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

Rereads: 

Bound by Blood and Sand
A Marvellous Light

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