Top Ten Tuesday #116 - Books Set In Boarding Schools

Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by the fabulous girls cover at The Broke & The Bookish. This week's topic is -

Top Ten Twenty Books With X Setting

I've chosen boarding schools as my setting this week, mainly because I have an amazing list of books with that setting. I also make no apologies for this being twenty books long and not ten...There's pretty much every sort of boarding school here. Classic, modern, magical, abroad, secret and plenty in between! I've read all of these but if you have any boarding school books I've missed leave them in the comments!

Murder Most Unladylike

The School At The Chalet

The Tower Room

A Little Princess

Prep

A Great And Terrible Beauty

Witch Week

Looking For Alaska

Anna And The French Kiss

First Term At Malory Towers

Never Let Me Go

Villette

Daddy-Long-Legs

Among Others

Nicholas Nickleby

Hex Hall

The Magicians

The Moth Diaries

And Both Were Young

Autumn Term

Top Ten Tuesday #108 - Books I Really Love But I Haven't Talked About Enough...

Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by the fabulous girls cover at The Broke & The Bookish. This week's topic is -

Ten Books I Really Love But Feel Like I Haven't Talked About Enough...

There's a lot of books I love but don't talk about. I've got so many amazing books that I could review but I have this problem. The more I love something the harder I find it to write a review without just saying 'I loved it, you should buy it...' Here's some of my favorite books that I intend to reread and write a review of, sometime this year, maybe. I don't think there will be any surprises on this list if you're a regular reader!

Top Ten Tuesday #106 - Books I Will Definitely Reread In 2016...

Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by the fabulous girls cover at The Broke & The Bookish. This week's topic is a freebie choice so I've chosen

Ten Books I Will Definitely Reread In 2016...

Most of these used to be annual rereads for me but have fallen by the wayside in recent years. I'm desperate to lose myself in The Dark Is Rising again, and When Marnie Was There, and I adored Among Others so much that I want to reread it right now...

The Tenant Of Wildfell Hall

Howl's Moving Castle

When Marnie Was There

Among Others

The Dark Is Rising Sequence

I Capture The Castle

Dark Cathedral

The Weirdstone Of Brisingamen

The Bloody Chamber

Northanger Abbey

Top Ten Tuesday #97 - Auto-Buy Authors

Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by the wonderful gals cover at The Broke & The Bookish. This week's topic is -

Top Ten Of Your Auto-Buy Authors

I managed to stick to ten authors this week as my list turned out to be quite selective, I'm absolutely certain that there are no surprises for any regular Bookish visitors. I'm sure my list of auto-buy authors used to be huge, if I saw they had a book coming out I ordered it. I have obviously learnt how to restrain myself though!

What authors are on your list?

Top Ten Tuesday #94 - Characters Who Are Fellow Book Nerds

Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by the wonderful gals cover at The Broke & The Bookish. This week's topic is -

Top Ten Characters Who Are Fellow Book Nerds

Well, where do you start? There are so many great book nerd characters out there that I've pretty much forgotten all of them! Here's the ten that really stuck in my mind...

Matilda

Isaac

Mori

Jo

Hermione

Lady Trent

Mo

Liesel

Jess

Elizabeth

Top Ten Tuesday #89 - Pick Your Own (Topic)!!!

Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by the fabulous gals cover at The Broke & The Bookish. This week's topic is one of your own choosing so I've gone with -

Top Ten Nine Favorite Books I've Read But Never Reviewed

I know I constantly talk about certain books and/or authors on here even though I've never reviewed them. The more I like a book or an author the harder I find it to actually write a review without it consisting of me gushing about how awesome it was! That's going to change though so here is a list of some of my all-time favorite books that I'm going to re-read and write a review for - this year... If anybody is at all surprised by this list I'll be doubly surprised!

Top Ten Tuesday #87 - Top Ten ALL TIME Favorite Authors!

Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by the fabulous gals cover at The Broke & The Bookish. This week's topic is -

Top Ten Twelve Fifteen ALL TIME Favorite Authors

When I saw that the all-time favorite authors were this week's topic I snorted! Because who's going to be able to stick to ten? Well, me it would seem... Actually, not me! Have added another three authors before even getting started. And I know I'm going to kick myself when I see other people's lists and think of a hundred more I could have added. Anyway, here's fifteen of my favorite authors... Oh, and this list doesn't include people like Jasper Fforde, Alan Garner, Tolkien, L M Montgomery, Dickens, Hardy, Austen, and Bronte. It also doesn't include Patrick Rothfuss, Marcus Sedgwick, Diana Wynne Jones or George R R Martin because I think they are far too obvious (to me anyway) to be mentioned. And I can still think of at least another ten authors on top of those I would consider all-time favorites.

Freda Warrington

First Book Read - Dark Cathedral

Favorite Book - Court of the Midnight King

Catherynne Valente

First Book Read - Palimpsest

Favorite Book - The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland In A Ship Of Her Own Making

Angela Carter 

First Book Read - The Magic Toyshop

Favorite Book - The Bloody Chamber & Other Stories

Frances Hardinge

First Book Read - Fly By Night

Favorite Book - Cuckoo Song

Charles de Lint 

First Book Read - Moonheart

Favorite Book - The Little Country

 Phil Rickman

First Book Read - Crybbe

Favorite Book - The Cure of Souls

Jo Walton 

First Book Read - The King's Peace

Favorite Book - Among Others

Juliet Marillier

First Book Read - Daughter of the Forest

Favorite Book - Daughter of the Forest

Neil Gaiman 

First Book Read - Neverwhere

Favorite Book - The Graveyard Book

Kate Forsyth

First Book Read - The Witches of Eileanan

Favorite Book - Bitter Greens

Stephen King 

First Book Read - 'Salem's Lot

Favorite Book - IT

Terry Pratchett

First Book Read - The Color of Magic

Favorite Book - Wyrd Sisters

Susanna Kearsley

First Book Read - Season of Storms

Favorite Book - The Winter Sea aka Sophia's Secret

Sarah Pinborough

First Book Read - A Matter of Blood

Favorite Book - Poison

Susan Cooper

First Book Read - Over Sea Under Stone

Favorite Book - The Dark Is Rising

Top Ten Tuesday #83 - Books You Would Classify As ALL TIME FAVORITE BOOKS

Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by the fabulous gals cover at The Broke & The Bookish. This week's topic is -

Top Ten Books You Would Classify As ALL TIME FAVORITE BOOKS (from the past 3 years!?)

Seriously? Who are you trying to kid? Ten books from the last three years? Or even five years? I can think of fifty from the last year... And what to include? Re-reads? All the books in a series or just one? I really don't know what this list will feature but I suspect I will cheat and completely forget how to count to ten.