“Radiation is going fine. No side effects. Just a little tired.” Except we’re a good bit into July, and I’m just now posting my TBR. And it’s a big one! Fortunately, my reading is still on track, so I’ve finished a couple of these and started several more already.
I have the Dewey’s Reverse Readathon (reverse in that it starts at 8:00 p.m. instead of 8:00 a.m. like their usual readathon does) coming up at the end of the month, but I also have some use-it-or-lose-it comp time to eat up at work, so I’m looking for other days to do my own little reading staycation at some point.
In other words, plenty of time to read all these books.
Book Clubs
- The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
- Looking for Jane by Heather Marshall
- The Dead Romantics by Ashley Poston
- Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
Reading Challenges
I am juggling so many reading challenges I’m not sure which books I’m reading for what anymore. I just pick the top one off the stack and dive in. So far, it seems to be working out just fine.
First the summer challenges:
- The MMD Minimalist List
- The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
- Sandwich by Catherine Newman
- The 52 Book Club Summer Challenge
- Balance beam (about finding balance in life) – The Little Book of Cottagecore by Emily Kent
- Uneven bars (series with uneven number of books) – All Systems Red by Martha Wells
- Rings (jewelry on the cover) – Concrete Rose by Angie Thomas
- Synchronized diving (a sports romance) – The Prospects by KT Hoffman
- Water polo (a book that made a splash) – The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
- Butterfly (a plot featuring the butterfly effect) – The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
- Road cycling (a time period without modern transportation) – Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Adding some that fit specific prompts for the other challenges:
- 52 Book Club
- Looking for Jane by Heather Marshall from book club list above (title starting with “L”)
- A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness (an academic thriller)
- Libro.fm
- Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing by Matthew Perry (listen to a celebrity memoir)
- The Wedding People by Alison Espach (read a newly released audiobook the day it comes out) – July 30 read!
- The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi (listen to an audiobook outside your genre comfort zone)
- POPSUGAR
- Book Riot
- City of Ghosts by V. E. Schwab (read a middle grade horror novel)
- Cattywampus by Ash Van Otterloo (read a middle grade book with an LGBTQIA character)
- The Dead Romantics by Ashley Poston (read a book about books – also my beach read selection for Follow the Reader book club this month)
- Overeducated Women With Cats
- Distant Star by Roberto Bolaño (a novella under 150 pages)
- House Rules by Jodi Picoult (a book with a neurodivergent protagonist)
- Nowhere
- Mrs. Quinn’s Rise to Fame by Olivia Ford (2024 debut release)
- Piranesi by Susanna Clarke (book that came out four years ago – also my fantasy selection for Rise and Shine book club this month)
Well, that’s a lot. But many of them are short, so maybe they’ll be quick reads. I think I can make a pretty big dent in this list if I get to put aside all the time I hope for this month. Wish me luck!
M. Suzanne Terry 
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