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Trying to read more for 2026, as I tell myself every year, and I decided to try picking a book for each letter of the English alphabet as a challenge with my cohort. The list isn't finalized, but I have at least filled it out all the way, and happy with how it turned out.

*Genre tags taken from GR.

As Meat Loves Salt by Maria McCann
M/M | Historical Fiction

Bunny by Mona Awad
Horror | Thriller | Magical Realism

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, tr. Robin Buss
Historical Fiction
French

The Decagon House Murders by Yukito Ayatsuji, tr. Ho-Ling Wong
Mystery | Fiction
Japanese

Emma by Jane Austen
Romance | Historical

Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Gothic | Horror

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
Fantasy | Horror

House of Lilies: The Dynasty That Made Medieval France by Justine Firnhaber-Baker
Nonfiction | Medieval History

If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio
Dark Academia | Mystery Thriller

The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri
High Fantasy | Romance

King of Envy by Ana Huang
Contemporary Romance

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Historical Fiction

A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine
Space Opera

Netochka Nezvanova by Fyodor Dostoevsky, tr. Jane Kentish
Literary Fiction
Russian

One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad
Nonfiction | War

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
Science Fiction | Thriller

Quicker Than the Eye by Ray Bradbury
Anthology | Science Fiction | Fantasy | Horror

Range of Ghosts by Elizabeth Bear
Historical Fiction | Fantasy

The Starving Saints by Caitlin Starling
Historical Fiction | Gothic

Things in Nature Merely Grow by Yiyun Li
Nonfiction | Memoir | Grief

The Unspoken Name by A.K. Larkwood
Fantasy

The Vagrants by Yiyun Li
Historical Fiction | Literary Fiction

Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
Historical Fiction

An Experiment in Criticism
Nonfiction | Literature

Your Utopia by Bora Chung, tr. Anton Hur
Anthology | Science Fiction | Horror
Korean

Zeno's Conscience by Italo Svevo, tr. William Weaver
Literary Fiction
Italian