My 2026 TBR List

I just realised that I haven’t made one of these posts – my TRB list – since 2022. So, this is a new and short list for 2026. I highlighted the name of the books so they are easier to spot. This is an unusual mix, with comic books and non-fiction. I will see if I will share another list once I finish with these books. There are more books I am keen to read, which is very likely that I will read before of these, so it might take about 6 months to finish this lot.

The first book is Beyond Supervet: How Animals Make Us The Best We Can Be by Noel Fitzpatrick, which I received for my birthday a couple of years ago. It was a book I wanted to read, but kept postponing. He was abused as a child and this made me move the book further and further on the reading list. I will read it.
He is Irish, so this will count on my Read the World challenge.

How Good It Is I Have No Fear of Dying: Lieutenant Yulia Mykytenko’s Fight for Ukraine by Lara Marlowe is a book I found at my library and got it. I am looking forward to reading it. Picking up random books from the library might sound like a good idea, but one, about Ukraine, was written by a russian who was comparing their “hardship” and “pain” to that the Ukrainians suffer. It was a DNF, of course. I don’t understand why the library bought the book in the first place, very poor choice.

Recommended by a friend, The Body Keeps the Score: Mind, Brain and Body in the Transformation of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk, is one of the books I will read sooner rather than later.

I read a few similar books and I am looking forward to reading A Dark History of Whisky by Gary Dobbs.

Bakhmut by Myroslav Laiuk is the last book, of 3, I got from Ukraine back in November. I’ve read the first two, by other authors, but from the same publisher and I am loving this one. I am looking forward to reading this and getting more books from them.

For my Read the World challenge I asked for recommendations. Kelly suggested a Mexican writer. I looked at the horror book and it’s not a genre I enjoyed. But this recommendation of a Mexican writer pushed me to look around. Luckily, I found this one: Jungle Laboratories: Mexican Peasants, National Projects, and the Making of the Pill by Gabriela Soto Laveaga. I am so excited about this book. I don’t know how the contraceptive pill was created and its links to Mexico, so this should be an interesting book to read.

Last 2 books in the list, and most likely between the first I will read are: Tintin in the Land of the soviets by Hergé and Tintin in America by Hergé. These were written by a Belgian author and that ticks another country in the world challenge. I found these on an auction marketplace and I won. The one about the soviet union was published in 1929, so I am very curious, considering this is a period I know.