This is my eleventh year of participating in the 20 Books of Summer reading challenge. The event was originally hosted by Cathy at 746Books. This year, Annabel from AnnaBookbel is hosting the event.
The challenge is very flexible. You don't have to aim for the full 20 books; instead, you can opt for 15 or 10.
Here are some of the rules...
- The #20BooksofSummer2026 challenge runs from Monday June 1st to Monday August 31st
- The first rule of 20 Books is that there are no real rules, other than signing up for 10, 15 or 20 books and trying to read from your TBR.
- You can pick your list in advance, or nominate a bookcase to read from, or pick at whim from your TBR.
For more information and the place to sign up, check out this post at AnnaBookBel. There is also a book bingo card if that appeals to you.
I love to make lists of books to read, so I would start with a list whether I plan to stick with it or not. However, I do plan to stick with my list, and here it is, in no particular order.
The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and his Mother) by Rabih Alameddine. Won the National Book Award for Fiction (2025).
The Sentence is Death by Anthony Horowitz. Mystery. 2018. 2nd book in the Hawthorne and Horowitz series.
Mortmain Hall by Martin Edwards. Mystery. 2019. 2nd book in the Rachel Savernake series.
The Customer is Always Wrong by Mimi Pond. Graphic Novel. 2017.
Wednesday's Child by Yiyun Li. Short Stories. 2023.
Things in Nature Merely Grow by Yiyun Li. Won the Pulitzer Prize for Memoir or Autobiography 2025.
Count Them One by One: Black Mississippians Fighting for the Right to Vote by Gordon A. Martin, Jr. Nonfiction. 2010.
Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop by Hwang Bo-reum, translated by Shanna Tan. Fiction. 2022.
Floating Hotel by Grace Curtis. Cozy Science Fiction novel, 2024. Read and recommended by my son.
Middlemarch by George Eliot. Classic novel. 1872.
Find a Victim by Ross Macdonald. Mystery. 1954. Book 5 in the Lew Archer series.
The Birds and the Beasts Were There by Margaret Millar. Nonfiction, Nature, Memoir. 1971.
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. Classic Novel. 1847.
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. Classic Novel. 1818.
Murder on the Yellow Brick Road by Stuart Kaminsky. Mystery. 1971. Book 2 in the Toby Peters series
Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk by Katherine Rooney. Historical Fiction. 2017.
The Sisters by Robert Littell. Spy Fiction. 1985.
A Graveyard for Lunatics by Ray Bradbury. Mystery. 1990. Book 2 in the Crumley Mysteries series.
Glass Houses by Louise Penny. Mystery. 2017. Book 13 in the Chief Inspector Armand Gamache series. Set in Canada.
Etta and Otto and Russell and James by Emma Hooper. Mystery. 2015. Set in Canada.
Bleeders by Bill Pronzini. Mystery. 2001. Book 27 in the Nameless series.
Trophies and Dead Things by Marcia Muller. Mystery. 1990. Book 10 in the Sharon McCone series.
The Cyclist by Tim Sullivan. Mystery. 2020. Book 2 in the DS George Cross series.
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