2026 Reading Challenge discussion

150 books, with 30 books out of my "Currently Reading" folder and ? off my physical shelves at home, ? off my Kindle.

Currently Reading shelf: Finished books

The Jesuit and the Skull: Teilhard de Chardin, Evolution, and the Search for Peking Man
Relatively Dead Sheila Connolly
What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?: Growing Up German
Does Prayer Change Things? (Crucial Questions, #3)
11 Sewing Room Ideas: How to Organize Your Room
Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes
The Ant Farm: Reflections, Refraction and Farewells - Lee Alloway
A Patriot's History of the United States Larry Schweikart
Framley Parsonage Anthony Trollope
My Enemy's Cradle - Sara Young
Cropped to Death Christina Freeburn
The Vanishing Conscience - MacArthur Jr., John F.
Norah Gaughan's Knitted Cable Sourcebook: A Breakthrough
Guide to Knitting with Cables and Designing Your Own
The Seventh Secret Irving Wallace
Murder in an Irish Village Carlene O'Connor
The Ocean at the End of the Lane - Neil Gaiman Murder in an Irish Village
Around the World in 72 Days - Nellie Bly
The Secret Speech Tom Rob Smith
Precious and Grace (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #17)
McCall Smith, Alexander *
Darwin's Radio (Darwin's Radio #1) - Bear, Greg
Death by Honeybee - Abigail Keam
Satan: His Personality, Power and Overthrow - E.M. Bounds
Little Women (Little Women, #1) - Alcott, Louisa May[
book:Knitting Counterpanes: Traditional Coverlet Patterns for Contemporary Knitters|1723872] Mary Walker Phillips
The Small House at Allington Anthony Trollope
The Elegance of the Hedgehog Muriel Barbery



Choose from:

E-books
Chimes - Dickens, Charles
Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith - Heiligman, Deborah

Kindle Books:
Vampire Forensics: Uncovering the Origins of an Enduring Legend
Jenkins, Mark Collins
Cro-Magnon: How the Ice Age Gave Birth to the First Modern
Dash Diet Health Plan
Dark Tide - Stephen Puleo

Physical books:
Justinian’s Flea: Plague, Empire, and the Birth of Europe by William Rosen
Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow Bartoletti, Susan Campbell
Adolf Hitler - Toland, John Willard
Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning - Snyder, Timothy
Explaining Hitler: The Search for the Origins of His Evil -
Rosenbaum, Ron
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
Shirer, William L.
The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in
Warsaw, 1939–45 - Szpilman, Władysław

Goodness! When do you find time to read that many? I'm struggling with just 50 so I throw in a lot of fmanga's (because they are fast reads) so that I can keep on track. LOL.

This year I am reading 300 books. It's Covid that has caused this abundance of books. I'm retired and haven't been able to go anywhere, so I'm curled up with a book. As my niece said, "I've been practicing for this for my whole life!"