Happy New Year Y’all! Wishing you all great reading in this new year. Yes I have been MIA for quite a while and I have decided to make some changes this year and to write more here. I really loved writing blog posts before and I’ll have to get back into the groove so please be patient with me.
Since I had an excellent year of reading in 2025 – 54 books and 20,073 pages read, I’ve tried to fill my plans with various reading challenges to keep me reading widely. My main goal of this year is to read my shelves. I’ve sadly come to a moment where I can’t fit all of my books on my shelves and that’s a real problem for me. So I’m combing and organising my shelves so that I can begin to choose some books I’ve forgotten about.
I’ve been making lists of books I can choose from and here is one I’ve been looking at today. All the titles that are in bold and have
a strikethrough I’ve already read. I’ll be coming back with other TBR lists I’m in the middle of making to give me lots of ideas from my shelves that could fit prompts, for challenges, or just need to be read because they’ve been lounging on my bookshelves a bit too long. I’d love to have your opinion on what I should definitely push up my TBR list or maybe even omit.🫣 I am not afraid of DNF-ing* books.
- The Most Fun We Ever Had – Claire Lombardo
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Grant Park Leonard Pitts, Jr. -
Freedom – Leonard Pitts, Jr. -
The Last Thing You Surrender – Leonard Pitts, Jr. -
54 Miles – Leonard Pitts, Jr. - The Shadow King – Maaza Mengiste
- In Dependence – Sarah Ladipo Manyika
- Little Family – Ishmael Beah
- Segu – Maryse Condé
- Putney – Sofka Zinovieff
- The Great Believers – Rebecca Makkai
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David Copperfield – Charles Dickens -
Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens -
A Different Drummer – William Melvin Kelley - L’Arabe du Futur 4 – Riad Sattouf
- L’Arabe du Futur 5 – Riad Sattouf
- L’Arabe du Futur 6 – Riad Sattouf
- The Rose Petal Beach Dorothy Koomson
- A Book of Secrets – Kate Morrison
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Pachinko – Min Jin Lee -
L’Odysée d’Hakim – Fabien Toulmé -
The Yellow House – Sarah M. Broom - Caste – Isabel Wilkerson
- Dancers on the Shore – William Melvin Kelley
- A Drop of Patience – William Melvin Kelley
- Dunfords Travels Everywheres – William Melvin Kelley
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Dem – William Melvin Kelley - The Memory Police – Yoko Ogawa
- The Diving Pool Yoko Ogawa
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Three-Fifths – Joh Vercher -
Unsheltered Barbara Kingsolver -
The Other Americans – Laila Lalami - The Dream Hotel – Laila Lalami
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Wandering in Strange Lands – Morgan Jerkins - Zeal – Morgan Jerkins
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The Gold Diggers – Sue Nyathi - An Angel’s Demise – Sue Nyathi
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Real Life – Brandon Taylor - 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World
- Fleishman is in Trouble – Taffy Brodesser-Akner
- The Hundred Wells of Salaga – Ayesha Harruna Atah
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Heads of the Colored People – Nafissa Thompson-Spires - Akin – Emma Donoghue
- Just Mercy – Bryan Stevenson
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Rainbow Milk – Paul Mendez - The Good House – Tananarive Due
- Project Girl – Janet McDonald
- Powder Necklace – Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond
- Manchester Happened – Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
- The First Woman – Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
- The Darkest Child – Delores Phillips
- The Barefoot Woman – Scholastique Mukasonga
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Cassandra at the Wedding – Dorothy Baker
*DNF means Did Not Finish.
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