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Monday, June 22, 2026

TTT: My Summer Reading List (and how I did on my spring list)

Top Ten Tuesday:

 Summer 2026 Reading List (and How I Did On My Spring Reading List)




Top Ten Tuesday: Summer Reading List. 
Below the line is how I did on my spring reading list.

Summer reading list: 


Book Club Selections:
  1. SOTH Gals (July) : You Before Me (Moyes)
  2. RHS Ladies (July): No Meeting
  3. SOTH Gals (August) : Theo of Golden (Levi)
  4. RHS Ladies (August) : The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny (Desai)
  5. SOTH Gals (September) : TBA
  6. RHS Ladies (June): The Book Club for Troublesome Women (Bostwick)

    Challenge Books:
    1. Classics Club Spin Book TBA from this list -- possibly: The Stranger (Camus)
    2. Printz Award Winner or honor book -- Sisters in the Wind (Boulley)
    3. Paris in July Challenge -- possibly: Fresh Water for Flowers (Perrin)
    4. A NYT Book Best of Century selection -- possibly Austerlitz (Sebald)
    5. Three Goodreads Summer Challenge selections TBA, starting July 1st.




    Books I've already started, recently acquired, and/or have on-hold at the library:
    1. Kin (Jones)
    2. Agnes Aubert's Magical Cat Shelter (Fawcett)
    3. Enormous Wings (Frankel)
    4. Land (O'Farrell)
    5. The Typewriter and the Guillotine (Braude)
    6. The Warmth of Other Suns (Wilkerson)
    A few unknowns right now which will become clear as the season progresses.




    How I did on my spring reading list: 

     Yellow: completed. 
    Aqua: in progress
    Green:  not completed, DNF
    Light pink: Did not get to yet!


    Book Club Selections:
    1. SOTH Gals (April) : China Room (Sahota)
    2. RHS Ladies (April): So Far Gone (Walter)
    3. SOTH Gals (May) : Today We Go Home (Estes)
    4. RHS Ladies (May) : Theo of Golden (Levi)
    5. SOTH Gals (June) : The Man Who Could Move Clouds (Contreras)
    6. RHS Ladies (June): The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Sparks)

      Challenge Books:
      1. Classics Club Spin Book TBA from this list -- Madame Bovary (Flaubert)
      2. Printz Winner/honor book -- The Legendary Frybread Drive-In (Leitich)
      3.  A past Pulitzer Prize winner from this list -- American Pastoral (Roth)
      4. 2026 One Big Book Challenge -- Moby-Dick (Melville)
      5. Women's Prize winner or finalist -- The Correspondent (Evans)
      6. Three Goodreads Spring Challenge selections TBA, starting April 1st.
        1. AAPI Heritage -- Things In Nature Merely Grow by Yiyun Li (May 2)
        2. Summer Reading -- Animal Farm by George Orwell (May 28)
        3. Escapist Reads -- This Land is Your Land by Beverly Gage (June 3)

      Books I've already started, recently acquired, and/or have on-hold at the library:
      1. What We Can Know (McEwan)
      2. Poems and Prayers (McConaughy)
      3. I'm Glad My Mother Died (McCurdy)
      4. A Flower Traveled in My Blood (Gilliland)
      5. Little Alleluias (Oliver)
      Feeling good about the books I got to!

      -Anne
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