#BooksOf2026 Book number 87

Four Terrible Parents by Calla Henkel, coffee in hand and a view to match. 📚☕

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23rd A re-read of Roddy Doyle’s Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha. A novel told from the perspective of a 10 year old boy grappling with the delights and horrors of school, friendship and the collapse of his parents’ marriage. Miraculously convincing. #BooksOf2026

22- Follows the lives of (some of!) those early modern proto-scientists who stood on the boundary between the old ways of thinking and the new. Made me want to go back to Prague and see it all through a new lens! #BookSky💙📚 #BooksOf2026

22nd Deighton’s ’Mexico Set’, the second book of the first of his trilogy of trilogies featuring cynical MI6 field agent Bernard Samson, is a satisfying mix of plot, place and betrayals large and small. #BooksOf2026

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Book 22.

Some books are five stars.

Some books become the books you keep talking about months later.

These are some of those books for me in 2026. 📚

What’s the one book you’ve loved most this year?

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📚 Sept reading challenge: 19 nonfiction (goal 12), 30 fiction (goal 24). Both goals crushed! Currently reading Acts of Violet. Best discovery: Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes - creepy doesn't cover it.

How's your challenge going?

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Number 37
Imogen, Obviously - Becky Albertalli
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#Booksof2026 64 - Grasshopper Jungle by @marburyjack.bsky.social
Austin is in love with his best friend, and his girlfriend. This is a big problem, but smaller than the swarm of six ft praying mantis taking over the world.
Fun, but I would have liked more of the girlfriend's point of view
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#BooksOf2026 Book number 85

Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams

If you want to raise your blood pressure, give it a read.
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Number 36
Big Little Truths - Liane Moriarty
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#booksof2026 #38 expected this to be a page flipper of no substance, but it’s better than that. A good plot and decent characterisation.

#booksof2026 #37 I enjoyed this early on, and then got tired of it (but had to finish). Not sure, other than “Page-Turner” what the author was going for, but it came across as a borderline racist lovesong to American ‘exceptionalism’.

#booksof2026 #36 June O’Sullivan’s “The Lighthouse Keeper’s wife”. This is not a book to fall asleep to. Dark story, tightly written.

#booksof2026 #35 Georges Simenon’s “The Strangers in the house”. Bloody hell, glad I picked this up. Lovely thick writing, and a good story.

#BooksOf2026 Book number 84

The Outsider by Albert Camus.

A short book that says a lot. Still thinking it over. 📚 #AlbertCamus #TheOutsider #Classics #CurrentlyReading #BookSky

#booksof2026 #34 10 times I wanted to put this down, but didn’t. It *just* kept me engaged, mainly because of the quality of the writing.

#booksof2026 #33 i picked this up blindly, assuming it was a novel - it isn’t. But it was still good.

#booksof2026 #32 fed the Rebus addiction again

#booksof2026 #31 an interesting read, but felt like a bit of a missed opportunity.