— reading list; 2026

 

🔜 - ongoing/unfinished series 
🔗 - part of a series 
🔁 - re-read
☐ -  to be read
☒ - read 

✨- rec 
🏷️ - borrowed
⭐ - high priority read
💡 - idea/inspiration
🌶️ - spicy content 
⚠️ - content warning 

🇿🇦 : local 

🦹 : graphic novel    🎧 : audiobook    🎙️: podcast     📚 : school/textbook 

🗞️ : nonfic     ⌨️ : fanfiction     ✍🏻: memoir     📖: shorts/anthology    📝: essay  

🔄: translated    🖊️ : writing/grammar     🌱 : self-improvement    🎼: poetry  

💭: mental health    📢 : social issues/politics    ⚖️: true crime    🕰️: history  

🏛️: classic lit    🎥: film/media    😂: humor     🎭: play    📧: ARC    

1. Empire of the Vampire by Jay Kristoff ☐🔁 
2. Empire of the Damned by Jay Kristoff ☐🔁 
3. Empire of the Dawn by Jay Kristoff ☐
4. A Study in Drowning by Ava Reid ☐🔁 
5. A Theory of Dreaming by Ava Reid ☐
6. An Archive of Romance by Ava Reid ☐
7. Immortal by Sue Lynn Tan ☒
8. Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt ☒
9. Convenience Store Woman by Sakaya Murata; Ginny Tapley Takemori (transl.) ☒ 📖🔄
10. Earthlings by Sakaya Murata; Ginny Tapley Takemori (transl.) ☒ 📖🔄⚠️
11. Yield Under Great Persuasion by Alexandra Rowland ☒
12. Embrace the Serpent by Sunya Mara ☐
13. Forgery of Fate by Elizabeth Lim ☐
14. The Dream Hotel by Laila Lalami ☐
15. Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang ☐📖
16. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong ☒📖🎼