With the Independence Day holiday this week, a lot of us are thinking fireworks and barbeques, but it’s also the official halfway point for our reading challenge! The Read With Lindsey 2024 Reading Challenge had 52 prompts – have you been reading along with us? In honor of the holiday, this week’s prompt is for a book set in colonial America, and we’ve got some great suggestions below!
Here’s the books I’m looking forward to discussing with you this week. Grab your copies of these books by clicking the images below:
RWL Reading Challenge – Week 27: Set in Colonial America
Call Upon the Water
by Stella Tillyard
Posting on Monday, July 1st
This book feels like a trip back to the 17th century. An engineer from Amsterdam is working in England to build irigation channels and dams. He falls for a local woman only for her to be shipped as an endentured servant to the colonies for the crime of destroying some of his work. This is an interesting take on the prompt as the colony in question ends up being the Dutch colony of New Netherland and the settlement on Manatus Eyland (Mahattan Island).
Here’s some other great books that would work for this prompt in popular genres:
- Bestseller: The Last of the Mohicans, James Fenimore Cooper
- General Fiction: The Scarlett Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Romance: Magic Lessons, Alice Hoffman
- Thriller: The Constable’s Tale, Donald Smith
- Nonfiction: American Colonies, Alan Taylor
- Kids: A Journey to the New World, Kathryn Lasky
July Theme
Posting on Wednesday, July 3rd
I’ll be releasing the July reading playlist and some great suggestions for our July theme of “Summer”!
US States Challenge – Week 27: Nebraska
Better Than the Movies
by Lynn Painter
Posting on Thursday, July 4th
This is one of those books I’d seen recommended in a few chats, but never picked up. To say my romcom loving heart was so happy would be an understatement! You are going to love this one!
Here’s some other great books that would work for this prompt in popular genres:
- Bestseller: The Lincoln Highway, Amor Towles
- General Fiction: The Magician’s Assistant, Ann Patchett
- Romance: In Need of a Good Wife, Kelly O’Connor McNees
- Thriller: 1922, Stephen King
- Nonfiction: I Am a Man: Chief Standing Bear’s journey for justice, Joe Starita
- Kids: Dandelions, Eve Bunting & Greg Shed
Rotating Posts – Week 27: Sponsored
Just Don’t Fall
by Emma St. Clair
Posting on Saturday, July 6th
I’ve had a bit of a run with sports-themed romance novels lately! This is my second hockey romcom – and I loved it!
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What I’m Reading
- Current print book: The Pool House, Tasmina Perry
- Current audio book: In the Unlikely Event, Judy Blume
- Book I’m most looking forward to: Ragtime, E.L. Doctorow
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