Monday, May 4, 2026

2026 Master List

I am posting my 2026 Master List in May, which honestly feels pretty appropriate for this year! But it's sunny and warm out, so maybe this is the start I actually need for this project this year.  

I also didn't read a ton of books in the first third of the year, largely because all of my narrative brain space was taken up by two television shows I remain obsessed with, the writing I want to do for both of them, the Olympics, and two other ongoing sports leagues. To put it bluntly, my ability to focus on new books was pretty bad, but less because of everything going on in the world in 2026 and more because I had too much else to focus on. So! I'm not mad about that, even though I do want to read a lot more than I did in the first part of the year. 

Other things! Last year felt like an off year for me reading-wise, but I read 45 new books and 6 rereads, and that's almost one book a week! As is true most years, I read mostly in chunks, and about half of the books on my list were books that had already been on my list at the beginning of the year, and half of them were new additions. That doesn't bode well for the idea of me making a dent in my current list, but well that's the nature of this project. I am also getting better at not finishing books or even just taking a book off the list before even starting it if I feel like it's just not actually what I'm interested in anymore. 

Anyway, here is this year's list! I'm starting with 235 books, and while I do not expect to get to bookcase zero by the end of the year, I would like to end the year with closer to a hundred rather than two hundred. 


  1. The History of England
  2. Sheep Calm and Merry On
  3. The Shots You Take
  4. The Wolf at the Door
  5. Game Changer
  6. Heated Rivalry
  7. Tough Guy
  8. Agent Sonya
  9. Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
  10. A Physical Education
  11. The Will of the Many
  12. It Was Her House First
  13. A Star is Scorned
  14. Honey Trap
  15. The Larks Still Bravely Singing
  16. Deck the Halls with Secret Agents
  17. Fall into You
  18. The Power Broker
  19. The Song of Achilles
  20. All is Bright
  21. Death in Venice
  22. Patchwork
  23. Dayspring
  24. The Butterfly Koi
  25. Etiquette & Espionage
  26. Ninth House
  27. Hell Bent
  28. In Memoriam
  29. Mr Collins in Love
  30. The Husbands
  31. Lessons in Magic and Disaster
  32. Guards! Guards!
  33. Men at Arms
  34. All the Seas of the World
  35. Written on the Dark
  36. A Restless Truth
  37. A Power Unbound
  38. Nicked
  39. Winter's Orbit
  40. Cinder House
  41. Last Call
  42. Meet Me in the Bathroom
  43. The Horse's Mouth
  44. The Magician of Tiger Castle
  45. A Memoir of My Former Self
  46. Wayfaring Strangers
  47. Hemlock & Silver
  48. Our Evenings
  49. The Silence of the Lambs
  50. A Spy Among Friends
  51. Enlightenment
  52. Forged in Hell
  53. House of Government
  54. Manhunt
  55. Flying Solo
  56. A Place of Greater Safety
  57. The Paris Apartment
  58. The Everlasting
  59. The Duke Who Didn't
  60. The Prisoner's Throne
  61. The National Team
  62. The Lilac People
  63. Rogue Heroes
  64. Most Ardently
  65. A World Worth Saving
  66. Swordcrossed
  67. Hither, Page
  68. Cloud Atlas
  69. Benefit
  70. River-Horse
  71. Unravel the Dark
  72. The Hands of the Emperor
  73. Empires of the Word
  74. A Natural
  75. The Quantum Thief
  76. The Frugal Wizard's Handbook for Surviving Medieval England
  77. A History of What Comes Next
  78. The Moor's Last Sigh 
  79. Vinegar Girl
  80. Let Me Tell You What I Mean
  81. Babel
  82. Spoiler Alert
  83. The Wager
  84. Niccolo Rising
  85. Supergods
  86. Press Reset
  87. Down the Nile
  88. Gotham Writers' Workshop Writing Fiction
  89. Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
