As part of my 2025 reading-resolutions, I DNF-ed more books that I wasn’t enjoying than I might have done in previous years. I’m happy to say that that significantly lowered the number of truly awful/harmful/boring books I read, that would qualify for this list. Most of these therefore, were more so disappointing than objectively bad. That being said, there were inevitably going to be a few stinkers that snuck through my defenses. This list is all about them. Unlike my favour

It took me longer than any other year before to compile my end-of-year-lists, and even so, they ended up looking a little different from previous years. 2025 has not been a good year for me. Apart from couple of significant changes in my personal- and professional life that posed challenges, I was visited by the Black Dog again about halfway through the year. If you’re unfamiliar with that metaphor, please feel free to google it… Where this beasty has been a small and well-be

There's always something truly exciting to me about browsing publishers catalogues and Goodreads' release-dates for upcoming novels to add to my TBR. 2026 has a great line-up in store for us all, and I've selected 26 of them to share with you. Split into 13 books from authors I've read from before (including some of my all-time favourites), and 13 books that sold me on their synopsis: let's get excited for the new year together. As always, release-dates might be subject to ch

2024 has been a great reading-year for me. So much so that, rather than giving a shout out to some honourable mentions here, there’s a...

Despite feeling like an overall good reading year, 2024 still brought some duds my way. There’s a strange katharsis in spilling a...

My 5-part Year-In-Review Series has become a treasured staple for me to wrap up my year ever since the dawn of this blog. Usually the...

The first three months of 2024 are already behind us, and I’m happy to report that I’ve had an incredible time reading-wise. In fact,...