20 Books of Summer was initiated by fellow blogger Cathy at 746 Books.  The time parameters of the #20booksofsummer challenge: June 1 – September 5, 2016.

Book bloggers all have lengthy (sometimes never-ending) TBR lists.  This challenge serves as an impetus to tackle our TBR lists together – in a fun and enjoyable way.  Summer lures of sun, holidays, socializing, visitors, etc. serve to make reading twenty titles within the time parameters even more challenging.

When I first signed up to take part in the challenge I had anticipated I would read these twenty titles, but due to mood, blog tours, the required reading of my in-person bookclub, and last minute review commitments, the books I actually read for the challenge were these:

1.  “June” by by Miranda Beverly-Whittemore
2.  “The girls in the garden” by Lisa Jewell
3.  “Daisy in chains” by Sharon Bolton
4.  “Valentina” by S.E. Lynes
5. “Field of graves” by J.T. Ellison
6.  “I’m thinking of ending things” by Iain Reid
7.  “Alex” by Pierre Lemaitre
8.  “Before the fall” by Noah Hawley
9.  “Shadowed” by Karen E. Olson
10.  “Missing, presumed” by Susie Steiner
11.  “The sister” by Louise Jensen
12.  “In a dark, dark, wood” by Ruth Ware
13.  “A game for all the family” by Sophie Hannah
14.  “The beauty of the end” by Debbie Howells
15. “No one knows” by J.T. Ellison
16. “Those we left behind” by Stuart Neville  (now reading)
17.  “Redemption Road” by John Hart
18.  “Of sea and seed” by Annie Daylon
19. “The lady vanished” by Gretta Mulrooney
20.  “The kind worth killing” by Peter Swanson

That is not to say I won’t read the titles I omitted from my previous list, only that for reasons important at the time I had to shuffle them further down the queue.  I’ll get to them soon.  Stay tuned…