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June Summary and Plans for July

I read 11 books in June. The month seemed to fly by and I am quite pleased that I still managed to read so many books when I had such a packed schedule.

Book of the month

The Prestige – Christopher Priest 

I Know This Much is True – Wally Lamb 

Red April – Santiago Roncagliolo 

Marcelo in the Real World – Francisco Stork  

Our Tragic Universe – Scarlett Thomas 

Songs from the Other Side of the Wall – Dan Holloway 

The Russian Countess – Edith Sollohub 

Good to a Fault – Marina Endicott 

Bequest – A.K. Shevchenko 

The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner 

Beatrice and Virgil – Yann Martel 

The Lacuna – Barbara Kingsolver  (DNF)

Plans for July 

I love the list of books that I have lined up for July. It includes a lot of prize winners and so I am hoping that the quality will be far better than my June reads. I know I won’t be able to read them all, but I don’t like to limit myself too much.

Ender’s Game – Orson Scott Card

A Life Apart – Neel Murkherjee

The Piano Teacher – Elfriede Jelinek

Palace Walk – Naguib Mahfouz

How Late it Was, How Late – James Kelman

Before the Fact – Frances Iles

The Day of the Triffids – John Wyndham

The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox – Maggie O’Farrell

The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde

Luke and Jon – Robert Williams


The Book of Negroes – Lawrence Hill

Tinkers – Paul Harding

Bad Karma – David Safier

Young Hitler – Claus Hant

Sweetness in the Belly – Camilla Gibb

The Republic of Trees – Sam Taylor

Which books should I ensure I read in July?