I think this might be my biggest number of books in a month yet! Lots of sleeping troubles, some beach days and a husband working late a lot added up to a lot of reading time. 41!

Tell the Machine Goodnight by Katie Williams (good)

Woman No. 17 by Edan Lepucki (good)

Tiny Moons: A Year of Eating in Shanghai by Nina Mingya Powles (good)

Oh My Mother!: A Memoir in Nine Adventures by Connie Wang (ok)

Just Another Missing Person by Gillian McAllister (too much going on)

The Centre by Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi (fun but I was expecting a bigger twist)

Time’s Mouth by Edan Lepucki (good but we didn’t need the man’s POV chapters)

The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing by Lara Love Hardin (had some holes)

This Bird Has Flown by Susanna Hoffs (eh)

Darling Girls by Sally Hepworth (fun)

None of This Is True by Lisa Jewell (fun)

The Night it Ended by Katie Garner (too many twists!)

Mister Magic by Kiersten White (fun)

Elena Knows by Claudia Piñeiro, translated by Frances Riddle (downer)

The Legacies by Jessica Goodman (ok but would make a fun show)

Looking Glass Sound by Catriona Ward (messy)

Sunshine Nails by Mai Nguyen (cute)

Some of My Best Friends: Essays on Lip Service by Tajja Isen (uneven)

No One Needs to Know by Lindsay Cameron (needed to be tightened up)

Hide by Kiersten White (ok but not super fleshed out)

Just One Look by Lindsay Cameron (fun)

Orphan Bachelors by Fae Myenne Ng (oddly not very introspective for a memoir)

She Regrets Nothing by Andrea Dunlop (blah)

Strange Sally Diamond by Liz Nugent (could use editing but was surprisingly funny?)

The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart by Holly Ringland (good!)

Dear Dolly: On Love, Life and Friendship, Collected wisdom from her Sunday Times Style Column by Dolly Alderton (fine)

Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll (liked a lot)

How to Love Your Daughter by Hila Blum, translated by Daniella Zamir (blah)

A Tidy Ending by Joanna Cannon (ironically a bad, rushed ending)

The Vanishing Year by Kate Moretti (this felt very familiar to me)

Cult Classic by Sloane Crosley (another bad ending)

The Fortune Seller by Rachel Kapelke-Dale (a wild ride)

The Anniversary by Stephanie Bishop (I want to talk about that ending!)

It Was an Ugly Couch Anyway: And Other Thoughts on Moving Forward by Elizabeth Passarella (she seems to have gained some self awareness after her last book)

The Ballerinas by Rachel Kapelke-Dale (not as good as her newer one)

California by Edan Lepucki (uneven)

My Hijacking: A Personal History of Forgetting and Remembering by Martha Hodes (interesting)

The Breakaway by Jennifer Weiner (ok but seemed dated? Too many plot lines)

The Long Call by Ann Cleeves (good!)

Happiness Falls by Angie Kim (good!)

Power Hungry: Women of the Black Panther Party and Freedom Summer and Their Fight to Feed a Movement by Suzanne Cope (okay, a little scattered)