Read What You Own 2026

Me too..

I hope I've spurred you on to read it soon and you enjoy it as much as I did.

And I've got far too many books lurking on my kindle entirely forgotten about, some of which I have embarrassingly also subsequently bought a paperback copy 🙄

I really enjoyed The Glass House. It was the first book of hers that I read. Also enjoyed The Midnight Hour.

I’ve just finished my first book of the year, All Together for Christmas by Sarah Morgan.

I think I shouldn’t have started a Christmas fluff book so late. It was feeling distinctly out of season in the second week of January and I wasn’t reading as much as I usually do.

yeah that’s the one @AliasGrape

Yes @AliasGrape . I thought the latest was not as good. But I shall read it again. I tend to read the Strike ones too quickly and then read again slowly..so appreciate them more. If you know what I mean.

I already have The Glass House. Purchased in 2020! So you can all see why I absolutely must abide by my 'only purchasing one book this year statement'.

Was that the one before the latest? I forget which one is which honestly. But if it’s the one with the cult I enjoyed it too.

The Running Grave was definitely a return to form

Off to google The Glass House. EVEN THOUGH am only buying one book this year...eek!

I really enjoyed the Running Grave

I've got that in my pile...I really enjoyed the ink black heart

Finished The Glass House by Eve Chase. Bought on a whim last month, as the blurb sounded intriguing. I'm really glad I did as I really enjoyed it. A good twisty family drama with plenty of secrets right to the satisfying end.

Next up The Running Grave by Robert Galbraith. This could take a while, at over 1000 pages.

I’ve finished Days at the Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa
Also finished The Stranger Diaries by Elly Griffiths

still loads on my TBR pile 😁

The First World War by Hew Strachan is a DNF. It’s too just too dense, and scholarly and just boring. It’s more about the imperial powers and not a great deal about the soldiers. I made it 20% of the way through and when I saw I still had 9hrs to go I just couldn’t face it. Onto the last NF book remaining in my 2014 folder - Queen Victoria’s Youngest Son. The Untold Story of Prince Leopold by Charlotte Zeepvat I seem to remember this being a soft DNF so my hopes are not high.

Finished my first RWYO, The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde (a reread), a keeper.

Did DNF and put in charity bag an I’m Turning into my Mother type book. Not as funny as it thought it was.

I did a clever thing and returned any recent kindle purchases in the last month or so on Amazon. The ones I DNF and it let me I have a ipad coming tomorrow so I can use libby on there too. My general aim is to not accumulate many (if any) physical books because it's no longer practical with my fibromyalgia finger pain.
Currently reading what I own number 2 but only 22% in

Thanks @EineReiseDurchDieZeit
I'll buy that one this month 😊
I recommend the garth marenghi audio books (if any of you are old enough to remember dark place on channel 4 - its him)
Very funny.

It was great as audio I definitely recommend it

Would you recommend project hail Mary on audible?

I am planning to read Nutshell by Ian McEwan for the Good Reads scran-uary prompt - it is also the oldest book on my Kindle!

@SheilaFentiman I was really looking forward to it as well

@EineReiseDurchDieZeit I think you have given it more than enough chances 😀

I didn’t rate Death At The Sign Of The Rook it was for me a big letdown.

I have finished Paper Cup by Karen Campbell and decided to DNF The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones, I soft DNFd it twice then tried again on audio and it just isn’t computing for me, I was finding it hard to follow. Don’t know whether to give it one more try??

It was ok. Not as good as her previous JB books imo