How are we halfway through the year already? This month is all about reading books for the #20BooksOfSummer Challenge. I have almost finished my fifth and have eight lined up for this month along with a few from the nature reading challenge that I am doing. So without further ado, here is the list of books that I will be picking around 16 to 18 books from:
Still Reading
Exciting Times – Naoise Dolan
Review Books
Isles at the Edge of the Sea – Jonny Muir
The Wonderful Mr Willughby: The First True Ornithologist – Tim Birkhead
The House of Islam – Ed Husain
On the Scent: Unlocking The Mysteries Of Smell – And How Losing It Can Change Our World – Paola Totaro and Robert Wainwright
Swan: Portrait of a Majestic Bird, from Mythical Meanings to the Modern Day – Dan Keel
Handbook of Mammals of Madagascar Hardcover – Nick Garbutt
RSPB Handbook of Garden Wildlife: 3rd edition – Peter Holden & Geoffrey Abbott
Reconnection: Fixing our Broken Relationship with Nature – Miles Richardson
One Fine Day: A Journey Through English Time – Ian Marchant
The Possibility of Life: Searching for Kinship in the Cosmos – Jaime Green
Once Upon a Raven’s Nest: A Life On Exmoor In An Epoch Of Change – Catrina Davies
The View from the Hill: Four Seasons in a Walker’s Britain – Christopher Somerville
Across A Waking Land: A 1,000-Mile Walk Through A British Spring – Roger Morgan-Grenville
Minor Monuments – Ian Maleney
Cry of the Wild: Tales Of Sea, Woods and Hill – Charles Foster
The Granite Kingdom: A Cornish Journey – Tim Hannigan
Elowen – William Henry Searle
The Bathysphere Book: Effects of the Luminous Ocean Depths – Brad Fox
Call of the Kingfisher: Bright Sights and Birdsong in a Year by the River – Nick Penny
Other Books
Waypoints: A Journey On Foot – Robert Martineau
Venice: The Lion, The City And The Water – Cees Nooteboom
A Trillion Trees: How We Can Reforest Our World – Fred Pearce
Circles And Tangents: Art In The Shadow Of Cranborne Chase – Vivienne Mary Light
Borderland: A Journey Through The History Of Ukraine – Anna Reid
The Swimmer: The Wild Life Of Roger Deakin – Patrick Barkham
Challenge Books
Botanical Folk Tales of Britain and Ireland – Lisa Schneidau
Nightingale – Marina Kemp
A Perfect Explanation – Eleanor Anstruther
The Watchmaker of Filigree Street – Natasha Pulley
The Bedlam Stacks – Natasha Pulley
Himself – Jess Kidd
Don’t Look Now – Daphne du Maurier
The Mermaid of Black Conch – Monique Roffey
Blood Storm – Colin Forbes
One August Night – Victoria Hislop
A Trillion Trees: How We Can Reforest Our World – Fred Pearce
Bloom: From Food to Fuel, the Epic Story of How Algae Can Save Our World – Ruth Kassinger
In Search Of One Last Song: Britain’s Disappearing Birds And The People Trying To Save Them – Patrick Galbraith
Photo / Art
Circles And Tangents: Art In The Shadow Of Cranborne Chase – Vivienne Mary Light
Poetry
Out For Air – Olly Todd
Any that takes your fancy in this list? Let me know in the comments below
Well done for getting to 5/20! I finished my first seven earlier this month and decided to pick up a side-read, Queen, by Alex Haley, which is 915 pages long!! Fortunately, it’s completely unlike all the other books I’m reading so I can put it aside and pick it up without getting too confused. I have identified six for July and am reading one, Brian Bilston’s poems, a month of poems every week so that’s just kind of jogging along and will eventually be Book 20. However I’ve just taken on a huge work project for July so fingers crossed I manage! Happy reading in July yourself.
Bloody hell that is a huge book! At least you can dip in. Well done on reading seven too. I hope the work project is a success
The work project will probably not be much fun as it’s a huge, poorly written document from a regular client of my middle-man client. But I am thinking of the money and it will keep me occupied!
Oh dear, but as you say, it is work and will keep you amused (I use the term lightly).