June 2020 TBR

I’m still participating in the Unread Shelf Challenge hosted by Whitney at The Unread Shelf, and this month’s Unread Shelf Challenge is to read a book from a series, so I’m building my June TBR with this thought in mind.

To help me whiddle down my books, I have a few categories I’d like to try to hit each month:

• A Backlist Title: A Darker Shade of Magic (Shades of Magic, #1) by V.E. Schwab
• A BOTM Title: On the Come Up by Angie Thomas – along the same lines of THUG?
• A Nonfiction Title: Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
• A NetGalley/Edelweiss Title – Not Like the Movies (Waiting for Tom Hanks, #2) by Kerry Winfrey
• A Memoir: Stray by Stephanie Danler
• At least 2 physical ARCs:The Switch by Beth O’LearyThe Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

Other books up for consideration:

• Friends and Strangers by J. Courtney Sullivan
• Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
• The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

I also pulled some books off my shelves that focus on antiracist narratives because it’s long past time I acknowledge my privilege and become a better ally to POC. I’m starting with:

• White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo

Here are some lists with more antiracist books:

• Traci from The Stacks – Antiracist Reading Stack
• Jamie from @absorbedinpages – Antiracist Reading Fiction Addition
• Ibram X. Kendi – An Antiracist Reading List
• Libro.fm – How To Be an Antiracist: Audiobook Picks

Last, because June is Pride Month, I also wanted to pull some queer books off the shelves. Some books up for consideration are:

• Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi
• Real Life by Brandon Taylor
• All My Mother’s Lovers by Ilana Masad
• Save Yourself by Cameron Esposito
• You Exist Too Much by Zaina Arafat
• Wilder Girls by Rory Power

There you have it! What’s on your list of hopefuls for the month of June?