20 Books of Summer 2022 – Reading Plans

Summer is coming and with it a reading challenge that I’ve never taken part in, but that I have been tempted to try for a while – the 20 Books of Summer, hosted by Cathy of the blog 746 Books. The goal is to read 20 books (or fewer) from our TBR during three months. This year’s edition runs from 1 June to 1 September, and I’m joining in! Besides endeavouring to read 20 books, it’s also possible to choose to read “only” 10 or 15 books. So why have I, as a slow reader who only finishes around two or three books per month, decided to read 20 books? There’s no reasonable explanation!

I do have a plan to try to be successful in this challenge, though. I’m not reading any books a few days before the beginning of 20 Books of Summer. The reasoning behind this is that I hope I’ll miss reading so much that I’ll feel like reading more pages a day than usual. Moreover, when making the list of books I plan to read during this period, I only selected short ones. I don’t think any of them is longer than 250 pages.

Although I don’t have a huge pile of unread books to pick from, since I’ve only been buying books as I read them, I do have more than 200 books on my wish list. From the ones that have been on that list for more than a year, I selected various short novels (some may even be classed as novellas), a graphic novel, plus short story and poetry collections. Four of them are translations of books written by women, because I also want to participate for the first time in Women in Translation month during August.

Will I manage to read all of the 20 books below?

 

1. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
2. Animal Farm by George Orwell
3. As Coisas que Perdemos no Fogo (Things We Lost in the Fire) by Mariana Enriquez
4. As Mãos Pequenas (Such Small Hands) by Andrés Barba
5. Cada Homem é uma Raça (Every Man is a Race) by Mia Couto
6. Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
7. Geografia by Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen
8. Glass Town by Isabel Greenberg
9. Human Acts by Han Kang
10. Lady Susan by Jane Austen
11. Memento Mori by Muriel Spark
12. Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
13. Os Cus de Judas (The Land at the End of the World) by António Lobo Antunes
14. Passing by Nella Larsen
15. Rapture by Carol Ann Duffy
16. Strike Your Heart by Amélie Nothomb
17. The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan
18. The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield
19. The Magic Toyshop by Angela Carter
20. Weight by Jeanette Winterson

Are you also taking part in 20 Books of Summer? Have you already chosen the books you plan to read? Tell me in the comments!