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2026 Reading Challenge
2026 READING
CHALLENGE
Participants 8,259,652
Books Pledged 334,110,542
Avg. Books Pledged 40
Time Left 213 days, 13 hours
Paul has read 58 of 100 books in 2026.
PAUL BESLEY’S 2026 BOOKS
  • A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
  • Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
  • Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
  • Walden by Henry David Thoreau
  • Intermezzo by Sally Rooney
  • Billy Budd, Bartleby, and Other Stories by Herman Melville
  • The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings by Edgar Allan Poe
  • The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
  • In Search of Lost Time, Volume 1 by Marcel Proust
  • In Search of Lost Time, Volume 1 by Marcel Proust
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