2026 Book Tracker

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

Currently Reading

📖 Dearest Jacquie Walters HORROR ⟢ PARANORMAL ⟢ THRILLER Flora is a new mom, enamored of her baby girl, Iris, even if she arrived a few weeks early. With her husband still deployed, Flora navigates the newborn stage alone. But as the sleepless nights pass in the loneliness of their half-empty home, the edges of her reality begin to blur. Just as Flora becomes convinced she is losing her mind, a surprising guest shows up: Flora’s own mother, to whom she hasn’t spoken in years. Can they mend their fraught relationship? Or is there more Flora’s mother isn’t telling her about the events that led to their estrangement?

Books Read 📖 by Month

📖 2026 approved ARC titles

This Is Not A Test, Courtney Summers (read) 📌
Wretch, Eric LaRocca (reading) 📌
Wayward Souls, Susan J. Morris 📌
Nothing Tastes As Good, Luke Dumas 📌
Odessa, Gabrielle Sher 🎧📓✩
Molka, Molika Kim
The Lightning Girl, Sam Ripley
Cross My Heart, I Hope You Diem Mallory Arnold 🆕

2026 Book Reviews

Check out my newly updated book review page.

2026 Good Reads Challenge!

Key
🎧/ 📖 = Owned
💵 / 🏛️ = Buying or Library
▶️ = Reading/Listening
📌 = Read

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 | (read) 3.38 🎧📌
17. Hell Bent, Leigh Bardugo | 4.11  (read) 🏛️🎧📌
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.