#20BOS26 – Round up

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 – what I read

This remains the easygoing challenge that it has always been and so below is my final list of 15 books.

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 listed 20 books I actually read 15 which I’m happy with and is perfectly acceptable in this terrific challenge. Indeed, I’d have been happy to read any 10 of these books between June and August so 15 was good.

The list of books I read with links to my post. Due to the book club being put back to 7 Sept I have decided to post my thoughts on Mercy after that date and will add a link below when that’s available. This is also the case with The Butterfly House so the post will be linked after 10 Sept.

I will share my thoughts on Wuthering Heights and A Terrible Kindness will be posted and linked as soon as possible.

01. Woman, Mapped (anthology) Ed. Jennifer Wong (editor), Hollie McNish (foreword) (*Friday, 3/7)

02. The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham** | 1951 | 272pp (*by Sunday, 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. Conversations With a Machine by Ruth Irwin (Renard Press subscription) 

07. A Terrible Kindness by Jo Browning Wroe

08. The Mermaid’s Cry by Kate Rhodes (BlogTour)

09. These Are The Things We Have Lost by Janice Warman

10. The Hiding Season by A C Glads (BlogTour 12 Aug)

11. Mercy Book Club read (Aug book club was moved to September 7th so my thoughts will be posted after that date)

12. Stone Yard Devotion by Charlotte Wood

13. Ghost Notes by Doug Johnstone (BlogTour 19th Aug) – will be swapped in.

14. Maybe The World Will End So We Don’t Have To by Natasha Bell (BlogTour 25 Aug)

15. The Butterfly House by Teresa Solana (BlogTour 10 September)

Books: when text shows blue the book is read awaiting post. Will change to black when posted.

The books that didn’t get read

I will, of course, look forward to reading theses in the not too distant future.

06. The Darkness Within Them 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

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

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