Considering all that I’ve got going on (a new job, a stream of house guests, and an ambitious overseas trip), I think I may crazy participating in Cathy at 746 Books summer read-along, the 20 Books of Summer. But I’m going to try anyway and see how I do. I may toss out some as stinkers or get distracted, but here goes:
- Heat Lightning, Helen Hull (in progress)
- A Kind of Anger, Eric Ambler
- Homegoing, Yaa Gyasi
- Death Comes for the Archbishop, Willa Cather
- Attachments, Rainbow Rowell
- Imperium, Robert Harris
- The Marquise of O and Other Stories, Heinrich von Kleist
- Behind the Scenes at the Museum, Kate Atkinson
- Cleopatra’s Sister, Penelope Lively
- Ready Player One, Ernest Cline
- In the Wet, Nevil Shute
- The Sympathizer, Viet Thanh Nguyen
- Embers, Sandor Marai
- M Train, Patti Smith
- Citizen Vince, Jess Walters
- Real People, Alison Lurie
- Little Big Man, Thomas Burger
- Z, Theresa Ann Fowler
- Japanese Pilgrimage, Oliver Statler
- the rest of Middlemarch, George Eliot
Wish me luck!