Top Ten Tuesday 25 - Book recommendations for Whovians

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Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish.
This week's theme: Top Ten Characters that I want to be my BFFs
Just one more day to enter my 1-year blogversary giveaway of Mistborn and an amazon giftcard!

Top  Ten Five Books If You Like Doctor Who

1.  - if you like Doctor Who, you are probably a fan of bizarre planets and strange alien creatures, but you also probably have a soft spot for human beings being the best they can be. This series has all of those elements, and I highly recommend it.
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2. I wasn't a huge fan of this book, but it takes place entirely on a spaceship headed for a new home planet. It involves cryogenesis and conspiracies, both elements that have appeared in Doctor Who (A Christmas Carol).



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3. You know that one episode, Silence in the Library, where Donna goes off to a parallel universe and experiences life and love and happiness and then...Spoilers, sweetie. ;) That episode was part love letter to books and part love letter to the love and life, so I thought this book would be perfect. It's also bittersweet, just warning you.
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4. If you enjoyed the skin-prickling weeping angels, I think you will enjoy this deliciously creepy anthology. Some stories are disturbing, others are lovely - just like beautifully carved angels that want to steal your soul.



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5. This is a book that involves time travel and a girl left behind, waiting for a man (perhaps not in a blue box) to come back to her. It's also similar to the episode The Girl in the Fireplace about Mme de Pompadour.

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