This week’s topic for Top Ten Tuesday (hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl) is: “April Showers (Interpret this however you’d like: rainy day reads, books that make you cry, books that give you happy tears, books to wash away a bad reading experience, books set in rainy places, books with rain/raindrops/umbrellas on the cover, blue book covers, etc.)”

There are so many ways to approach this week’s topic, but I’ve decided to make a list of things you could do on a rainy day and choose a book title to fit each one.

1. Go to a museum

Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson

2. Play cards

Cards on the table by Agatha Christie

3. Have tea

Tea on Sunday by Lettice Cooper

4. Go to the library

The Astral Library by Kate Quinn

5. Play hide and seek

A Game of Hide and Seek by Elizabeth Taylor

6. Sit by the fire

Fireside Gothic by Andrew Taylor

7. Write in your diary

Diary of a Provincial Lady by EM Delafield

8. Decorate your house

The Land of Decoration by Grace McCleen

9. Tend your indoor plants

Keep the Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell

10. Wait for the sun

The Sunrise by Victoria Hislop

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What do you like to do when it’s raining outside? Can you think of any other books I could add to this list?