It is already June. How did that happen? Anyway, the gloom and horrible weather seems to have cleared and the sun has come out. Sadly I have been stuck inside decorating the past few weekends and haven’t got as much reading as I would like done. So the TBR this month is even more ridiculous than the one in May.
Finishing Off (Still!)
Lotharingia: A Personal History Of Europe’s Lost Country – Simon Winder
Behind the Enigma: The Authorized History of GCHQ, Britain’s Secret Cyber-Intelligence Agency – John Ferris
Blog Tour
Tapestries of Life: Uncovering the Lifesaving Secrets of the Natural World – Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson
Review Copies
Did manage to read 11 review copies in May, but the list grows ever longer each month
Astral Travel – Elizabeth Baines
The Germans and Europe: A Personal Frontline History – Peter Millar
Britain Alone: The Path from Suez to Brexit – Philip Stephens
We Own This City: A True Story of Crime, Cops and Corruption in an American City – Justin Fenton
Fox Fires – Wyl Menmuir
Invisible Work: The Hidden Ingredient of True Creativity, Purpose and Power – John Howkins
The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveals the Future of Our World – Tim Marshall
Elites: Can you rise to the top without losing your soul? – Douglas Board
Trimming England – M.J. Nicholls
The Fugitives – Jamal Mahjoub
Spaceworlds: Stories of Life in the Void – Ed. Mike Ashley
Slow Trains Around Spain: A 3,000-Mile Adventure on 52 Rides – Tom Chesshyre
The Others – Raül Garrigasait
Burning The Books: A History Of Knowledge Under Attack – Richard Ovenden
The Four Horsemen: And The Hope Of A New Age – Emily Mayhew
The Spy who was left out in the Cold: The Secret History of Agent Goleniewski – Tim Tate
The Devil You Know: Stories of Human Cruelty and Compassion – Gwen Adshead, Eileen Horne
When Quiet Was the New Loud: Celebrating the Acoustic Airwaves 1998-2003 – Tom Clayton
Letters from Egypt – Lucie Duff Gordon
The Heeding – Rob Cowen & Nick Hayes
The Glitter in the Green: In Search of Hummingbirds – Jon Dunn
Library
Lots of library books to read this month because of other people reserving them and me neglecting to get them read before. Might end up paying the fines as you can’t return and renew at the moment.
The Lip – Charlie Carroll
Lev’s Violin: An Italian Adventure – Helena Attlee
Summer In The Islands: An Italian Odyssey – Matthew Fort
Sea People: In Search of the Ancient Navigators of the Pacific – Christina Thompson
Superheavy: Making And Breaking The Periodic Table – Kit Chapman
On The Marsh: A Year Surrounded By Wildness And Wet – Simon Barnes
Pie Fidelity: In Defence Of British Food – Pete Brown
Another Fine Mess: Across Trumpland In A Ford Model T – Tim Moore
The Living Goddess: A Journey Into The Heart Of Kathmandu – Isabella Tree
The Odditorium: The Tricksters, Eccentrics, Deviants And Inventors Whose Obsession Changed The World – David Bramwell & Jo Keeling
Ciderology – Gabe Cook
The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind The Myth Of The Scandinavian Utopia – Michael Booth
Elephant Complex: Travels In Sri Lanka – John Gimlette
Tweet Of The Day: A Year Of Britain’s Birds From The Acclaimed Radio 4 Series – Brett Westwood & Stephen Moss
Poetry
Only intending on reading one this month give the vastness of the rest of the list…
The Heeding – Rob Cowen & Nick Hayes
20 Books Of Summer
Cathy at 746 books is running this again and my post about it is here. I am not going to get to all of these this month, but they are here so I can start ticking them off the list to read.
An Affair Of The Heart – Dilys Powell
Wyntertide – Andrew Caldecot
The Con Artist – Fred van Lente
Girl Squads: 20 Female Friendships That Changed History – Sam Maggs
Water Ways: A Thousand Miles Along Britain’s Canals – Jasper Winn
The Night Lies Bleeding – M.D. Lachlan
Divided: Why We’re Living in an Age of Walls – Tim Marshall
The Wonderful Mr Willughby: The First True Ornithologist – Tim Birkhead
The House of Islam – Ed Husain
Fallout: Disasters, Lies, and the Legacy of the Nuclear Age – Fred Pearce
Asian Waters: The Struggle Over the South China Sea and the Strategy of Chinese Expansion – Humphrey Hawksley
Light of the Stars: Alien Worlds and the Fate of the Earth – Adam Frank
Blue Mind: How Water Makes You Happier, More Connected and Better at What You Do – Wallace J. Nichols
21 Lessons for the 21st Century – Yuval Noah Harari
The Restless Kings: Henry II, His Sons and the Wars for the Plantagenet Crown – Nick Barratt
The Kindness Of Strangers: Travel Stories That Make Your Heart Grow – Ed. Fearghal O’Nuallain
To Obama: With Love, Joy, Anger, and Hope – Jeanne Marie Laskas
The Secret Network of Nature: The Delicate Balance of All Living Things – Peter Wohlleben
What We Have Lost – James Hamilton-Paterson
Bloody Brilliant Women: The Pioneers, Revolutionaries and Geniuses Your History Teacher Forgot to Mention – Cathy Newman
These lists never seem to get any shorter, do they? 🙂
Any that you have read or are there some above that take your fancy?
That’s a *big* list… Good luck!
I did gulp a little when I pulled it all together on the spreadsheets I use. Finished the first though.
That is a bit alarming but I’m hardly one to talk. I got off to a slow start but have had a quiet day apart from gardening today so managed to finish one and get most of the way through another, having finished a couple in the week. Now I have review lag, of course …
My thoughts too. I am half way through book three at the moment, Summer In The Islands, which is making me wish I was back in Italy