Big Books of Summer

I've been meaning to sign up all summer, and I've been noticing which books I read seem particularly hefty, but this is my official sign up post. Book By Book hosts this challenge every summer, a celebration of summer and getting a chance to sit down and sink into a deep book. This year of course we find these times a bit differently; maybe we're trapped at home and need a distraction, or maybe our jobs have completely upended themselves and we can't afford a vacation. I'm lucky enough to be in the former category. 

I'm going to retroactively give myself credit for all the big tomes (bigger than 400 pages) I've read since Memorial Day:

• Stamped From the Beginning, Ibram Kendi. 592 pages. I listened to this on audio, a lot of it twice.
• A Face Like Glass, Frances Hardinge. 496 pp. A Cybils 2017 middle grade book that was amazing.
• Middlegame, Seanan MCGuire. 528pp. A Hugo nominated book with a complex narrative.
• Wundersmith: The Calling of Morrigan Crow, Jessica Townsend. 525. A middle grade fantasy.
• Spinning Silver, Naomi Novak. 430 pp. Reread -- highly recommended.
• The Aeronaut's Windlass, Jim Butcher. 751 pp. I'm cheating -- I read half of this several summers ago, picked it up again and finished it this summer. 
• A Memory Called Empire, Arkady Martine. 562. Hugo nominated book about a space empire.
• The City of Brass, S.A. Chakraborty. 533 pg. Fantasy set in old Cairo with djinn.
• The Orphan Band of Springdale, Anne Nesbit 448. Cybils nominated middle grade book.
• Redemption, David Baldacci. Nice fat action book.
• The Fix, David Baldacci. 480 pages. I wanted to spend even more time with Decker.
• Into the Fire, Elizabeth Moon. 462 pages. Science fiction but really about an evil bureacracy.
• Polaris Rising, Jessie Mihalik. 431 pp I didn't even notice this qualified until I was shelving it!

Planned:

• I've started reading Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James. It's for Sword and Laser so I need to finish it by next week.
• Children of Time looks great and it's 600+ pages.

Times Up!

OK, I finished 13 big books (well 12.5, since I had started Aeronaut's Windlass before. By the way, I was super smug because my book club just picked that one and I'm all done already!). and left two dangling. But I got my toe into them so I hope to finish them this fall. Thanks for the inspiration to pick up the fat books I've been hesitating over, or even to rejoice when I realized that a book that I just finished was HUGE. This was especially good for me as I tried to read all the Hugo finalists by August.

Thanks again to Book By Book for hosting.