Friday, 2 January 2026

List of Books Read 2026

Books Read 2026

(Note: this list will grow and be updated through out the year.)


In April of 2023 I wrote a piece called How I Read So Much? Because I get asked the question so often, read the piece linked above if you are looking for some ideas on ways to read more. 

January

My First Saint Nicholas Book - Amanda Lauer and Julia Seal 
My First Saint Nicholas Book - Amanda Lauer and Julia Seal 

February

March

April

May
Child of Crows Wings of Broken Magic - Cedar Sanderson - Witchward Book 3 

June 
In the Midst of a River - Clayton Barnett - Tales from the Lemurverse Anthology One 
Smashed, Mashed, Boiled, and Baked-and Fried, Too! - Raghavan Iyer 
Conspiracy 365 August- Gabrielle Lord 
ERROR 404: LOVE NOT FOUND: A Romeo and Juliet Reboot - Ty Balt - Shakespearean Shorts
Grace Through Simplicity The Practical Spirituality of Evelyn Underhill - John J. Kirvan - Great Spiritual Teachers 
Hostile Takeover: A Macbeth Remix - Rex MacDuff - Shakeapearean Shorts 
15 Days of Prayer With Saint Louis De Montfort - Veronique Pinardon 
Coffins - Rodman Philbrick 
Trusting in God’s Love - Kathryn J. Hermes FSP - Just a Minute Meditations 
The Glitter Murder - William Harrington - TOR Columbo Series Book 5 
The Croaking Raven - Guy Hale - Shakespeare Murders Book 1 
The Practice of the Presence of God - Brother Lawrence  with Dr. Matthew K. Minerd, Fr. Gregory Pine, Rebecca Dougherty - Ascension Catholic Classics 
Who Killed Darius Drake? - Rodman Philbrick 
The Hoover Files - William Harrington - TOR Columbo Series Book 6 
Stories of Saints and the Beatitudes - Sr Marie Paul Curley FSP 
The Fruit of Her Womb: 33-Day Preparation for Total Consecration to Jesus Through Mary - Boniface Hicks 
The People of the Way of the Cross: Walking with Jesus through the Eyes of 14 Witnesses - Marci Alborghetti 
Elon Musk: The Prophet of the Star Ark: Why becoming a multiplanetary species is a divine obligation - Simone Nespolo 
Conspiracy 365 September - Gabrielle Lord 
Book of Prayers with St. Pier Giorgio Frassati - Frassati Society Philippines 
Letter to a Friend on the Prayer of the Heart - Dom André Poisson and Erik Varden - CTS Books 
Rescued II: True Stories for Catholic Kids - Kathryn Griffin Swegart 
Lioness Lost - Susan Brinkmann - Chronicles of Ariella Book 1 
15 Days of Prayer with Saint Philip Neri - Jean-François Audrain 
Platform Decay - Martha Wells - The Murderbot Diaries Book 8 
Gliding to Glory - Theresa Linden and Kelsey Doherty - Caitlyn and Peter's Rosary Adventures Book 3 
Seven Saints for Boys: A First Communion Collection of Courage and Faith - Paddy Bréagnamh - Mini Saints & Missionaries Library 
St John Henry Newman: A New Doctor of the Church - Fr Hermann Geissler, FSO - CTS Books 
Gone - Jude Hardin - The Jack reacher Experiment Book 9 
The Sonnets - William Shakespeare - Pelican Classics Edition 
Dragon Noir - Cedar Sanderson - Pixie for Hire Book 3 

July
Every Hunter Is Hunted - Barry Lyga - I Hunt Killers Book 4           
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I started keeping track of the books I finished reading in October of 1995, and movies watched in January of 1996. and Catholic Books by year since 2016. I have lists for:


I also do a Top Ten List of books each quarter and for the year. They can be found here. I was also asked to pick a Top Ten Catholic Books I have read, you can find that list here (and occasionally I add a note when I come across something exceptional.)



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