Before January ends, I wanted to do a New Year Book tag post that I saw on bookables youtube channel. Thanks for the idea, and let’s get into it!
- How many books are you planning on reading in 2026?
- I set my Goodreads goal to 82 books for this year. I read 100 books in 2025, but realized a lot of them were 3 star reads. I’d like to do a better job of picking higher quality reads, not being afraid to DNF, and focusing more on variety of genre too.
- A book you’re likely to reread this year
- My local book club has “read a book from your childhood” as a our prompt for February, so I’m considering re-reading Charlotte’s Web for that. It was a favorite when I was little, and that might be interesting. I also have a copy of the first Thoroughbred book that was a favorite series as a kid, and might do that too.
- A priority read on your 2026 tbr
- I have quite a few that I want to read this year – Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy, The Second Chance Cinema by Thea Weiss, Buckeye by Patrick Ryan, and Philip Pullman’s new trilogy are up there.
- An author you won’t be reading more books from this year
- I don’t think this is new, but Colleen Hoover is an author I probably won’t ever read again (unless I ever decide to pick up Verity). Oh and maybe Rebecca Yarros. Am I the only one who thinks Fourth Wing is terribly written?
- Something new you want to read! (new genres or tropes)
- I read a lot, so not sure if there are genres or tropes I haven’t read, but I kind of want to try a few more darker romances or romantasy this year.
- A popular book you want to read
- Wild Reverence by Rebecca Ross or Anathema by Keri Lake or Alchemised by SenLinYu or Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman.
- Most anticipated 2026 book release
- I have a few of these from NetGalley, but this is more focused on the front half of the year:
- Cherry Baby by Rainbow Rowell (April 14)
- Rolls and Rivalry by Kristy Boyce (May 5)
- The Shippers by Katherine Center (May 19)
- A bookish goal for 2026
- I want to make going to my local book club a priority this year. And like I said earlier, read higher quality books/not be afraid to DNF. And maybe to go to a book festival like Love Yall Book Festival or Yallwest.
- A book that’s been on your tbr you probably won’t ever read
- I don’t want to think this is a thing, because if it’s on my TBR I want to read it, but I have a couple of backlist books on NetGalley I requested, that I’m strongly considering not reading/finishing. One is Roar of the Lambs by Jamison Shea and the other is The Battle of the Bookshops by Poppy Alexander. I started the second on audiobook and made it 20% before returning it to the library, and I’m not sure I want to pick it back up again…
- A series you want to read this year
- I have two: Throne of Glass by Sarah J Mass and Brutal Birthright by Sophie Lark.
- Your auto buy authors going into 2026
- Taylor Jenkins Reid, Jenn Bennett, Rachel Lynn Solomon, Emily Henry.
- A book to show adaptation you’re excited about this year
- Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
- A sequel you’re anticipating
- I honestly don’t know – technically Rolls and Rivalry by Kristy Boyce is a follow up book to Dungeons and Drama, not sure it’s a sequel. Does Callie Hart’s Brimstone #3 count as a sequel?
- Bookish things you’re leaving in 2025
- Keeping books on my shelf just because. This will be the year of getting rid of as many books as I can and truly having a curated collection that I adore and will re-read.
- What to expect from this account
- Hopefully for me to actually make content more than once a month. Truthful and honest reviews of ARCs. Book tags. Maybe affiliate links in the future if I ever figure that out!
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