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Monday, June 14, 2021

TTT: Books on my summer TBR (and an update on my spring TBR goals)


Top Ten Tuesday: 
Books on my summer reading list. 
(Below the fold, check out how I did on my spring reading list.)

Book Club Selections: 

  1. The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy (July, Group #1)
  2. TBA, July, Group #2
  3. The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris (August, Group #1)
  4. TBA, August, Group #2
  5. This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel (September, Group #1, re-read) 
  6. TBA, September, Group #3

Audiobooks/E-Books:

  1. The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
  2. The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich
  3. Break Shot: My First 21 Years by James Taylor
  4. Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler
  5. The Clock Dance by Anne Tyler

Challenge Books:

  1. Past Pulitzer Prize winner (From this list)
  2. Past Pulitzer Prize winner
  3. Past Pulitzer Prize winner
  4. Printz Honor: Every Body Looking
  5. Printz Honor: We Are Not Free
  6. Big Book Summer: TBA but must be at least 400 pages in length.
  7. Classics club selection (From this list)

I know this is a very vague list and it is a little unsettling for me. I usually have three or four books going at once, right now I am finishing up a book and have no other books in the wings. And to make matters worse, one of my book clubs hasn't chosen the summer selections yet. For this list I've decided to focus on my challenges which includes books which have been on my TBR for years and years. That will be my focus for the summer and hope I can make good progress (or I may rethink the challenge altogether!)

My spring reading list:

Book Club selections:

  1. Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell ✓
  2. The Only Woman in the Room by Marie Benedict ✓
  3. Love and Other Consolation Prizes by Jamie Ford ✓
  4. Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng (a re-read)
  5. The Girl With the Louding Voice by Abi Dare ✓
  6. The Exiles by Christina Baker Cline ✓

Audiobooks/E-books:

  1. Dune by Frank Herbert ✓
  2. A Promised Land by Barack Obama (finish it) ✓
  3. A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor by Hank Green ✓
  4. Call the Midwife by Jennifer Worth ✓

Print:

  1. The Atlas of Happiness by Helen Russell ✓
  2. Fury and Grace by Pickett and Brubaker (finish it) ✓
  3. Just Us: An American Conversation by Claudia Rankine ✓
  4. We Are Water Protectors by Carole Lindstrom ✓
  5. Everything Sad is Untrue by Daniel Nayeri ✓

A little tooting of my own horn here---I completed all but one of the books on my list, Little Fires Everywhere, and it would have been a re-read for me, so I did really well on my spring reading goals.

-Anne

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