Welcome to the Monthly Wrap Up hosted by Nicole @ Feed Your Fiction Addiction and Shannon @ It Starts At Midnight to share our monthly wrap-up posts that summarizes our month in books, our favorite books of the month, what we did on our blogs, and anything noteworthy we want to share.
July 2026 Wrap Up
July was quite an eventful month, we happened to have a lot of pre-scheduled appointments and events planned ahead for the month and I feel like I was mostly caught up in the flow and not really directing any of it! That’s okay though, I may not have been able to progress with some of my goals as much as I wanted but I did gain other things this July and it’s all good.
My July 2026 TBR Intentions
I did not end up reading a single book I originally intended to in July. Hopefully I do better next month!
- To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers
- The Shippers by Katherine Center
- The Romance Revival by Christina Lauren
- The Ides of April by Lindsey Davis
Books Read in July 2026
- Venco by Cherie Dimaline
- The White Darkness by David Grann
- Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey
- The Sword of Kaigen by M.L. Wang
- The Correspondent by Virginia Evans
- Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross
- Ruthless Vows by Rebecca Ross
- The Woman They Could Not Silence by Kate Moore
- The Seventh Bride by T. Kingfisher
- Illuminations by T. Kingfisher
Notable Book(s) This Month
Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey and The Women They Could Not Silence by Kate Moore are my non-fiction standouts this month. I loved McConaughey’s energy and introspection in his book and I’m curious to check out more of his works now. I hadn’t really watched many of his movies previously, but I did love Interstellar and How To Lose A Guy in Ten Days.
Kate Moore wrote Radium Girls, which I read and loved previously, and The Women They Could Not Silence is another angry-making true story about a woman who was committed to an insane asylum in the 1860s because she disagreed with her husband’s opinions. Ugh! Such a great book though!
For fiction, I really loved The Correspondent by Virginia Evans. I typically enjoy epistolary storytelling; I love the romance and nostalgia of it, and this book really made me miss letter-writing and snail-mail. I’m also very happy about reading two T. Kingfisher books this month! I enjoyed The Seventh Bride, but it was Illuminations that I truly fell in love with. It’s categorized as middle grade and it’s so fun and imaginative, I couldn’t help but love it.
August 2026 TBR Intentions
Trying these books again in August. Let’s hope I read at least a couple of them this time!
- To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers
- The Shippers by Katherine Center
- The Romance Revival by Christina Lauren
- The Ides of April by Lindsey Davis
How was your month in July? What were your most memorable bookish moments? I hope you have a wonderful August with lots of great books!