#20booksofsummer22
#20booksofsummer
Once again, 746books.com organizes a special challenge:
20 Books of Summer
June 1-August 31
I am back for my 3rd participation.
So here is the file with my 20 books.
Beside 3 books for review, and 3 Japanese titles I didn’t get to read during the Japanese Literature Challenge, all my books are books on my TBR list, and most of them even on my physical shelves!
I color coded the genres. Nice diversity. I think:
nonfiction, play, literary fiction, science fiction, mystery.
Feel free to copy the format if it’s of any help for you.
I will update it as I go along :
How many of these have you read?
Which one is your favorite?
Words And Peace 
I’ve read Upgrade and all of the Kinsey Millhone series! So sad the alphabet permanently ends at Y. Good luck!
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Definitely looking forward to beginning this series. Enjoy your summer of reading as well. Any specific plan?
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Nope just reading what I find! Lol. SciFiJune starts on June 1 so that’ll be my focus for June. Hopefully. Lol. I’m not that good with sticking to set TBRs but I do enjoy making them!
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Ooh, I forgot about scifi June, glad I will have at least one! Can you remind me of your blog name please?
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This sounds like a fun challenge, and you do have a nice mix of genres. If I’m reading your chart right, your aim is to read 64 pages a day, which seems completely doable. Have fun!
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You are right. Lots of these books are not very thick, so that would be an average of 64 pages/day. I read a more than 20 books last summer. Are you going to do some type of similar challenge this summer?
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I think Upgrade sounds like a fantastic read! Hope you love all of these!
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It will be my first discovery of this author. Will you join the challenge? You can also go for 10 or 15 books
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This is a great list! love your choice. I adored Eventide, so hope you like it too. Thanks so much for joining in!
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I really enjoyed his previous book, many years ago, so it will be great to reconnect
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Lots of mysteries here… Enjoy!
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I will probably really enjoy the classic ones
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Knowing you, that’s for sure!
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lol
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I’ve read one – The Daughter of Time. It’s different & very good. Have fun. 🙂
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Having just enjoyed book 1 in the series, I want to read the whole series actually
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I’ve only read one – The Daughter of Time. It’s different & very good. Have fun. 🙂
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I just read the first book in the series and was quite impressed
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I have only read Clouds of Witness. Two summers ago I went on a Lord Peter Wimsey binge. Always a great way to spend a vacation!
I keep meaning to read Kent Haruf. Someday …
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Kent Haruf has a beautiful writing style.
Wish me luck with Lord Peter Wimsey, I was actually under-impressed with the first book in the series. I’m giving it a second chance here
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They get better as they go on. I think the strongest are Murder Must Advertise, The Nine Tailors, and the Harriet Vane books. So maybe give one of those a try before you give up. I think I started with Strong Poison – it’s by no means necessary to read the “series” in order.
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I think I have a hard time with the social milieu. And I even find the plots boring.
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In that case they may not be for you! It’s all about the social milieu. Plots are not her strong point.
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Yes, I’m realizing that. So I’ll be saying goodbye to the Lord in a few hours. Though I have to say the narrator Ian Carmichael is fabulous
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I have read (and loved) all the Sue Grafton novels and I also liked The Daughter of Time. This looks like a good summer list! Mine is at http://bibliographicmanifestations.blogspot.com/2022/05/20-books-of-summer-2022.html
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Thanks for sharing, on my way to visit you. Yes, I’m very late with Grafton’s books!!
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The Thomas Jefferson is an an unusual sounding book – is the slave mentioned in the title, the one that he had a secret relationship with?
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No, that might be her brother? Or uncle? Not too sure at this point. Same Hemings family though
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Wikipedia tells me that James Hemings was the brother of Sally (the slave who is reputed to have born 6 children by Jefferson). so there we have the connection!
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Yes, he was, thanks! Now that I have read the book, I got the info in it
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I plan to join in this challenge. One of the books I hope to read this summer is on your list, though I forgot to put it on mine…Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow.
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On my way to check your list!
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Slightly unrelated, but your chart is so satisfying! It makes me want to start planning my reads again
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Planning and charting is definitely fun, lol
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love your colour coding! I haven’t read any of these, good luck with the challenge
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I have been using that type of code when keeping track of books for many years.
Thanks! Enjoy your summer reads as well!
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Sounds like a good list and not too taxing on the page count (I usually select something massive then regret it!). I will be doing it but won’t finalise my list until the end of the month, still some time to get some books off the shelf …
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My problem is I often end up reading lots of books that were not on my list!! I’ll try to stick to it this time
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Looks pretty good. I kinda want to read Upgrade since I LOVED Dark Matter by Blake Crouch. First Men in the Moon intrigues me. The Tokyo Zodiac Murders maybe too…
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I have the feeling I will want to read Dark Matter right after!
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I’ve read four on your list, all good but the one I wish I could read again for the first time is Confessions.
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whoa, good to know, now really looking forward to it even more!
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Quite a variety of books. I am not familiar with most of them but I would like to read more by Edna Ferber.
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So far, I’m finding this one excellent
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I’ve only read the Wells on your list, and that many years ago, though I read Verne’s precursor to that more recently. Good luck with these, and I hope you manage to get through most if not all of them!
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Thanks! It might work if I stop reading books that are NOT on this list, lol.
Really looking forward to this one by Wells
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That’s cool how you embedded your spread sheet and we can scroll around it! How did you do that? Are you using the block editor?
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Not at all. In fact, I hate the new WordPress format and still manage to use the old one.
Here is the post on how to use Google drive to embed your Google sheet in your wordpress (I’m not even self-hosted). Super simple:
https://qodeinteractive.com/magazine/embed-google-sheets-in-wordpress/#with-google-drive
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