#20BooksOfSummer

• 20 Books of Summer is hosted by Cathy at 746books.com!
• The challenge is to read 20 books off your TBR list.
  
• June 01  – September 03
  
• Hashtag:  #20BooksOfSummer

 

• My original plan was to read 20 books on
• Modern Library’s Top 100 Novels.
• I managed to read 16…then I was sick of classics!
• I find if you  DON’T  make a list
• ….reading will be more fun.
• Just choose the book according to your mood.
• Pleased with my results:   44  books

 

My list:   16/20   from Modern Library’s Top 100 Novels :

 

1. The Postman Always Rings Twice – J.M. Cain READ  4.0
2. The Death of the Heart by E. Bowen – – READ – 2.0
   
3. The Ginger Man – J.P.Donleavy – DNF …. abandon after 100 pgs. (bah)
   
4. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser – READ 3.0
   
5. Scoop by Evelyn Waugh  – READ – 4.0
   
6. Ragtime  by E.L. Doctorow – READ 3.0
7. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh – READ  5.0
   
8. Go Tell It On The Mountain by J. Baldwin – READ  5.0
   
9. As I Lay Dying  by William Faulkner – READ –  5.0
10. Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov – READ   5.0
11. Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner – READ  2.0
12. The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler – READ – 3.0
13. Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence – READ 5.0
14. Loving by Henry Green – READ    4.0
15. I, Claudius by Robert Graves – READ    4.0
16. Under the Net – I. Murdoch – READ – 5.0

 

1. NON-FICTION:
   
2. The Bloody Mary Book – E. Brown – READ  3.0
3. Walking the Nile – L. Wood – READ  4.0
4. Running Hare – J. Lewis-Stempel – READ   5.0
5. Dear Ijeawele – C.N. Adichie – READ  5.0
6. Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America – J. Leovy – READ – 5.0
7. Coming Up Trumps – J. Trumpington – READ    3.0
8. Kennedy and King – S. Levingston – READ    5.0
9. Bobby Kennedy: The Making of a Liberal Icon – 5.0

 

1. FRENCH:
2. Un Vie – S. Veil – READ – 4.0
3. Rue des Boutiques Obscures – P. Modiano – READ  5.0
4. Retour à Killybegs – S. Chalandon – READ – 4.0
5. Une femme à Berlin – M. Hillers – READ – 4.0 – French
6. Seul Dans Berlin – H. Fallada – READ 3.0

 

1. CRIME FICTION:
2. Open and Shut – D. Rosenfelt – READ 5.0
3. First Degree – D. Rosenfelt – READ 5.0

 

1. SF  – Fantasy:
2. Doomsday Book – C. Willis – READ 3.0
3. The Two Towers – J.R.R. Tolkien – READ   3.0
4. Return of the King – J.R.R. Tolkien – READ – 3.0
5. Vaster Than Empires and More Slow – U. Le Guin – READ 5.0
6. Principles of Angels – J. Fenn – DNF – 1.0 – Bah!
7. The Martian – A. Weir – READ – 5.0

 

1. Fiction:
2. The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen – READ  4.0
3. Short Stories –  Dear Life  by A. Munro (Nobel Prize 2013) – READ  3.0
4. Short Stories – Shatterday & Other Stories – H. Ellison – READ  11/11
5. Seven Plays – S. Shepard – READ – 5.0
   
6. The Persians – Aeschlyus – READ – 3.0
7. The African Queen – C.S. Forester – READ    5.0
   
8. Lincoln in the Bardo  – G. Saunders – READ – 1.0