It's been ages since I've signed up for any challenges but I'll give this one from 746 Books a try.
Since the number twenty is not a challenge for me (I've already read over 80 books this year), I decided to do something to make it more challenging. Project Gutenberg is one of my favorite places to explore so I decided to read twenty books from there -- all with the word "summer" in the title. So I did a quick word search. Of course the results did not all have the word in the title; some were in the author or subject field. For some it wasn't obvious why they came up.
After eliminating those, I still had way more then twenty results. I sorted them to get a variety. There were a lot of travel journals and children's books so I just took a sampling of those. Even so, I ended up with more than twenty but I know from past experience that the some stuff on Gutenberg can be too tedious to finish. Therein lies the Challenge! (That and taking time to write brief reviews.)
Fiction (5):
Indian Summer by Emily Grant Hutchings (read 7/24)
Short Stories (3):
Summer Snow Storm by Stephen Marlowe (read 7/9)
Poetry (4):
Summer of Love by Joyce Kilmer (read 8/12)
A Summer's Poems by Francis J. Lys (read 7/21)
Mortal Summer by Mark Van Doren (read 6/19)
This one for the illustrations: 
Juvenile (2):
Nature (3):
Our Summer Migrants by James Edmund Harting (An Account 0f the Migratory Birds Which Pass The Summer In The
British Island) (read 7/25)
My Summer in a Garden by Charles Dudley Warner (read 6/27)
Because it's in Connecticut
My First Summer in the Sierra by John Muir (read 8/8)
Travel (4 titles, 5 volumes):
The Crest of the Continent: A Summer's Ramble in the Rocky Mountains and Beyond by Ernest Ingersoll (read 8/23)
Other (2):
Kinda Campy, I hope
Extras (2):
I'm not sure why these two came up on a search for "summer," but they look like fun so I'll read them!
Ham Sandwich by James H. Schmitz (read 8/8)
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