The Summer of 2013 Reading List

Tigers in Red Weather - Liza Klaussmann

The Light Between Oceans - M.L.Stedman

The Universe versus Alex Woods - Gavin Extence  

How It All Began - Penelope Lively

Brooklyn - Colm Toibin

The Most Beautiful Walk in the World - John Baxter 

The Lion Is In - Delia Ephron

Breakfast with Buddha - Roland Merullo

A Lady Cyclist's Guide to Kashgar 

The Group - Mary McCarthy

Joy for Beginners - Erica Bauermeister

Family Matters - Rohinton Mistry 

I Remember Nothing - Nora Ephron

The Adventures of Kavalier & Clay - Michael Chabon

Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen

Without Reservations - Alice Steinbach

Educating Alice - Alice Steinbach

The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells - Andrew Sean Greer

A Fairy Tale of New York - J.P.Donleavy

Good Wives - Margaret Forster

Paula - Isabel Allende

All books are available worldwide and I have made my selections based on recommendations from friends, bloggers & readers...thank you to everyone who made suggestions.

Some is current/just published fiction & some are books I've been meaning to read for some time.

I'll be doing a follow-up post at the end of the summer, when hopefully, I'll have read all the books.

I'd love you to share what you thought of any of the books if you read them too, let me know.

Happy Reading!!

I spotted this quote on Leslie's blog....it made me smile but I knew just what it meant! 

It's That Time Again....Summer Reading List time

Every year around this time, I write a summer reading list....

it's usually made up of books I've been meaning to read for some time, some new fiction & some recommendations from other bloggers.

I love to read on my summer holidays....

this year I'll be in the mountains of northern Italy rather than on the beach in the south of France

but I'm already compiling my list.

Every year readers of my blog share some great recommendations & I'd love to hear from you if you would like to recommend a book for my Summer Reading List post....

So, read anything good recently....tell me?!

I've read all of these in the last few weeks & really enjoyed them, 

"Rules of Civility" by Amor Towles was my favourite, I absolutely loved it.

Book Love....

....so true....

I always thought that I'd love my own library, a room hidden away and just full of books but actually I think I prefer my books to be out in the open, living & breathing as part of my home.

To me, they not only add colour & life, but they add an energy too.

I love piles of books on tables & windowsills.....I have them in every room pretty much.

I love how the owners of these homes have displayed their different selections of books.

       

Summer Reading

I love books, they truly make me happy....they're the one thing I could never be without.

I have piles of them around my home, lists in my head of things-i'll-read-one-day & authors I haven't yet started on....

my "books-that-i'm-going-to-read-next" bookshelf seems to have expanded rather than reduced over the last few years....

I do sometimes worry that I won't actually get to read all the books that I want to read in my lifetime.

I usually write a "Summer Reading" list each year....see here & here 

it's usually made up of current popular fiction, recommendations from friends & followers plus books that I've been meaning to read for ages....

I've been quietly adding a day or two to our France vacances each August over the past few years....

and so more days = more books :)

I do know that a Kindle would be a marvellous & very sensible idea....

however, half a suitcase full of books is something I am much happier with.

And when I finish the books, I leave them behind as a gift for the next occupant. 

Here is what I will be reading this summer....

"Before I Go To Sleep" S J Watson
"Life, Death & Vanilla Slices" Jenny Eclair
"Me Before You" Jojo Moyes

"The Wicked Girls" Alex Marwood
"After You'd Gone" Maggie O'Farrell
"The House I Loved" Tatiana de Rosnay

"My Dear, I Wanted to Tell You" Louisa Young
"The Litigators" John Grisham
"A Fairy Tale of New York" J P Donleavy

"Suite Francaise" Irene Nemirovsky
"The Alchemist" Paulo Coelho
"A Hundred and One Days" Asne Seierstad

"Bella Tuscany" Frances Mayes
"Dreams of Water" Nada Awar Jarrar
"Cutting for Stone" Abraham Verghese

"The Island" Victoria Hislop
"The Wedding Officer" Anthony Capella
"The Piano Tuner" Daniel Mason

"Life of Pi" Yann Martel
"The Interpretation of Murder" Jed Rubenfeld
"The Welsh Girl" Peter Ho Davies

"Birdsong" Sebastian Faulks
"Small Island" Andrea Levy
"A Visit From The Goon Squad" Jennifer Egan

I have just finished "The Wicked Girls" which was a brilliant unputdownable read....and
"Life of Pi" has been on my list for three summers in a row, this year I will actually read it ;)

If you have any further recommendations or want to share your favourite book of 2012 so far, I'd love to hear it....my suitcase is not yet full!

What will you be reading this summer?

Happy Reading!!
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