It was warm over the weekend, but it is very much NOT summery out there at the moment. However, that is no reason not to want to announce my book list for 2o Books of Summer.
This challenge was dreamt up by Cathy at 746 Books, it is a challenge for bloggers and anyone else and the aim is to try and read through 20 books that are on their TBR. I have tried for the past two years. In the first year, I read 18, in 2020 managed 12 and in 2021 only 10! I like the idea of it and It is good to support other bloggers in what they are doing to promote reading but I have always been disappointed in failing to complete it every time so far. I did um and ah about doing it. l like to pick themes usually, I have had travel, and outstanding review books and then realised that it fits in with another challenge that I am undertaking:
I raised that on the spreadsheet that I have been using ,I physically had 20 books that I had not read from the categories above. So without further ado, here is my list of books:
| Fish | The Old Man and The Sand Eel | Will Millard |
| Urban Wildlife | Fox | Jim Crumley |
| Land Rules / Trespass | The Book of Trespass: Crossing the Lines that Divide Us | Nick Hayes |
| Classic Nature Novel | The Overstory | Richard Powers |
| Walking Trail | I Belong Here: A Journey Along the Backbone of Britain | Anita Sethi |
| Another Country | Wild Nephin | Sean Lysaght |
| Migration | Swifts and Us: The Life of the Bird that Sleeps in the Sky | Sarah Gibson |
| Nature Restoration / Recovery | A Trillion Trees: How We Can Reforest Our World | Fred Pearce |
| Short Stories | At the Pond: Swimming at the Hampstead Ladies’ Pond | Various |
| Sky | My House of Sky: A Life of J A Baker | Hetty Saunders |
| Glaciers / Mountains | Two Trees Make a Forest: Travels Among Taiwan’s Mountains & Coasts in Search of My Family’s Past | Jessica J. Lee |
| Mental Health | A Still Life: A Memoir | Josie George |
| Water (Sea / River / Ocean) | Caught By The River | Jeff Barrett, Robin Turner, Andrew Walsh (Editor) |
| Remote Nature | True North | Gavin Francis |
| Ferocious Animals | Black Lion: Alive in the Wilderness | Sicelo Mbatha |
| Trees | Living Trees | Robin Walters |
| The Forest | The Wood That Made London | C.J. Schuler |
| Farm | English Pastoral An Inheritance | James Rebanks |
| Auto-biography | Wild Silence | Raynor Winn |
| Folklore / Folktales | Woodland Folk Tales of Britain and Ireland Paperback | Lisa Schneidau |
Follow the hashtag #20booksofsummer22 to follow those who are taking part this year.
Thanks for taking part Payul and I love the way you have themed your ist! Good luck.
Thank you for organising it each year!
Nice list! I’ve read and enjoyed Trespass and Wild Silence, I think unfortunately I Belong Here might fall down for you as it did for me but we’ll see. Enjoy! I don’t have much nature on mine, just The Last Puffin and A Wood of Ones Own at the start and finish.
I have seen mixed reviews of I Belong Here. I bought a copy because I think that it is important to support minority authors, and publishers will respond to sales of books
I think I reviewed it for Shiny so might have accentuated the positives. There is a good book in there but it could have done with a harder edit. I’ll be interested in your take on it.