Cathy at Cathy 746 has a yearly challenge to read twenty books over the summer months starting on 1 June 2016 and running until 5 September 2016, and I’ve decided to join her. In preparation I had already decided not to read ARCs during June to get me off to a flying start.
As I’m competitive I’m signing up for the full twenty. My personal challenge is to read these twenty books from my bookshelf, physical books that I already own before today. Funnily enough I have plenty to choose from… a whole 95 in fact!
Because I know that facts in one book tend to lead me to seek out other books in my tangential reading style, I’ve decided to start with a spread of genres and authors for the first ten books – fat books, thin books and books inbetween! I will post the next ten when these are all finished hopefully mid-July, if I’m on schedule!
The links below will take you to the Goodreads description
The Testament of Youth by Vera Britten
The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
The Poison Principle by Gail Bell
The Curious Habits of Doctor Adams by Jane Robins
Other People’s Secrets by Louise Candlish
You Should Have Known by Jean Hanff Korelitz
An Awfully Big Adventure by Beryl Bainbridge
Pictures of Perfection (Dalziel & Pascoe #13) by Reginald Hill
Buried Angels (Patrik Hedström #8) by Camilla Läckberg
The Shrimp and the Anemone by L.P. Hartley
I will be joining Cathy by tweeting my way through the challenge using the hashtag #20booksofsummer and I will provide (a yet to be decided logo) to demonstrate when one of my reads is part of this challenge!
Like last year there will be a master page linking the titles to my reviews as they are posted, and of course eventually listing the entire twenty books.
There’s still time to join in and Cathy has also provided a 10 Books of Summer image or even a 15 Books of Summer image for those of you who feel aiming for 20 is quite frankly ridiculous. Visit Cathy to get the full details here
So what do you think to my choices? Do you have any suggestions on where I should start or perhaps you think some of these need to be put back on the shelf and forgotten about? All comments welcomed!
