2025 & 2026 Reading Challenge discussion

I did 75 books in 2025 so will try and do 76 this year (depends on Library Thing’s challenge goal as well since that’s what I completed this time). I have a plastic tub full of books (Chinese danmei, Japanese light novels/manga and Korean manhwa) to read and plan to go to Barnes for more this week, plus I have the book lists for reading competitions/battle of the books to try and read until the challenge organizers post the 2026-27 lists. I will try and do the Goodreads and Chantel Reads All Day 2026 challenges (not a big reader of American/English fiction/nonfiction so certain challenges will be a struggle or completely ignored depending on the topic). Here’s to January 2026. [Highly recommend the book Manatee Summer - it was the best book I read from one of the reading competition lists]