I seem to only have the time and concentration to get through around 16 books a month at the moment, but intend to pick them from this list below:
Finishing Off
Vickery’s Folk Flora – Roy Vickery
Hollow Places – Christopher Hadley
Lotharingia – Simon Winder
Farsighted – Steven Johnson
Blog Tour
Just the one this month from the Wolfson History Writing Prize
Cricket Country – Prashant Kidambi
Review Copies
Amazingly I have read all of the 2020 books that I have been sent / request bar one! So will be trying to work my way through some of the older ones that I have had for far too long:
American Dirt – Jeanie Cummins (still wavering on this one a little with all the publicity about this)
The Dictatorship Syndrome – Alaa Al Aswany
The Many Lives of Carbon – Dag Olav Hessen, Tr. Kerri Pierce
30-Second Elements – Eric Scerri
Elementary – James M. Russell
The House of Islam – Ed Husain
Blue Mind: How Water Makes You Happier, More Connected and Better at What You Do – Wallace J. Nichols
When the Rivers Run Dry: Water – The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-first Century – Fred Pearce
The Glass Woman – Caroline Lea
Sunfall – Jim Al-Khalili
Library Books
Ended up reading a couple of other library books instead in May, so still aiming to read these:
Lone Rider – Elspeth Beard
Sea People – Christina Thompson
The Way To The Sea – Caroline Crampton
A Beginner’s Guide To Japan – Pico Iyer
Pie Fidelity – Pete Brown
The Bells of Old Tokyo – Anna Sherman
Challenge Books
As well as a dusty shelf challenge that I am running on Good Reads, I am joining in with #20BooksOfSummer run by Cathy at 746 books. Will be posting my list for that tomorrow
Unseen Academicals – Terry Pratchett
Gathering Carrageen – Monica Connell
Against a Peacock Sky – Monica Connell
#20BooksOfSummer – TBC
#20BooksOfSummer – TBC
#20BooksOfSummer – TBC
Own Books
Wanderland – Jini Reddy
Greenery – Tim Dee
The Frayed Atlantic Edge – David Gange
Water and Sky – Neil Sentance
Ridge and Furrow – Neil Sentance
Poetry
Equal Rights – Edward Ragg
Depth Charge – Chris Emery
Science Fiction
Didn’t read any last month so this is still on the list:
One Way – S.J. Morden
You must read American Dirt – I had some misgivings and despite them found it to be an incredible book. I think if you ignore all the controversy and focus on the story you will be completely engrossed in the narrative.
I understand that was an awful lot of controversy too!
I’m almost caught up on review books myself – I have read my Wolfson Prize one and half way through my last Thames & Hudson one. Well done us and have a good reading month!
Excellent. Well done, Liz. I hope you do too.