Today marks the 1st day not only of June but of the 20 Books of Summer 20 Reading Challenge! I learned of this challenge over at Fictionophile’s blog. Thank you so much! I understand this is not the first of this summer challenge but it’s certainly the first time it’s sounded so cool! 😉
I’ve never done this challenge, nor do I expect to complete it. However with my new (as of last year) habit of listening to audio books I think I will get closer to finishing than not. Regardless, I will give it a shot, and my best shot! My list – which follows the rules and link to the creator – will include audio books, physical books, e-books, non-fiction and fiction. This feels like a great challenge and I’m excited to try. I am going to include the books I’m currently reading…cheat or not I’m gonna do it!
This challenge 20 Books of Summer 20 Reading Challenge – is brought to us thanks to Cathy at 746books.com.
The Rules:
Visit Cathy’s blog at 746books.com and grab the 20 Books of Summer image (seen above). Next pick your own 20 books you would like to read. Then link back to her Master post from 1 June to let her know that you are taking part. When you visit her site you’ll see that she offers images for 15 & 10 Books of Summer as well. I like the sound of 20 of 20 so I’m going for that (even if 15 or 10 would be guaranteed success(HA!)). She would love to hear about your participation so be sure to skip on over!
(By the way, I’m super excited about being able to pick my own 20 books!)
She also urges us to follow along with the #20booksofsummer20 hashtag, and tweet along on Twitter there if you do that.
The challenge starts off on Monday 1 June and finishes on Tuesday 1 September.
Let’s go!
20 Books of Summer 20 Reading Challenge: My Books
Here is my list of 20 books I hope to finish by September 1, 2020. They will include fiction, non-fiction, a lot of different genres, audio and physical books, AND the books I’m currently read. (Well they are still books that I’ll finish in the time frame. 😉 ). They are in no particular order other than the ones at the top (as noted) are currently being read.
If you decide to do this challenge – yeah let’s do it! – I would so love it if in addition to linking to the creator you link back here as I would love to read along with you and hear how you’re doing. 🙂 Don’t forget 10, 15 or however many books is also an option!
Currently Reading (UPDATED)
The Bone Jar (Detective Lew Kirby, #1) by S.W. Kane – Kindle edition, mystery, thriller
Akata Warrior (Akata Witch, #2) by Nnedi Okorafor – hardcover, fantasy, YA
Kind of Coping: An Illustrated Look at Life with Anxiety by Maureen Marzi Wilson – hardcover, non-fiction, sequential art (graphic novel but non-ficiton?)
Thick: And Other Essays by Tressie McMillan Cottom – hardcover, non-fiction
Voyage of the Basilisk (The Memoirs of Lady Trent, #3) by Marie Brennan – paperback, fantasy
In Seach of Black History with Bonnie Greer by Bonnie Freer – Audible audio, nonfiction, history
Non-Fiction Books I Hope to Read for this Challenge
The Art of X-Ray Reading by Roy Peter Clark – hardcover, non-fiction
Courage is Contagious: And Other Reasons to Be Grateful for Michelle Obama by Nicholas Haramis (editor) – hardcover, non-fiction – **In case you’re wondering why this and not Becoming (her memoir, which I want to read), because I bought this before Becoming was written
Fiction Books I Hope to Read for this Challenge
Wild Seed (Patternmaster, #1) by Octavia Butler – Audible audio, fantasy, sci-fi
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo – Audible audio, contemporary fiction
The Ice House (The Honours, #2) by Tim Clare – kindle e-book, fantasy
BOOKS I’VE FINISHED! (9/20)
Race the Sands by Sarah Beth Durst – audio book, fantasy
The Name of All Things (A Chorus of Dragons, #2) by Jenn Lyons – audio book, epic fantasy
Akata Witch (Akata Witch, #1) by Nnedi Okorafor – hardcover, fantasy
Bluebird, Bluebird (Highway 59, #1) by Attica Locke – audio book, mystery, thriller
Heaven, My Home (Highway 59, #2) by Attica Locke – Audible audio, mystery, thriller
The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow – Audible audio, fantasy
The Raven Tower by Ann Leckie – Audible audio, fantasy
Vicious (Villains, #1) by V.E. Schwab – Audible audio, fantasy
Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love by Dani Shapiro – Audible audio, nonfiction, memoir
This list is subject to change. 🙂
It never ceases to excite and disappoint me when I make book lists. Why disappointment you ask? Because this list feels so incomplete! There’s a bookshelf in front of me as I type and to think I will barely touch the TBR books on that shelf…wow.
Alas, my own book is most important. However as I write reading provides a good break from writing when I need it, and a place from which I can learn because books are my craft.
Now, your turn…
