2026 Reading

Goals & Tracking

My Goals
  1. Read 60 books.
  2. Read all of my book club books.
  3. Read all of my 2026 Book of the Month (BotM) picks.
  4. Read 15 books on my BotM backlist.
  5. Read at least 1 chapter each day.
65%

2026 Goal

42%

Book Club

17%

BOTM

47%

BOTM Backlist

Master Read List
  1. The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
  2. City of Bones by Cassandra Clare*
  3. City of Ashes by Cassandra Clare*
  4. City of Glass by Cassandra Clare*
  5. The Shadow Prince by Bree Despain*
  6. The Road of Bones by Demi Winters
  7. Kingdom of Claw by Demi Winters
  8. Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton*
  9. City of Fallen Angels by Cassandra Clare*
  10. City of Lost Souls by Cassandra Clare*
  11. City of Heavenly Fire by Cassandra Clare*
  12. Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare*
  13. The Spectacular by Fiona Davis
  14. Clockwork Prince by Cassandra Clare*
  15. Clockwork Princess by Cassandra Clare*
  16. The Housemaid by Freida McFadden
  17. The Last Mrs. Parrish by Liv Constantine
  18. The Guest List by Lucy Foley
  19. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
  20. The Girls I’ve Been by Tess Sharpe
  21. Deep End by Ali Hazelwood
  22. We Who Will Die by Stacia Stark
  23. The First Time I Saw Him by Laura Dave
  24. Imperfect Women by Araminta Hall
  25. A Song to Drown Rivers by Ann Liang
  26. Ring of Fates by Melissa de la Cruz
  27. Funny Story by Emily Henry
  28. The Last Anniversary by Liane Moriarty
  29. One & Only by Maurene Goo
  30. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
  31. 99 Percent Mine by Sally Thorne
  32. The Hating Game by Sally Thorne
  33. Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky
  34. Roots of Darkness by Demi Winters
  35. Cross Her Heart by Sarah Pinborough
  36. XOXO by Axie Oh
  37. The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
  38. Hang the Moon by Jeannette Walls
  39. The Stardust Thief by Chelsea Abdullah

*reread

  1. The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
  2. City of Bones by Cassandra Clare*
  3. City of Ashes by Cassandra Clare*
  4. City of Glass by Cassandra Clare*
  5. The Shadow Prince by Bree Despain*
  6. The Road of Bones by Demi Winters
  7. Kingdom of Claw by Demi Winters
  8. Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton*
  9. City of Fallen Angels by Cassandra Clare*
  10. City of Lost Souls by Cassandra Clare*
  11. City of Heavenly Fire by Cassandra Clare*
  12. Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare*
  13. The Spectacular by Fiona Davis
  14. Clockwork Prince by Cassandra Clare*
  15. Clockwork Princess by Cassandra Clare*
  16. The Housemaid by Freida McFadden
  17. The Last Mrs. Parrish by Liv Constantine
  18. The Guest List by Lucy Foley
  19. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
  20. The Girls I’ve Been by Tess Sharpe
  21. Deep End by Ali Hazelwood
  22. We Who Will Die by Stacia Stark
  23. The First Time I Saw Him by Laura Dave
  24. Imperfect Women by Araminta Hall
  25. A Song to Drown Rivers by Ann Liang
  26. Rings of Fate by Melissa de la Cruz
  27. Funny Story by Emily Henry
  28. The Last Anniversary by Liane Moriarty
  29. One & Only by Maurene Goo
  30. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
  31. 99 Percent Mine by Sally Thorne
  32. The Hating Game by Sally Thorne
  33. Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky
  34. Roots of Darkness by Demi Winters
  35. Cross Her Heart by Sarah Pinborough
  36. XOXO by Axie Oh
  37. The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
  38. Hang the Moon by Jeannette Walls
  39. The Stardust Thief by Chelsea Abdullah

*reread

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Rereads

16,118

Pages Read

502.1

Hours Listened

4.3

Average Rating

Book Club List

Below is the list of books* my book club plans to read in 2026. I want to read all of them. I’ll cross out the books as I read them.

*We vote for the books we’ll read in the second half of the year around April.

  • Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
  • The Spectacular by Fiona Davis
  • The Housemaid by Freida McFadden
  • Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky
  • The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
  •  The Odyssey (Homer) translated by Emily Wilson
  • I am Malala by Malala Yousafzai
  • The Women by Hannah Kristin
  • The Compound by Aisling Rawle
  • The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
  • Recursion by Blake Crouch
  • The Correspondent by Virginia Evans
Book of the Month

Below is a list of the 2026 BotM books I pick each month. I want to read all of them. I’ll cross them out as I read them.

  • Ring of Fates by Melissa de la Cruz
  • One & Only by Maurene Goo
  • How to Write a Love Story by Catherine Walsh
  • The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
  • The Second-Chance Cinema by Thea Weiss
  • Dawn of the North by Demi Winters
  • The Favorites by Layne Fargo
  • Blood Bound by Hunter Ellis
  • Echantra by Kaylie Smith
  • Our Perfect Storm by Carley Fortune
  • Seek the Traitor’s Son by Veronica Roth
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Book of the Month Backlist

Below is a list* of all the books on my BotM backlist. I want to read at least 15 of them.  I’ll cross them out as I read them.

*You will only see the books I read each month on mobile devices.

  1. The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi
  2. Black Woods, Blue Sky
  3. Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
  4. Cross Her Heart
  5. A Curse Carved in Bone
  6. The Dagger and the Flame
  1. A Fate Inked in Blood
  2. Good Spirits
  3. Hang the Moon
  4. Hera
  5. How Freaking Romantic
  6. The Last Party
  1. Like a Sister
  2. The Road of Bones
  3. A Song to Drown Rivers
  4. The Stardust Thief
  5. The Stranger Upstairs
  6. Things We Do in the Dark
  1. The Thirteenth Child
  2. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
  3. Violet Thistlewaite is Not a Villain Anymore
  4. We Who Will Die
  5. Weyward
  6. Wild Reverence
  • The Road of Bones by Demi Winters
  • We Who Will Die by Stacia Stark
  • A Song to Drown Rivers by Ann Liang
  • Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
  • Cross Her Heart by Sarah Pinborough
  • Hang the Moon by Jeannette Walls
  • The Stardust Thief by Chelsea Abdullah
Daily Reading

Even though I often meet and exceed my reading goals each year, I’ve noticed I don’t read anything at least 30% of the time. This year, I’d like to read at least one chapter every day. Below is a chart depicting the number of days I read each month.