Corinne's 2026 Reading Challenge

I read 95 in 2025, but I'm going to stick with 75 as my goal for 2026.

1. Peking Duck and Cover by Vivien Chien

2. The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson
Perfume and Pain by Anna Dorn (DNF)

3. Julie Chan is Dead by Liann Zhang

4. Inland by Tea Obreht

5. Lady Tan's Circle of Women by Lisa See
6. Crime Rangoon by Vivien Chien

7. Olga Dies Dreaming by Xochitl Gonzalez

8. Murder Runs in the Family by Tamara Berry

9. What You Leave Behind by Wanda M. Morris

Ruth by Kate Riley (DNF)

10. Two Truths and a Murder by Colleen Cambridge

11. The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese
12. Rich Girl by Julie Mulhern
13. The Last Castle by Denise Kiernan
14. Emily of Deep Valley by Maud Hart Lovelace
15. The Borrowers by Mary Norton
16. The Borrowers Afield by Mary Norton
17. The Mystery of Castle Croom by Hilda Boden
18. The Windsor Knot by Sharon McCrumb
19. Miss Pym Disposes by Josephine Tey

20. The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories by Sarah Orne Jewett

21. Wild Girls: How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation by Tiya Miles

22. She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan

23. Death Warmed Up by Marian Babson
24. Brawler by Lauren Groff

25. He Who Drowned the World by Shelley Parker-Chan
26. They Rang Up the Police by Joanna Cannan
27. Death at the Dog by Joanna Cannan

28. Evicted by Matthew Desmond

29. The Secret of Secrets by Dan Brown
30. Doctor Fischer of Geneva or The Bomb Party by Graham Greene
31. Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
32. The Sewing Circle: Hollywood's Greatest Secret: Female Stars Who Loved Other Women by Axel Madsen

33. Wycliffe and the Dead Flautist by W. J. Burley

34. All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker

35. Listen to the Silence by Marcia Muller

36. Dead Midnight by Marcia Muller

37. The Dangerous Hour by Marcia Muller

38. Vanishing Point by Marcia Muller
39. The Ever-Running Man by Marcia Muller

40. Burn Out by Marcia Muller
41. Locked In by Marcia Muller
42. Coming Back by Marcia Muller

43. City of Whispers by Marcia Muller
44. Looking for Yesterday by Marcia Muller

45. The Lost Coast and Other Sharon McCone Stories by Marcia Muller

46. Someone Always Knows by Marcia Muller

47. The Color of Fear by Marcia Muller

48. The Breakers by Marcia Muller

49. Back to the Garden by Laurie R. King

50. Women of a Promiscuous Nature by Donna Everhart