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Saturday, August 29, 2026

Summer's End: How I did on my reading challenges

How Did I do on All my Summer Challenges?



20 Books of Summer is one of the longest-running events in the book blogosphere and is so low-pressure, a perfect reading challenge for summer months. Here are the details. The #20BOS26 challenge runs from Monday June 1st to Monday August 31st. It is hosted by AnnaBookBel

I read 31 books this summer, exceeding my goal.

Some of my favorites (in no particular order):

1. The Stranger / Camus.
2. Angel Down / Kraus
3. The Astral Library / Quinn
4. Kin / Jones
5. This Land is Your Land / Gage
6. Land  / O'Farrell
7. The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny / Desai 
8. Whistler / Patchett
9. Enormous Wings / Frankel
10. Year of Wonders / Burton-Hill



Sue Jackson of Book by Book hosts a Big Book Summer Reading Challenge.

The Details: Anything 400 pages or more qualifies as a big book.
The challenge runs from the Friday of Memorial Day weekend through Labor Day.

I read 5 big books this summer and made a good stab at one other (3/4th of way through)
The books are:

1.  Land  / O'Farrell (400 pages)
2. The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny / Desai  (671 pages)
3. Year of Wonders / Burton-Hill  (416 pages)
4. The Warmth of Other Suns / Wilkerson (640 pages)
5. Austerlitz / Sebald  (415 pages)


GOODREADS SUMMER CHALLENGE


I finished all eleven summer challenges for Goodreads with time to spare.

3rd quarter (Summer, July thru September 14th)
  • Page-Turner -- Read two books during challenge period (July 5)
  • Speed Reader -- Read three books during challenge period (July 8)
  • Book Boss -- Read five books during challenge (July 10)
  • Community 90s Picks -- Brokeback Mountain by E. Annie Proulx (July 10)
  • Challenge Favs -- The Astral Library by Kate Quinn (August 4)
  • Chart Toppers -- Agnes Aubert's Mystical Cat Shelter by Heather Fawcett (July 3)
  • Staff Shelves -- Enormous Wings by Laurie Frankel (July 8)
  • Worlds Away -- Agnes Aubert's Mystical Cat Shelter by Heather Fawcett (July 3)
  • Fact or Fiction -- Land by Maggie O'Farrell (August 4)
  • Literally Summer - Last Summer on State Street by Toya Wolfe (August 10)
  • Summer Encore - Land by Maggie O'Farrell (August 4)

FAMILY SUMMER LICENSE PLATE GAME


Not a bookish challenge. Every summer my family attempts to find all fifty states' license plates. We do this from Memorial Day to Labor Day, end of May to beginning of September.

This year we saw our last plate, Mississippi, as we were driving past Mt. Hood on the road to Central Oregon. It was the the last week in July. Woot. Woot. We hardly ever find all fifty of the plates but our trip in the early summer to Yellowstone was a big help in finding them.

-Anne
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