2025 was the year of the Pratchett Project, which has obviously spilled over into 2026, but never mind that; 2026 still needs a mission of its own.
So the goal is to reduce Mount To-Be-Read from its current 60+ books down to 20 or 30. I'm not going to set a hard target, but I am going to commit to at least one or two from Mount TBR for every new book I read.
Some of the books in the queue will need a reread—it's been an age since I read The City We Became, for instance, so I'd like to refresh myself on that before I tackle The World We Make; I really need to re-read Scarlet Odyssey before I go on to Requiem Moon and Primeval Fire.
So that's the goal for 2026: grind Mount TBR from a mountain down into a molehill.
This page has more detail about what's in Mount TBR, how long it's been there etc. Behold my shame, books bought and not read; 60+ books (plus I don't know how many magazine issues) all waiting to be read.
| Title | Author | Date | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Another Day in the Colony | Chelsea Watego | 14 December 2021 | |
| Iron Widow | Xiran Jay Zhao | 8 January 2022 | Tried this one once, bounced off it hard, will try again. |
| On Reckoning | Amy Remeikis | 10 February 2022 | Essay, 61 pages |
| The Historian | Elizabeth Kostova | 9 July 2022 | Tried this one once, bounced off it hard, will try again. |
| Requiem Moon and Primeval Fire | CT Rwizi | 5 March 2023 | Need to reread Scarlet Odyssey first |
| The World We Make | NK Jemisin | 14 September 2023 | Need to reread The City We Became first |
| Lights Out | Elise Hart Kipness | 3 October 2023 | I had tried to read this once, got a few pages in and bounced; I just wasn't in the mood. |
| Children of Time | Adrian Tchaikovsky | 22 February 2024 | |
| Dangerous Visions; Again, Dangerous Visions; The Last Dangerous Visions | Harlan Ellison, Editor (DV and ADV); Harlan Ellison, J. Michael Straczynski, Editor (TLDV) | 29 January 2024, 3 June 2024, 30 September 2024 | |
| Best Horror of the Year | Ellen Datlow, Editor | 30 April 2024 | |
| Year's Best SF 3, 4, 5 | David G. Hartwell, Editor | 30 April 2024 | |
| The Saint of Bright Doors | Vajra Chandrasekera | 12 May 2024 | |
| The Duke Who Didn't | Courtney Milan | 13 June 2024 | |
| Bloom | Delilah S Dawson | 19 June 2024 | |
| The Gods Below | Andrea Stewart | 15 November 2024 | |
| The Bass Rock | Evie Wyld | 18 November 2024 | |
| Mrs. Martin's Incomparable Adventure | Courtney Milan | 31 December 2024 | |
| Chapelwood | Cherie Priest | 31 December 2024 | |
| Some Desperate Glory | Emily Tesh | 29 January 2025 | |
| Not Quite by the Book | Julie Hatcher | 2 February 2025 | |
| The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 13, 14, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29 | Gardner Dozois, Editor | 6 April 2025 | I had a fair few of these in print and sold them years ago, so some will be rereads, but I'm not sure which ones until I get into them. |
| The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida | Shehan Karunatilaka | 6 April 2025 (?) | |
| Snare | Katharine Kerr | 6 April 2025 (?) | Will be a reread |
| A Magical Inheritance, A Ghostly Request, In the Society of Women and A Lady's Choice | Krista D Ball | 9 July 2025 | |
| Unbury the Dead | Fiona Hardy | 17 August 2025 | |
| The Leap | Paul Daley | 17 August 2025 | |
| The End of the World as We Know It | Christopher Golden and Brian Keene, Brian Keene, Christopher Golden, Stephen King | 26 August 2025 | |
| The Book of Ile-Rien | Martha Wells | 26 August 2025 | |
| Wheel of the Infinite | Martha Wells | 26 August 2025 | |
| Witch King | Martha Wells | 26 August 2025 | |
| The Emilie Adventures | Martha Wells | 26 August 2025 | |
| City of Bones | Martha Wells | 26 August 2025 | |
| Murderbot Diaries books | Martha Wells | 26 August 2025 | |
| What Stalks the Deep | T Kingfisher | 30 June 2025 | Novella |
| Last One Out | Jane Harper | 1 January 2026 | |
| Snake Eater | T Kingfisher | 3 January 2026 | |
| Standing by the Wall | Mick Herron | 13 January 2026 | |
| Clarkesworld magazine | Neil Clarke, Editor | Numerous issues | |
| khōréō magazine | Zhui Ning Chang, Editor-in-Chief; Kanika Agrawal, Danai Christopoulou, Isabella Kestermann, Editors | Numerous issues | |
| Fantasy Magazine | Several issues |
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