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 intend to read this summer. My moods are unpredictable, so I suppose it's also true to say that anything can happen.
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. I'm a winter lover, I'm afraid.
Thanks to Anna of AnnaBookBel.net for hosting this summer's 20 Books of Summer.
My list:
20 Books of Summer 2026
1. The Pretender by Jo Harkin (2025)
2. The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout (2026)
3. We Have Always Lived in the Castle (1962) by Shirley Jackson
4. Ghost Stories: A Memoir by Siri Hustvedt (2026)
5. A Candle in Her Room by Ruth M. Arthur (1966)
6. At Midnight Comes the Cry Julia Spencer-Fleming (2025)
7. The Loneliness of Sonia and Sonny by Kiran Desai (2025)
8. Land by Maggie O’Farrell (2026)
9. Miss Winter in the Library with a Knife by Martin Edwards (2025)
10. Stay Alive: Berlin, 1939-1945 by Ian Buruma (2026)
11. Tom Lake by Ann Patchett (2023)
12. The Punishment She Deserves by Elizabeth George (2018)
13. John of John by Douglas Stuart (2026)
14. The Murder Club by Richard Osman (2020) TBR
15. The Edge of Eternity by Ken Follett (2014) TBR
16. Zennor in Darkness by Helen Dunmore (1993) TBR
17. The God of the Woods by Liz Moore (2024) TBR
18. The Cliffs by J. Courtney Sullivan (2024) TBR
19. The Black Death: A Global History by Thomas Asbridge (2026)
20. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (2006) TBR
Alternates: Night Objects by Eli Raphael
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