26 for 2026 📚 The Books I’m FINALLY Reading This Year

It’s still January which means is still new year which means I’m still making promises to myself that probably won’t keep, including whispering to my poor TBR that it’s finally their year! 😂

Today is 26 books for 2026 … which is crazy because that half my goal right there 😭BUT these are the 26 books that I’d love to prioritise this year! Some have been sat on my bookshelf far too long, others are just downright intimidating, and there are some that I’ve just been waiting for the right moment to hit.

There’s a nice mix here. We’ve got fantasy, sci-fi, classics, nonfiction and romance.

The 26 books I'm prioritising in 2026
• To Paradise - Hanya Yanagihara
• All Better Now - Neal Shusterman
• The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet - Becky Chambers
• Monsters: What Do We Do with Great Art by Bad People? - Claire Dederer
• Gideon the Ninth - Tamsyn Muir
• Vicious - V.E. Schwab
• Vengeful - V.E. Schwab
• The Priory of the Orange Tree - Samantha
Shannon
• The Prison Healer Trilogy - Lynette Noni
• The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
• After You'd Gone - Maggie O'Farrell
• The Emperor of Gladness - Ocean Vuong
• An Ember in the Ashes Quartet - Sabaa Tahir
• Theo of Golden - Allen Levi
• As Long as the Lemon Tree Grows — Zoulfa
Katouh
• Heart Lamp - Banu Mushtaq
• The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides
• Piglet - Lottie Hazell
• People Watching - Hannah Bonam-Young

If you've read any of these, tell me which one should go to the top of the list. And if you're doing your own
"26 for 2026", I want to hear what's on yours.

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