2026 in books

Opened with Strange Pictures in January , closed with Endgame in June . 4 written up along the way.

12 Books read

3.77 Average rating

2 Five-star reads

6 Busiest month June

The five-star shelf

January · 3

Strange Pictures Uketsu ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Beartown (Beartown, #1) Fredrik Backman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Bunny (Bunny, #1) Mona Awad ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

February · 1

Butter Asako Yuzuki ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

March · 1

A Tale for the Time Being ↗ Ruth Ozeki ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

May · 1

The Life Impossible ↗ Matt Haig ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

June · 6

Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 ↗ Cho Nam-Joo ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Heartwood ↗ Amity Gaige ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
My Year of Rest and Relaxation ↗ Ottessa Moshfegh ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
After Dark ↗ Haruki Murakami ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
The Last Samurai ↗ Helen DeWitt ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Endgame ↗ Samuel Beckett ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★