Goodreads asked Tina Rath:

What books are on your summer reading list this year?

Tina Rath Books I read over the summer are mostly Gothic. They included
The Binding by Bridget Collins
The Confessions of Frannie Langton by Sara Collins
Follow Me to Ground by Sue Rainsford
Other Words for Smoke by Sarah Maria Griffin
The Doll Factory by Elizabeth Macneal
The Familiars by Stacey Halls
and my current favourites
The Heavens by Sandra Newman
and Night Tiger by Yangsze Choo
I am currently reading The Twisted Tree by Rachel Burge
and hoping to read:
Things in Jars by Jess Kidd
Platform Seven by Louise Doughty
Trolls by Stefan Spjut
Superior Spectre by Angela Meyer
Gingerbread by Helen Oyeyemi
Water Shall Refuse Them by Lucie McKnight Hardie
The Glass Woman by Caroline Lea
In the Night Wood by Dale Bailey
My all time favourite for this year was
Minor Mage by T Kingfisher which takes the trope of the incompetent magician (Rincewind, Schmendrick) and makes it new - of course Oliver's incompetent - he's only twelve and his teacher was so old that he had taken to wearing his underwear on his head...and his familiar is an aardvaark. But his master is dead, and the villagers have to send a boy to do a man's job. He copes. Well... not always...but he's brave and he tries, even if he really really wants his mother...it's a lovely book which I would recommend to anyone. And everyone.

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