Done and Dusted: Books Read in 2026

Holy moly. Here we go again. Nine years of recording the books I’ve read.

As per last year, here’s a recap of the numbers for each year so far:

2018: 30 // 2019: 57 // 2020: 57 // 2021: 63 // 2022: 65 // 2023: 59 // 2024: 39 // 2025: 43

I’m all over the shop, aren’t I?! Ah well – that’s life. Strap in for 2026!

B1: People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry

B2: Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros

B3: Lyrebird by Cecilia Ahern

B4: No Trace by Michael Trant

B5: Lenny’s Book of Everything by Karen Foxlee (I listened to the audiobook narrated by Abbe Holmes. This was for Birds of a Feather bookclub, and essentially a ‘re-read’ – I read this novel the first time).

B6. Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt

B7: A Beautiful Life by Jennifer Trevelyan

B8: Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry

B9: The Chocolate Factory by Mary-Lou Stephens

B10: Night Road by Kristin Hannah

B11: Average at Best by Pub Choir’s Astrid Jorgensen

B12: Your Friend and Mine by Jessica Dettmann (I listened to the audiobook narrated by Michala Banas)

B13: The Search Party by Hannah Richell

B14: The Names by Florence Knapp

B15: A Farm in Golden Clouds by Leearna Shaw

B16: The Second Wife by Ali Lowe

B17: The Angry Women’s Choir by Meg Bignell (I listened to the audiobook narrated by Meg)

B18: Redbelly Crossing by Candice Fox

B19: Hot Chocolate on Thursday by Michiko Aoyama, translated from the Japanese by E. Madison Shimoda (I read this probably before The Names but forgot to add it to my list! Which hurts my “things-need-to-be-perfectly-ordered” head)

B20: The Nocturnals by Frances Whiting

B21: On the Edge by Kate Horan (I listened to the audiobook narrated by Heather Ward)

B22: By Any Other Name by Jodi Picoult

B23: Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke