52 Books in 2026

(I’m going to add Amazon affiliate links to my list slowly over time.)

(Bold means finished) (*denotes a book on my “Recommended by Friends 2024” list)

1. The Preacher by Camilla Läckberg
2. Carbs and Cadavers by Ellery Adams
3. The Mystwick School of Musicraft by Jessica Khoury
4. Verity Vox and the Curse of Foxfire by Don Martin
5. A Geek Girl’s Guide to Justice by Julie Anne Lindsey
6. Spring Fever by Mary Kay Andrews
7. Wisteria Island by Rachel Hanna
8. A Geek Girl’s Guide to Arsenic by Julie Anne Lindsey
9. 25 Days by Per Jacobsen
10. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
11. On Tyranny
12. We Will Not Cancel Us by adrienne marie brown
13. Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson
14. The Women by Kristin Hannah
15. House of Earth & Blood, Part 1 by Sarah J. Maas
16. The Serviceberry by Robin Wall Kimmerer
17. Catch and Kill by Ronan Farrow
18. The Creative Act by Rick Rubin
19. I Won’t Shut Up by Ally Henny
20. Glucose Revolution by Jessie Inchauspe
21. *Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler
22. *The Giver by Lois Lowry
23. *Insomnia by Stephen King (in process)
24. *Classic Collection of Short Stories by John Steinbeck
25. *Summerland by Michael Chabon
26. *Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo
27. *Believe Me by Eddie Izzard (in process)
28. *Star of Life by Rick Ellyn
29. *The Language of Bodies by Suzanne Dewitt Hall
30. *The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson
31. *Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
32. *Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune
33. *The Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins
34. *The Only Woman in the Room by Marie Benedict
35. *The Whisperer by Donato Carrisi
36. *The Impending Blindness of Billie Scott by Zoe Thorogood
37. *Transformations by Anne Sexton
38. *Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
39. Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
40. Eleanor and Hick by Susan Quinn (in process)
41. Come as you are by Emily Nagoski
42. Unexpected Stories by Octavia Butler
43. Attachments by Rainbow Rowell
44. The $100 Startup by Chris Guillebeau
45. Caste by Isabel Wilkerson
46. I will always write back by Caitlin Alifrenka
47. In the Lateness of the World by Carolyn Forche
48. Conflict is not abuse by Sarah Schulman
49. Let’s talk about hard things by Anna Sale
50. The Sacred Enneagram by Christopher L. Heuertz
51. The Crossroads of Should and Must by Elle Luna
52. Making a Living without a job by Barbara J. Winter
53. The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green
54. Divine Rebels by Caroline Myss and Andrew Harvey
55. All Saints Hotel and Cocktail Lounge by Nathan Monk
56. Russian Sleeper Cell by Nathan Monk
57. Your Children Are Very Greatly in Danger by Justin Murphy
58. Pleasure Activism by adrienne maree brown
59. The Bullet Journal Method by Ryder Carroll
60. Hope by Marc Levy
61. The Code Breaker by Isaac Isaacson
62. Evicted by Matthew Desmond
63. Love Lettering by Kate Clayborn
64. No Walls and the Recurring Dream by Ani DiFranco
65. Building a Story Brand by Donald Miller
66. Money Making Mom by Crystal Paine
67. Bone Music by Christopher Rice
68. The Flux by Ferrett Steinmetz
69. Rain Girl by Gabi Kreslehner
70. Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
71. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
72. The 4-Hour Work Week by Timothy Ferriss
73. How to Lead When You’re Not in Charge by Clay Scroggins
74. The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van der Kolk
75. Becoming by Michelle Obama
76. Nonbinary. Memoirs of Gender and Identity
77. Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
78. A Demon in my view by Ruth Rendell
79. Ordinary People by Judith Guest
80. 1776 by David McCullough
81. The Virgin of Prince Street by Sonja Livingston
82. The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
83. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
84. A Season in Hell by Rimbaud
85. The Undesired by Yrsa Sigurdardottir
86. Killer Reunion by G.A. McKevett
87. The Day is Dark by Yrsa Sigurdardottir
88. Sami Blood
89. The Heart Keeper by Alex Dahl
90. Alfons Mucha 1860-1939 : master of art nouveau by Renate Ulmer
91. The little old lady who broke all the rules by Catherina Ingelman-Sundberg
92. The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
93. More Myself by Alicia Keys
94. Beloved by Toni Morrison
95. American Dirt
96. The Bookwoman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson
97. The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes
98. The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
99. The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
100. A Spark of Light by Jodi Picoult
101. How to argue with a racist by Adam Rutherford