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2026 Reading Challenge
2026 READING
CHALLENGE
Participants 8,264,488
Books Pledged 334,289,477
Avg. Books Pledged 40
Time Left 213 days, 7 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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