On My Nightstand January 3, 2026

winter sunrise

Happy New Year! Despite all indications from the world around me I am beginning this year with optimism. Fingers crossed, you know?

Anyway, operation break the reading slump is going well. Let’s just hope this keeps up next week when we get back to our normal schedule.

Happy reading everyone!

Quote of the Week

People care. They care a lot. They just don’t know what to do to help.
— Katrina: After The Flood by Gary Rivlin

dominoes!

On My Nightstand This Week

Kindle - I’m working on The Catch by Yrsa Daley-Ward. So far the Tournament of Books 2026 list has been a good one. Hope this one keeps up.

Audiobook - I’m doing a challenge to read about the presidents in order this year starting with George Washington. So I got Travels With George by Nathaniel Philbrick from the library.

Physical Book - I went back to A Chesapeake Requiem by Earl Swift after letting it fall by the wayside last summer. It’s a good book. Life just got away from me.

national harbor in maryland

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My January 2026 TBR

The awakening sculpture at national harbor in maryland

December Beginning TBR: 415
December Ending TBR: 448 (Thanks Tournament of Books)

I’m excited to kick off the 2026 reading year. I started a whole new reading journal and am starting all of my global reading challenges all over again. There’s nothing like a fresh start, is there?

December was rough and I haven’t been reading much, and what I did read was mostly re-reads. Hopefully I’ll be back to my bookworm ways in January. A lot of these books are from the Tournament of Books 2026 long list which I am very excited about.

Here is my January TBR.

The Mobius Book by Catherine Lacey

Recipe for Persuasion by Sonali Dev

Troubling the Water by Abby Seiff

A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking by T Kingfisher

Cursed Daughters by Oyinkan Braithwaite

The Memoirs of Stockholm Sven by Nathaniel Ian Miller

Crouching Lizard, Leaping Loon by Donna Andrews

The Catch by Yrsa Daley-Ward

Travels With George by Nathaniel Philbrick

Nobody’s Girl by Virginia Roberts Guiffre

Romeo and Juliet: A Novel by David Hewson

The Burning Heart of the World by Nancy Kricorian

King Sorrow by Joe Hill

The Unveiling by Quan Barry

The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephan Graham Jones

State of Wonder by Ann Patchett

Chesapeake Requiem by Earl Swift

Late Nights on Air by Elizabeth Hay

The Last Emperor of Mexico by Edward Shawcross

Stolen by Ann-Helen Leestadius

Happy reading!

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