What I’m Reading in 2026
Here’s what I’m reading in 2026. Feel free to read along. Let me know if there are any buddy reads you’d be interested in!
January:
Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam
The Henna Artist by Alka Joshi
A Burning by Megha Majumdar
The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty ✅
All Our Wrong Todays by Elan Mastai
She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb
Top of the World by Ethan Joella ✅
February:
Pretty Little Wife by Darby Kane
The Guest List by Lucy foley
Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam
A Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
The Rapture of Canaan by Sheri Reynolds
March:
White Ivy by Susie yang
I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown
White Ivy by Susie Yang
Complete Novels by Dawn Powell
Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly
Songs in Ordinary Time by Mary McGarry Morris
April:
Group by Christie Tate
Everything Inside by Edwidge Danticat
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
And After the Fire by Lauren Better
Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons
May:
In a Holidaze by Christina Lauren
You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson
Black Buck by Mateo Askaripour
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
The Women in the Castle by Jessica Shattuck
A Virtuous Woman by Kaye Gibbons
June:
The Chicken Sisters by KJ Dell’Antonia
Furia by Yamile Saied Mendez
Send For Me by Lauren fox
Cousin Bette by Honore de Balzac
Don’t You Cry by Mary Kubica
Paradise by Toni Morrison
July:
Outlawed by Anna North
The Last Story of Mina Lee by Nancy Jooyoun Kim
What’s Mine and Yours by Naima Coster
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Here on Earth by Alice Hoffman
August:
Fable by Adrienne Young
Good Company by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
The Futures by Anna Pitoniak
Black and Blue by Anna Quindlen
September:
The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
His Only Wife by Peace Adzo Medie
Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead
Cujo by Stephen King
Dear Ijeawele by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat
October:
A Cuban Girl’s Guide to Tea and Tomorrow by Laura Tayler Namey
Hell of a Book by Jason Mott
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
Option B - Sheryl Sandburg
I know This Much is True by Wally Lamb
November
The Turnout by Megan Abbott
Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
Cork Dork by Bianca Bosker
What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day - Pearl Cleage
December
The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave
The Light in Hidden Places by Sharon Cameron
Beautiful County by Qian Julie Wang
David and Lisa by Dr Theodore Issac Rubin M.D
The Rules Do Not Apply by April Levy
Midwives by Chris Bohjalian