Twenty Books of Summer is back! It will run from June 3 through August, and basically the challenge is to make a list of 20 books and read those books over the next three months. This year I decided at least 10 of the books need to be ones I already own. The reason is that I’ve been reading mostly library books; since they always come with a deadline, I always prioritize them. But I’ve got a lot of books on my Kindle I’d like to read.
This summer we’re going through a big shutdown on our Metro system. So I’m expecting more time spent on buses than usual — at least that means more reading!
Books for challenges (9):
- The Warden by Anthony Trollope (Back to the Classics challenge)
- Human Acts by Han Kang (TBR Pile Challenge)
- Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin (TBR Pile Challenge)
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot (TBR Pile Challenge, Nonfiction)
- How Dare the Sun Rise by Sandra Uwiringiyimana (Nonfiction Challenge)
- The Devourers by Indra Das (Reading Women Challenge, Lambda Award winner)
- Radical Candor by Kim Scott (Nonfiction Challenge)
- Watership Down by Richard Adams (Read Harder Challenge)
- Lucky Broken Girl by Ruth Behar (Read Harder Challenge)
Women’s Prize nominees (5):
- My Sister the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
- Freshwaterby Awaeke Emezi
- Number One Chinese Restaurant by Lillian Li
- See What I Have Done by Sarah Schmidt (last year’s Women’s Prize longlist)
- Little Deaths by Emma Flint (2017 Women’s Prize longlist)
Hugo Nominees (2):
- The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal
ARCs (2):
- Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
- Inland by Tea Obrecht
From the library (2):
- Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
- The House of Broken Angels by Luis Alberto Urrea
- The Weight of Ink by Rachel Kadish
That’s my summer reading list! What will you be reading?
