There seems to be a definite pastoral theme to my summer reading list this year. I didn’t plan it that way, but somehow the majority of the titles I picked have to do with summertime, the seaside, the outdoors, gardening, and rural life. Which is an accurate reflection of the direction my interests have been running in lately. Aside from that, my list is the usual mix of genres, but I think there’s a touch more nonfiction than usual this year:
The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
Sawdust in His Shoes by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
The Fortnight in September by R.C. Sheriff
This Hill, This Valley by Hal Borland
Founding Gardeners: The Revolutionary Generation, Nature, and the Shaping of the American Nation by Andrea Wulf
Heroes Without Glory: Some Good Men of the Old West by Jack Schaefer
My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell
The Napoleon of Notting Hill by G.K. Chesterton
A Great Year of Our Lives at the Old Squire’s by C.A. Stephens
Young Elizabeth Green by Constance Savery
what’s on your summer reading list?
image: “Girl in a Blue Sash” by Wilhelm Amberg
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