A no-spend month seems like a great time to catch up on some reading. I might as well compile my annual bucket list of books to be read this year while I’m at it! 2026 just so happens to mark the sixth year I’ve posted such a list!
Be sure to check out last year’s book list (updated with my reading progress), as well as a Life on a Dime’s ongoing Recommended Reading List.
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Here Be Dragons by Melanie Shankle
I’ve actually already finished this one and highly recommend it! It’s all about breaking generational cycles and raising teenage girls. We’ll have a thirteen-year-old in the house this summer, so I wanted to do some homework.
Braiding Sweetgrass by robin wall kimmerer
This book concept fascinates me, and I imagine it will take a while to read. Kimmerer, a botanist and Potawatomi woman, combines indigenous wisdom with science to talk about the relationship between all living things and the planet. This book is available on Amazon (linked above), but is also included in Kobo Unlimited.
It also has a companion book, Gathering Moss, which is a series of personal essays about the simplicity of life. I might have to read this one as well.
The Mountains We Call Home by Kim Richardson
The third book of the Troublesome Creek series is coming in April! I am really excited about this one. It’s not often I get more into a series as it goes on, but I loved the second book even more than the first. Safe to say I have high hopes for this one as well. This is a historical fiction series set in depression era Appalachia. I don’t normally include fiction on this list, but I’m that excited about this one.
The Anatomy of Anxiety by Ellen Vora
This one has been on my radar since it came out last July. It’s a psychiatrist’s breakdown of anxiety, how it manifests in the body, and how it’s become more prevalent since COVID-19. I’m curious to learn the why and how of things that interest/affect me, so I plan to check this book out.
Uncluttered Faith by Joshua Becker
This is a new offering, out this month, by one of my favorite Minimalists. Becker shares how his faith has shaped his understanding of minimalism. I hope to get my hands on this one in time for a review during Minimalism in March.
I Was Told There’d Be A Village by Melissa Wirt
This one is all about seeking out connection in motherhood. With a third child on the way this summer, and a natural tendency to look inward rather than reach out, this one looked like a good choice. I’m over parenting books that make me feel like I’ve already done everything wrong.
a Life on a dime’s books read in 2025
That’s it for a short list of books I’ve set a goal to read in 2026. Here’s everything I read (and remembered to track) in 2025! In short, I continued with my love of Percy Jackson, exploring my faith, went a bit further down the Maasverse rabbit hole, and enjoyed a few random reads here and there as well.
- Percy Jackson and the Wrath of the Triple Goddess
- The Making of Biblical Womanhood
- Starfish
- The Love Languages of God
- G’Morning, G’Night!
- Is She Really Going Out With Him?
- Start With Hello
- The Good Part
- A Right Worthy Woman
- House of Earth and Blood
- House of Sky and Breath
- Get Out of Your Head
- Braving the Wilderness
- Where the Light Fell
- Quiet
- Practicing The Way
- We Are Palestinian
- Tuck Everlasting
- What Does It Feel Like?
- Beheld
- Meet the Methodists
- The Year of Less
- Cultivate
- The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry
- 101 Ways To Go Zero Waste
- The Little Paris Bookshop
- Sneezing Jesus
- Say You’ll Remember Me
- A Court of Frost And Starlight
- How to Be Here
- Catching Whimsy
- The Zero Waste Lifestyle
- Try Softer
- Jesus Feminist
- Lightly
- Part Of Your World
- House of Flame and Shadow
- Shopgirl
- Everybody Always
- Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
- Restaurant at The End of the Universe
- Life, the Universe, and Everything
- Living Green: The Missing Manual
- So Long and Thanks for All the Fish
I would be remiss as both a frugal mom and a minimalist if I didn’t remind you to check your local library for physical and ebook availability before you buy. Happy reading!