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My Year in Books 2026
18 items
By
Rebecca Markus
Every year my reading goal is to read at least as many books as I read the year before. In 2025 I read 28 books. Let’s see if I can beat that.
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Five Stars
I started the year off strong with a five-star book. It was reflective, melancholy, and somewhat mysterious.
How to Stop Time: A Novel
A queer-coded 1940s noir detective novel.
Fortune Favors the Dead: A Pentecost and Parker Mystery
I’m not a fast reader but I read this in two day. I couldn’t put it down.
Only Say Good Things: Surviving Playboy
I read this book when I was 12 and it always stuck with me so I decided to read it again.
A Ring of Endless Light book by Madeleine L'Engle
I will read anything Rachel Hawkins writes. This one did not disappoint.
The Storm: A Novel
Four Stars
About a witchy and sometimes toxic friendship.
Cackle
A graphic novel about a world without men.
Woman World
Pretty interesting look into the life of a paparazzi.
Waiting for Britney Spears
My second read in this series. Fun and fast.
How Not to Date a Rock Star
Interesting if you’re a fan of Steve Martin.
Number One Is Walking: My Life in the Movies and Other Diversions
I’m excited for the rest of this six-fi cozy murder mystery novella series.
Murder by Memory (Dorothy Gentleman, 1)
Another spooky mystery from Simone St James
The Book of Cold Cases by Simone St. James
I’m enjoying this sci-fi novella series so much.
Nobody's Baby (Dorothy Gentleman, 2)
Three Stars
Meandering and slow. But I got through it.
Vintage 1954
More Nicholas Sparks than M Night Shyamalan. The dialogue was wooden and there were loose ends that weren’t resolved.
Remain: A Supernatural Love Story
Incredibly boring. I only finished because it was gifted to me from the publisher.
Room 706: A Novel
Interesting, but annoying that there was no resolution.
The Night Guest
The humor was a little too on the nose for me.
The Widow's Husband's Secret Lie by Freida McFadden
