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Let's see those July lists! :)

Cress
War and Peace (maybe, I'm not sure of it)
The Opportunist
Pushing the Limits
Dare You To
Crash into You
Take Me On
The Truth About Forever
A Storm of Swords

Emma
A Clash of Kings
Allegiant
Gospel According to Disney: Faith, Trust, and Pixie Dust

haven't chosen any titles yet
but as far as genres are concerned:
a biography of one of the founding fathers, maybe Franklin, mayber Jefferson.
something action-filled and a quick read like Cussler
and then whatever falls off the shelf at the library.

I feel like I'm surprised by the next month's thread every month. Maybe that says I'm not preparing enough, or more likely that I'm always scrambling at the end of the month!

As always, my list is tentative but I'm really trying to leverage my Book Bingo list here to catch up to Renee :)

The Husband's Secret
The Kings of Cool
Voluntary Madness: My Year Lost and Found in the Loony Bin (if I don't get to this in June)
The Guardian
This is Where I Leave You
The Expats
City of Heavenly Fire
Me Before You

Time, slow down! Geez! Anyway, my reading plans for July are as follows:
11/22/63 (I'll cheat starting this one tomorrow, but it's so long...)
One Hundred Years of Solitude (in Spanish)
Horns
1984
The Casual Vacancy
The Turn of the Screw
The Scarlet Letter
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Journey to the Center of the Earth

July will hopefully be a month of finishing up the unread books on my bookshelf:

Mr. Mercedes
Gone Girl
The Mark of Athena
The Light Between Oceans
Something for the July challenge but I'm undecided

Foundation**
War and Peace
Brave New World**
The Metamorphosis
Shadow of the Hegemon

** when completed.

July: (** when completed)
Completed 17 out of 27

Genre Challenge: Dystopian/Utopian
- The Girl with All the Gifts**
- The Blithedale Romance (audio)
- Moving the Mountain (audio)

YA Challenge
- Divergent**
- Insurgent**
- Allegiant
- Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore**
- Z. Rex**

NonFiction Challenge
- Twelve Years a Slave**
- Charles Dickens: A Critical Study by G. K. Chesterton**
- An Invisible Thread: The True Story of an 11-Year-Old Panhandler, a Busy Sales Executive, and an Unlikely Meeting with Destiny**

LGBT
- And the Band Played on
- Middlesex**
- The Scientific Method, The Complete Miniseries**

Classic Challenge
- Phineas Finn by Anthony Trollope (audio)**
- The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollope (audio)
- The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James (audio)
- Summer by Edith Wharton (audio)
- Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser (audio)
- O Pioneers! by Willa Cather (audio)**
- The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather**
- My Antonia by Willa Cather (audio)
- Xingu by Edith Wharton (audio)**
- The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman**

Extended Read (continuing over several months)
- 1Q84 (Book Two) by Haruki Murakami**
- Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert (audio)**
- Bleak House by Charles Dickens (audio)
- Don Quixote (Part Two) by Cervantes (audio)
- Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

OK, July!

A Storm of Swords: Blood and Gold by George R.R. Martin
A Creed for the Third Millennium by Colleen McCullough
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
A Feast for Crows by George R.R. Martin
and hopefully finish The Gathering of The U'Narai by Yvonne Carsley now I have an e-reader again!

Kassandra, I feel the same! To the stage where I don't even usually post in these threads as I realise they're there way too late...

Anyway, here's what I'm hoping to get through in July:

Behind the Scenes at the Museum - Kate Atkinson. I LOVED Life After Life, so my expectations are high ;)

My Salinger Year by Joanna Rakoff

The Monsters of Templeton by Lauren Groff

Possibly a couple more if I can fit reading around looking for a new flat...

Probably finish my R&Rs and then go from there.

I did so poorly in June, maybe instead of planning big, I'll try finishing some of the books I've started and throw in Divergent by Veronica Roth for my July-Dystopian/Utopian Genre.

I'm planning to read the Stand too. I haven't been really active in this group lately and I wanna make up for it :) I hope I'll be able to read Paper Towns as well 'cause I brought it last week and it's tempinting me since but I can't start it right now because I have to study for my last exam. :) Prey for me btw. XD

Yes!
I <3 Librivox! :D

Will you listen or eyeball-read?

Planning some big reading in July! I'll be of work for two weeks and away for three days around some of Scotland's Islands, but apart from that I should be sorted for time. I'm planning to read:

•Cell by Stephen King (audio)
•The memory keeper's daughter
•Reading Lolita in Tehran (didn't get round to this month)
•The Virgin Suicides

Good luck this month! I hope you're all pretty much finished with exams/school/etc.

I'm going with Librivox Version 1, the female reader. Combined with the eyeball, depending on how much driving I do. I'm supposed to go the the shore next week for Family Vacation, but got called for Jury Duty. :( I would much rather do my civic duty when it doesn't cut into my vacation plans.

Renee, can you not postpone your jury duty? If you have a holiday booked then you should be able to contact them and postpone it

I tried. I filled out a request. But they haven't responded. :(

Oh. :( I hope it gets sorted.

Thanks, Amy! I'm trying to look at the positives.

1) I'll get the weekend with everyone if nothing more. (Which means I get to meet my sister's new fella.) 2) I won't lose pay. 3) I really DO believe that we have a responsibility to uphold our place in the judicial system if we want it to continue to function. *waves little flag* 4) If I don't like my sister's new man, I won't have to "make nice" for very long. :P

July 29...
Books I am desperately trying to finish before Aug. 1:

1) Song of the Lark- Cather
2) My Antonia- Cather
3) 1Q84 (Book Two)- Murakami
4) Twelve Years a Slave (due on 8/1)

Usually I'm ready to move on by now. And I am! I have done last call on dystopia. I have made my piece with the things in not going to finish (that's you, chunksters!) But, I just really, REALLY want to be finished with these four!

I've just read Norwegian Wood after seeing you posting about Murakami, Renee, I love it!

Awesome, Lauren! What a terrific compliment! Norwegian Wood was my first Murakami, and has a special place in my heart. I've read almost everything he's written now, except the nonfiction and short stories. But I was so hooked and basically inhaling that I should really go back and reread. If you've enjoyed NW, then think about The Wind-up Bird Chronicles next. The size if it is daunting, but I was completely immense and couldn't put it down.

p. s. Do NOT pick up 1Q84 (his latest) until you've exhausted everything else. As much as I love this writer, I am struggling to get through this particular book. :(