2026 Reading Challenges and Goals

I set my 2025 reading gold at 25 not knowing how the year would go. Safe to say I blew that out of the water having read 85 books!

I'm still setting my goal low-ish for 2026 at 50 books but I suspect that I'll blow past that as well.

I like to challenge myself with my TBR because I have sooooo many books on it. Last year, I did a book calendar with 12 physical TBR books and I opened and read (allegedly) one per month. That didn't always work out but I did get through a good chunk of them.

I did that again this year but I also made a kindle challenge for myself as well.

Here are my two challenges for 2026:

These books are all wrapped and I'll pull one per month and read the physical book.

The Amalfi Curse by Sarah Penner

Fall Into Temptation by Lucy Score

Hallowed Ground by Rebecca Yarros

The Dixon Rule by Elle Kennedy

The Glorious Guinness Girls by Emily Hourican

Girl One by Sara Flannery Murphy

The Many Daughters of Afong Moy by Jamie Ford

Hideaway by Nora Roberts

Black Woods, Blue Sky by Eowyn Ivey

The Sun Was Electric Light by Rachel Morton

My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell

The Bombshell by Darrow Farr

I need to cut down my Kindle TBR as well (I have over 2000 Kindle books) and I'm hoping that by having this list, it'll help when I don't know what to pick up next.

Out on a Limb by Hannah Bonham-Young

Nine Month Contract by Amy Daws

Seven Year Itch by Amy Daws

Fragile Sanctuary by Catherine Cowles

Tattered Stars by Catherine Cowles

The Friend Zone by Abby Jimenez

My Favorite Holidate by Lauren Blakley

Tempt Me by KA Tucker

Book of the Month by Jennifer Probst

When in Rome by Sarah Adams

Tangled Up in You by Christina Lauren

Only If You're Lucky by Stacy Willingham

Do you see any you've read and loved?