A pattern has emerged over the last couple of years: I begin putting down titles for my summer reading list practically just after New Year’s, and by the time May rolls around I’m champing at the bit to dig into it…and to talk about it! A side-effect of making the list early, of course, is that I occasionally swipe a title off it if I’m really desperate for something to read anytime in the spring. This year I swiped Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope and The Brandons by Angela Thirkell (a double dose of Barsetshire!) and I remain unapologetic. Barchester Towers in particular was exactly what I needed in a dry reading season—and anyway, there are plenty of books left in both authors’ series if I want to read them in the summer!
So without further ado, here’s this year’s list:
Cluny Brown by Margery Sharp
Escape the Night by Mignon G. Eberhart
The Ivy Tree by Mary Stewart
Storming by K.M. Weiland
Where There’s a Will by Mary Roberts Rinehart
Doctor Thorne by Anthony Trollope
Moccasin Trail by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
Greenwillow by B.J. Chute
Tales of the South Pacific by James Michener
Conagher by Louis L’Amour
The Great K&A Train Robbery by Paul Leicester Ford
When Books Went to War by Molly Guptill Manning
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
What does your summer reading list look like? I’d love to see it!
image: “Woman in a Boat” by John Singer Sargent