Books I've Read in 2026
The complete list, continually updated.
Published January 1, 2026
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Every year, I track what I'm reading on my book blog as well as via The Storygraph. My review archive needs updating, but I'm always happy to book club across my yearly lists: like my read in 2025 and read in 2024 pages.
Note: I desperately need to update this—sorry!
reviewed & linked
Finished
- The Long Game by Rachel Reid
- The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year by Ally Carter
- Making Art and Making a Living by Mason Currey
- The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
- The Grandest Game by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
- The Children by Melissa Albert
- The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater
- Shine by Lauren Myracle
- Louder Than Words by Benjamin K. Bergen
- A Stage Set for Villains by Shannon Spann
- What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia by Elizabeth Catte
- Ghosts and Haunts from the Appalachian Foothills by James V. Burchill, Linda J. Crider, Peggy Kendrick, Marcia Wright Bonner
- Finding Her Edge by Jennifer Iacopelli
- Art Work: On the Creative Life by Sally Mann
- The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater
- Wards of the State: The Long Shadow of American Foster Care by Claudia Rowe
- The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
- Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
- Ballad of Songbird and Snakes by Suzanne Collins
- Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins
- Kill Creatures by Rory Power
- The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert
- Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
- Linger by Maggie Stiefvater
- Forever by Maggie Stiefvater
- Ballad by Maggie Stiefvater
- Cinder by Marissa Meyer
- Scarlet by Marissa Meyer
- Cress by Marissa Meyer
- Winter by Marissa Meyer
- Foxfire 2 by Eliot Wigginton
- Exit Lane by Erika Veurink
- Heart the Lover by Lily King
- Building a Second Brain by Tiago Forte
- Love Buzz by Neely Tubati Alexander
- Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta
- Before and After the Book Deal by Courtney Maum
- Unbound by Peyton Corinne
- More Everything Forever by Adam Becker
- Flesh by David Szalay
- The Score by Elle Kennedy
- Moral Ambition by Rutger Bregman
- American Fantasy by Emma Straub
- Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta (yes, again)
- Deep Creek by Pam Houston
More soon!
Currently Reading
- Sadie by Courtney Summers
- Lonesome Dove et. al, but I currently don’t feel like transferring them all over.
- Lost Lambs by Madeline Cash
- The Cruel Prince by Holly Black
- Nightshade by Andrea Cremer
- Margo’s Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe
- The Monsters We Make by Rachel Corbett
