Today’s TTT is books we were reading on this day for the last ten years. My approach to this will be to look at the review posted on or after August 11th for the last decade. Actually, I may have used the date of August 14th, realized that only after compiling the entire list, and then decided “What difference does it make?!” — but that’s strictly between you and me, dear reader. (Just don’t let the others in on it.)
BUT FIRST! Ye Olde Teaseday Tuese, this time from Mailman: My Wild Ride Delivering Mail in the Appalachians.
“Everyday, each letter carrier effectively builds a library, loads it into a truck, and then disassembles that library in route order. We all worked in a big warehouse room with intake loading docks on one side and outbound loading docks for the mail trucks on the other. Everything smelled of machine oil and cigarette smoke, but there was something else. The smell of ink and paper, the smell of the mail.
And now, we return to our regularly scheduled Top Ten Tuesday
2025:
Husk, Nathaniel Eliason. A memorable SF title about a world that’s a little Ready Player One, a little Fallout. Fun SF thriller that involves uploading human minds into digital worlds.
2024:
I was midway through my California Diaries re-read and posted reviews for books 6-10.
2023:
Day of Atonement, David Liss. Another compelling historical fiction novel, this one set in Lisbon’s Jewish community in the 18th century or so. Liss’s historical novels are thrillers laden with personal, political, and criminal intrigue.
2022
Boy, do I have my pick: I posted a short round collection on August 16 that included everything from a Gore Vidal essay collection to an underwhelming history of Babylon.
2021
Attack Surface, Cory Doctorow. The third book in his hella cool Little Brother series, this one shifts perspective to a woman named Masha who had gotten involved in law enforcement’s efforts to track down the terrorists responsible for destroying the Bay Bridge….until she realizes that the tools she and her colleagues are developing are also enabling brutal dictators across the world.
2020
American Illiad, Charles P. Roland. A short history of the American Civil War, which I read while I was visiting the Shiloh battlefield.
2019:
The Sky’s the Limit, various authors. A collection of TNG short stories.
2018:
Pirate Cinema, Cory Doctorow. Another fun SF novel from Doctorow, this one about copyright. In the novel, a young man who creates new stories by ‘remixing’ footage is persecuted by the government and has to go into hiding.
2017
The Age of Napoleon, Will & Aerial Durant. Jiminy cricket, has it been nearly ten years since I finished the epic Story of Civilization series?
2016:
Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, Anthony Beevor. This was..dark.
Reading Freely 
I loved the California Diaries books back in the day! I remember feeling so adult-like reading them because they were edgier and dealt with such heavy issues compared to the BSC books. I was actually considering doing a re-read of some of them a few years ago!
My TTT: https://memorymeetsimagination.wordpress.com/2026/08/11/top-ten-tuesday-books-i-was-reading-on-this-day-over-the-last-ten-years/
If you do it, let me know! Would love to read someone else’s reaction. I read them in isolation back in the day!
Just in case it’s of interest:
https://readingfreely.com/?s=California+diaries
Cool, I definitely will let you know! I read them on my own back in the day too.
I read the first book of the Little Brother series and didn’t even realize there was a sequel. I wonder if I should try to read on or just call it good and stay where I left off.
Homeland was just a continuation of Little Brother, but Attack Surface is very different. 🙂
An interesting list. I used my Goodreads list, but sometimes I was reading more than one book and had to keep double checking the dates. Hopefully I got it right 😂
Have a great week!
Emily @ Budget Tales Book Blog
My post:
I really didn’t like my only Cory Doctorow (so far) [Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom] but after watching a few of his interviews lately I’m going to be dipping back in. I’ll definitely be reading his last 2 non-fiction publications.
Down and Out was his first book and among his weakest. I say among because he’s written some books that were MUCH worse, largely because he was writing them to vent his spleen about ________________, not tell an interesting story.
So…. rather hit/miss then? I only have ‘Homeland’ ATM – but no doubt I’ll be picking up some more of his as I come across them. Its not like I’m desperate for things to read! [lol]
That’s hard to say. I’ve enjoyed most of what I’ve read by him, especially the Homeland series and Pirate Cinema. But he’s written other SF I just haven’t gotten to.
it’s an interesting coincidence that you read two from Doctorow at the same time but years apart.
Thanks for sharing your #TTT
It’s interesting to see patterns in our reading of the past, I think. Are we still reading the same sorts of books today? Did we read more of another genre in the past?
Husk sounds good!
Husk sounds very intriguing and very relevant to today. I do love me a good historical focused book as well, I can imaging the darkness of Stalingrad.Nice list!
My Post:
https://thegentlechapter.blog/2026/08/11/top-ten-tuesday-books-i-read-this-time-in-the-past/
My parents had that Durant series in our living room for years. I remember checking one volume for a Latin assignment but never read them cover to cover – I guess I should have!
I noticed when looking up these last 10 years that I don’t read much nonfiction. It is likely I lost some of my enthusiasm while in law school but I still love history – just need to pick my reading carefully. Erik Larson is a current favorite.
Law school ruined SEVERAL of my friends for leisure reading!
I’m pretty sure I have that Stalingrad book on my shelf and I know it’ll be a rough one when I get to it
Nice list. I enjoyed looking back and reading everyone’s lists.
I like David Liss but haven’t read him in a while. This one sounds interesting.
Oh oh, I need to check Husk!