Cathy over at 746Books is hosting her 20 Books of Summer challenge for the tenth year. You can choose to read 20, 15 or 10 books from your TBR shelves and the challenge begins on Saturday 1 June and finishes on Sunday 1 September. You can find the rules and sign up details for this year here.
This is my second list, mainly because I realised that I’d included two books of over 600 pages and with the best will in the world I can’t see me managing to read both of them, so I’m saving Mrs Robinson’s Disgrace by Kate Summerscale for later this year and substituting Beowulf by Michael Murpurgo. I’d also included a book I’d already read a few years ago, Put On By Cunning by Ruth Rendell and substituted The Tree of Hands.
- The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker
- Great Meadow by Dirk Bogarde
- The Children’s Book by A S Byatt
- The Black Tulip by Alexander Dumas
- Daisy Darker by Alice Feeney
- The Innocent by Matthew Hall
- Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith
- Killing the Lawyers by Reginald Hill
- Close to Death by Anthony Horowitz
- The Night She Disappeared by Lisa Jewell
- I’ll Never Be Young Again by Daphne du Maurier
- Beowulf by Michael Murpurgo
- The Tree of Hands by Ruth Rendell
- Unnatural Death by Dorothy L Sayers
- The Silence Between Breaths by Cath Staincliffe – currently reading
- Where Water Lies by Hilary Tailor
- Black Roses by Jane Thynne
- Bunner Sisters by Edith Wharton
- A Murder of Crows by Sarah Yarwood-Lovett
- The Lady of Sorrows by Anne Zouroudi
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So many good books here, Margaret! I’ll be especially interested in what you think of the Hill, the Rendell, the Sayers, and the Zouroudi. You know, your post reminds me that I haven’t read Zouroudi just lately and I really should get back to her work.
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I had to chuckle Margaret – I suspect most of us will be making changes to our lists because we realise a) we don’t want to read a particular book after all or b) another shiny object takes our fancy.
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