A layout of book covers: 1989 by Val McDermid; Best of Friends by Kamila Shamsie; Eileen by Otessa Moshfegh; The Hero of This Book by Elizabeth McCracken; Clark and Division by Naomi Hirahara; Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr; The Last Chairlift by John Irving; Lessons by Ian McEwan; Ely by David Berenbaum; We Spread by Iain Reid; Trust by Herman Diaz; Babel by R.F. Kuang

Most Recent Additions to My Book Collection 


Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together.

Here’s how it works: Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl assigns a topic for each Tuesday. If you check this link, you’ll find she’s assigned topics for several future weeks so you can plan ahead. She adds, “create your own top ten (or 2, 5, 20, etc.) list . . . Feel free to put a unique spin on the topic to make it work for you!”

Each week Jana posts a Linky on her blog where you can (if you want) share a link to your post and check out other bloggers’ posts.


Here are the newest additions to my book collection, nine that I got as presents this holiday season, followed by three I bought. Links are to Goodreads, as I haven’t read any of these yet.

1989 by Val McDermid

Best of Friends by Kamila Shamsie

Eileen by Otessa Moshfegh

The Hero of This Book by Elizabeth McCracken

Clark and Division by Naomi Hirahara

Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr

The Last Chairlift by John Irving

Lessons by Ian McEwan

Elf by David Berenbaum

  • This link is to Amazon because the book did not come up on Goodreads.

We Spread by Iain Reid

Trust by Herman Diaz

Babel by R.F. Kuang

© 2022 by Mary Daniels Brown

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