New beginnings!

#20BOS26

It’s that time of year again and 20 Books of Summer is just around the corner, hosted by Annabel at Annabookbel.

Last year Cathy @746books passed on the challenge hosting duties to Annabel at AnnaBookBel and Emma at Words and Peace.

This year Annabel is hosting alone, with brand new graphics and a new hashtag #20BOS26 so thanks to her for taking this on. I’m sure it will be another great summer (or winter for those ‘down under’) of reading.

My  #20BOS26 list

This remains the easygoing challenge that it has always been and so, in no particular order, here is my list.

Books can be swapped out by another book if wanted/needed except for those with an asterisk (*) which are being read as part of the book club, a blog tour or publisher request (date indicated were possible). If a book counts toward another challenge then all the better and several of these (**) count to my Classic Club challenge.

Whilst I have listed 20 books I may decide to read just 15 or 10 which is perfectly acceptable. I’ll be happy to read any 10 of these books between June and August and should I read more that will be great.

01. Woman, Mapped (anthology) Ed. Jennifer Wong (editor), Hollie McNish (foreword) (*4/7)

02. The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham** | 1951 | 272pp (*by 5/7) Classic Club Spin 44 (#CCSpin 44)

03. Gray After Dark by Noelle W. Ihli | Book Club book (*8/6)

04. Wuthering Heights by Charlotte Brontë **| 1847 | 416pp

05. The Snow Goose by Paul Gallico** | 1940/1 | pp64

06. The Darkness Within us by Isabelle Kenyon

07. The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan-Doyle** | 1902 | 176pp

08. The Rose and The Yew Tree by Mary Westmacott** (Reading Agatha Christie challenge)| 1947 | 184pp

09. Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell

10. The 4.50 From Paddington by Agatha Christie** (Reading Agatha Christie challenge)| 1957 | 256pp

11. The Killing Stones by Ann Cleeves

12. Renard Press (from my subscription) tbc

13. The Thin Man by Samuel Dashiell Hammet** | 1933 | 259pp

14. The Crime at Black Dudley by Margery Allingham** | 1929 | 240pp

15. Black Narcissus by Rumer Godden** | 1939 | 270pp

16. Silly Novels by Lady Novelists & other essays by George Eliot** | 1902 | 100pp

17. A Terrible Kindness by Jo Browning Wroe

18. Book club read for July tbc

19. Book club read for August tbc

20. Sharks by Simone Buchholz (translated by Rachel Ward)

There are so many other books that I could have chosen from my shelves so if I need to I will do just that and swap another book for one on my list.

What do you think of my list? Are you joining in with #20BOS26? Let me know in the comments and if you are joining in pop a link to your list there I love to see what you’re going to be reading.