On this page I will be keeping track of my progress in any 2026 reading challenges and events I decide to participate in. For details of challenges completed in the years 2009-2025 see my Completed Challenges page.
If you’re looking for my Walter Scott Prize Project, click here.
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Historical Fiction Reading Challenge 2026
Hosted by The Intrepid Reader.
Books read:
Note: As last year, I am recording some additional statistics here (setting, source etc) to help with my end-of-year round up posts. NG = NetGalley. OC = Own Copy. NA = New (to me) Author. HFIT (Historical Fiction in Translation). DT (Dual Timeline)
1. The Silver Branch by Rosemary Sutcliff – 1957, OC, Roman Empire, England
2. The House of Barbary by Isabelle Schuler – 2025, NG, 17th century, Switzerland
3. A Slow and Secret Poison by Carmella Lowkis – 2026, NG, 20th century, England
4. The Land in Winter by Andrew Miller – 2024, OC, 20th century, England
5. The Inn at Penglas Cove by Lauren Westwood – 2026, NG, DT (19th century), England, NA
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Read Christie 2026
Hosted by the official Agatha Christie website
JANUARY –
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Other events and challenges:
JANUARY
JAPANESE LITERATURE CHALLENGE – Suspicion by Seichō Matsumoto
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Non-fiction:
I’m trying to read more non-fiction books this year and thought I would list them below as I review them.
Nonfiction books read since the start of Nonfiction in November 2025:
1. 100 Books to Live By: Literary Remedies for Any Occasion by Joseph Piercy
2. The Official Agatha Christie Puzzle Book
3. The Eagle and the Hart by Helen Castor
She Reads Novels 
I adore your blog and have contemplated putting my closed sign permanently on my wordpress.org site and just reading. I’m reading Nom de Plume currently (Carmela Ciuraru) and it is no slouch at all. Very in-depth look at the lives of each author and the reasons never thought of for our craft that we should consider, even as writers, but do not. I have a whole library of books and am too busy to update my Goodreads account; otherwise, I would display it on my page. I like how you have laid this page out, dear and am going to follow your blog. (I’m on WordPress.com as well only spend my time tinkering with code over at org 😉 sigh…) Lovely job. I would sign up for the challenge, but the list of books that I must review is frightfully long and are all in the present time. ;( Best! Lee
What a great list of books – it’ll take me a while to look at all the reviews and pick the ones I want to read, but I’m up to the task and look forward to finding some new ones! I don’t read nearly this many historicals a year, but I’m glad someone does so I can just get the BEST ones! ha.
Terrie @ Bookshelf Journeys
Thanks for commenting, Terrie! I hope you can find something here that interests you!