This week's theme is Books Set in X leaving it up to you to decide what X should be. After much consideration--and clicking through lots of other possibilities online--I decided to go with: Books Set in Lighthouses. (Mostly because I've always wanted to live in one and I think they're a very fun setting to read about.)
1. Secrets of the Lighthouse by Santa Montefiore
2. The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter by Hazel Gaynor
3. Lighthouse Beach by Shelley Noble
4. The Lighthouse by P.D. James
5. The Lighthouse by Christopher Parker
6. The Last Lighthouse Keeper by John Cook
7. 16 Lighthouse Road by Debbie Macomber
8. The Lighthouse Keeper by James Michael Pratt
9. A Lighthouse Christmas by Jenny Hale
10. The Lighthouse Sisters by Gill Thompson
Have you read any of these? They all look good to me.
Happy Reading!
Great TTT post! I don't know why, but lighthouse always give me a kind of mysterious vibe. And I agree they make a fun setting to read about. :D
ReplyDeleteThey do give off a mysterious and romantic vibe! I think that's why I like them so much. :D
DeleteGreat list! I have read the Hazel Gaynor book and enjoyed it. You could also add The Light Between Oceans by ML Stedman, which is about an Australian lighthouse keeper.
ReplyDeleteI have read that book by Stedman...but I didn't love the ending. It was so sad.
DeleteYes, I too like lighthouse books and have two or three on my tbr pile, including a Christmas one.
ReplyDeleteNice! Coming up with these ten books increased my own TBR list quite a bit. ;D
DeleteTurns out the Christmas lighthouse book I have is the same as yours. If I had a brain cell I'd be dangerous.......
Deletelol. There are so many Christmas/holiday romances out there it's hard to keep track of them.
DeleteI don't know if I've ever read a book set in a lighthouse. I need to correct that. It seems like an awesome setting.
ReplyDeleteIt is an awesome setting...it always sparks my imagination. :D
DeleteThe only one from your list that I have read is the P.D. James entry. I read it many years ago and honestly can't remember much about the plot but I know I enjoyed it because I've enjoyed every one of James' books!
ReplyDeleteJames' books are always fun. :D
DeleteWhat a fun idea for a post. I didn’t know there were so many books like this.
ReplyDeleteHere is our Top Ten Tuesday.
Astilbe
I think there's a book for every setting out there! ;D
DeleteWhy do you want to live in a lighthouse? I’m so intrigued. :)
ReplyDeleteHere is my Top Ten Tuesday post.
Lydia
There's just something about them...maybe it's because they're so islated? And always set along such beautiful coastlines? I don't know, but I think it'd be fun to spend a month in one. :D
DeleteI love lighthouses, especially if there's a mystery involved. The Last Lighthouse Keeper has such a neat cover.
ReplyDeleteIsn't that a good cover? I love visiting and exploring lighthouses when I'm on vacation...and reading about them is a lot of fun, too. :D
DeleteI love a lighthouse setting! I haven't read any of these, but quite a few are on my radar. :)
ReplyDeleteIf you end up reading any of them, let me know what you think! :D
DeleteGreat picks. Regine
ReplyDeleteThank you, Regine. :D
DeleteI have always been fascinated with lighthouses!! I love this topic!
ReplyDeleteAren't lighthouses intriguing for some reason? I love that you went with circus settings for your TTT this week. Circuses are a favorite setting of mine, too. :D
DeleteLighthouses is such a fun idea. I've seen a couple of lighthouse movies, but I don't think I"ve ever read a lighthouse book.
ReplyDeleteThey just sound fun to me. Who knows why. ;D
DeleteI don't think I've read many books with lighthouses in them. Just the popular The Light Between Oceans.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I've read that one, too, but I really didn't like the way it ended...so that's partly why I didn't put it on this list. ;D
DeleteInteresting choice for "X." I haven't read any of these ten, but it seems like I've read a few in the past that are getting jumbled up in my mind. Seems like something I've read in a British mystery or two, maybe something from Ann Cleeves or Ruth Rendell?
ReplyDeleteOne of them probably does have a book that's set in a lighthouse. Lighthouses make such great settings imo. :D
Deletegoing a little tangent to topic here: I saw the movie "The Lighthouse" recently and wish it was based on a book - I would read that book.
ReplyDeleteThat movie looks interesting. I'll have to check it out sometime. Thanks for commenting.
DeleteWow, I never knew there where so many book titles with 'lighthouse' in the title! Nice theme.
ReplyDeleteMe either! It was a fun list to create. :D
DeleteSo fun! I love the idea of living in a lighthouse, too (at least in theory). I haven't read any of these books, but several of them look like ones I would enjoy.
ReplyDeleteHappy TTT!
There are several on this list that I'd like to read, too.
DeleteI've read the Gaynor and I have to say I have always wanted to spend the night in a lighthouse! In good weather, mind you!
ReplyDeleteDefinitely in good weather! Though lighthouses are built to withstand those storms.
DeleteA very nice collection of Lighthouse books and it would be so cool to live in a lighthouse. The P D James book interests me because I have never read her and I should have by now
ReplyDeleteI've read one book by James and thoroughly enjoyed it. She's a fun writer.
DeleteThat is a great setting to choose. The only one I have read is The Lighthouse by P. D. James. It was one of her later books and in my opinion not one of her better ones, but she was a very good writer. I read all the books in the series, some of the earlier ones I read twice.
ReplyDeleteI did really like the one (and only) book by P.D. James that I've read. I should try her again. :D
DeleteI love lighthouses and have even done a TTT with lighthouses before (see here. There must be hundreds of books about them because we don*t have a single one in common. That's nice because it gives me some inspiration what I could read next about lighthouses.
ReplyDeleteThat is interesting that we didn't overlap on any of our lighthouse books; I almost put Woolf's To The Lighthouse on my list, but then I decided to go with ten books that I haven't read.
DeleteI mostly use books that I have read in my TTT, unless it's a wishlist or something like that. Maybe that's the reason we didn't have any in common?
DeleteThat's probably the reason. :D
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DeleteI haven't read any of these, but I love the covers! The only lighthouse books that I've read (that I can think of) are The Light Between Oceans and one of the books in the Little Beach Street Bakery series. Fun topic!
ReplyDeleteI read The Light Between Oceans a few years ago, and loved the setting, but didn't love the ending.
DeleteI loved the setting you picked for this prompt! I love lighthouses too! We did a lighthouse road trip all along the Pacific Coast a few years back. It's one of my favorite trips! I'd love to do the same on the East Coast someday.
ReplyDeleteA lighthouse road trip sounds amazing! What a good idea. I'd love to do that someday. :D
DeleteI love books set in lighthouses! I've read the first two you listed. Loved both though the Hazel Gaynor book broke my heart.
ReplyDeleteThe Hazel Gaynor one is high on my TBR list!
DeleteOooh, a lighthouse setting is always nice. I haven't read any of these yet, but I have A Lighthouse Christmas on my kindle!
ReplyDeleteI would have thought this would have been a hard one but look at all the titles you added. Now I want to read a book with a lighthouse setting! So many pretty covers too right?
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