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2026 book reviews 📖✨
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items These are the books I've been reading so far this year, with my honest reviews. I will keep this list updated regulary once I've finished a new book. And I've also included some of the books I wish to read this year 🤗📖 (the list includes adlinks wh...
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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Love this book, it’s so beautiful and important and moving! I read it in two days during my summer vacation because I couldn’t put it down! It’s a queer story about two guys falling in love in Poland after world war 2, when Poland was led ...
Swimming in the Dark – Tomasz Jedrowski
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Wow I love this book! It's a really lovely book about an Irish girl's struggles and experiences with love and sexuality, and the expectations from friends and family while growing up queer in a small village in the early 1990s. It's beauti...
Sunburn – Chloe Michelle Howarth
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Loved his other book The Midnight Library (one of my favorite books) so I think my expectations was too hight reading this book. It's a really good book and a really interesting storyline/perspective, but I didn't connect with some of the ch...
How To Stop Time – Matt Haig
Currently reading
Currently reading this in my book club, and I'm loving it so far!! Will update when we're finished.
All About Love – Bell Hooks
Currently reading this book, and I really like it so far! It's ”A celebration of our female friendships, of our messy years, and of growing up together. Glittering with wit, heart, and humour, it’s a book to share with every woman you’ve ever been lu...
Everything I Know About Love – Dolly Alderton
Currently reading, and I like it a lot so far, it's super interesting. “In The Body Keeps the Score, he (the author) uses recent scientific advances to show how trauma literally reshapes both body and brain… He explores innovative treatments—from neu...
The Body Keeps the Score – Bessel van der Kolk
On my 2026 reading list
Winner of the 2026 International Booker Prize. ”Taiwan Travelogue is a bittersweet story of love between two women, nested in an artful exploration of language, history and power.”
Taiwan Travelogue – Yang Shuang Zi
”Electrifying and funny, Kaveh Akbar's Martyr! is an all-consuming debut.”
”An instant New York Times Bestseller
Shortlisted for the Waterstones Debut Prize
Book of the Year in The Observer, The New York Times, and The New Yorker
A National Book Awa...
Martyr – Kaveh Akbar
”A spectacular guide to the inner world and relationships; it dispels myths, grounds you in transformative truth and reconnects you to your power”
”Relationships have the ability to infuse our lives with the magic of intimacy and connection. But oft...
Becoming The One – Sheleana Aiyana
”Clarice Lispector's sensational, prize-winning debut novel Near to the Wild Heart was published when she was just twenty-three and earned her the name 'Hurricane Clarice'. It tells the story of Joana, from her wild, creative childhood, as the 'littl...
Near To The Wild Heart – Clarice Lispector
”A tale for our dispossessed times, and one of the sharpest and funniest novels of recent years, It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over plumbs mortality and how it changes everything, except possibly love.”
It lasts forever and then it’s over – Anne de Marcken
Only heard good things about this book, and I really want to read it!
The Courage to Be Disliked – Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga
Highly recommended book about how to stop self-sabotaging and how to create the life you want!
You Are a Badass – Jen Sincero