2026 Book Tracker 🔔 Updated!

Welcome!  This page is dedicated to all things books and my 2026 reading goals, challenges, lists, and more.

Currently Reading

📖 THE CALAMITIES Chuck Wendig HORROR ⟢ DARK FANTASY⟢ FICTION The heir to one of the world’s most influential families reckons with the demonic secret to their power in this contemporary dark fantasy that melds occult magic with shocking family drama from the New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Accidents.

Books Read 📖 by Month

📖 2026 approved ARC titles

📌 = Read

This Is Not A Test, Courtney Summers 📌
Wretch, Eric LaRocca 📌
Wayward Souls, Susan J. Morris 📌
Nothing Tastes As Good, Luke Dumas 📌
Odessa, Gabrielle Sher 📌
Molka, Molika Kim 📌
The Summer Fun Massacre, Craig DiLouie 📌
Cross My Heart, I Hope You Die, Mallory Arnold 📌
The Observer, Nicholas Russell
The Lightning Girl, Sam Ripley
Please Enjoy Your Stay, Tara Goedjen
That Night, Gillian McAllister
Public Access Afterworld, Jane Schoenbrun
The Calamities, Chuck Wendig ▶️

2026 Book Reviews

Check out my newly updated book review page.

2026 Good Reads Challenge!

Key
🎧/ 📖 = Owned
💵 / 🏛️ = Buying or Library
▶️ = Reading/Listening
📌 = Read
🔜 = Up Next
Italicized = Moving to the next challenge

1. Big Bad, Christian Galacar Rating 4.29 🎧
2. The Godsend, Bernard Taylor | Rating 3.77 🎧
3. The Babysitter Lives, Stephen Graham Jones | 3.56 📌🎧
4. Her Body and Other Parties, Maria Carmen Machado | 3.81 📖
5. The Extra: A Novella, Annie Neugebauer | 3.73 💵|🏛️
6. The Film You Are About to See, Haley Newlin | 4.03 📌📖
7. We Had a Hunch: A Mystery, Tom Ryan | 3.74 💵|🏛️
8. A Box Full of Darkness, Simone St. James | 3.98 💵|🏛️
9. My Ex the Antichrist, Craig DeLouie | 3.55 🎧📌
10. Play Nice, Rachel Harrison | 3.94 📖
11. 13 Months Haunted, Jimmie Juliano | 3.67 💵|🏛️
12. The Maid, Nita Prose | 3.75 📖
13. The Rotting Room, Viggy Par Hampton | 3.53 📖
14. Silence for the Dead, Simone St. James | 3.81 🎧📌
15. Of Monsters and Mainframes, Barbara Truelove | 4.12 📖🔜
16. Polybius, Colin Armstrong | 3.38 🎧📌
17. Hell Bent, Leigh Bardugo | 4.11  🏛️🎧📌
18. Meddling Kids, Edgar Cantero | 3.52 📖
19. All Night Horror Show, Eric Mosher | 4.60
20. Angel of Indian Lake, Stephen Graham Jones | 4.6 📖
21. Sign Here, Claudia Lux | 3.78 📖
22. Screaming for Pleasure: How Horror Makes You Happy and Healthy, S.A. Bradley | 4.05
23. The Haunting of Blackwood House, Darcy Coats | 3.76 🎧
24. Dearest, Jacquie Waters | 3.51 📖📌
25. The Killing Hills, Chris Offutt | 3.86 📖
26. A House With Good Bones, T Kingfisher | 3.67 📖🔜
27. Schrader’s Chord, Scott Leeds | 4.03 🎧
28. The House Isn’t Haunted, But We Are, Stephen Howard | 3.78 💵|🏛️

Bookish Blogs & Sources I Enjoy

Good Reads
Book Riot
Book Hub
Possessed by Horror (YouTube)
Penguin & Random House Books
Bookworm Girl
Booktrovert
Fable
Literary Hub (reading list)

Bookish (reading) challenges

PopSugar
Literary Hub
The 52 Book Club
Book Riot
The Nerd Daily

Here’s my update to last year’s reading challenge, which is made up of several lists with a little of my own spin.