The First Ten Books Randomly Chosen From My Shelves

Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by Jana over on that artsy reader girl, which features a different bookish theme every week. This week’s theme is: close your eyes and point randomly at books in your shelves, or use a random number generator, and post the first ten books you choose.

Number 1
Second Glance
Jodi Picoult

Format: Paperback
Status: tbr
Comment: This is on my shelf because I aim to read, and own, Picoult’s full catalogue of published works.
The Storygraph link

Number 2
The Heart of the Matter
Graham Greene

Format: Paperback
Status: tbr
Comment: I don’t remember where, when, or why I acquired this, but it’s on my shelf, so I’ll read it at some point.
The Storygraph link

Number 3
Arabian Nights / Aesop’s Fables

Format: Hardcover
Status: tbr
Comment: I don’t remember where, when, or why I acquired this, but I’ve had it for what seems like forever. It’s one of those flippy books where one story reads in one direction, then you flip it over to read the other story in the other direction.
The Storygraph link

Number 4
Introduction to Medieval Europe 300-1500
Wim Blockmans & Peter Hoppenbrouwers

Format: Paperback
Status: tbr
Comment: I bought this for one of my history courses at uni. We only used bits and pieces but I found it interesting, so I kept it to read properly at some point.
The Storygraph link

Number 5
The Fever King
Feverwake #1
Victoria Lee

Format: Paperback
Status: tbr
Comment: No idea where or when I got it but it sounds awesome, right?
The Storygraph link

Number 6
Wolf in Shadow
Jon Shannow #1, Sipstrassi/Stones of Power #5
David Gemmell

Format: Paperback
Status: tbr
Comment: I have this one because the Gemmell books are all so intertwined, I decided to just acquire all of them before bothering to figure out reading order lol.
The Storygraph link

Number 7
The Search
Maureen Myant

Format: Paperback
Status: tbr
Comment: I picked this one up because it sounds interesting, and the kid on a journey part reminded me of I Am David by Anne Holm.
The Storygraph link

Number 8
The Extraordinary Colours of Auden Dare
Zillah Bethell

Format: Paperback
Status: tbr
Comment: I liked the cover :shrug:.
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Number 9
I Am David
Anne Holm

Format: Paperback
Status: Read, 5 stars
Comment: Hahahaha! What are the odds? A couple of books ago I pulled a book I bought because it reminded me of I Am David, and here we have I Am David itself.
The Storygraph link

Number 10
Bind, Torture, Kill: The Inside Story of BTK, the Serial Killer Next Door
Hurst Laviana, Roy Wenzl & Tim Potter

Format: Paperback
Status: tbr
Comment: I’ve had this for ages but haven’t gotten around to reading it yet. It’s on my ‘read before the end of the year’ tbr, though.
The Storygraph link

And now, I’ll leave you with a little teaser from one of my current reads as part of Teaser Tuesday, hosted by The Purple Booker:

The first hit occurred on the night of Sunday, August 3, at a restaurant called Max Fim, where a group of men armed with AK-47s shot to death Alfonso Corral Olague, a thirty-six-year-old man from Durango and an alleged collaborator of the Juárez Cartel. Five others died in the shootout: one of Corral’s girlfriends, one of his guards and three innocent bystanders, including a couple eating at an adjacent table. It was clear that new rules had been set. The government’s number one rule — keeping violence out of the public eye — was no longer going to be followed.

— The Story of Vicente, Who Murdered His Mother, His Father, and His Sister: Life and Death in Juárez by Sandra Rodríguez Nieto, p. 26