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My honest 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
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This book is heavy but so good!! The book talks about trauma but I don't think you have to have experienced trauma in the same way the book describes to enjoy or gain something from reading it. I found it so interesting and I learned a lot...
The Body Keeps the Score – Bessel van der Kolk
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Great book about female friendships, dating and life in your twenties. I think I would have liked it more if I read it in my early or mid twenties, because I didn't personally connect with it. It's still a good book, just not a five star for...
Everything I Know About Love – Dolly Alderton
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 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
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Currently reading this in my book club, and I'm loving it so far!! “In this landmark book, bell hooks explores the question “What is love?” Disputing that the ideal love is infused with sex and desire, she provides a new path to love that is sacred, ...
All About Love – Bell Hooks
Currently reading. ”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...
Martyr – Kaveh Akbar
Currently reading. “Sure to be a classic, A Path with Heart shows us how we can bring our spirituality to flower every day of our lives. It is a wise and gentle guidebook for an odyssey into the soul that enables us to achieve a deeper, more satisfyi...
A Path with Heart - Jack Kronfield
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
This book has been on my reading list for so long!! “What would it be like to free yourself from limitations and soar beyond your boundaries? What can you do each day to discover inner peace and serenity? The Untethered Soul offers simple yet profoun...
The Untethered Soul - Michael A. Singer
“A haunting, magical, and absolutely impossible to forget novel about the unique friendship between two women in nineteenth-century China”
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan - Lisa See
This has been on my reading list for so long!! I love the author's other book “The power of now”, so I'm so excited to read this as well. “In A New Earth, Tolle expands on these powerful ideas to show how transcending our ego-based state of conscious...
A New Earth - Eckhart Tolle
“A stunning portrait of the enduring grace of friendship about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. A masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century.”
A Little Life - Hanya Yanagihara
Only heard good things about this book, and I really want to read it!
The Courage to Be Disliked – Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga
”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
"An acclaimed philosopher shows us how—in an age of unprecedented anxiety—we can find fulfillment by embracing the present and living more fully in the now. He is the perfect guide for a course correction in life"
The Wisdom of Insecurity - Alan Watts
”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
“Potent and profound, White Nights explores the universal themes of unrequited love, longing, and the ache of loneliness.”
White Nights - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Highly recommended book about how to stop self-sabotaging and how to create the life you want!
You Are a Badass – Jen Sincero