Book Lair discussion

What are your reading plans for July?
I intend to read a lot of contemporary literature, as part of our quarterly challenge. I have quite a few interesting titles from Netgalley on hold.

Getting more specific, in July I want to finish reading my current book:
The Rise of the Phoenix by Massimo Marino

And I want to read at least some of the following:

Every Last Word by Tamara Ireland Stone

A Thorn Among the Lilies by Michael Hiebert

Alice's Adventures in Wonderlan... by Lewis Carroll

The Well by Catherine Chanter

The Corridor by A.N. Willis

Consumption by Heather Herrman

Probably Monsters by Ray Cluley

Hothouse by Brian W. Aldiss

Krabat by Otfried Preußler

I won't be able to read nearly as many books in July because of my night job, takes up a lot of time, but amongst the ones I do manage to read will me some of those.

I may also listen to an audiobook if I cannot read a physical copy.

I need to re-read The Great Gatsby for book club for the umpteenth time.

I want to read:
The Drawing of the Three, Cat O' Nine Tales: And Other Stories, Life After Life and Me and Earl and the Dying Girl.

I hope to buy the rest of the graphic novelLocke & Key, Vol. 1: Welcome to Lovecraft series from Comic Con and re-read them and the rest of The Gunslinger series as well.

Oh! Almost forgot:

In July, first, I am planning on finishing my current book, The Porcelain Thief: Searching the Middle Kingdom for Buried China, before tackling The Luminaries, for which we will have a buddy read here.

I might also add the book from the Reading the Classics group, but it hasn't been chosen yet.

Edit: The book for Reading the Classics group will be Brideshead Revisited.

Which means a total of 400 + 834 + 326 = 1560. I'd better not loiter around too much this month, it's much more than my average reading pace.

And here are the covers (just for the pleasure of the eyes):

Let's see... July reading:

Fiction:


Nonfiction:


Graphic Novels:

Nice choices. I have had Sleep Donation on my tbr for a while now, it sounds really interesting.

This is where I saw Sleep Donation!

So far I've conquered
Cat O' Nine Tales: And Other Stories
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
The Dark Tower, Volume 1: The Gunslinger Born
The Dark Tower, Volume 2: The Long Road Home
Witchful Thinking
and Stephen King: Uncollected, Unpublished.

Crud! I thought I chose covers!

Books I have read in July:

The Rise of the Phoenix by Massimo Marino

Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica Knoll

The Well by Catherine Chanter

Devil's Daughter by Hope Schenk-de Michele

Consumption by Heather Herrman

I am now reading Hothouse by Brian W. Aldiss but there is no way I can finish till tomorrow. I am only at like 5%. July has been a very busy month.

Books I have read this month:


I have also started Brideshead Revisited but I'm only 16% in and I will not have time to finish it by tomorrow.


I'm actually happily surprised. I never expected that I would have had time to read that much this month.