My 20 Books of Summer

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
• Freshwater by 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 (1):

• 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 (3):

• 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?