I wasn’t aware of the Six in Six meme until this year, but it sounded like something fun to participate in for July. I read about it on She Reads Novels, but it is hosted by The Book Jotter. The idea is to pick six categories under which you list six books you have read during the first six months of the year and post these lists any time in July. If you would like to participate, too, you can see a fuller description with suggestions of categories on The Book Jotter’s post. Here are my categories and books. I don’t have all of my reviews posted, but I’ll try to remember to add the links to this page as I post them.

Six Tales of Peril

• The Fifth Petal by Brunonia Barry
• The Girls by Emma Cline
• Room by Emma Donaghue
• The Second Life of Nick Mason by Steve Hamilton
• Strangers in Company by Jane Aiken Hodge
• Hangsaman by Shirley Jackson

Six Delightful Classics

• Middlemarch by George Eliot
• Greengates by R. C. Sheriff
• The Baker’s Daughter by D. E. Stevenson
• Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
• Northbridge Rectory by Angela Thirkell
• Pomfret Towers by Angela Thirkell

Six Classic Murder Mysteries

• The White Cottage Mystery by Margery Allingham
• The Lake District Murder by John Bude
• The Cornish Coast Murder by John Bude
• The Sussex Downs Murder by John Bude
• The Moving Toyshop by Edmund Crispin
• They Found Him Dead by Georgette Heyer

Six That Disappointed

• A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Bachman
• The Boston Girl by Anita Diamant
• The Stranger’s Child by Alan Hollinghurst
• Once in a Blue Moon Lodge by Lorna Landvik
• Fludd by Hilary Mantel
• Look at the Harlequins! by Vladimir Nabokov

Six Historical Novels

• On Canaan’s Side by Sebastian Barry
• His Bloody Project by Graem Macrae Burnet
• Conclave by Robert Harris
• Stormbird by Conn Igguldson
• The Owl Killers by Karen Maitland
• The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry

Six Different Countries

• The Trespasser by Tana French (Ireland)
• The Shadow Land by Elizabeth Kostova (Bulgaria)
• Pure by Andrew Miller (France)
• Number9Dream by David Mitchell (Japan)
• A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles (Russia)
• The Gustav Sonata by Rose Tremain (Switzerland)