My Book Strings alerted me to this challenge, instigated by Cathy of 746 Books. It’s very simple: make a list of 10 (or 20, if you’re feeling brave) books that you want to read between June 1 and September 4. There are no other rules or incentives, making it a very self-imposed challenge.
Like Cathy, I’m going to stick to physical books I have already on hand for this challenge. The first six are review copies, the next three are from my Classics Club/Back to the Classics challenge, and the last is a new book that I bought new in hardcover (a thing I rarely do) because I know I’ll love it.
- Seacrow Island by Astrid Lindgren
- The Hired Girl by Laura Amy Schlitz
- Sophie and the Sibyl by Patricia Dunker
- The Dead Duke, His Secret Wife, and the Missing Corpse by Piu Marie Eatwell
- The Wild Girl by Kate Forsyth
- The Mark of the Horse Lord by Rosemary Sutcliff
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
- Saplings by Noel Streatfeild
- Love by Elizabeth von Arnim
- Uprooted by Naomi Novik
I’m so looking forward to all of these! What’s on your summer reading list?
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It looks like you have a great mix of books for the summer! I’m really excited about The Dead Duke, and have been wanting to read The Wild Girl, too. Hope you enjoy them!
Those two look great, but then so do all the others…I’m also glad that the new releases are spaced out in a sensible way. May and June were a bit of a crunch.
Happy to see you joining the challenge! I’m looking forward to your review of the Astrid Lindgren book and The Dead Duke. And Anna Karenina… that IS a challenge. 🙂
I actually just sent off my review of Seacrow Island — which was terrific — to Shiny New Books. It should be out early next month. I saw so many great reviews of The Dead Duke et al., I can’t wait for that one either.
Looks like you have some great reading ahead of you. I read Anna Karenina a few years ago. It was long, but worth it. Good luck with your challenge!
I am actually looking forward to it, but I need to carve out some time and attention.
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This looks to be great bunch of titles.
I want to read Anna Karenina soon myself.
I look forward to reading your commentary on these works.
Happy reading!
Oh good, I will be very interested to read your thoughts on Anna K as well. This is my “big classic” goal for the year.
Ooh, I’m so glad you posted this. I’d not heard of he Dead Duke, His Secret Wife, and the Missing Corpse and now I want to read it. Going to add it to my TBR list!
You must read Uprooted. I loved it so much! I bought a copy of it and might re-read it again this summer.
When you want to read a book again immediately you know it’s really good.
The Wild Girl’s really good, definitely one to look forward to. Anna Karenina’s on my list simply because I’m currently reading it, otherwise I hope to read Tender Is The Night and some Angela Thirkell.
Angela Thirkell is great summer reading too.
Looks like you have a great selection here. I absolutely loved Uprooted – hope you do too! Happy reading.x
I haven’t come across anyone yet who hasn’t loved Uprooted!
Such an interesting list! I’d love to read more by Astrid Lindgren, her Pippi Longstocking books were some of my favorites. I mean to read Anna Karenina one of these days. I hope you like Uprooted!
Astrid Lindgren has much more to offer beyond Pippi, marvelous as she is. I hope you do read some more of her wonderful books — Mio, My Son and Ronia, the Robber’s Daughter are two of my other favorites.
Uprooted is a great pick! I loved everything about it, especially the strong heroine 🙂 Happy reading!
I’m almost reluctant to start it because then I won’t have it to look forward to any more.
I have heard so many good things about Uprooted so far! I hope to get my hands on a copy this summer as well. Happy reading! 😀
It definitely seems to be one of the books of the year.
Great list, Lory! I haven’t actually read any of these yet, but I loved how far I got through Anna Karenina before pausing (school reasons back in the day). I’ll have to start that up again one day.
I’m hoping to make it all the way through … need to make sure I have enough reading time and energy.
Good luck with this challenge. I sadly haven’t read any of your choices but I have heard good things about several of them. Including The Dead Duke, His Secret Wife, and the Missing Corpse which has an intriguing title. Happy reading 🙂
Very intriguing! From the reviews it seems the contents are just as good.
Uprooted is on my general TBR. It would be cool if I get the chance to read it this summer, but it did not make my priority list. I hope you enjoy reading all these! Happy Reading!
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I hope it makes it up there before too long. I’m reading it right now and it’s excellent.
Someone else recently posted about The Dead Duke and it made me super curious. What a great title.
What could be more intriguing?
Such a nice bag of books! I just bought Kate Forsyth’s “Bitter Greens” and can’t wait to read it. Best of luck! Xx
I loved Bitter Greens when I read it earlier this year.
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