potential reading list for 2026, if I aim for just a book a week, ish (in picture format because I was too lazy to type it all up SORRY)
not pictured: Right as Rain, by my beloved friend Tashie Bhuiyan, as it releases March 10, and The Black God's Drums, because I loaned it to my sister the other week & haven't stolen it back
I know very little about most of these books or authors aside from what the back summary could provide*, so if yall wanna vouch for any or reject any for whatever reason just lmk below, I can adjust the list as needed. tyvm in advance
anyway!! a pile of books, stacked rather precariously on my ironing board:
also ty for all the suggestions on how to get more reading done! unfortunately it's less about time/access and more that I hate reading when I'm supposed to be writing. I feel so guilty I can't focus. normally I try to binge read in bursts between projects, but the tgr > tbc stretch was ill-handled so I am massively behind. trying to get over this by having a designated reading day each week.
(also, I can't handle audiobooks, same way I can't tolerate podcasts. something about being incessantly talked at just freaks me out. nothing against the format, they're just 1000% not for me)
* Keanu Reeves is obviously an exception, and I read Micaiah Johnson's The Space Between Worlds last year. super excited to return to that universe
*** I have a stack of high fantasy novels that did not make this list because I'm saving them for after Kevin's books, to prepare for the overdue shift from sports to demons & holy wars. pls god let me survive long enough to read them, so many of them sound so good
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