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My never-ending TBR for 2026 by Season

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My toxic trait is thinking I have more time than I do, less children than I do, and a smaller TBR list than I do. Every book I dream of reading this year - A girl can always dream!
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Sizzling my Summer TBR 🌊✨

 
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Beach Read, summer vibes, 352pgs Second Chance romance 💗😱✨
The Romance Revival
 
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Can’t wait to read this one!!
The Someday Garden
 
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💗This second chance romance seems unhinged in all the best ways!!🫣 •Forced Proximity😱 •New Lease on Life🦋 •Palm Springs MCM vibes✨
Vera Stein Is Fine: A Second Chance Romance
 
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Promises to be a sweet and captivating beach read! 🌊🐬🐠
Into the Blue: Reese's Book Club Love Story
 
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One of my top summer TBR reads!
Our Perfect Storm
 
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💔Second chance romance ☀️Summer read 🦋LitFic
Love You More: A Novel
 
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I’ve let too many summers escape without reading it. This summer has to be different!
Summer Romance
 
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Love this author!! This book has been long overdue on my TBR!
Love & Gelato
 
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She’s promising peak summer vibes🌊🚤🌴
One Golden Summer
 
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Emotional 🥹 Mother Daughter drama 448 pages MUST READ
Summer Island: A Novel
 
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Heartfelt rom-com Small town Swoony, closed-door, delicious banter crackling chemistry
Strawberry Fields for Never: Enemies to Lovers
 
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An escape romance in Tuscany, Italy? Yes, PLEASE! 💕✨
That Month in Tuscany
 
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This is like a second chance romance mixed crime/suspense. Probably needs more attention on Booktok!
The Summer That Changed Everything: Beach Read
 
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Lucky won the lotto and can’t cash it in?!?! 🪝
Lucky
 
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MAKE the time to read this one! •ARC review pending
One & Only: A Read with Jenna Pick
 
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Finally author picked a better narrator and this sounds SO good!!!
The Daisy Chain Flower Shop: Cozy Summer Romance
 
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A woman who accidentally squatted her way into owning a historic house enters a marriage of convenience with an architect, for health insurance leading to in expected feelings! Sounds like chaos! 👌🏼
Married with Benefits
 
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So excited for more of Story Lake!! The first book in this series was one of my top fave all time reads and I adored this town and cast of characters!!
Mistakes Were Made (Story Lake, #2) by Lucy Score

Fall TBR’s that actually look promising🍂🥮🌾

 
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Love the twist on this with grumpy/sunshine swamping roles it seems. Rec by Haley Pham.
You, Again: A Fall Romance (Dial Delights)
 
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Clean & Wholesome ✔️ Enemies to Lovers ✔️ Slow Burn✔️ Only 232 pages!
The Fall Back Plan: An Enemies to Lovers RomCom
 
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Clean & Wholesome 360 pages Small town romance💘
Can't Help Falling: A Best Friend's Brother RomCom
 
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I’ve heard so much about this one. Said to be a “binge in one sitting” kind of book! •Short Read •288 pages
In Five Years: A GMA Book Club Pick (a Novel)
 
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Found in the “Clean & Wholesome” romance section of audible. Love the audiobook sample to tandem read along with. Has 4.8⭐️ on Goodreads! 💗
Drawn Together: Rival Children's Book Author NYC
 
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Getting lost in a world with an orchard inn and honeycrisp apple pie 🥧 sounds absolutely perfect come end of September - early October!
The Honeycrisp Orchard Inn: Cozy Small-Town Romance
 
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A manhattan photographer, vintage photographs and a Gothic beach house in Nee England. Themes of Grumpy-Sunshine, enemies to lovers, grief, and found family.
Picture Perfect Autumn: A Heartwarming Tale
 
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This looks like a really good second-chance romance with NYC brownstone fall vibes!
It's Different This Time: A Fall Romance
 
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Married couple trying to reconnect after a traumatic car accident strains their relationship. A tender, healing romance.
No Matter What: A Hearts of New York Novel
 
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This looks like a cozy read I’ve had on my TBR for almost a year now. It’s long so I’ll get to cozy up in the world longer!! Has a 4.3 and I’m thinking of reading it late October.
If It Makes You Happy: A Cozy Fall Romance
 
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A funny, heartfelt, late coming-of-age story that examines the role of memory in holding us back―and in moving us forward
Before I Forget: A Novel
 
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I’ve been really wanting to read this but also nervous to read it too. Idk why, guess I’m scared about which emotional shore it might wash me up on. I think this fall is the right time though.
Wild Dark Shore: Reese's Book Club Pick (A Novel)

Upcoming and newly released 📖✨💗💌

 
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• Dating Show • Elsie Silver goodness • 449 pages Emerald Lake Series •Book 1: Fever Dream •Book 2: TBA
Fever Dream
 
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I’m so intrigued by this one!
Taipei Story (Deluxe Limited Edition) Novel
 
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This story sounds good and might help me embrace my new Florida home. It’ll be fun to connect with a fictional world set so close to home!
In Stormy Weather: A Novel
 
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This story premise is unique and has peaked my interest!! I’m looking forward to picking this up!
Not My Job Anymore (The Not Anymore Novels)
 
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This sounds like a page turner!
All the Other Mothers Hate Me
 
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Releases August 18th! After a social media post gone wrong, a literary agent runs away to look after a seaside bookshop for the summer—and forms an unlikely friendship with a charming novelist struggling with his latest idea.
How to Find a Romance in a Bookshop: A Novel
 
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Releases August 11th. With the power of Educated and the emotional sweep of When Breath Becomes Air, this inspiring underdog story follows a nonverbal autistic boy—whom society had all but given up on—as he finds his voice, literally and figuratively...
Great and Unfortunate Things

Anytime: basically I’m in the wrong season and don’t want to wait for the right season to read 🤣

 
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I adore and English countryside romance! 💘
Storybook Ending: Heartwarming Romance in English Village