2026 Reading List

As for last year, my goal is to read a book a week, or 52 books over the course of the year. However, for this year, I have prechosen the 52 books. I hope this will make it easier for me to jump into the next book as I finish one, as I won't need to spend time deciding what to read next. I have tagged all the books in the Libby app as "2026" so I just need to filter by "available now" and borrow the next one on the list.

So, here are the 52 books I plan to read in 2026 - they are all fiction books, maybe I will also read some non-fiction in between, but I don't want to set a goal for them, because I frequently don't finish them or they take a long time.

1. The Briar Club - Kate Quinn

2. The Heiress - Rachel Hawkins

3. Listen for the Lie - Amy Tintera

4. The God of the Woods - Liz Moore

5. Bride - Ali Hazelwood

6. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

7. The Outsiders - SE Hinton

8. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

9. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini

10. Hamnet - Maggie O'Farrell

11. The Four Winds - Kristen Hannah

12. My Dark Vanessa - Kate Elizabeth Russell

13. Piranesi - Susanna Clarke

14. The Midnight Library - Matt Haig

15. The House in the Cerulean Sea - TJ Klune

16. Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir

17. Clytemnestra -Constanza Casati

18. The Collected Regrets of Clover - Mikki Brammer

19. The Only One Left - Riley Sager

20. How to Sell a Haunted House - Grady Hendrix

21. None of This is True - Lisa Jewell

22. Vera Wang's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers - Jesse Q Sutanto

23. Maame - Jessica George

24. Weyward - Emilia Hart

25. All the Dangerous Things - Stacy Willingham

26. The Seven Year Slip - Ashley Poston

27. Lady Tan's Circle of Women - Lisa See

28. Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries - Healther Fawcett

29. Divine Rivals - Rebecca Ross

30. Yellowface - RF Kuang

31. Fourth Wing - Rebecca Yarros

32. A Witch's Guide to Magical innkeeping - Sangu Mandanna

33. The Favorites - Layne Fargo

34. Great Big Beautiful Life - Emily Henry

35. Gone Before Goodbye - Harlan Coben, Reece Witherspoon

36. The Secret of Secrets - Dan Brown

37. Beautiful Ugly - Alice Feeney

38. Not Quite Dead Yet - Holly Jackson

39. Strangers in Time - David Baldacci

40. Isola - Allegra Goodman

41. The Amalfi Curse - Sarah Penner

42. The Secret Book Society - Madeline Martin

43. The Book Club for Troublesome Women - Marie Bostwick

44. The First Witch of Boston - Veronica Hayes

45. Broken Country - Clare Leslie Hall

46. The River is Waiting - Wally Lamb

47. The Academy - Elin Hilderbrand, Shelby Cunningham

48. The Correspondent - Virginia Evans

49. Wild Dark Shore - Charlotte Mcconaghy

50. My Friends - Frederick Backman

51. Blue Sisters - Coco Mellors

52. Go as a River - Shelley Read

I tried to pick a good mix of genres and subjects and I tried to pick a few that are not ones I would normally choose. I added in a couple of classics, but not too many, as they can be heavy going and could take too long. I'm excited to see if I'll reach my goal this year! All the books I chose are old enough that I should be able to get them from the Libby app without a wait. If I get through them all then I plan to reward myself by buying all my books new in 2027!