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

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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...
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February 25, 2026 at 6:04 PM
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Book 45 for 2026: "The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde."

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Book 45 for 2026: The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde
The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde , by Audre Lorde. This book spans 25 years of Audre Lorde's poetry, exploring the contradictions of being a Black lesbian mother whose partners included a gay...
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June 6, 2026 at 5:59 PM
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Book 54 for 2026: "Consort of Fire" by Kit Rocha.

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Book 54 for 2026: Consort of Fire
Consort of Fire , by Kit Rocha. Before this book had an official title, the authors referred to it as the "horny dragon book," and...yeah. Every 100 years, the emperor must send a member of his...
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July 9, 2026 at 5:38 PM
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Book 52 for 2026: "the Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea" by Axie Oh.

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Book 52 for 2026: The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea
The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea , by Axie Oh. Based on a Korean folk tale, the story is told by Mina, a 16-year-old girl in a Korean fishing village. Every year, the people throw a young woman into....
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July 2, 2026 at 3:29 AM
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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 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....
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January 24, 2026 at 11:27 PM
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Book 51 for 2026: "The Clock House Murders" by Yukito Ayatsuji.

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Book 51 for 2026: The Clock House Murders
The Clock House Murders , by Yukito Ayatsuji . This is a murder mystery written in Japan in the 1990s, before cell phones and internet could alter the plot. There are some interesting cultural...
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June 27, 2026 at 4:55 PM
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Book 25 for 2026: "Every Heart a Doorway," first book in Seanan McGuire's "Wayward Children" series.

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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...
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March 29, 2026 at 3:58 PM
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Book 69 for 2026: "The Wee Free Men," from Terry Pratchett's Discworld.

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Book 69 for 2026: The Wee Free Men
The Wee Free Men , by Terry Pratchett . I love Discworld, and this is one of Pratchett's funniest. This is the first of the five Tiffany Aching novels; the later ones include I Shall Wear Midnight...
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August 29, 2026 at 3:05 PM
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Book 14 for 2026: "Six Feet Over: Science Tackles the Afterlife," by Mary Roach.

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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.....
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February 18, 2026 at 6:07 PM
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Book 53 for 2026: "The Calculating Stars" by Mary Robinette Kowal.

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Book 53 for 2026: The Calculating Stars
The Calculating Stars , by Mary Robinette Kowal. It's 1952, and the story begins with a meteorite wiping out part of the United States and altering the global climate. Elma York, a physicist and...
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July 4, 2026 at 4:41 PM
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Book 8 for 2026: "The Canterville Ghost and Other Stories" by Oscar Wilde. Sort of a 19th-century Beetlejuice.

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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...
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January 28, 2026 at 6:37 PM
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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 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...
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January 21, 2026 at 7:04 PM
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Book 50 for 2026: "The Sirens" by Emilia Hart.

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Book 50 for 2026: The Sirens
The Sirens , by Emilia Hart. This book is a MOOD. The sea splashes from every page, simultaneously alluring and predatory, like the song of the sirens themselves. There are three timelines. We begin.....
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June 24, 2026 at 2:38 PM
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Book 41 for 2026: "You Better Be Lightning," poems by Andrea Gibson.

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Book 41 for 2026: You Better Be Lightning
You Better Be Lightning , by Andrea Gibson. Andrea Gibson's poems talk with vulnerability about love and social justice, and sometimes the clash between the two. In "What Love Is," she describes a...
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May 23, 2026 at 8:20 PM
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Book 40 for 2026: "When the Moon Hits Your Eye" by John Scalzi.

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Book 40 for 2026: When the Moon Hits Your Eye
When the Moon Hits Your Eye , by John Scalzi. On day one of this story, the moon turns to cheese. That's the whole premise of this science fiction comedy, and it's not just the moon, but all the bits....
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May 21, 2026 at 9:37 PM
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Book 39 for 2026: "The Black Bonspiel of Willie MacCrimmon" by W.O. Mitchell, about a curling match played against the Devil.

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Book 39 for 2026: The Black Bonspiel of Willie MacCrimmon
The Black Bonspiel of Willie MacCrimmon , by W. O. Mitchell. As every fan of The Cosmic Turkey knows, curling is the greatest sport in this galaxy or any other. It's also the greatest sport in the...
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May 16, 2026 at 4:56 PM
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Book 35 for 2026: "The Hunger Moon: New and Selected Poems, 1980-2010" by Marge Piercy.

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Book 35 for 2026: The Hunger Moon
The Hunger Moon: New and Selected Poems , 1980-2010, by Marge Piercy . What rots is taking for granted. So begins the first poem in this collection, "A guide to common lethal fungi." And indeed...
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May 3, 2026 at 1:49 AM
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Book 29 for 2026: "Demon in the Wood" by Leigh Bardugo, illustrated by Dani Pendergast.

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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...
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April 11, 2026 at 10:05 PM
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Book 22 for 2026: "A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking," by T. Kingfisher.

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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,....
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March 18, 2026 at 5:36 PM
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Book 21 for 2026: "You Are My Joy and Pain: Love Poems" by Naomi Long Madgett.

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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.....
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March 14, 2026 at 8:52 PM
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Book 18 for 2026: "How to Kill a Witch," by Zoe Venditozzi and Claire Mitchell.

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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...
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March 4, 2026 at 6:26 PM
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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 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...
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February 4, 2026 at 11:08 PM
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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 5 for 2026: The Children of Men
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January 18, 2026 at 10:56 PM
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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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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...
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January 4, 2026 at 9:37 PM