I read it in June. Looking forward to the discussion. Do we know what book is next on the list?

@Zena Ryder Looks like you have now. Thanks!

Agnes Aubert's Mystical Cat Shelter by Heather Fawcett, hands down. I read 6 books in June, apparently (gotta love Goodreads and their annual reading challenge.)

@Zena Ryder You won't be sorry. It was so good. Can't beat magicians and cats -- it's a classic enemies-to-friends trope. 😂

I just finished The Tournament by Matthew Reilly, about 13-year-old Elizabeth I and a 1546 trip to Constantinople for a chess tournament. I have to wonder how much of this was fact and how much wildly made-up fiction. I've started The Lost Bookshop by Evie Woods.

@Zena Ryder I enjoyed The Lost Bookshop in audio. I think using three narrators really helped move it along, and it helped that the narrators were excellent. I really liked The Tournament, although one reviewer said the author is using the structure of To Kill a Mockingbird in every book, which is kind of interesting. Worked for me.

It seems like Queen Elizabeth I is popular again. Reading a novel about her as a teen got me interested in historical fiction. Last week I finished The Tournament, and enjoyed it, so I'll pick The Boleyn Secret. (Is it bizarre that this one and The Queen's Coronation have women servants as main characters -- different Q.E., different era, but similar jobs, or so it seems? Like, things never really change?)

I'm reading Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell, narrated by Daisy Donovan. So far, so good. I finished The Lost Bookshop last week, and I'd highly recommend it. It's a dual timeline historical fantasy with three narrators on the audiobook -- very well done!