Book List: 2026 Mid-Year Favorites

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It’s July, and that means it’s mid-year favorites time! Scroll down to see my top 20 reads for the first half of the year. Do any of these titles rank among your favorites, or do you have any on your TBR?

Prior-year favorites are available here under "Book Lists."

2026 Mid-Year Favorites📚

• The Reformatory by Tananarive Due
• It by Stephen King (review here)
• Pet Sematary by Stephen King
• 1922 by Stephen King
• Nothing Tastes as Good by Luke Dumas (review here)

• Japanese Gothic by Kylie Lee Baker
• The Children by Melissa Albert
• Crux by Gabriel Tallent
• Good People by Patmeena Sabit (review here)
• They're Going to Love You by Meg Howrey

• Audition by Katie Kitamura
• Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage by Belle Burden
• Monsters in the Archives: My Year of Fear with Stephen King by Caroline Bicks
• Tillinghast by Clare Cavenagh (review here)
• Coffin Moon by Keith Rosson (review here)

• I Know a Place: Rest Stop and Other Dark Detours by Nat Cassidy
• The Dilemmas of Working Women by Fumio Yamamoto
• Aura by Carlos Fuentes (review here)
• The Radiant Dark by Alexandra Oliva (review here)
• Good Girl by Aria Aber

What’s your favorite read for the first half of 2026?

🖤Amanda

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