Truth to tell, I've been plotting, and agonizing, over my 20 Books of Summer List for at least 10 days. I know there will be a few substitutions along the way, but most of the books on the list I fully intend to read this summer.
Summer is my happiest reading time! The heat and humidity drive me to distraction, so having good books to retreat to, inside a cool home, is truly a sublime escape! Good books distract me from what is for me, the misery of an overheated season. Yes, I'm a winter lover, I'm afraid!
Thanks to Anna of AnnaBookBel.net for hosting this summer's 20 Books of Summer! My links will be applied tomorrow, so do check back.
My list:
20 Books of Summer 2026
1. The Pretender by Jo Harkin
2. The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout
3. We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
4. Ghost Stories: A Memoir (2026) by Siri Hustvedt
5. A Candle in Her Room by Ruth M. Arthur
6. At Midnight Comes the Cry (2025) Julia Spencer-Fleming
7. The Loneliness of Sonia and Sonny (2025) by Kiran Desai
8. Land (2026) by Maggie O’Farrell
9. Miss Winter in the Library with a Knife (2025) by Martin Edwards
10. Stay Alive: Berlin, 1939-1945 (2026) by Ian Buruma TBR HISTORY
11. Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
12. The Punishment She Deserves (2017) by Elizabeth George (Lynley Mystery)
13. John of John by Douglas Stuart
14. The Murder Club by Richard Osman TBR
15. The Edge of Eternity by Ken Follett TBR
16. Zennor in Darkness by Helen Dunmore TBR or another book by Dunmore
17. The God of the Woods by Liz Moore TBR
18. The Cliffs by J. Courtney Sullivan (2024) TBR
19. The Black Death: A Global History by Thomas Asbridge HISTORY
20. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak TBR
Please bear with me while I polish this post. I've not finished, by any means, but felt time was running out!
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