2026 Reading Goals

Back in the olden days (y'know, before COVID) I used to read dozens of books every year, I think my peak was 150 books one year! But those days are long gone and my reading has fallen off. I began to find it was more difficult finding a new series I was interested in and the few authors I still read appear to be leaning hard into AI. So disappointing! sigh

So I'm cobbling together a list of books I intend to read this year and found a lot of them for free on Project Gutenberg. The rest are books I've bought and I'm finally getting around to reading. My goal is 100 books this year, that's around 2 books a week. I can definitely handle that! Here's the first third, hoping to get through these by Spring to stay on track.

ebooks:

• Mystery

  • The Red House Mystery - A.A. Milne (Yes, that A.A. Milne) (1922)

  • The Secret Adversary - Agatha Christie (1922)

  • Ngaio Marsh - A Man Lay Dead (1934)

  • Josephine Tey - A Shilling for Candles (1936) (just finishing this one)

  • Josephine Tey - The Daughter of Time (1951)

  • Dorothy L. Sayers - Have his Carcase (1932)

  • Dorothy L. Sayers - Murder Must Advertise (1933)

  • Dorothy L. Sayers - The Nine Tailors (1934)

  • Dorothy L. Sayers - Gaudy Night (1935)

  • Dorothy L. Sayers - Busman's Honeymoon (1937)

  • H.A. Ripley - Minute Mysteries (Detectograms) (1932)

• Sci-Fi/Fantasy

  • H.G. Wells - Tales of Space and Time (1899)

  • H.G. Wells - The Door in the Wall and Other Stories (1911)

  • H.G. Wells - The Red Room (1896)

  • H.G. Wells - The Time Machine (1895)

  • Howard Pease - Border Ghost Stories (1919)

  • L. Frank Baum - The Wizard of Oz (1900)

  • Lewis Caroll - Alice in Wonderland (1865)

  • Aldous Huxley - Brave New World (1932)

  • Terry Pratchett - The Colour of Magic (1983)

• Tarot/Cards

  • Genius of the Tarot - Vincent Pitisci

  • Rana George - The Essential Lenormand: Your Guide to Precise & Practical Fortunetelling

  • L. W. De Laurence - The Illustrated Key to the Tarot: The Veil of Divination (1914)

• Non-Fiction

  • James Fergusson - Rude Stone Monuments in All Countries: Their Age and Uses (1872)

  • A. H. Sayce - The Chaldean account of Genesis

  • Charles Godfrey Leland - Gypsy Sorcery and Fortune Telling (1890)

Books

• Tarot/Cards

  • Paul Fenton Smith - Tarot Masterclass

  • Lon Milo DuQuette - Understanding Aleister Crowley's Thoth Tarot

  • Toni Puhle - The Card Geek's Guide to Kipper Cards

  • Original Kipper Cards: Traditional Oracle Cards

  • AE Waite - The Pictorial Key to the Tarot

• Non-Fiction

  • Thomas Atkins - Fire Came By: The Riddle of the Great Siberian Explosion

Happy reading!