Some of my reading plans for August are:

• to read 31 books in the 31 days this month
• to publish a bookish video every day on my Youtube channel
• to read some books written in other languages by female authors and translated to English (Women in Translation)

Watch the video where I announce my plans

My TBR list for the month includes these titles:

1. A House for Mr. Biswas /V. S. Naipaul
2. Bird by Bird /Anne Lamott
3. The Secret History /Donna Tartt
4. Too Much Happiness /Alice Munro
5. A Place For Us / Fatima Farheen Mirza
6. Blind Assassin /Maragaret Atwood
7. Last Orders /Graham Swift
8. Greed /Elfriede Jelinek
9. Love In The New Millennium /Can Xue
10. Gourmet Rhapsody /Muriel Barberry
11. Fever Dream /Samanta Scweblin
12. Celestial Bodies /Jokha Alharthi
13. Flights /Olga Tokarczuk
14. State of Lies /Siri Mitchell
15. A Beginner’s Guide to Winning An Election /Michael R. French
16. Rites of Passage /William Golding
17. Disgrace /J. M. Coetzee
18. The Famished Road /Ben Okri
19. History of Rain /Niall Williams
20. Love From A to Z /S. K. Ali
21. Unmarriageable /Soniah Kamal
22. A Far Field /Madhuri Vijay
23. A Little History of the World /E. H. Gombrich (started in July)

I will update the list with the a red highlight to indicate the books as I read them, and links to my reviews once I record my thoughts about the reading experience.

I am also posting reading vlogs over on my Youtube channel to share my progress as I try to read the above listed 23 books plus another 8 titles that I will choose during the month. Click to watch my first reading vlog of the month and subscribe for future videos