This year, I’m not doing a reading challenge. They’ve guided and expanded my reading in previous years, but more recently have felt constraining and somewhat joyless. Continuing with one then, seems silly. So this year, I’m reading whatever brings me joy and fits my mood. But I’m going to use a few guiding principles based on things that I want to accomplish. I want to continue or finish some book series that I’ve already started. I want to read primarily from books that I already own. I want to read one fiction, one nonfiction, and one devotional/spiritual/wellness book per month. So without further ado, here is my July 2022 Reading List!

Books Finished:

The Venice Sketchbook by Rhys Bowen

Camino Island by John Grisham

Lost in the Pacific, 1942 by Tod Olson

The Secret Stealers by Jane Healey

Fragmented by Terry Schott

Travels with Charley in Search of America by John Steinbeck

The Betrayal by Robert Mazur

On the Beach by Nevil Shute

I Hate the Ivy League by Malcolm Gladwell

Signal Moon by Kate Quinn

Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

The Stone Circle by Elly Griffiths

The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah

Books In Progress:

An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears

Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt by Anne Rice

Masada by Ernest K. Gann

Learning to Pray by James Martin SJ

Mornings with Tozer: Daily Devotional Readings by A.W. Tozer

Books Abandoned:

The Complete Guide to Self Publishing by Sue Collier and Marilyn Ross

Journey of a World Changer by Banning Liebscher

The City of God by Augustine

Side Trip by Kerry Lonsdale

Milkman by Anna Burns