20 Books of Summer 2024

For the 10th year Cathy at 746 Books is hosting #20BooksOfSummer24 I love this challenge because the rules are so forgiving! Make a list of 20 books, read them between 6/1 and 9/1. Change them if you want to as you go along; read fewer than 20 if you need to; have fun. 

Here is my list, beginning with books already in progress:

Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James [finished in May, not counting]
Comeback by Dick Francis [finished in May, not counting]

1. Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
   
   On my library book shelf but not yet started:
   
   
2. 100 Things We've Lost to the Internet by Pamela Paul [DNF]
   You Should Have Known by Jean Hanff Korelitz [DONE - June]
   
   
3. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
   1000 Words by Jami Attenberg [DONE - June]
   
   Scheduled to come up in my library hold queue this summer:
   
   
4. Misunderstood Vegetables by Becky Selengut [DNF]
   The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon [Done - July]
5. Indiana by George Sand
   Tide and Punishment by Bree Baker [Done-July]
6. Dolled Up for Murder by Jane Cleland
   James by Percival Everett [Done-July]
7. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
   We by Yevgeny Zamyatin [Done-July]
8. The Borrower by Rebecca Makkai
   Rosemary Remembered by S.W. Albert  [Done - July]
9. We by E. I. Zamiatin [Done - July]
10. All it Takes is a Goal by Jon Acuff  [Done - June]
11. Pastrami on Rye by Ted Merwin [Done - June]
12. The Jasmine Moon Murder by Laura Childs [Done- June]
13. Revenge of the Middle Aged Woman by Elizabeth Buchan [Done-July]
    
    Books I own but haven't yet read:
    
    
14. Dance, Dance, Dance by Haruki Murakami [Done-July]
15. The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather
16. Biography: A Very Short Introduction by Hermione Lee
17. Park Avenue Summer by Renee Rosen
18. The End of Summer by Rosamund Pilcher
    The Life List by Kate Christie [Done-July]
    
    Swap-ins for the May finishes:
19. The Glamour of Grammar by Roy Peter Clark [Done-July]
20. Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus 
    Blood at the Root by Peter Robinson [Done-July]