Books for The New Year - My Reading List for 2026 (TBR)

Описание: I love planning my reading year! These are the books I’m prioritising in 2026. I’d love to hear what’s on your list.

00:00 Intro
02:18 How I Plan
04:04 Big Classics
09:15 Big Classics – Wishlist
11:54 Favourite Classic Authors
13:49 New Classic Authors
17:52 Non-Fiction
19:49 Contemporary
23:32 One More Classic
26:08 Outro

Books mentioned, in chronological order:

Aphra Behn – Oroonoko (1688)
Alexandre Dumas – The Count of Monte Cristo (1844)
Anne Brontë – The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848)
Charles Dickens – David Copperfield (1850)
Leo Tolstoy – Anna Karenina (1878)
Anton Chekhov – Plays (written 1887–1904)
Stefan Żeromski – The Faithful River (1912)
Sigrid Undset – Kristin Lavransdatter (1920–1922)
F. Scott Fitzgerald – The Great Gatsby (1925)
Virginia Woolf – Mrs Dalloway (1925)
Daphne du Maurier – Frenchman’s Creek (1941)
Josephine Tey – Brat Farrar (1949)
John Steinbeck – East of Eden (1952)
Magda Szabó – Abigél (1970)
Nawal El Saadawi – Woman at Point Zero (1975)
Ryszard Kapuściński – Another Day of Life (1976)
Elizabeth Jane Howard – The Light Years (1990)
Olga Tokarczuk – House of Day, House of Night (1998)
Marilynne Robinson – Gilead (2004)
Elżbieta Cherezińska – The Widow Queen (2013)
Nino Haratischwili – The Eighth Life (for Brilka) (2014)
Orhan Pamuk – A Strangeness in My Mind (2014)
Yaa Gyasi – Homegoing (2016)
DK – Writers: Their Lives and Works (2018)
Sarah Hall – Burntcoat (2021)
Bernhard Schlink – The Granddaughter (2021)
Barbara Kingsolver – Demon Copperhead (2022)

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