It’s another edition of Top Ten Tuesday. I’m on a roll with these lately! Thanks again to The Broke and the Bookish for hosting this meme. This week it is Top Ten Favorite Books With X Setting (ie: futuristic world, set mostly in schools, during World War II, books set in California  etc. etc. So many possibilities!)

I love all kinds of settings but one of my all-time favorites is the Victorian Era. I love the details of the dresses, the social norms, the gender/class issues and so much more. I’m partial to books set in England but mainly it’s the time frame that I’m interested in. So I didn’t actually choose any novels written during the Victorian era for this list but went with some modern books set in the time period. Here are my Top Ten:

• A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray
• Affinity by Sarah Waters
• Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters
• The Dress Lodger by Sheri Holman
• The Somnambulist by Jonathan Barnes
• The Observations by Jane Harris
• The Spiritualist by Megan Chance
• Silent in the Grave by Deanna Raybourn (first in the Lady Julia mystery series)
• Murder on Bank Street by Victoria Thompson (first in the Gaslight mystery series)
• Let Loose the Dogs by Maureen Jennings (first in the Murdoch mystery series)

Making this list reminds me that it’s been a while since I’ve read a book set during this time. I think I need to remedy that. Anyway, what are some of your favorite settings?

I’m always grateful for all the review copies I receive and the only hard thing about receiving all of these books is that I really want to read them all but I find it hard to keep up. I’m sure you guys can relate to that right? Anyway, here are the books that have arrived at Casa Bookgirl:

• The Care and Handling of Roses and Thorns by Margaret Dilloway.
• The Inheritor’s Powder by Sandra Hempel
• My Husband Next Door by Catherine Alliott
• Rutherford Park by Elizabeth Cooke
• The Panopticon by Jenni Fagan
• Alex by Pierre Lemaitre

This next batch includes:

• Snow Hunters by Paul Yoon
• Night Pilgrims by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
• Speak of the Devil by Allison Leotta
• The Gravity of Birds by Tracy Guzeman
• The Queen’s Gambit by Elizabeth Fremantle
• The Girl You Left Behind by Jojo Moyes

I am so excited abou these. They all have something that appeals to me whether it’s a setting or interesting premise.

Have you read any of these? Now to decide which one to start with first right? Let me know if you’ve read one of these and what you thought.