At the beginning of summer, I posted about Modern Mrs. Darcy and Sarah’s Book Shelves Summer Reading Guides. My goal was to read as many of the books on both of their lists that I could. I’m happy to say that I got through almost the entire list! It’s pretty rare for me to stick to a TBR list, especially one this large. Audio books were the key to success – I would’ve never read most of these if I didn’t have the audio versions. I also added some more books from their lists to my TBR after my original post.
Books I Read Before The Lists Were Posted
The Last Romantics by Tara Conklin – 
Maybe You Should Talk To Someone by Lori Gottlieb – 
Recursion by Blake Crouch – 
Daisy Jones and The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid –
The Mother-in-Law by Sally Hepworth –
Tell Me Lies by Carola Lovering –
Forever is the Worst Long Time by Camille Pagan –
Miracle Creek by Angie Kim –
The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides –
The Dreamers by Karen Thompson Walker –
Books on my TBR List (That I Own)
I Miss You When I Blink by Mary Laura Philpott –
Ask Again, Yes by Mary Beth Keane –
When We Left Cuba* by Chanel Cleeton –
Waiting for Tom Hanks* by Kerry Winfrey –
Time After Time by Lisa Grunwald – even though I have a Kindle copy (ARC), I have been waiting for my library audio hold for this one
The Body in Question by Jill Ciment –
Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes –
Only Ever Her Marybeth Mayhew Whalen – just didn’t get to it
Hope and Other Punch Lines by Julie Buxbaum –
Southern Lady Code* by Helen Ellis – 
Normal People by Sally Rooney –
The Age of Light by Whitney Scharer – I own a hard copy of this book, but haven’t made the time to read it.
The Friend Zone by Abby Jimenez –
*Audio Book
BOOKS ON MY LIBRARY HOLD LIST
The Gown by Jennifer Robson –
Never Have I Ever* by Joshilyn Jackson –
The Accidental Beauty Queen by Teri Wilson –
The Huntress by Kate Quinn – The audio book is really long, so I returned it to the library. I do want to read this one some day.
Field Notes on Love by Jennifer E. Smith –
The Editor by Steven Rowley –
The Better Sister by Alafair Burke –
My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite –
How to Be Married by Jo Piazza –
Out East by John Glynn –
Inheritance by Dani Shapiro –
*These were all audio books except for Never Have I Ever.
After I posted this list, I added a few more of their recommended books to my TBR
Save Me the Plums* by Ruth Reichl –
The Last Book Party* by Karen Dukess –
Ayesha at Last by Uzma Jalaluddin – I have an ARC on my Kindle, but I’m still holding out for the audio version (library hold)
*Audio Book
As you can see from the 5-star ratings, my favorites were Ask Again, Yes / When We Left Cuba / Evvie Drake Starts Over / Hope and Other Punch Lines
This was a lot of fun – I hope to do the same thing again next summer!
Running on Words and Wine 