read in 2026 ★
i wasn't gonna do a reading thread this year but what the hell. probably won't reblog it with updates but i will do my best to keep this post up to date at least!
2022 ★ 2023 ★ 2024 ★ 2025
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (★★★★★)
The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson (★★★★☆)
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster (★★★★☆)
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir (★★★★☆)
The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward (★★★★☆)
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig (★★★★☆)
The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin (★★★★☆)
Cards on the Table by Agatha Christie (★★★★☆)
They Do It With Mirrors by Agatha Christie (★★★☆☆)
The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis (★★★☆☆)
It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis
We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (★★★★☆)
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys (★★★★☆)
Everyone in This Bank Is a Thief by Benjamin Stevenson (★★★★☆)
The Essential Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe (★★★☆☆)
Lonely Castle in the Mirror by Mizuki Tsujimura, translated by Philip Gabriel (★★★★★)
The Compound by Aisling Rawle (★★★☆☆)
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
Men Who Hate Women: From Incels to Pickup Artists: The Truth about Extreme Misogyny and How it Affects Us All by Laura Bates (★★★★★)
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin, translated by Bela Shayevich (★★★★☆)
Our Share of Night by Mariana Enriquez, translated by Megan McDowell (★★★★☆)
The Great Oklahoma Swindle: Race, Religion, and Lies in America's Weirdest State by Russell Cobb (★★★★☆)
Dead Man's Folly by Agatha Christie (★★★☆☆)
My Friends by Fredrik Backman, translated by Neil Smith (★★★★☆)
Japanese Gothic by Kylie Lee Baker (★★★☆☆)
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes (★★★★☆)
The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien* (★★★★★)
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (★★★★☆)
The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power by Deirdre Mask (★★★★☆)
Notes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka (★★★★☆)
Animal Farm by George Orwell (★★★★☆)
And Now, Back to You by B.K. Borison (★★★★☆)
Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times (★★★★★)
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, translated by Robin Buss (★★★★★)
The List of Suspicious Things by Jennie Godfrey (★★★★☆)
Near to the Wild Heart by Clarice Lispector, translated by Alison Entrekin
*Asterisk denotes a reread.
