Here we go again, bookworms! Another year, another TBR pile.
Why do I do this to myself.
What does 2026 hold in store for us booklovers? What favourite authors have something new out this year? What else are you looking forward to? How many of us are going to read Darkrooms? (answer: all of us, or you get kicked out of the thread)
Yeah I’ll be doing this
Halfway through The Safekeep atm, good isn’t it
Had this crazy idea where I might try read all the unread books on my shelves, going alphabetically by author.
Other thoughts:
I like big books and I cannot lie
this has been on my agenda for a long time, but I also want to do a Dark Tower and associated novels reread this year. Decisions, decisions…
I think I’m going to do this too. I’m really interested in King Sorrow, the new Danielewski, and I have The Book of Love by Kelly Link that I’ve been wanting to read for a year and never get to. Lonesome Dove piquing my interest too, esp since Noops loved it last year. The only thing is what format do you go for? I can’t carry a 1000 page hardback around but it’s more satisfying working through a physical book!
2026 is the year I read Middlemarch.
Lonesome Dove 
My main reading goal for this year is read some non fiction. Found Easy Riders, Raging Bulls in the BHF shop and my mum got me a book about the Netherlands and a book about Japan.
I read 34 in 2025; my target is always 33 so well done me. It’s the same again this year.
The big chonkers here will probably wait until the summer but I’d like to clear some of the more obscure things from my Want To Read list too at some point (although that will need to wait until the library orders open again/ I learn how to manage money better). The charity shelves at Tesco/ chazza shops are doing a lot of the heavy lifting here.
I’m currently reading The End of Mr Y (I always liked the cover and I’d probably have loved it if I read it when it came out). The Brothers Grimm and that book on assessment will be done at some point. I’m reading The Child Onyeka and The Academy of The Sun which we’re both quite enjoying.
Possibly best book I read this/last year
I have no goals this year.
Yeah it’s reading. Just do it and enjoy it.
First book for the year is the Grapes of Wrath, excited about getting stuck in. Will read Rosemary’s Baby soon too. Otherwise will be delving randomly into my huge tbr pile. Or ignoring it and reading stuff from the library.
I’ve got to stop going to the library and read the books I’ve got. That’s my main reading resolution, so going to start the year off with the 3 books I currently have out from the library.
2025 
Shards of the Earth - Adrian Tchaikovsky - 13Jan
The Waiting - Michael Connelly - 21Jan
Consider Phlebas - Iain M Banks - 28Jan
Midnight and Blue - Iain Rankin - 11Feb
Player of Games - Banks - 20Feb #
All Fours - Miranda July - 02Mar
Mongrel - Hanako Footman - 07Mar
Annie Bot - Sierra Greer - 09Mar
A Queen in Hiding - Sarah Kozloff - 09Mar #
The Queen of Raiders - Kozloff - 20Mar #
A Broken Queen - Kozloff - 31Mar #
Love is Blind - William Boyd - 31Mar
A Wizard of Earthsea - Ursula K Le Guin - 04Mar
The Tombs of Atuan - Le Guin - 07Apr
The Far Shore - Le Guin - 14Apr
The Cerulean Queen - Kozloff - 30Apr #
True Grit - Charles Portis 07May #
The Tainted Cup - Robert Jackson Bennet 10May
Slow Horses - Mick Herron - 30May
Eyes of the Void - Tchaikovsky - 15Jun
Gardens of the Moon - Steven Erikson - 17Jun #
Lords of Uncreation - Tchaikovsky - 10Jul
Dead Lions - Herron - 20Jul
Her Majesty’s Royal Coven - Juno Dawson - 31Jul
Real Tigers - Herron - 12Aug
The Wager - David Grann - 20Aug
Children of Paradise - Camilla Grudova - 23Aug
Spook Street - Herron - 27Aug
The God is Not Willing - Erikson - 05Sep #
The Names - Florence Knapp - 11Sep
The Shadow Cabinet - Dawson - 28Sep #
London Rules - Herron - 28Sep
The Hedge Knight - George RR Martin - 24Oct #
The Sworn Sword - Martin - 26Oct #
I Love You Byeee - Adam Buxton - 28Oct #
The Mystery Knight - Martin - 06Nov #
No Life Forsaken - Erikson - 16Nov
A Storm of Swords - Martin - 09Dec
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold - Le Carré - 18Dec
The Wheel of Time 1: Eye of the World - Robert Jordan - 25Dec #
Trespasses - Louise Kennedy - 30Dec
(# denotes audiobook and date is of completion for the info of anyone who is interested)
