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Books I have Read in 2026
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items Did I love them or hate them? Let's find out!
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My best and worst reads of 2026 all in one place! I mainly listen to audiobooks, I will call out when I think the audio is worth listening to.
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As a child, Kathy – now thirty-one years old – lived at Hailsham, a private school in the scenic English countryside where the children were sheltered from the outside world, brought up to believe that they were special and that their well-being was ...
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As a child, Kathy – now thirty-one years old – lived at Hailsham, a private school in the scenic English countryside where the children were sheltered from the outside world, brought up to believe that they were special and that their well-being was ...
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
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Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission—and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish.
Except that right now, he doesn’t know that. He can’t even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it. All he knows is that he’s been asleep for a very, very long time. And he’s just been awakened to find hims...
Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission—and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish.
Except that right now, he doesn’t know that. He can’t even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it. All he knows is that he’s been asleep for a very, very long time. And he’s just been awakened to find hims...
Project Hail Mary: A Novel - by Andy Weir (Paperback)
🌟🌟🌟 This is a round up from 2.5 for me.
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This debut novel by beloved rare bookseller and memoirist Oliver Darkshire reimagines the Decameron heroine Isabella (with her creepy pot of basil) in a world of sentient animals, talking plants, and shape-shifting wizards. In a tiny farm on the edge...
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This debut novel by beloved rare bookseller and memoirist Oliver Darkshire reimagines the Decameron heroine Isabella (with her creepy pot of basil) in a world of sentient animals, talking plants, and shape-shifting wizards. In a tiny farm on the edge...
Isabella Nagg and the Pot of Basil: A Novel by Oliver Darkshire, Hardcover
🌟🌟🌟 I probably will not read the sequel.
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Barren’s Peak, West Virginia, is not a place anyone would call magical, but Thea LaGuerre calls it home. A high school drop-out whose mother died in an accident, Thea is stuck working part-time jobs just to make ends meet. The most she has to look fo...
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Barren’s Peak, West Virginia, is not a place anyone would call magical, but Thea LaGuerre calls it home. A high school drop-out whose mother died in an accident, Thea is stuck working part-time jobs just to make ends meet. The most she has to look fo...
The Labyrinth of Waking Dreams
🌟🌟🌟🌟 4.5 The series as a whole I tore through, it was so good! I would suggest listening to the audio; the narration was so good.
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“I’ve arrived in London without incident. There are few triumphs in my recent life, but I count this as one. My existence of the last three years has been nothing but incident.” The Year is 1883 and Emma M. Lion has returned to her London neighborhoo...
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“I’ve arrived in London without incident. There are few triumphs in my recent life, but I count this as one. My existence of the last three years has been nothing but incident.” The Year is 1883 and Emma M. Lion has returned to her London neighborhoo...
The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 1
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The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 2
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The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 3
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The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 4
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The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 5
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The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 6
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The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 7
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The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 8
🌟🌟🌟🌟 Love Murderbot, but this one was not my favorite. Still good though!
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Having someone else support your bad decision feels kind of good. After volunteering to run a rescue mission, Murderbot realizes that it will have to spend significant time with a bunch of humans it doesn't know. Including human children. Ugh. This m...
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Having someone else support your bad decision feels kind of good. After volunteering to run a rescue mission, Murderbot realizes that it will have to spend significant time with a bunch of humans it doesn't know. Including human children. Ugh. This m...
Platform Decay (Murderbot Diaries #8)
🌟🌟🌟🌟 Enjoyed this one a lot. It did have some pacing issues, but nothing that should deter anyone. Loved the characters, and the narration was great!
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In 1933 Oxford, Mississippi, Prohibition is on the wane, and the Great Depression is tightening its grip. Poor and rich folks alike have fallen on hard times, even as the old social order remains. For women on the margins, the options are few and the...
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In 1933 Oxford, Mississippi, Prohibition is on the wane, and the Great Depression is tightening its grip. Poor and rich folks alike have fallen on hard times, even as the old social order remains. For women on the margins, the options are few and the...
The Calamity Club: A Novel
🌟🌟🌟🌟 Tandem read with my 11 year old! We both enjoyed it and look forward to reading the next installment.
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The day that Christopher saved a drowning baby griffin from a hidden lake would change his life forever. It’s the day he learned about the Archipelago—a cluster of unmapped islands where magical creatures of every kind have thrived for thousands of y...
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The day that Christopher saved a drowning baby griffin from a hidden lake would change his life forever. It’s the day he learned about the Archipelago—a cluster of unmapped islands where magical creatures of every kind have thrived for thousands of y...
Impossible Creatures (B&N Exclusive Edition) (2024 B&N Children's Book of the Year)
🌟🌟🌟🌟 Love Phoebe, a great debut for Brooke Averick!
