20 Books Of Summer 2024 Wrap Up #20booksofsummer24

This annual challenge run by my namesake Cathy at 746 Books is over for another year. It has a simple objective: pick 10, 15 or 20 books you’d like to read during the period of the challenge: 1st June to 1st September.

Once again, I aimed for the full 20 books. So, how did I get on?

Version 1 – I failed. I read only eight books from my list, stubbornly refusing to make use of the option to swap books in/out of my list during the period of the challenge. I am part way through another two though. The other ten? Let’s all meet again next year…

1. Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz –  Read
2. Transcription by Kate Atkinson
3. The Draughtsman by Robert Lautner
4. The Legacy of Elizabeth Pringle by Kirsty Wark
5. Appetite by Philip Kazan
6. Anna of Kleve by Alison Weir
7. Blood Orange by Harriet Tyce
8. Finding Dorothy by Elizabeth Letts – Read
9. The Cross and the Curse by Matthew Harffy
10. Swan Song by Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott
11. The Second Sleep by Robert Harris
12. To Calais, In Ordinary Time by James Meek – Currently reading 
13. Tidelands by Philippa Gregory
14. A Place Without Pain by Simon Bourke – Currently reading 
15. In the Garden of Sorrows by Karen Jewell  – Read
16. French Windows by Antoine Laurain  – Read
17. Alvesdon by James Holland – Read
18. Dark Frontier by Matthew Harffy – Read
19. The King’s Mother by Annie Garthwaite – Read
20. Heart, Be at Peace by Donal Ryan – Read

Version 2 – I succeeded. I read 22 books during the period of the challenge. Only eight were on my original list but who cares?

1. The Comfort of Ghosts by Jacqueline Winspear
2. French Windows by Antoine Laurain
3. The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry
4. Alvesdon by James Holland
5. A Beginner’s Guide to Breaking and Entering by Andrew Hunter Murray
6. The Days of Our Birth by Charlie Laidlaw
7. The Housekeepers by Alex Hay
8. In This Ravishing World by Nina Schuyler
9. Dead Ground by Graham Hurley
10. Dark Frontier by Matthew Harffy
11. The King’s Mother by Annie Garthwaite
12. In the Garden of Sorrows by Karen Jewell
13. Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz
14. The Trap by Ava Glass
15. West Heart Kill by Dann McDorman
16. normal rules don’t apply by Kate Atkinson
17. Cabaret Macabre by Tom Mead
18. Berlin Duet by S. W. Perry
19. Heart, Be at Peace by Donal Ryan
20. The Instrumentalist by Harriet Constable

If you took part, how did you get on?