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