#20BooksofSummer 2017 challenge – a round up

So the 2017 #20BooksofSummer challenge has ended. 20 books picked, to be read between 1 July and 3 September.

So how did I do?

Well I managed to read 20. Granted, they weren’t the 20 I originally planned to read, but never the less I mangaged to complete the challenge. And made a (very) small dint in the TBR as a result.

Some of the original ones I picked weren’t for me, some I just needed to read something from a different genre. For the last two books I read, I admit, I swopped them so that I could read 20 in the allotted time. I had started The Testament of Vida Tremayne but realised I wouldn’t finish it in time so swopped it for Agnes Grey. I will be reading the rest of the former soon.

So what did I manage to read.

I had a selection of titles. Some were ARCs received from publishers, some were copies I had purchased. They ranged from the 19th Century to a book that’s not out until 2018.

As I expected there were plenty of crime and thriller novels, from golden age crime to the modern thriller. Also, rather surprisingly, I had four novels that centered around grief and/or aging. Sprinkled in amongst the fiction were a couple of non fiction titles, including a book about a reading challenge, an opportunity I couldn’t miss. I even reviewed poetry for the first time. Some were quick reads, ones I read in a day, others took me considerably longer, for a variety of reasons.

So here is a list of what I read, in no particular order. Click on the titles to see my reviews.

1 Tin Man by Sarah Winman

2 Sparkling Cyanide by Agatha Christie

3 You, Me, Everything by Catherine Isaac – the only one I’ve not reviewed as it isn’t out until April next year.

4 A Summer at Sea by Katie Fforde

5 Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte

6 Innocence by Roald Dahl

7 Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont by Elizabeth Taylor

8 An Act of Silence by Colette McBeth

9 The Wages of Sin by Kaite Welsh

10 The Last Summer by Ricarda Huch

11 American Housewife by Helen Ellis