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My 2026 Reading List
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items y'all know what it is!! let the year of book-ing commence! this year the theme is mostly sci-fi and crime thrillers, as I am diving fully into escapism and comfort to distract from whatever chaos is happening in the world around me. per usual, follow...
my current read and i'm already obsessed. internal monologue like an actual 30 year-old science teacher/nerd/guy who just REALLY loves science, Stratt is one of THE strongest female characters I've ever seen written, and the concept of finding out th...
Project Hail Mary
the movie rocked me during college so of course i had to buy the book. i have a love of scientific field journals and this one feels right up my alley – structured but fluid, human but not too scientific.
Annihilation
also a current read, the way Paisant so accurately captures bittersweetness in words cannot be described, only felt. the contrast between his hazy, summer memories in the grove with the reality of what it's become decades later, mixed with his apt an...
The Possibility of Tenderness: A Jamaican Memoir of Plants and Dreams
oh, Patrick Rothfuss. I can't bring myself to finish this book, not because it's bad, but because it's too good and I'm too angry there's not another one. to be fair to this book, I was warned about this and read the series anyway, and now I'm doomed...
The Wise Man's Fear (Kingkiller Chronicle #2)
old school spies, london, and the KGB. what more could you ask for?!?! started this on my trip to Utah and I'm hooked. I see why it's one of the great crime novels. can't wait to watch the movie with Gary Oldman
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
also a crime classic i'm excited to start. need me some good “what the fuck” comfort
The Trial
my nemesis that became a cult classic, i genuinely did not think it would even be listed on barnes & noble. bought the first one in utah two years ago and finally got the second and y'all….it's a wild fucking ride. i still don't understand the ca...
Keeper of the Word
i was obsessed with the paris apartment by her for a hot minute last summer, so I'm excited to give this one a try!!
The Guest List
i started this one last year from the library but wasn't in the right headspace to finish it. this year? HELL yeah – I am all for the sexy, sulltry, culty dinner party thaat also could be cannibalism (idk i didn't get that far)
The Midnight Feast
guy at the bookstore said this was very similar to The Guest List – but the synopsis I've gathered is that the Darker family gathers for Nana's 80th birthday and then slowly dies one by one, starting with Nana. which is WILD!!! why did they do Nana l...
Daisy Darker