10 more books i want to read in 2026
was looking at my old 2025 tbr and initially felt some shame over not completing it then realised hey actually i read 6 out of the 10 books listed there. that's a 60% completion rate! which is better than never starting, so i'm making a new list for 2026 with some tweaks.
first a progress update, i've striked out the books i've read:
1. Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes
Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving - Pete Walker
Let's Become Fungal!: Mycelium Teachings and the Arts - Yasmine Ostendorf-Rodríguez
How to Read Now - Elaine Castillo
Peripathetic: Notes on (un)belonging - Cher Tan
6. Health at Every Size - Linda Bacon
7. catskull - Myle Yan Tay
8. The City We Became - N.K. Jemisin
9. Making Kin: Ecofeminist Essays from Singapore - Esther Vincent, Angelia Poon
10. Black Waters, Pink Sands - Ng Yi-Sheng
reflections
- having the list helps me focus on what books to read next, i'm both a impulse/mood reader yet someone who keeps many lists. i have a tbr list on my storygraph account, telegram saved messages, libby wishlist, and iphone notes app. sometimes having all of these options makes me overwhelmed and i go back to what is most comforting... fanfiction + doomscrolling. which is in itself not a bad thing, just something for me to be mindful of.
- i read a balance of fiction and non fiction books from the 2025 list but i remember nearing the end of the year i was deterred from reading more cause all the titles left were all too heavy/dense. so for 2026 i'll be adding more fiction titles and having the non fiction titles as good to read if there's capacity.
- i enjoyed writing a book report/reflection for flowers for algernon and catskull - it helped me process/remember the book better. so i want to try writing more of those this year.
lastly, here are 10 more books i want to read this year:
We Saw Mountains by Diana Rahim
City of Others by Jared Poon
Mother Mary Comes to Me by Arundhati Roy
Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire, Richard Shaull
A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
Glory by NoViolet Bulawayo
All About Love: New Visions by bell hooks
A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster by Rebecca Solnit
honorable mentions - aka books carried forward from last year:
Hospicing Modernity - Vanessa Machado de Oliveira Cruel Optimism - Lauren Berlant Ghosts of My Life - Mark Fisher Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible - Peter Pomerantsev How to Go Mad Without Losing Your Mind - Ijeoma Umebinyuo Living a Feminist Life - Sara Ahmed The View from Flyover Country - Sarah Kendzior Twitter and Tear Gas - Zeynep Tufekci Thinking in Systems - Donella Meadows Don't You Know Who I Am? - Ramani Durvasula Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving - Pete Walker Let's Become Fungal!: Mycelium Teachings and the Arts - Yasmine Ostendorf-Rodríguez How to Read Now - Elaine Castillo Peripathetic: Notes on (un)belonging - Cher Tan