reading in 2026

 I'm sure it will be fewer books than last year....

  1. Part of Your World
  2. 107 Days
  3. The Inheritance Games
  4. Get it Done 
  5.  The Land of Sweet Forever
  6. Simply More
  7.  The Names
  8. Yours Truly
  9.  Trailbreaker
  10.  In the Lives of Puppets
  11. Project Hail Mary
  12.  Paper Girl
  13. Listen for the Lie 
  14. The Anxious Generation 
  15.  The Very Good Boy and the Great Fetch Quest
  16. Awake
  17. The Eights 
  18. Don't Let Him In
  19.  The First Time I Saw Him
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 Reading:  The Ickabog, Theo of Golden

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