Read What You Own 2026

I'm still sort of wagon-adjacent! I've bought a couple of things this year, but far far fewer books than in previous years.

I've started The Children's Book which I've had on my kindle since 2015, but I'm making slow progress. I like it well enough, my brain is just not cooperating currently.

I’ve largely stayed on the wagon, esp compared with my usual buying habits but I think I will be down overall, esp as I have DNF quite a few books. I’ve realised I need to be more picky if I have any hope of getting through TBR mountain! @EineReiseDurchDieZeit I don’t manage to get through as many audiobooks as I’d like but here are some I’ve enjoyed (although I suspect you’ll have already read all of these):

The Outsiders by SE Hinton
Girl With a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
Rizzio by Denise Mina
Clothes, Clothes, Clothes, Music, Music, Music, Boys, Boys, Boys by Viv Albertine
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
Miss Pettigrew Lives For a Day by Winifred Watson
This Much is True by Miriam Margolyes
The Beastie Boys Book

The wagon is a dot to me 😀

I am enjoying many of my new purchases though…

I’ve bought a few books in the monthly deals, and on Audible. So far my TBR pile is slowly shrinking though.

Just finished a RWYO - Clean Cut by Lynda La Plante - bought in 2014.

Very fussy when it comes to crime. Done Milkman and Done Virginia Woolf (third year flashback)

My Audible subscription renews on Sunday! Any recs?

My name is Eine and I’ve fallen off the wagon

I think I’m DNFing Dungeon Crawler Carl at 23% it just isn’t for me

Recently read London Falling and Strange Houses. London Falling is brilliant and Strange Houses is fairly easy reading for a dark topic and therefore worth the look

Trying to pick my next book!

Finished Bad Actors - Mick Herron which I bought in 2022. Review on 50B thread. I have fallen off the wagon and bought two books.....

Just finished The Man in the High Castle by Phillip K Dick which was odd and mid. Full review on the 50 bookers chat.

I noticed in the Deals that he’s also written “The Importance of Being Interested” which seems to further tempt fate 😀

Finished Nicholas and Alexandra by Robert K Massie. Review to follow on 50B.

A DNF - Robin Ince’s Bad Book Club. The irony does not escape me…

Finished Mansfield Park - Jane Austen which had been on my Kindle since 2014. Improved as it went on. Full review on 50B thread.

Kindles are so good for travelling whether for a fortnight away or just buses/trains. I do like real books and do read some still but I would struggle without a Kindle now.

I love my kindle too. Makes reading so easy.

Ive finished Verity Bright - The French for Murder, Michiko Aoyama - What You Are Looking For is in the Library and WJ Burley - Wycliffe and Death in a Salubrious Place.

Mister Pip - Lloyd Jones - a paper book! Got in 2024. I enjoyed it, review on 50B thread.

Agree @AliasGrape and @MamaNewtNewt - my kindle is always in my handbag (unless it’s under my pillow!) and thus I am never without it, unlike paper books.

I have been a bit distracted by library books recently but have finished two short RWYO to pick up the momentum! Patricia Brent, Spinster by Herbert George Jenkins & The Fell by Sarah Moss. This takes my RWYO for this year to 32 which is halfway to my target of 64.

The Unknown Ajax by Georgette Heyer. Does it count as RWYO if they are old favourites you return to regularly? Things are a bit stressful so I have a stack of Heyers with me to see me through.

I’m the same @AliasGrape my kindle is so convenient that I don’t even get to my physical books. I need to make more of an effort to read those.

I’ve just finished The Wedding People which I bought in Jan so not classing it as a RWYO
for this year, but glad I at least got to it and didn’t leave it for next year’s thread! Not sure what’s next.

I need to focus on some of my physical books I think, I’ve got quite a big pile (well let’s be honest and say a couple of shelves) of unread ones. I find kindle so much easier especially being able to read on the actual kindle but also on my phone those odd times when I find myself with a few minutes spare, having to wait etc.

I finished my first RWYO for a while, after working my way through some of my kindle unlimited wishlist. Dear Reader by Cathy Retzenbrink which is similar in concept to Bookworm by Lucy Mangan but is far better than that, in my opinion.

I'm getting my money's worth from the trial :) but I don't think it's worth £9.49 a month to me after this first period. I've read mostly easier things with it too.