  90. The Starless Sea
  91. I Leave it Up to You
  92. A Discovery of Witches
  93. The Bell in the Fog
  94. Yes Please
  95. Last Night of the Telegraph Club
  96. The Black Company
  97. Double Cross
  98. The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps
  99. Mike Nichols: A Life
  100. The Priory of the Orange Tree
  101. The Ten Thousand Doors of January
  102. Prophet
  103. A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
  104. Hagseed
  105. Redshirts
  106. Health at Every Size 
  107. David Bowie Made Me Gay
  108. The Three-Body Problem
  109. Freed by Flame and Storm
  110. The Pacific Circuit
  111. My Body
  112. The Infinite Noise
  113. Woodworking
  114. The Steerswoman's Road
  115. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
  116. A Shadow Intelligence
  117. Rejection
  118. The Last Devil to Die
  119. Fellow Travelers
  120. Witchmark
  121. The Unspoken Name
  122. The Marquis Who Mustn't
  123. The Warrior Heir
  124. Pictures at a Revolution
  125. Jane, Unlimited
  126. Making Movies
  127. Three Parts Dead
  128. Station Eleven
  129. Demoting Vishnu 
  130. The Story of England
  131. Tooth and Claw
  132. Ravenna
  133. The Emperor's Blades
  134. Swordspoint
  135. Killers of the Flower Moon
  136. A Shore Thing
  137. Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography 
  138. A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking
  139. Together We Burn
  140. Empress of the East
  141. Funny Girl
  142. The Tiger's Daughter
  143. The Scottish Boy
  144. Long Live Evil
  145. Why I Cook
  146. Time and Tide
  147. The Appeal
  148. Five Points
  149. Down Girl
  150. The City of Brass
  151. Brideshead Revisited
  152. I Capture the Castle
  153. The Widow Queen
  154. Gardens of the Moon
  155. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
  156. "More"
  157. The King's Man
  158. The Office of Historical Corrections
  159. A Sorceress Comes to Call
  160. Red Sea Under Red Sky
  161. A Darker Shade of Magic
  162. The Blind Dragon
  163. Mo Dao Zu Shi
  164. The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
  165. Better Than Before
  166. The Ruthless Lady's Guide to Wizardry
  167. Eve of Darkness
  168. The Alloy of Law
  169. The Space Between Worlds
  170. Stargazy Pie
  171. Bee Sting Cake
  172. Autonomous
  173. Operation Mincemeat
  174. The Necessary Beggar
  175. Trickster's Choice
  176. The Honey Witch
  177. Remix 
  178. Good and Mad
  179. Kushiel's Dart
  180. Bitter Medicine
  181. Just Like You
  182. Invincible
  183. The Grace of Kings
  184. The Magicians
  185. Impossible Owls
  186. At Swim, Two Boys
  187. Giovanni's Room
  188. Light From Uncommon Stars
  189. The Power
  190. Sunshine
  191. From Football to Soccer
  192. Here, There be Dragons
  193. Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows
  194. A Shadow in Summer
  195. Witch King
  196. Empire of the Steppes
  197. The Letters of Noel Coward
  198. The Vagina Bible
  199. All the Birds in the Sky
  200. The Bright Sword
  201. The Traitor Baru Cormorant
  202. New Spring
  203. Middlegame
  204. Das Reboot
  205. Mama's Boy
  206. Madly, Deeply 
  207. Spellbound
  208. Truthwitch
  209. All the Feels
  210. Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers
  211. Why We Swim
  212. Big Friendship
  213. Gift Horses
  214. The Sparsholt Affair
  215. Death in the Spires
  216. Harrow the Ninth
  217. Mobility
  218. The Red Winter
  219. Postwar
  220. Bomber
  221. Joseph and His Brothers
  222. Seasons of Glass and Iron
  223. Playworld
  224. The Starseekers
  225. Psychopomp & Circumstance
  226. The Language of Liars
  227. The Golden Mean

Rereads: 

The Summer War
Bound by Blood and Sand
A Marvellous Light

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