20 Books of Summer 2021

20 Books of Summer
One summer.

Three months.

93 Days.

20 books.

Are you in?


Here’s the kickoff post on 746 Books in case you want more details. I had a lot of fun with this last year (the time pressure helped a lot), so let’s give it another shot. Last year, my list was a mix of summer releases, NetGalley things I’d been procrastinating on, and some things I’d meant to read for a while. But here’s the thing–I don’t need something prompting me to read the next Ace Atkins or Kevin Hearne, ditto for my NetGalley stack–that’s going to get read. So in keeping with my push to trim my TBR List (both aspirational and stuff I already own) this year, 19 of these 20 books are those (I did put one upcoming release on the list, it was a moment of weakness). It’s going to be an actual challenge to get all of these read, but I think I’m up for it.

Anyway, here’s my list (subject to change, but I’m going to resist the impulse to tweak as much as I can).

1. A Beginner’s Guide to Free Fall by Andy Abramowitz
2. The Dead House by Harry Bingham
3. The Run-Out Groove by Andrew Cartmel
4. Love by Roddy Doyle
5. The Ninja’s Blade by Tori Eldridge
6. Small Bytes by Robert Germaux
7. A Reason to Live by Matthew Iden
8. Twiced Cursed by J. C. Jackson
9. The Dime by Kathleen Kent
10. Dead Man’s Grave by Neil Lancaster
11. The Magnificent Nine by James Lovegrove
12. The Mermaid’s Pool by David Nolan
13. All Together Now by Matthew Norman
14. The Good Byline by Jill Orr
15. Sir Thomas the Hesitant and the Table of Less Valued Knights by Liam Perrin
16. Fools Gold by Ian Patrick
17. Know Your Rites by Andy Redsmith
18. The Far Empty by J. Todd Scott
19. August Snow by Stephen Mack Jones
20. In Plain Sight by Dan Willis

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6 Comments

  1. Thanks for taking part again! Look forward to hearing what you think of the Roddy Doyle as it’s one I haven’t read yet. Good luck and happy reading!

    • HCNewton

      Doyle is one of those authors I love when I read (well, still not sure about Paddy Clark), but I don’t seem to be able to find time for. Love has been sitting unopened on my shelf since it was published.

  2. Robert Germaux

    Good luck with your reading, H.C. I’m both pleased and honored to have one of my books, “Small Bytes,” included. Thanks!

  3. Thanks so much, H.C., for including THE DIME in your list of summer reading. I’m in great company!

  4. I’ve got a book about the table of less valued knights on my TBR, but by a different author so I had to go look it up, and apparently it was a thing! Good luck with your summer reading.

    • HCNewton

      really? Other less-valued knight books? That’s an odd trend (but hey, only so much you can play with when it comes to knights, eh?)

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