2026 Reading Queue

Note

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Done / Currently

1. Holistic Tarot (Benebell Wen) - required nonfiction tbr/physical
2. Rebecca (Daphne du Maurier) - reread fiction tbr/physical
3. Tablay (Katrina F Olan) - required fiction filipiniana tbr/physical
4. How To Be Everything (Emilie Wapnick) - nonfiction self-help tbr/physical
5. Thousand Cranes (Yasunari Kawabata) - fiction Asian
6. On the Calculation of Volume I (Solvej Balle) - fiction European
7. The Loving Spirit (Daphne du Maurier) - fiction required tbr/physical
8. The Poet Empress (Shen Tao) - fiction Asian tbr/physical
9. How to Take Smart Notes (Sönke Ahrens) - nonfiction required tbr
10. Bird by Bird (Anne Lamott) - reread nonfiction
11. Jamaica Inn (Daphne du Maurier) - fiction reread tbr/physical
12. The Vegetarian (Han Kang) - fiction
13. Mirror Marked (Vida Cruz-Borja) - fiction tbr/physical
14. Shift (Cho Yeeun) - fiction earc
15. On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Stephen King) - required nonfiction tbr/physical
16. The Buried Giant (Kazuo Ishiguro) - tbr/physical
17. Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head (Warsan Shire) - nonfiction poetry tbr/physical
18. Don’t Let The Forest In (C. G. Drews) - fiction
19. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Philip K. Dick) - fiction classics tbr/physical
20. Taiwan Travelogue (Yáng Shuāng-zǐ) - fiction tbr/physical

TBR (any order)

• Monk and Robot (Becky Chambers) - fiction tbr/physical

• The Interpretation of Dreams (Sigmund Freud) - nonfiction classics tbr/physical

• The Calligrapher’s Daughter (Eugenia Kim) - required fiction tbr/physical

• The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows (John Koenig) - required nonfiction tbr/physical

• The Road Less Traveled (M. Scott Peck) - required nonfiction tbr/physical

• The Universe in Verse: 15 Portals to Wonder Through Science & Poetry (Maria Popova) - nonfiction tbr/physical

• Seek Ye Whore and Other Stories (Yvette Tan) - fiction tbr/digital

• Slouching Towards Bethlehem (Joan Didion) - nonfiction tbr/otw

• The Passion According to G.H. (Clarice Lispector) - fiction tbr/otw

• Klara and the Sun (Kazuo Ishiguro) - fiction wishlist

• Human Acts (Han Kang) - fiction wishlist

• Wicked (Gregory Maguire) - reread fiction tbr/physical

• Don’t Look Now: Selected Stories (Daphne du Maurier) - fiction anthology

paused/dnf

• The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings (Edgar Allan Poe) - required fiction