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