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Summer Challenges: 20 Books and the Big Book Reading Challenge 2025 (what I actually read)




I haven't participated in the 20 Books of Summer Reading challenge in several years. The challenge has new hosts: Annabel @AnnaBookBel and Emma @Words and Peace. My reading has slowed down a bit recently, so I planned do my darndest to complete this challenge at the 10 level. Well, as you'll see below, I ended up reading a bunch this summer!

In addition, I participted in Sue's Big Book Summer Reading Challenge so you'll also see which books I read that are longer than 400 pages.

My goal was to read 10 books by August 31. Below is my list of the 21 books that I ended up reading, 6 of which were over 400 pages.


Books I ended up reading this summer. Yellow highlights are those over 400 pages.

  1. Everyone on this Train is a Suspect by Benjamin Stevenson
  2. Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry (over 400 pages)
  3. Persuasion by Jane Austen
  4. An Offer from a Gentleman by Julia Quinn
  5. The Eights by Joanna Miller
  6. All Fours by Miranda July
  7. The Briar Club by Kate Quinn (over 400 pages)
  8. Deep End by Ali Hazelwood (over 400 pages)
  9. Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid
  10. You Must Take Part in Revolution by Melissa Chan and illustrated by Badiucao
  11. The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams (over 400 pages)
  12. Three Ordinary Girls: The Remarkable Story of Three Dutch Teenagers Who Became Spies, Saboteurs, Nazi Assassins--and WWII Heroes by Tim Brady
  13. Lies My Teacher Told Me by James W. Loewen and illustrated by Nate Powell
  14. Bug Hollow by Michelle Huneven
  15. The Man No One Believed by Joshua Sharpe
  16. Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame by Olivia Ford
  17. The Book Club for Troublesome Women by Marie Bostwick
  18. My Friends by Fredrik Backman (over 400 pages)
  19. August Lane by Regina Black
  20. The God in the Woods by Liz Moore (over 400 pages)
  21. Love Haters by Katherine Center
Books I hoped to read this summer, but didn't 
  1. Say You'll Remember Me by Abby Jimenez
  2. Good Dirt by Charmaine Wilkerson
  3. Holly by Stephen King 
  4. All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker 

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