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 ten modern books you think will be classics in the future. I’ll be linking to Goodreads this week because cloudflare is stuffing up again, preventing me from accessing The Storygraph,

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Number 1
Harry Potter
J.K. Rowling

Goodreads link

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Number 2
I Am David
Anne Holm

Goodreads link.

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Number 3
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
Max Brooks

Goodreads link.

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Number 4
Grief is the Thing With Feathers
Max Porter

Goodreads link.

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Number 5
The Road
Cormac McCarthy

Goodreads link.

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Number 6
The Lovely Bones
Alice Sebold

Goodreads link.

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Number 7
Bear v. Shark
Chris Bachelder

Goodreads link.

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Number 8
How to Be Both
Ali Smith

Goodreads link.

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Number 9
The City & The City
China Mieville

Goodreads link.

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Number 10
The Complete Maus
Art Spiegelman

Goodreads link.

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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:

I think of all the sketches and dessins and paintings on panels and linens and crack-covered walls, all the colours and the willows and the hares and the goats and the sheep and the hoofs, all the eggs cracked open : ash, bones, dust, gone, the hundreds and hundreds, no, thousands.

Cause that’s all the life of a painter is, the seen and gone disappearing into the air, rain, seasons, years, the ravenous beaks of the ravens. All we are is eyes looking for the unbroken or the edges where the broken bits might fit each other.

— How To Be Both by Ali Smith, p. 58

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© Adele Walker November 2025