Yee Haw! Time to talk about what I read between Memorial Day and Labor Day, in this here year of 2024!

I had a lot of fun this summer, went some fun places, ate some great ice cream, and read some amazing books. I even got to do one of my favorite things: reading a good book on a beautiful beach! The beach was in the Bahamas, and the book was Children of Ragnarok, by Cinda Williams Chima. I have also talked about it on my recent BookTube. By the way, if you haven’t checked out my YouTube channel, please do! I’m having so much fun there! I’ve posted a video every week, usually on Wednesday, and covered all kinds of great topics: Favorite Dragon Books, Fifteen Books to Get to Know Me, soon we shall be seeing some seasonal posts, like Best Halloween Books, and my favorite: Best Christmas Books!

But I wasn’t able to do a list of all the books I read this summer in the video, so I said I would do it here! I read 48 books this summer, counting audiobooks, read alouds to the kids, and physical books read to myself. Not an all time best, but not too shabby!

Here they are, in alphabetical order:

The Angel of Indian Lake - Stephen Graham Jones

As Old As Time - Liz Braswell

The Book of Lost Friends - Lisa Wingate

The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek- Kim Michele Richardson

The Children of Ragnarok - Cinda Williams Chima

The Clicking of Cuthbert - P. G. Wodehouse

The Danish Secret to Happy Kids - Helen Russell

Daughter of the Pirate King - Tricia Levenseller

Dear Mr. Henshaw - Beverly Cleary

Death of a Spy - M. C. Beaton

The End of Drum-Time - Hannah Pylväinen

Funny Story - Emily Henry

The Grey King - Susan Cooper

Hamnet - Maggie O’Farrell

I Cheerfully Refuse - Leif Enger

In the Labyrinth of Drakes - Marie Brennen

Klaus - Grand Morrison

Klaus: The Life and Times of Santa Claus - Grant Morrison

Klaus: The New Adventures of Santa Claus - Grant Morrison

Laughing Gas - P. G. Wodehouse

Lies and Weddings - Kevin Kwan

Lore Olympus: Volume Six - Rachel Smythe

The Luck of the Bodkins - P. G. Wodehouse

Made in America - Bill Bryson

The Magic Order: Volume One - Mark Millar

Majestica - Sarah Tolcser

The Merciful Crow - Margaret Owen

The Mighty Bite - Nathan Hale

The Might Bite: Walrus Brawl at the Mall - Nathan Hale

Murder Your Employer - Rupert Holmes

My Lord John - Georgette Heyer

Network Effect - Martha Wells

A Novel Love Story - Ashley Poston

The Paper Daughters of Chinatown - Heather B. Moore

The Prisoner’s Throne - Holly Black

The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs - Steve Brusatte

School Trip - Jerry Craft

Silver on the Tree - Susan Cooper

The Spellshop - Sarah Beth Durst

Strider - Beverly Cleary

A Sudden Wild Magic - Diana Wynne Jones

The Swifts: A Dictionary of Scoundrels - Beth Lincoln

Tree. Table. Book. - Lois Lowry

Tristan Strong Destroys the World - Kwame Mbalia

Tristan Strong Keeps Punching - Kwame Mbalia

Vampires of El Norte - Isabela Cañas

The Warm Hands of Ghosts - Katherine Arden

Within the Sanctuary of Wings - Marie Brennen

The audiobooks of Dear Mr. Henshaw and Strider are delightfully narrated by Pedro Pascal, and I always ADORE audiobooks of Wodehouse. Laughing Gas was fantastic!

Banned Books week is coming up at the end of September, and in addition to doing a video highlighting some of my favorite books that have been banned or challenged, and why I am strongly against banning books, I encourage you to join Let Utah Read! if you’re in Utah, and to write to your local legislators to let them know that everyone, especially children, should have access to libraries and books.