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My 26 reads for 2026. Books/Audiobooks
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items Trending and not so trending must read books. My choices in no particular order.
a "gripping inheritance drama" and "swoony summer romance" about the wealthy, dysfunctional Storm family, who gather at their private island for the funeral of their tech billionaire patriarch.
These Summer Storms: A Novel by Sarah MacLean
Been wanting to read this for a while now.
true story of Christopher McCandless, a young man who abandoned his privileged life in 1992 to journey into the Alaskan wilderness.
Into the Wild (2007)
I give this book two stars. It was almost a DNF( did not finish)
a suspenseful thriller about two couples whose lives unravel after one husband, Jake Hayes, goes missing following a fight with his wife Nina.
Just the Nicest Couple by Mary Kubica
You put your life into the professionals hands, never thinking they would ever harm you.
A True Story of Medicine, Madness, and Murder is a 2013 true-crime book about Charles Cullen, a nurse and convicted serial killer.
The Good Nurse: True Story of Medicine & Murder
An ending I did not expect!!!!
A young man's girlfriend is kidnapped, and he is suspected of the crime. Years later, he is in law school and the car used in the kidnapping is found.
If Something Happens to Me: A Novel
Currently reading .. I’m getting bored with it. A dark gossipy thriller about mean girls, mean moms, and the secrets inside all the little houses. Set in the 1980s east Texas.
All the Little Houses by May Cobb
Heart breaking read! Unbelievable injustice
Ten harrowing true stories of wrongful convictions. Impeccably researched and grippingly told, Framed offers an inside look at the injustice faced by the victims of the United States criminal justice syste...
Framed: True Stories of Wrongful Convictions
The Hiding Place is Corrie ten Boom's autobiographical account of faith, courage, and resilience during World War II. the author and her family risked their lives to shelter Jews from Nazi persecution in occupied Holland.
The Hiding Place: Corrie Ten Boom Story
I give this Five stars.
The true story of Elizabeth Packard, a 19th-century housewife who was wrongfully committed to an asylum by her husband for having differing religious and political views, and her subsequent fight for freedom and mental heal...
The Woman They Could Not Silence | Kate Moore
I “read” this as an audio book.
detailed account of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster.
Midnight in Chernobyl: World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
I binge read this series. 5 books
a historical romance series about women who live two lives in two different time periods simultaneously and must choose one on their 21st birthday. Each book follows a different protagonist, blending inspirational...
Timeless Series by Gabrielle Meyer
A gothic suspense novel set in the fictional St. Medard's Bay, Alabama, centered on the Rosalie Inn, a historic hotel that has survived many hurricanes.
The Storm: A Novel: Hawkins, Rachel: 9781250341884
I have hold on this book, a three week wait time.
a novel about Dannie Kohan, a meticulous lawyer who has her life perfectly planned, but has a vivid dream that she is living five years in the future with a different man and ring, which throws her ca...
In Five Years: A GMA Book Club Pick Novel
I’m on hold 6 week wait time on Libby
historical mystery and fiction novel, chosen as a Good Morning America (GMA) Book Club pick, inspired by the real diaries of 18th-century midwife Martha Ballard in Hallowell, Maine. The story follows Ballard as ...
The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon
A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck by Sophie Elmhirst is a nonfiction book about the real-life survival story of Maurice and Maralyn Bailey, a British couple who were shipwrecked in the Pacific in 1972. After their boat was sunk by a whal...
A Marriage at Sea by Sophie Elmhirst: 9780593854280
Murder and Injustice in a Small Town is John Grisham's first non-fiction book, published in 2006, detailing the wrongful conviction of former baseball player Ron Williamson for a 1982 murder in Ada, Oklahoma.
The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice - Grisham
I’m on hold. 16 week wait. On Libby
thriller novel co-written by Harlan Coben and Reese Witherspoon, published in October 2025, about a disgraced combat surgeon, Maggie McCabe, who takes a high-stakes, secret surgery job for a wealthy client in Russ...
Gone Before Goodbye by Harlan Coben
A Jack Reacher novel
Exit Strategy: A Reacher Novel (Jack Reacher)
Anxiously awaiting Diana’s 10th book in her Outlander series !!! A Blessing For A Warrior Going Out
While no official release date is set, it is expected to conclude the main storyline for Claire and Jamie Fraser.
A Blessing For A Warrior Going Out
