20 books of Summer (except that it’s Winter)

In light of my post about my Netgalley habit and the fact that after June 19th I’ll have oodles of reading time (because exams will be over), I’ve decided to join Cathy’s 20 Books of Summer reading challenge. Except that it’s winter here. And therein lies the really ace thing about reading – it’s suited to #ALLTHESEASONS. Yes, there’s nothing better than having sand in the crack of your paperback (you thought I was going to say something else, didn’t you?) but it’s equally lovely to burrow under the doona, warm and toasty, and kill an hour with a book.

The challenge is straightforward – read twenty books between June 1st and September 4th. I’m aiming to finish some of my other reading challenges with this one *feels clever* and have chosen a mix of titles from those languishing on my Netgalley list to those sitting in dusty stacks around my house. I’ve included a couple of new releases for dinner-party-conversation-value.

So here is my Summer (Winter) reading list:

1. The Green Road by Anne Enright
2. Fishbowl by Bradley Somer
3. The Wonder Lover by Malcolm Knox
4. Our Endless Numbered Days by Claire Fuller
5. Whiskey and Charlie by Annabel Smith
6. Long Bay by Eleanor Limprecht
7. The Versions of Us by Laura Barnett
8. Days of Awe by Lauren Fox
9. Kitchens of the Great Midwest by J. Ryan Stradal
10. The Last Days of Rabbit Hayes by Anna McPartlin
11. In the Unlikely Event by Judy Blume
12. Life Moves Pretty Fast by Hadley Freeman
13. Heart of Palm by Laura Lee Smith
14. How to be a Grown-up by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus 
15. The Best of Us by Sarah Pekkanen
16. Y by Marjorie Celona
17. I’ll Take What She Has by Samantha Wilde
18. Disraeli Avenue by Caroline Smailes
19. Little Exiles by Robert Dinsdale
20. The Empathy Exams by Leslie Jamison