I've been formulating a list for several weeks now. I must admit I'm not sure how the books will travel down the transit line. (Books on hold at the library.) And I must admit, I can be a MOOD reader, especially when life gets too busy or stressful. I also have not had the time to be as alert as I used to be about new books and recommended books. Despite these quandaries, I'm really looking forward to this event! The heat got up to 87 degrees here today, so I'm all in for reading the summer afternoons away.
Okay—here’s
my list so far. Right now I feel my list is unbalanced, and I feel I may be
missing titles I really want to read. Please be prepared for the possibility of a new and refined list in the next week or two.
Please note that I’d love to read every book on this list, yet new or older books may fly across my path to tell me they must be read immediately. That’s the beauty of The Twenty Books of Summer. Substitutions okay!
1. The Flaw of the Design by Nathan Oates (2023)
2. Lost Son: An American Family Trapped Inside the FBI’s Secret Wars by Brett Forrest (2023)
3. The Body in the Web by Katherine Hall Page (2023)
4. The Midnight News by Jo Baker (2023)
5. The Writing Retreat by Julia Bartz (2023)
6. The Mitford Murders by Jessica Fellowes
7. Killingly by Katharine Beutner
8. All The Days of Summer by Nancy Thayer (2023) audio
9. The Last Honest Man: The FBI, the CIA, the Mafia, and the Kennedys—and One Senator’s Fight to Save Democracy by James Risen (2023)1
10. The Senator’s Wife by Liv Constantine
11. Seems to be missing! I'll fill in soon!
12. The Five-Star Weekend by Elin Hilderbrand on audio
13. Another Martin Edwards Lake District Mystery??
14. The Covenant of Water
15. Fatherland: A Memoir of War, Conscience, and Family Secrets by Burkhard Bilger (2023)
16. Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues by Jonathan Kennedy
17. The Only One Left by Riley Sager
18. The Puzzle of Blackstone Lodge by Martin Edwards.
19. Tom Lake by Ann Patchett (2023)
20. The Lock-Up by John Banville (2023)