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Monday, March 23, 2026

TTT: Spring 2026 Reading List (and How I Did On My Winter Reading List)




Top Ten Tuesday: Spring Reading List. 
Below the line is how I did on my winter reading list.

Spring reading list: 


Book Club Selections:
  1. SOTH Gals (April) : China Room (Sahota)
  2. RHS Ladies (April): So Far Gone (Walter)
  3. SOTH Gals (May) : TBA
  4. RHS Ladies (May) : TBA
  5. SOTH Gals (June) : TBA
  6. RHS Ladies (June): TBA

    Challenge Books:
    1. Classics Club Spin Book TBA from this list -- Possibly: Madame Bovary (Flaubert)
    2. Printz Award Winner or honor book -- Possibly: The Legendary Frybread Drive-In (Leitich)
    3.  A past Pulitzer Prize winner from this list -- Possibly: American Pastoral (Roth)
    4. 2026 One Big Book Challenge -- Moby-Dick (Melville)
    5. Women's Prize winner or finalist -- Possibly: Flashlight (Susan Choi)
    6. Three Goodreads Spring Challenge selections TBA, starting April 1st.




    Books I've already started, recently acquired, and/or have on-hold at the library:
    1. What We Can Know (McEwan)
    2. Poems and Prayers (McConaughy)
    3. I'm Glad My Mother Died (McCurdy)
    4. A Flower Traveled in My Blood (Gilliland)
    5. Little Alleluias (Oliver)
    Lots of unknowns right now which will become clear as the season progresses.




    How I did on my winter reading list: 
     Yellow: completed. 
    Aqua: in progress
    Green:  not completed, DNF
    Light pink: Did not get to yet!


    Book Club Selections:
    1. SOTH Gals (January) : The Wind Knows My Name by Isabel Allende
    2. RHS Ladies (January): The Lion Women of Tehran by Marjan Kamali
    3. SOTH Gals (February) : All My Knotted-Up Life: a Memoir by Beth Moore
    4. RHS Ladies (February) : The Correspondent by Virginia Evans
    5. SOTH Gals (March) : We Need No Wings by Ann Davila Cardinal
    6. RHS Ladies (March: The Road to Tender Hearts by Annie Harnett


      Challenge Books:
      1. Classics Club Spin Book TBA from this list --  The Master and Margarita (Bulgakov)
      2. Printz Award Winner or honor book --Song of the Blackbird (von Lieshout)
      3.  A past Pulitzer Prize winner from this list --  American Pastoral (Roth)
      4. 2026 One Big Book Challenge -- Moby-Dick (Melville)
      5. First book of 2026 -- Worth Fighting For (Pavlovitz)


      Books I'd already started,  acquired, and/or had on-hold at the library:
      1. A Marriage at Sea by Sophie Elmhirst
      2. Hogfather by Terry Pratchett
      3. So Far Gone by Jess Walter
      4. Separation of Church and Hate by John Fugelsang
      5. Wreck by Catherine Newman
      6. Replaceable You by Mary Roach
      7. Mother Mary Comes to Me by Arundhati Roy
      8. Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico

      I am really close to finishing the two books I'm working on, which is good because both of them have bogged me down on my winter reading.


      -Anne
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