I haven’t done this in a while. I think the last proper reading blog I did was in 2025, and in my history this month was the first time I broke a rule in a readathon, as I wrote in some of my posts, I was taking part in Tarot-a-thon, and I swear, I read the rules, but with everything going on, my brain didn’t store them. So I used ChatGPT for book recommendations, which someone pointed out two days ago was against the rules.
So after 17 books read and 9 submitted, I stopped reading for the readathon prompts. By the way, I’m reading LGBTI+ books solely this month. By the way, I don’t fully regret asking for recommendations that way because it showed books I otherwise wouldn’t have found or read. I read 30 plus in 10 days, which I believe is a record even for me. The longest book I read this year is my recent read, She Ruined My Life (And Then Borrowed My Hoodie) by Kelly Spano. The first LGBTI+ book read in 2026 was Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender by Kit Heyam (nonfiction).
I’m nowhere close to reaching last year’s number of 417 in 2025, at 126 so far, which will for sure change by the end of the month. 7or 8 of them are nonfiction. On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong, Rewriting Valentine by Luna Roselle and Arctic Bloom by Eva Lovelle. Speaking of Eva Lovelle, she’s the author I read the most from this year.
I’m questioning if she’s using AI in her books, but that is an uncomfortable question to ask an author, isn’t it? I don’t know what it is, but her characters are so relatable to me. About 80 from the list came from my Kindle. My favourite series so far is the Hearts & Horizons Series, which, if memory serves me right, I read all the books in it. It’s a series that deals with climate change topics.