Joining #20BooksOfSummer 2021

#20BooksOfSummer is an annual event hosted by Cathy Brown of 746 Books and runs from 1 June to 1 September With the aim to clearing a target of 5, 10 or 20 books from your TBR but with very relaxed and fun rules.

I didn’t take part in 20 Books of Summer last year, I wasn’t in a good place then and unable to read as much as I wanted to and felt it would be a great big dampener on the success of my first 20 Books of Summer Challenge. This year whilst better I’m not quite up to my old speed, but boy, do I have a Tsundoko of a TBR.

So I’m going for it, even though I’m starting late (again!). This year will be a mix of books I have on my TBR but haven’t had the chance to including several I missed last year. 

My self imposed rules are:

• it can’t be a book that is about to or has JUST been released.
• It must be a book I have personally purchased. (I’m going to be loose on this one with Spirit as I won it!)
• No over-dominance by a single publisher but doesn’t mean one per publisher.
• No duplicate authors even if I really want to.
• Try for depth and breadth of and within genres.

Hopefully, my reading mojo will be back in force as I my speed and appetite for reading has increased recently let’s keep our fingers crossed that this streak continues.

The 2021 Lineup

The 2021 List IS (in no particular order)

• The Castle of Tangled Magic – Sophie Anderson (Usborne 2020)
• A Girl called Justice:: The Smugglers’ Secret – Elly Griffiths (Quercus 2020)
• The House at the Edge of Magic – Amy Sparkes (Walker Books 2021)
• The Obsidian Mirror Catherine Fisher (Hodder 2015)
• Good Girl, Bad Blood- Holly Jackson (Electric Monkey 2020)
• Darwin’s Dragons- Lindsay Galvin (Chicken House 2021)
• The Violet Veil Mysteries – Sophie Cleverly (Harper Collins 2021)
• Gracie Fairshaw & the Mysterious Guest- Susan Brownrigg (UcLan 2020)
• The Forest of Moon and Sword – Amy Raphael (Orion
• Winterborne Home for Mayhem and Mystery – Ally Carter (Orchard 2021)
• The Good Thieves- Katherine Rundell (Bloomsbury 2019)
• The Tzar’s Curious Runaways- Robin Scott-Elliot (Everything with Words 2019)
• Spirit – Sally Christie (David Fickling Books 2018)
• Nightbird- Alice Hoffman (Simon & Schuster 2015)
• Rose Raventhorpe Investigates- Janine Beacham (Little Brown 2017)
• One of Us is Lying- Karen M McManus (Penguin 2017)
• The Midnight Guardians – Ross Montgomery (Walker Books 2020)
• The Unadoptables- Hana Tooke (Puffin 2020)
• The Wordsmith- Patricia Forde (Little Island 2015)
• Molly Thompson and the Crypt of the Blue Moon – Nick Tomlinson (Walker 2020)

What do you think of my list?

Am I crazy for thinking I can read my other books alongside?

Thanks again to Mary Rees of Book Craic for originally introducing me to this challenge.