one soon whether someone hands me a loaded gift card or not—it’s my next research book and I hope it turns out to be as good as it looks.
Captivated Reader says
Hope you receive the books you want soon. Happy reading!!
Here's a link to my TTT post for the week: http://captivatedreader.blogspot.com/2016/08/top-ten-tuesday-ten-books-id-buy-right.html
Hanne-col says
These books all look sooo good! And so my wish list grows.
Probably topping my wish list right now is "A Sparrow in Terezin" and "The Ringmaster's Wife" by Kristy Cambron, "The Complete Western Stories of Elmore Leonard", and a bunch of non-fiction books on the Netherlands during WWII. I'm holding back from buying any of them until I've read more of the ones I've already bought. It has been a wonderful year for buying books I've wanted. I keep finding them for really good prices and I now have stacks growing in front of my overflowing bookshelf and next to my bed.
Gloria Kluth says
America Moved and Tin Can Sailor both look interesting! Do you think you'll do a book review once you've read them? I'm currently on the prowl for more good books.
Elisabeth Grace Foley says
Yes, it's pretty likely I'll write at least a brief review! I do most of my reviewing on Goodreads these days, but occasionally I'll cross-post one here on my blog.