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Thanks to one of our Paiges, our shelf for July is Literature.

Looks like there are some great books on the shelf, so pick away and let us know what your plan is!

I plan to read both
Fahrenheit 451
and
The Handmaids Tale

Getting back on board with this one - I'm going to read The Great Gatsby

Mell wrote: "Getting back on board with this one - I'm going to read The Great Gatsby"

Oh let me know how that is. It is on a bucketlist to read but not to sure. Would like to hear someones opinion on it first. It is what made my mind up with Fahrenhiet 451 and The Handmaid's Tale as I heard many good things.

I am going to keep on my Sherlock Holmes kick starting with
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

I'm going to go with In Cold Blood.

Paige wrote: "I plan to read both
Fahrenheit 451
and
The Handmaids Tale"

Both wonderful. I hope you'll enjoy them.

So many good books on this shelf!

I'll probably re-read The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, which I've already read 3 or 4 times I think, lol! But I had already planned on re-reading it this year, so good timing, I guess.

I'm sure many more of the books I'll be reading will prove to be shelved as literature.

Well, I have to read The Cat's Table for my IRL book club, so I'll definitely be reading that....

Lyn (Readinghearts) wrote: "Thanks to one of our Paiges, our shelf for July is Literature.

Looks like there are some great books on the shelf, so pick away and let us know what your plan is!"

I'm not sure, but there is most likely something already on my list--I've read 36/50 on that first page and I don't like or read Russian Lit.

ETA Probably The Rime of the Ancient Mariner which is on there and I have the audiobook on hold at the library. Another audiobook I have on hold that's on there is Little Fires Everywhere

Fahrenheit 451 is first.
Got a friend mailing me The Handmaid's Tale as i am unsure. had 2 salesman say they did not like it

Paige wrote: "Fahrenheit 451 is first.
Got a friend mailing me The Handmaid's Tale as i am unsure. had 2 salesman say they did not like it"

I liked The Handmaid's Tale and I usually can't stand anything by Atwood, but I liked it when it it was only a few years old and am not sure that I'd like it now. I hated much of her premise, though, and a few things about it, but overall I liked the Handmaid herself.

But Fahrenheit 451 has stood the test of time for me; I liked it when I read it as a teen and again when I read it about 7 or 8 years ago.

A friend just recommended Somerset Maugham's The Razor's Edge to me, so I'll start with that. But first I have to hurry up and get started on my June book. :)

1. Just Kids by Patti Smith

2. In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin by Eric Larson

3. The Rules of Magic by Alice Hoffman

4. Nicolas and Alexandra by Robert K. Massie

5.
The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia by Candice Fleming

6. Time's Convert by Deborah Harkness

I plan to read:

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The Yiddish Policemen's Union
All the Pretty Horses
Gilead
Home

Possibly:
Homegoing

I have a book I'd like to use because even though it's shelved British Literature and English Literature, it is metafiction and lists a lot of literature in it. Would that be okay or does it have to be shelved just as "literature?"

Going to try and read Jane Eyre

I will try to get The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy or The House of the Spirits read this month.

Bea wrote: "I will try to get The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy or The House of the Spirits read this month."

I loved both, Bea. I hope you'll enjoy them.

So making my way through Fahrenheit 451 and realized I am almost done. Strange because there is still another half of the book which is the history of it.

That said, when I read the history I am also gonna be reading Sherlock Holmes

Reading now A Study In Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Having the help of an audiobook as well. Normally don't use Audiobooks but I find it easier to do housework right now listening to a Sherlock audiobook.

I came across The Trial by Kafka at the library yesterday. I've been interested in reading it for quite some time so I figured this might be a good book for this month.

Tyra wrote: "I came across The Trial by Kafka at the library yesterday. I've been interested in reading it for quite some time so I figured this might be a good book for this month."

I love this book, Tyra. Admittedly, I love everything by Kafka. I hope you'll like it.

That sounds great! Haven't read anything by Kafka previously, hopefully I'll like it so I can continue on reading more of his works

The Island of Dr. Moreau and I might try Jane Eyre again

Reading Next To Die right now which is a Crime book for my group International Book Club at the moment but after I am going to breeze through my favorite Shakespeare play Hamlet. And after that going to read The Rise And Fall of The Dinosaurs: A New History of The Lost World

I am currently reading my 2nd book The Hound of the Baskervilles on Audiobook. Stephen Fry narrates these and they are sooo well done.

I’m reading Brave New World, took a while to get into it, but enjoying it now