
Hi everyone, it’s time for me to sign up for another infamous challenge in the world of book bloggers. It will be my first participation in ’20 books of summer’, hosted by Cathy of 746 books!
These are the rules:
- Compile a list of 10, 15 or 20 books that you’d like to read this summer
- Read and review them between the 1st of June and the 1st of September
It’s as simple as that!
Now 20 books in three months is a lot for me, even during summer when I tend to read more often but I usually also select thicker books. So I hope to end up somewhere between 10 and 15 books.
Since I’m picky on which books make it to my TBR, I’m quite good at sticking to that list, but I’m not so great at making up a list for the next three months and read no other books than the list 😅. I borrow more than 50% of the books I read from the library and so I depend on which books are available. And sometimes a random books grabs my attention. However, during summer I always feel like less people visit the library and more popular books become available. I don’t know why this is the case, since a lot more books are read during summer compared to the winter period, but well, maybe people don’t take library reads with them on holiday?
That’s why I have chosen to make a heavy list of 20 books, knowing I’ll not be able to read and/or borrow them during this challenge, but this gives me the flexibility I need.
My current library haul
I’ll have read some of these before the 1st June, but not all of them.
Netgalley reads for this summer
From my physical shelves
Kindle reads
For the classics club
Other possible library books
This are 20 books, and I’ll not read them all this summer, but I hope that by September 1st I’ll have read at least half of them 😄.
Will you be joining 20 books of summer? I’m curious to see your lists!
Thanks for joining in! What a great list. That cover of Tender is the Night is gorgeous! Good luck and happy reading.
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Thanks! That cover is indeed pretty 😍 Good luck to you too!
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You’ve got some chunksters in there! Good luck.
I nearly put A Thousand Ships on my list too…
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Yeah, I didn’t look to the number of pages before selecting them, maybe that wasn’t so smart 😅. I’m looking forward to reading A thousand ships but it’s never available in the library 🙈
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I don’t think I would take library books on holiday with me, it’s one thing dropping ice cream on my own books… 😂 I enjoyed A Thousand Ships, I don’t know if you ever listen to audiobooks but she narrates her own books, and I just love listening to her talk about mythology!
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Haha, that explains it all 😃 I’m no audiobook person but I have listened a podcast with Haynes recently so I understand what you mean.
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The Sharon Penman book is brilliant, but very long!
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Yes, it didn’t look at the number of pages when selecting books and that may be also the reason that I haven’t read it yet 😅
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Oooh, what a great challenge! Someday I want to get to Follett. I’m so intimidated by the size of those books, though. Ha! It’s been years, but I enjoyed East of Eden when I read it. I really need to do a reread of it. Good luck!
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The Follett are indeed intimidating, otherwise I would have read them way sooner I believe. Now that I’ve heard so many good things about East of Eden I’m excited to read them.
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That’s a great list of books. I have Cecily and The Last Daughter from NetGalley too and I loved East of Eden, Far From the Madding Crowd and Revelation. Good luck!
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Thanks! I’m looking forward to reading all these books. Especially Cecily as I’m in some kind of Wars if the Roses period again 😃
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You have a lot of challenging books, I think. Good luck!
I’m hoping to read twenty of my 1001 Children’s Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up.
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Thanks, I indeed didn’t chose the most light reads 😃
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Good luck to you too with hour list of Children’s books
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I get a lot of my books from the library too so I’m never sure what my TBR pile might look like. I’ve decided to only list 5 books for the moment and do another 5 in July. I love the Sharon Penman series and enjoyed the Andrew Taylor one too. Hope you manage to get through these.
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That’s also a good strategy. I already know I’ll not keep to my list 😀 Good luck with your 10 books!
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Ambitieuze maar mooie voornemens! 🙂
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