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Meet Phoebe Berman: despite being a hopeless romantic, she’s about to be a thirty-year-old virgin. With one month before her milestone birthday, she's determined to finally lose it...if her own anxiety doesn’t slow her down.
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Meet Phoebe Berman: despite being a hopeless romantic, she’s about to be a thirty-year-old virgin. With one month before her milestone birthday, she's determined to finally lose it...if her own anxiety doesn’t slow her down.
Phoebe Berman's Gonna Lose It: A Novel
🌟🌟🌟 A decent read, but probably my least favorite Sarah Dessen novel. It felt like it was missing her magic touch.
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Finley has always felt most comfortable in someone else’s shadow. Fortunately, she’s got Colin, her magnetic boyfriend, who sweeps her along for activities, friendships, and future plans. Then she goes on a last-minute trip with her distant mom to a ...
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Finley has always felt most comfortable in someone else’s shadow. Fortunately, she’s got Colin, her magnetic boyfriend, who sweeps her along for activities, friendships, and future plans. Then she goes on a last-minute trip with her distant mom to a ...
Change of Plans (B&N Exclusive Edition)
🌟🌟🌟 3.75 I will continue the series, but I am not in any rush.
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Kell is one of the last travelers—magicians with a rare, coveted ability to travel between parallel universes, connected by one magical city. There's Grey London, dirty and boring, without any magic, and with one mad king—George III. Red London, wher...
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Kell is one of the last travelers—magicians with a rare, coveted ability to travel between parallel universes, connected by one magical city. There's Grey London, dirty and boring, without any magic, and with one mad king—George III. Red London, wher...
A Darker Shade of Magic (Collector's Edition) (Shades of Magic Series #1)
🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Not my first Alix E. Harrow to get 5 stars, and I am sure it won't be the last. SUCH a good book. Made me cry several times.
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Sir Una Everlasting was Dominion’s greatest hero: the orphaned girl who became a knight, who died for queen and country. Her legend lives on in songs and stories, in children’s books and recruiting posters―but her life as it truly happened has been f...
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Sir Una Everlasting was Dominion’s greatest hero: the orphaned girl who became a knight, who died for queen and country. Her legend lives on in songs and stories, in children’s books and recruiting posters―but her life as it truly happened has been f...
The Everlasting
🌟🌟🌟🌟 Super cute and fun, easy listen! Would be a great beach read.
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Ruby Wynne is a staunch rule-follower who lives by the numbers. So when a surprising breakup – on her thirty-fifth birthday – ruins all her well-laid plans, Ruby makes an unexpected wish . . . Only to wake up inside a M.A.S.H. game from seventh grade...
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Ruby Wynne is a staunch rule-follower who lives by the numbers. So when a surprising breakup – on her thirty-fifth birthday – ruins all her well-laid plans, Ruby makes an unexpected wish . . . Only to wake up inside a M.A.S.H. game from seventh grade...
The MASH Up
🌟🌟🌟 3.75 VERY loosely based on Anne of Green Gables. It was fun to catch on to the plot points that mirrored the original. I enjoyed Grace, but she was missing a certain “Anne-ness” for me.
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Grace has never been good at anything except magic—not that anyone believes her. While other children are adopted from the orphanage, nobody wants Grace. So she decides to make a home for herself by running away and offering herself as an apprentice ...
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Grace has never been good at anything except magic—not that anyone believes her. While other children are adopted from the orphanage, nobody wants Grace. So she decides to make a home for herself by running away and offering herself as an apprentice ...
The Grace of Wild Things
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The apocalypse will be televised! Welcome to the first book in the wildly popular and addictive Dungeon Crawler Carl series—now with bonus material exclusive to this print edition. You know what’s worse than breaking up with your girlfriend? Being st...
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The apocalypse will be televised! Welcome to the first book in the wildly popular and addictive Dungeon Crawler Carl series—now with bonus material exclusive to this print edition. You know what’s worse than breaking up with your girlfriend? Being st...
Dungeon Crawler Carl (Dungeon Crawler Carl Series #1)
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Carl's Doomsday Scenario (Dungeon Crawler Carl #2)
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The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook (Dungeon Crawler Carl #3)
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The Gate of the Feral Gods (Dungeon Crawler Carl #4)
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There are places on earth where nature’s powers gather. Girls raised there are bequeathed strange gifts. A few have powers so dark that they fear to use them. Such a place is Wild Hill, on the tip of Long Island. For centuries, the ghost of a witch m...
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There are places on earth where nature’s powers gather. Girls raised there are bequeathed strange gifts. A few have powers so dark that they fear to use them. Such a place is Wild Hill, on the tip of Long Island. For centuries, the ghost of a witch m...
The Women of Wild Hill: A Novel