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2026 Mid Year Reading Recap: Must Read Books
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Noodle Recommends
Some of the books I read this year that I recommend VERY MUCH, from classics to lit-fics. You could guess my favorite genre by now
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Lit-fic
Classics
Lit-fic
This might be one of the best books I've read this year.
Slanting Towards the Sea: A Novel
Heart? Broken. Eyes? Swollen.
Heart the Lover
Hot take: I love this even more than Heart The Lover apparently….
Writers & Lovers: A Novel
The way the scene and scenery described was very vivid and delicious
The Artist and the Feast
perfection. I love Stefan Zweig's writings
The Post-Office Girl
I've never read a thick book this fast. SOOO engaging. Funny and DARK
Fruit Fly: A Novel
the ending…. God.
The Wall
Elizabeth never fails to create a character. It's amazing.
The Things We Never Say: A Novel
Classics
Heartbreaking. A must-read.
Of Mice and Men: (Centennial Edition)
Genre? Spiraling woman.
The Yellow Wall-Paper, Herland, and Selected Writings
short and punchy
The Queen of Spades and Other Stories
This might be one of the best Woolf I’ve ever read
Virginia Woolf - Mrs Dalloway
What more can you say? It's James Baldwin
Another Country
