May was a great reading month for me. I started off still in my reading kick, and then mid month I took part in the Bout of Books readathon, which hugely boosted the amount I was reading, and while after the readathon, I have hit a little bit of a slump, I did manage to get two more books finished.
During May, I've been suffering with some pretty bad back pain, which has meant I've been spending a lot of time lying in bed, and mostly I've been reading while in bed, so that helped to get a lot of books done.
May is also the month where I reached my yearly reading goal of 155 books! Which is kind of insane.
Who knows how many books I'll get done if the Pandemic lasts much longer, or my back keeps hurting.
So, here's what I read during May.
As Old As Time by Liz Braswell
The Railway Man by Eric Lomax
Drowning in Inevitable by Shalanda Stanley
Charlotte Gray by Sebastian Faulks
Anne Boleyn and Me by Elinor Valjean
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
The Martian by Andy Weir
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Fairest of All by Serena Valentino
Fetaher in the Storm by Emily Wu and Larry Engelmann
The Admirable Crichton by J.M. Barrie
Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
When Wendy Grew Up by J.M. Barrie
What Every Woman Knows by J.M. Barrie
Mary Rose by J.M. Barrie
Famous Last Words by Jennifer Salvato Doktorski
Gypsy Masala by Preethi Nair
Hurry Down Sunshine by Michael Greenberg
The Descendants by Kaui Hart Hemmings
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
A Whole New World by Liz Braswell
Captured Voices by John McCarthy
Kiss Me First by Lottie Moggach
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Watership Down by Richard Adams
The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson
Coffee with Oscar Wilde by Merlin Holland
I Followed the Rules by Joanna Bolouri
Crazy Sunday by F. Scott Fitzgerald
May Day by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Lees of Happiness by F. Scott Fitzgerald
An Alchololic Case by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Rich Boy by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Diamond as Big as the Ritz by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Lost Decade by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Cut Glass Bowl by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Babylon Revisited by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Proud Garments by Barbara Anderson
Our Country's Good by Timberlake Wertenbaker
Secret Sister by Cherry Durbin
Dedicated To by W.B. Gooderham
The Pages by Murray Bail
Maleficent by Elizabeth Rudnick
Homestead by Rosina Lippi
46. Talking Until Nightfall by Isacc Matarasso
47. One Year of Ugly by Caroline Mackenzie
48. Well Mey by Jen DeLuca
49. Proof of Love by Chisa Hutchinson
50. The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
51. Seccrets of Nanreath Hall by Alix Rickloff
52. The Blackbird Diaries by Karen Lloyd
53. The Girl From Munich by Tania Blanchard
As you can see, this month I definitely focussed on physical books, and this is primarily because I prefer to read physical books when I'm doing readathons, so that's the only format I read during that week, and I think I read about 36 books that week.
I'm so happy with the amount that I managed to read during May, and I'm pleased with the selection as well. Not only did I read some great books, like Well Met and Feather in the Storm. But I had a decently ecclectic month, with fiction and non-fiction. Long books, plays, and short stories. I read a lot of books that have been hanging around on my shelf for a really long time, like Watership Down and Charlotte Gray.
Moving into June. I'm hoping I can shake off the reading slump that I've slipped into, and while I'm certain I won't read as many books as I read in May. I'm hopeful that I'll get at least ten books completed.
How did your reading go in May? What's the best book you read? Let me know in the comments, and if you liked this post, please consider subscribing to my site for more bookish content, and share with your book loving friends.
Hannah
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