Book 29 for 2026: Demon in the Wood ​Demon in the Wood , by Leigh Bardugo, illustrated by Dani Pendergast. This graphic novel is the prequel to Bardugo's Shadow and Bone series. The Darkling, Aleksander (currently using the alias...

Book 29 for 2026: "Demon in the Wood" by Leigh Bardugo, illustrated by Dani Pendergast.

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Book 25 for 2026: Every Heart a Doorway Every Heart a Doorway , by Seanan McGuire. This is the first book in Seanan McGuire's Wayward Children series. "Wayward," in this case, refers to children who've visited fairy lands or other...

Book 25 for 2026: "Every Heart a Doorway," first book in Seanan McGuire's "Wayward Children" series.

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Book 22 for 2026: A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking , by T. Kingfisher. On page 1, the narrator discovers a dead body in the bakery. Things get worse for her from there. This is a YA fantasy with touches of horror,....

Book 22 for 2026: "A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking," by T. Kingfisher.

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Book 21 for 2026: You Are My Joy and Pain You Are My Joy and Pain: Love Poems , by Naomi Long Madgett. Naomi Long Madgett was the Poet Laureate of Detroit. Her best-known poems are about the Civil Rights Movement, but this book concentrates.....

Book 21 for 2026: "You Are My Joy and Pain: Love Poems" by Naomi Long Madgett.

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Book 18 for 2026:How to Kill a Witch How to Kill a Witch: The Patriarchy's Guide to Silencing Women , by Zoe Venditozzi and Claire Mitchell. This is mostly a history of the Scottish witch hunts in the 16th and 17th centuries, by two...

Book 18 for 2026: "How to Kill a Witch," by Zoe Venditozzi and Claire Mitchell.

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Book 16 for 2026: Unseen Academicals Unseen Academicals , by Terry Pratchett. Terry Pratchett was extremely prolific, and thank goodness. His Discworld fantasy novels are always hilarious, with an underlying seriousness because he's...

Book 16 for 2026: "Unseen Academicals," a Discworld novel by Terry Pratchett.

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Book 14 for 2026: Six Feet Over Six Feet Over: Science Tackles the Afterlife , by Mary Roach. Apparently there was some trouble deciding on a title for this one. The hardcover is called Spook , and in some versions the subtitle is.....

Book 14 for 2026: "Six Feet Over: Science Tackles the Afterlife," by Mary Roach.

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Book 10 for 2026: Friday Black Friday Black , by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah . The author is best known for his novel Chain Gang All-Stars , a biting dystopian satire where prisoners fight gladiator battles to the death for the...

Book 10 for 2026: "Friday Black," short stories by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, with the same satirical bite as his novel "Chain Gang All-Stars."

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Book 8 for 2026: The Canterville Ghost The Canterville Ghost and Other Stories , by Oscar Wilde. This collection has four of Wilde's stories, two almost novelette-length and two shorter. The title story is sort of a 19th-century...

Book 8 for 2026: "The Canterville Ghost and Other Stories" by Oscar Wilde. Sort of a 19th-century Beetlejuice.

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Book 7 for 2026: The Banned Book Club The Banned Book Club by Kim Hyun Sook and Ryan Estrada, illustrated by Ko Hyung-Ju. This graphic memoir tells the story of Kim Hyun Sook's college activism under a repressive regime in South Korea in....

Book 7 for 2026: "Banned Book Club," a graphic memoir by Kim Hyun Sook and Ryan Estrada, illustrated by Ko Hyung-Ju.

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Book 6 for 2026: The Bandit Queens The Bandit Queens , by Parini Shroff. This is a delightfully over-the-top dark comedy where very bad men get what's coming to them, but you know the dog will be fine. In a small village in...

Book 6 for 2026: "The Bandit Queens" by Parini Shroff. A dark comedy where very bad men get what's coming to them.

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Book 5 for 2026: The Children of Men LAURA RUTH LOOMIS

Book 5 for 2026: "The Children of Men," by PD James. After 25 years of no children born on earth, one woman is about to change everything.

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Book 1 for 2026: Exit Strategy Exit Strategy , by Martha Wells. This is the fourth book in the Murderbot Diaries series. While they can be read as standalones, it really helps to read this series in order, starting with All...

Book 1 for 2026: "Exit Strategy," 4th book in the Murderbot Diaries series by Martha Wells. Managed to hit all my reading challenges: #PopsugarReadingChallenge, #52BookClubChallenge, #BooklistQueenChallenge, and #ThisChallengeKilledTheBookworm.

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