26 Books I Want to Read in 2026 | A Slow Reader’s TBR

Описание: This video is my 2026 TBR, curated across genres that feel deeply flawed and human. 🫀

These are books I want to read, not books I’m forcing myself to finish. I’m a slow reader getting back into reading after years, and this list reflects curiosity, mood, and emotional pull rather than productivity.

📚 Genres and Books covered in this video:
EXISTENTIALISM:
Nausea - Jean-Paul Sartre
The Stranger - Albert Camus
The Myth of Sisyphus - Albert Camus
A Gentle Creature - Fyodor Dostoevsky

PSYCHOLOGICAL:
No Longer Human - Osamu Dazai
The Setting Sun - Osamu Dazai
Schoolgirl - Osamu Dazai
Blue Bamboo - Osamu Dazai
Pandora’s Box - Osamu Dazai
The Discomfort of Evening - Marieke Lucas Rijneveld
Elena Knows - Claudia Piñeiro

INTROSPECTIVE:
Heaven - Meiko Kawakami
After Dark - Haruki Murakami
Dandelion - Yasunari Kawabata
I Am a Cat - Natsume Sōseki
Childhood - Tove Ditlevsen

FEMINISM:
Convenience Store Woman - Sayaka Murata
Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 - Cho Nam-joo
Briefly, A Delicious Life - Nell Stevens

SURREAL:
Bunny - Mona Awad
Coraline - Neil Gaiman

HISTORICAL:
Train to Pakistan - Khushwant Singh
Pachinko - Min Jin Lee
The Mill on the Floss - George Eliot

ROMANTIC:
The Paper Palace - Miranda Cowley Heller
First Love - Ivan Turgenev

Thank you so much for watching 🤍 See you in the next video 📖✨

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