Update on 26 Books for 2026 - Beginning of August Edition
Faithbreaker - Hannah Kaner
Threads That Bind - Kika Hatzopoulou
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe - Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Heartless Hunter - Kristen Ciccaarelli
Peter and the Starcatchers - Dave Barry, Ridley Pearson
The Inheritance Games - Jennifer Lynn Barnes
The Raven Boys - Maggie Stiefvader
After the Forest - Kell Woods
Legends and Lattes - Travis Baldree
The Bone Ships - RJ Barker
House of Salt and Sorrows - Erin A Craig
Masters of Death - Olivie Blake
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil - VE Schwab
Sourcery - Terry Pratchett
A Man Called Ove - Fredrik Backman
The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller
The Mountain in the Sea - Ray Nayler
The Golden Compass - Philip Pullman
A Darker Shade of Magic - VE Schwab
For the Wolf - Hannah Whitten
The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi - SA Chakraborty
The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Stories - Oscar Wilde
All the King's Men - Robert Penn Warren
The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle - Stuart Turton
The Last Wish - Andrzej Sapkowski
Finally completed 19 books this year including the green ones above and the next set directly below (color key at bottom).
Empire in Black and Gold - Adrian Tchaikovsky
The Housemaid - Freida McFadden
Atmosphere - Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Swimmer - Joakim Zander
A Case of Mice and Murder - Sally Smith
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms: The Dance of the Realms - Calliope Glass
The Attala County Garden Club - Topher Payne
The Other Bennet Sister - Janice Hadlow
The Body Keeps the Score - Bessel van der Kolk
I See You've Called in Dead - John Kenney
As You Like It - William Shakespeare
Living at Micro Scale - David Dusenbery
As for the books I am making progress on right now:
The Cid - Pierre Corneille
Dungeon Crawler Carl - Matt Dinniman
Days of Shattered Faith - Adrian Tchaikovsky
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil - VE Schwab (also a book club book)
Dracula Daily - Bram Stoker
The Thirty Names of Night - Zeyn Joukhadar
Books coming up on my reading schedule for the next three months are:
Scheduled to finish in August:
Five Classic French Plays - Wallace Fowlie
Four Major Plays - Henrik Ibsen
How I Learned to Drive - Paula Vogel
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil - VE Schwab
Dungeon Crawler Carl - Matt Dinniman
Days of Shattered Faith - Adrian Tchaikovsky
The Glass Menagerie - Tennessee Williams
The Oedipus Cycle - Sophocles
The Cocktail Party - TS Eliot
Peter and the Starcatchers - Dave Barry, Ridley Pearson
Topdog/Underdog - Suzan-Lori Parks
The Trip to Bountiful - Horton Foote
The Thirty Names of Night - Zeyn Joukhadar
Scheduled to finish in September:
Heartless Hunter - Kristen Ciccaarelli
Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender - Dr Kit Heyam
House of Salt and Sorrows - Erin A Craig
The Golden Compass - Philip Pullman
Legends and Lattes - Travis Baldree
Scheduled to finish in October:
Metazoa - Peter Godfrey-Smith
The Bone Ships - RJ Barker
Masters of Death - Olivie Blake
Sourcery - Terry Pratchett
After the Forest - Kell Woods
Scheduled to finish in November:
A Darker Shade of Magic - VE Schwab
The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Stories - Oscar Wilde
For the Wolf - Hannah Whitten
All the King's Men - Robert Penn Warren
Scheduled to finish in December:
A Man Called Ove - Fredrik Backman
The Mountain in the Sea - Ray Nayler
The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller
The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle - Stuart Turton
The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi - SA Chakraborty
I went ahead and scheduled out the rest of the year for these books. We shall see if I am able to accomplish it all! Of course, there will be more books and shifting of the timelines because I am a mood reader, but this is what I have so far!
Key:
green = finished on list
orange = currently making progress on list
red = started but haven't made progress on list
black/white = haven't started on list
blue = book club books not on list
pink = audiobooks not on list
purple = physical/digital books not on list
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