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