July 2026 Reading List

 As always, library books are marked with an asterisk.

The Making Of, Brecht Evens. Translated by Laura Watkinson and Michele Hutchinson.*

"A" is for Alibi, Sue Grafton*

Thyme of Death, Susan Wittig Albert*

The Searcher, Tana French*

A Change of Habit: Leaving Behind My Husband, Career, and Everything I Owned to Become a Nun, Sister Monica Clare.*

Awake: A Memoir, Jen Hatmaker*

So! It was apparently a month for memoirs.  I tried the first China Bayles novel with Thyme of Death and enjoyed it.  I revisited Kinsey Milhone and enjoyed it, but I don't plan to reread the whole series.  I picked out The Making Of from a library display of comics/graphic novels that aren't about superheroes and it was...still not for me.

The Searcher was wild.  I think I liked it?

I had jury duty this month.  I started rereading A. S. Byatt's A Whistling Woman on my lunch breaks.  It's banging around in my bag and I don't get a lot of chances to read at work these days.  Maybe I can get more read when I rejoin the school pickup line.

Currently reading the third Cal Hooper book (my husband and I are trading it back and forth) after finishing The Hunter this morning.  Also a book about Shakers and...another memoir.  This time it's about a woman trying Wicca.