I'm an incurable mood reader, but what I learned this past year was that it was helpful to have a note on my e-reader of books I want to read, or categories of books I want to read, so that when I finish one, I can remind myself what they are before plunging mindlessly ahead.

This worked reasonably well for me in 2025, and I managed to read more Edwardian authors (among them, quite a bit of EM Forster and my first Virginia Woolf) and more new theological books than I might otherwise have.

With that in mind, I thought I'd list some of the books I hope to get to in 2026. I won't bother listing flashy new releases, because the internet likely won't let me forget them anyway (and I doubt anything could make me forget that HG Parry is publishing an Arthurian novel!).

Phantastes by George MacDonald
Dorothy and Jack by Gina Dalfonso
Ask of Old Paths by Grace Hamman
something by Anthony Trollope
something by Diana Wynne Jones
something by Katherine Rundell
something by Timothy Snyder
something by Juliet Marillier
The Raven Scholar by Antonia Hodgson
Our Divine Mischief by Hannah C. Howard
something by Robert Louis Stevenson
Christy by Catherine Marshall
An early aviation memoir
A craft-of-writing book (possibly Gail Carson Levine)
More Tasmanian authors (Annette Higgins & Clair Van Ryn are at the top of the list, but I'm also curious abut Heather Rose's historical novel about a winemaker)

How do you like to handle reading lists?