2026 Reading Plan

Goal: Read/listen to 24-36 books this year (2-3 per month), prioritized by ratings.

Reading Schedule

Q1 (Jan-Mar) - Start Strong with Top Rated

Cover	Book	Tier	Format	Status
	Designing Data-Intensive Applications - Kleppmann	S ⭐ 4.72	Read	- [ ] 📅 2026-03-31
	Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir	S ⭐ 4.50	✅ Done	- [x] ✅
	Stormlight Archive: Way of Kings - Sanderson	S ⭐ 4.67	Audio	- [ ] 📅 2026-03-31
	Chip War - Chris Miller	A ⭐ 4.42	Read	- [x] 📅 2026-03-31
	Dungeon Crawler Carl - Matt Dinniman	A ⭐ 4.44	Audio	- [ ] 📅 2026-03-31
	The Mom Test - Rob Fitzpatrick	A ⭐ 4.37	Read	- [ ] 📅 2026-03-31
	1984 - George Orwell	B ⭐ 4.19	Read	- [x] 📅 2026-03-31
	Murderbot: All Systems Red - Martha Wells	B ⭐ 4.13	Audio	- [ ] 📅 2026-03-31
	Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse	C ⭐ 4.08	Audio 🆓	- [ ] 📅 2026-03-31
	Three Body Problem - Liu Cixin	C ⭐ 4.06	Read	- [ ] 📅 2026-03-31

Q2 (Apr-Jun) - Classics & Sci-Fi

Cover	Book	Tier	Format	Status
	The House in the Cerulean Sea - TJ Klune	A ⭐ 4.38	Audio	- [ ] 📅 2026-06-30
	The Brothers Karamazov - Dostoevsky	A ⭐ 4.36	Audio 🆓	- [ ] 📅 2026-06-30
	The Dream Machine - Waldrop	A ⭐ 4.36	Read	- [ ] 📅 2026-06-30
	Pachinko - Min Jin Lee	A ⭐ 4.35	Audio	- [ ] 📅 2026-06-30
	The Emperor of All Maladies - Mukherjee	A ⭐ 4.34	Read	- [x] 📅 2026-06-30
	The Count of Monte Cristo - Dumas	A ⭐ 4.31	Audio 🆓	- [ ] 📅 2026-06-30
	Discworld: The Colour of Magic - Terry Pratchett	B ⭐ 4.18	Audio	- [ ] 📅 2026-06-30
	Dawn - Octavia Butler	B ⭐ 4.15	Audio	- [ ] 📅 2026-06-30
	Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy	C ⭐ 4.06	Audio 🆓	- [ ] 📅 2026-06-30
	Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck	C ⭐ 4.02	Read	- [ ] 📅 2026-06-30

Q3 (Jul-Sep) - Sci-Fi Deep Dive

Cover	Book	Tier	Format	Status
	The Expanse: Leviathan Wakes - Corey	A ⭐ 4.31	Audio	- [ ] 📅 2026-09-30
	Dark Tower: The Gunslinger - King	B ⭐ 4.29	Audio	- [ ] 📅 2026-09-30
	We Are Legion (We Are Bob) - Taylor	B ⭐ 4.28	Audio	- [ ] 📅 2026-09-30
	The Gulag Archipelago - Solzhenitsyn	B ⭐ 4.28	Read	- [ ] 📅 2026-09-30
	Hyperion - Dan Simmons	B ⭐ 4.27	Audio	- [ ] 📅 2026-09-30
	Crime and Punishment - Dostoevsky	B ⭐ 4.27	Audio 🆓	- [ ] 📅 2026-09-30
	The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins	B ⭐ 4.16	Read	- [ ] 📅 2026-09-30
	Wool (Silo) - Hugh Howey	B ⭐ 4.14	Audio	- [ ] 📅 2026-09-30
	Antifragile - Nassim Taleb	C ⭐ 4.09	Read	- [ ] 📅 2026-09-30
	Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood	C ⭐ 4.01	Read	- [ ] 📅 2026-09-30

Q4 (Oct-Dec) - Variety Mix

Cover	Book	Tier	Format	Status
	Red Rising - Pierce Brown	B ⭐ 4.27	Audio	- [ ] 📅 2026-12-31
	The Screwtape Letters - C.S. Lewis	B ⭐ 4.27	Read	- [ ] 📅 2026-12-31
	Meditations - Marcus Aurelius	B ⭐ 4.26	Audio 🆓	- [ ] 📅 2026-12-31
	Stories of Your Life - Ted Chiang	B ⭐ 4.25	Read	- [ ] 📅 2026-12-31
	Old Man's War - John Scalzi	B ⭐ 4.23	Audio	- [ ] 📅 2026-12-31
	Piranesi - Susanna Clarke	B ⭐ 4.22	Read	- [ ] 📅 2026-12-31
	Rendezvous with Rama - Arthur C. Clarke	B ⭐ 4.12	Audio	- [ ] 📅 2026-12-31
	Diaspora - Greg Egan	B ⭐ 4.11	Audio	- [ ] 📅 2026-12-31
	The Secret History - Donna Tartt	C ⭐ 4.10	Read	- [ ] 📅 2026-12-31
	Chaos - James Gleick	C ⭐ 4.04	Read	- [ ] 📅 2026-12-31

Format Guidelines

• Audio: Long fiction, especially sci-fi/fantasy series (commute/exercise)
• Read: Technical books, dense non-fiction, classics requiring annotation
• Mix: Alternate between heavy and light reads

Free Source Platforms

Progress Tracking

• Target: 40 books
• Current: 1/40
• Pace: ~3-4 books/month

Links

• Full Reading List