Big Book Summer 2023

Once again I'm joining other readers who plan to read some weighty tomes over the summer. The challenge begins at the end of May and continues through to the Labour Day weekend. The only rule is that the book has to be at least 400 pages. You can read as many or as few books as you want. You can even get through them as audiobooks!

(I started in May, but haven't managed to get a blog post finished until today!)

You can find out more about this challenge at Sue Jackson's blog, Book By Book.

I collect possible titles for this challenge throughout the year. Sometimes I even read them before the challenge begins. I have been known to add a book or two as the summer progresses. My goal is always to just read as many books from the list as I can. 

Akata Woman (The Nsibidi Scripts, #3) Okorafor, Nnedi 404 pp 

The City We Became (Great Cities, #1) Jemisin, N.K. 437 pp 

Demon Copperhead Kingsolver, Barbara 546 pp 

East West Street: On the Origins of "Genocide" and "Crimes Against Humanity" Sands, Philippe 448 pp 

Framed in Fire (Lane Winslow #9) Whishaw, Iona 480 pp 

Ghost Girl, Banana Wharton, Wiz  400 pp 

Glory Bulawayo, NoViolet 416 pp 

The God Particle Stirling, Liam  411 pp 

An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us Yong, Ed 464 pp 

King of Scars (King of Scars, #1) Bardugo, Leigh  527 pp 

Lessons in Chemistry Garmus, Bonnie 400 pp 

The Lincoln Highway Towles, Amor 576 pp 

The Ministry for the Future Robinson, Kim Stanley 563 pp 

The North-West Is Our Mother: The Story of Louis Riel's People, the Métis Nation Teillet, Jean 576 pp

Patient Zero: A Curious History of the World's Worst Diseases Kang, Lydia 400 pp

Project Hail Mary Weir, Andy 476 pp

Provenance Leckie, Ann 481 pp

The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women Moore, Kate  479 pp

Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party's Promise to the People Magoon, Kekla  400 pp

Shuggie Bain Stuart, Douglas  430 pp

A Sitting in St. James Williams-Garcia, Rita 480 pp

The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human Mukherjee, Siddhartha 496 pp

The Spinner of Dreams Reynolds, K.A.  416 pp

The Starless Sea Morgenstern, Erin  498 pp

Testament of Youth Brittain, Vera 688 pp

This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate Klein, Naomi 576 pp

A Thousand Sisters: The Heroic Airwomen of the Soviet Union in World War II Wein, Elizabeth  400 pp

The Warmth of Other Suns: the Epic Story of America's Great Migration Wilkerson, Isabel  622 pp