Reading Log 2026
Currently Reading:
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov (reread)
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (reread)
The Refrigerator Monologues - Cathrynne M. Valente
Chain of Ideas: The Origin of Our Authoritarian Age - Ibram X. Kendi
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
Voice Lessons: How a Couple of Ninja Turtles, Pinky, and an Animaniac Saved My Life - Rob Paulsen
The Princess Bride - William Goldman (reread)
Monster in the Archive: My Year of Fear With Stephen King - Caroline Bicks
The Things They Carried - Tim OâBrien
The Glass Menagerie - Tennessee Williams
January:
American Studies - Mark Merlis
The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth Century Literary Imagination - Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar
Persepolis: The Story of a Return - Marjane Satrapi (reread)
Skull-Face Bookseller Honda-San, Vol. 1 - Honda
Mona of the Manor - Armistead Maupin
Ashâs Cabin - Jen Wang
February
The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
All About Love: New Visions - bell hooks
Babbitt - Sinclair Lewis
From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death - Caitlin Doughty
Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
March
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories - Angela Carter
1984 - George Orwell
The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge - Abraham Flexner
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This - Omar El Akkad
Silas Marner - George Eliot
Reaper Man - Terry Pratchett
April
Grendel - John Gardner
Maus Now: Selected Writings - Hilary Chute (editor)
Dirk Gentlyâs Holistic Detective Agency - Douglas Adams
Emma - Jane Austen (reread)
Through Gates of Garnet and Gold - Seanan McGuire
The Talented Mr. Ripley - Patricia Highsmith
Tacky: Love Letters to the Worst Culture We Have to Offer - Rax King
May
Ice Cream Man, Vol. 1: Rainbow Sprinkles - W. Maxwell Prince
Ice Cream Man, Vol. 2: Strange Neapolitan - W. Maxwell Prince
Hope In the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities - Rebecca Solnit
Jane Eyre - Charlotte BrontĂŤ (reread)
The Color Purple - Alice Walker (reread)
Beowulf: A New Translation - Maria Dahvana Headley
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
June
Soul Music - Terry Pratchett
The First Rebellion - Marion Chesney
Role Models - John Waters
Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times - Azar Nafisi
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith - Jon Krakauer



















