Read What You Own 2026

Breathing Lessons - Anne Tyler
A paperback - don't know how long I have had this but I bought it at Waterstones for £6.99 so definitely a while! This is a day in the life of Maggie Moran - in her late 40s - and her husband Ira, as they head to the funeral of the DH of one of Maggie's schoolfriends and as Maggie reflects on her life, marriage and family.

Due to my fibromyalgia I am only reading on my kindle. I would love to join this thread please. I have 267 unread and currently reading The Expected Joy of the Ordinary by Catherine Gray. So far , so good!

I have my first DNF of 2026. I expect to have a lot of those this year as I get to books that have been left hanging on my kindle, for 13 years in some cases. I gave this one until the 30% mark and I’m just finding it too dull and badly written (there are spelling and grammar errors all over) to continue. I got RNG to select another book from 2013 so I’m now starting Pandora’s Box by Giselle Green. Hopefully this will be better (not feeling hopeful as this doesn’t sound like my kind of thing so not sure what 2013 me was thinking), but if it isn’t I have no problem with adding it to the DNF pile.

There is a 'permanent delete' option rather than 'remove download' option.

I had a big full on my Kindle books last year .
I deleted loads but then realised ( and although it's the one account ) that it only deleted on the kindle you are deleting it off , as I'm sure they remained in my other one .

Unread on Kindle? 505! Would like to get it under 400 but I need to not buy even one book and I don’t think that’s going to happen!

Finished The Book Of Guilt by Catherine Chidgey

DH & I were looking through our kindles yesterday (we share an account) and realised we had over 400 unread books on there, dating back to 2012 when we first bought kindles. Some of the books were free ones. I deleted quite a few that realistically we were never going to want to read, leaving still far too many. Just shows how easy it is to get sucked into the 99p deals and click buy 🙄

We do have a regular clear out of paperbacks and hardbacks, once we've read them, if we have no plans to re-read, so the bookcases don't appear overwhelming.

I'm holding myself very accountable this year. If I buy a book I must read it this year.

I've just counted my Kindle stash - 412 and thats not counting the complete book sets amongst them . Maybe I won't manage all of them plus my physical books which I want to concentrate on .

I definitely need to get on top of my TBR pile so this looks like the place for me. I have already joined the read-along of the Odyssey here so that's one down. I also plan to re-start my Eurovision challenge (read a book from each of the countries in the Eurovision) which will include some of the books I already own. I am aiming for one from the TBR pile a month.

Not that I could find unfortunately but someone else may know better.

Is there an automatic way to do this?

I’d like to join in please. I have lots of physical and kindle books sitting unread, and a fair few on audible too. My reading was at an all-time low in 2025 and I’m really keen to get back on track and reduce my tbr pile. Plus finances mean I can’t buy new books anyway.

The only exceptions I think I’ll make are library books, and if I find any particularly desired books in a charity shop. I’m keeping my eyes peeled for Terry Pratchett’s Tiffany Aching books, and if I see a copy of The Names by Florence Knapp I’ll get that as I’ve heard good things.

I'm in 👋
Last year's thread did help me get going, even though I started late so I'm pleased to be in at the beginning this time!
I have way too many kindle books.

I have just finished The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo.

By the end of the year I intend to have read any that I'm going to read and have got rid of the rest 😎

Am so glad I found this thread. I specifically didn't ask for books for Christmas as 2024's books are all sitting unread.

My goal is to reduce the number of unread books taking up space in my house.

I've started with A Voyage Round the Queen by Craig Brown which I was very excited about last Christmas and then didn't read.
So far it's a finisher but not a keeper. The format worked brilliantly for Princess Margaret but she's just a much more interesting personality.

Very impressive 😀

I’ve organised my kindle books into the years I bought them and got RNG to select one from the first year I had a kindle - 2013! First up is Officer Jones by Derek Ciccone.

I'm in! I've got about 180 unread books on my kindle plus maybe 30 or so physical books...I do read about 150 books a year so it's possible to make a good dent in that this year!

I've made a list of 26 in 2026 to tackle first. I'll try to limit new books to one a month and avoid making reservations at the library.

Starting today with The Shipping News Annie Proulx, on my kindle since July!

I don't know, if this is a weird quirk of mine or if there are others out there that do this :

Buy something ( books , shoes , clothes ) but then they go unread / unworn because you carry on reading / wearing the old stuff ?

So because it's new year, new start etc I've just been through my tbr pile of books beside the bed and removed the books in the category of I'll read them one day , and left the ones I want to read alongside the 4/5 I got for Christmas . These will be my RWYO first books .

The Love Songs…was a good book for me last year but not a standout

I did that last January @EineReiseDurchDieZeit and @MamaNewtNewt . It made for a great start to the year.

This year I am trying to finish at least two of the four books I have on the go : The Man who Spoke Snakish. The Plague, A Spy Alone and Anna Karenina before I go back to work on Monday.

I am also joining the Les Miserables readalong on here and have signed up for two other ones online (Midnight's Children and The Brothers Karamazov).

This is such a good idea - I am not doing well at reading much of anything lately yet I keep acquiring more! I’m going to commit to not buying anything new in January, and reading at least 3 books I already own in some format or other in that time.

Will reassess from there based on how successful I’ve been!

I’ve just tried @SheilaFentiman so fingers crossed! Gave reason as “found better price elsewhere” and then promptly bought at 99p!