A little late posting this as I have a blog tour post yesterday and tend not to post over the weekend at the moment, still a stupidly long TBR, but am on the lat five of my 20 Books of Summer Challenge, two of which are huge, hence three very short books being included!
Still Reading
Nature Writing for Every Day of the Year – Ed. Jane McMorland Hunter
A Cloud a Day – Gavin Pretor-Pinney
A Year Of Garden Bees & Bugs: 52 stories of intriguing insects – Dominic Couzens & Gail Ashton
Citadel (Languedoc, #3) – Kate Mosse
Children of the Volcano – Ros Belford
Blog Tours
The Volunteers: A Memoir of Conservation, Companionship and Community – Carol Donaldson
All Boats Are Sinking: Navigating Life, Love and Locks on a Narrowboat – Hannah Pierce
Vagabond: A Hiker’s Homage to Rural Spain – Mark Eveleigh
Challenge Books
Citadel (Languedoc, #3) – Kate Mosse
The Elephant Vanishes – Haruki Murakami
The Gun Seller – Hugh Lawrie
Heart Of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
Seveneves – Neal Stephenson
Review Books
Bloom: From Food to Fuel, the Epic Story of How Algae Can Save Our World – Ruth Kassinger
Blue Mind: How Water Makes You Happier, More Connected and Better at What You Do – Wallace J. Nichols
The House Divided: Sunni, Shia and the Making of the Middle East – Barnaby Rogerson
Cornish Horrors: Tales from the Land’s End – Ed. Joan Passey
Scenes from Prehistoric Life: From the Ice Age to the coming of the Romans – Francis Pryor
Hunt for the Shadow Wolf: The Lost History of Wolves in Britain and the Myths and Stories That Surround Them – Derek Gow
The Long Unwinding Road: A Journey Through the Heart of Wales – Marc P. Jones
Hedgelands: A Wild Wander Around Britain’s Greatest Habitat – Christopher Hart
Brazilian Adventure – Peter Fleming
The Station – Athos: Treasures and Men – Robert Byron
One Fine Day: A Journey Through English Time – Ian Marchant
Slow Trains To Istanbul – Tom Chesshyre
A Ride Across America – Simon Parker
Library Books
How Bad Are Bananas?: The Carbon Footprint of Everything – Mike Berners-Lee
The Rosewater Redemption – Tade Thompson
Stone Will Answer: A Journey Guided by Craft, Myth and Geology – Beatrice Searle
Weathering – Ruth Allen
Sticky: The Secret Science of Surfaces – Laurie Winkless
All My Wild Mothers: A Memoir Of Motherhood, Loss And An Apothecary Garden – Victoria Bennet
Other Books
Ultra-Processed People: Why Do We All Eat Stuff That Isn’t Food … and Why Can’t We Stop? – Chris van Tulleken
The Haunted Places of Hampshire – Ian Fox
Salacious Sussex – Viv Croot
Discovering Timber-framed Buildings – Richard Harris
Poetry
Selling Manhattan – Carol Ann Duffy
Are there any that take your fancy from that list? Let me know in the comments below.
I hope you got your 20 Books finished, I did just about. I’m having a sort of Reading Week this week with my husband away, which is fun, though I might send myself mad by the end. I am seeing real people and getting out of the house every day, too!
Not quite, but I normally go into September as summer doesn’t technically finish until the equinox