Emily Paull

 Every year for the last couple of years I have made one of these lists, but I can't remember ever actually reading my way through it. I read perhaps 50% of the one I made for 2025. Perhaps 2026 will be different - maybe 2026 will be the year that I blitz through all of my ambitious TBR projects... Probably not though, as I am really focussing on reading down my existing TBR instead of adding to it, and I am also exploring the backlists of a lot of women writers from the 20th century, so that's where my attention will be focussed.  That being said, I hope most of these get read!  Great new books are being announced all the time, but as of December 2025, here are the books coming out in the first part of 2026 that I am most excited to get to... (There are probably heaps I have forgotten about or have yet to discover are coming too...) January Meet the Newmans - Jennifer Niven Is This a Cry for Help? - Emily Austin February Brawler - Lauren Groff This Book Made Me Think of ...

 * I have to say some of because reading is such a personal thing and I read more than 100 books this year! If I had made this list on another day, I am sure the list might have come out differently! There are also still a TONNE of amazing new releases that came out in 2025 still on my TBR, and after I post this, I will be knuckling down and attempting to get to a few of those... In no particular order: * By Her Hand by Marion Taffe * The Butterfly Women by Madeleine Cleary * What the River Knows by Isabel Ibanez * Consider Yourself Kissed by Jessica Stanley * The Wedding People by Alison Espach * The Cicada House by Ella Ward * Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson (plus the next two books in the series... have yet to read the most recent.) * The Paradise Heights Craft Store Stitch Up by Kate Solly * The Booklover's Library by Madeline Martin * The Rom-Commers by Katherine Center (and I enjoyed The Love Haters too) * Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid * Sil...

  I made this image earlier in 2025, when I was writing on my Instagram account about the importance of pre-ordering books. The list of books that I am excited about is an ever-growing, living document, and I am always on the lookout for things to add to it.  You'll notice something about the authors included in this image too: they are all Australian writers, and a lot of them are from Western Australia, where I live.  One thing I was taught when I did my professional writing and publishing graduate diploma that will always stick with me is that the Australian book market is vastly oversupplied. Meaning, that there are somehow lots more Australians out there writing and wanting to publish books than there are buying Australian books to read. How can this be possible, you might be wonderi ng? Well, it's not as simple as there being lots of aspiring writers out there who don't read books (good luck to them, I say), but rather that when faced with a choice of which books yo...