I did a book crawl this year around march and really found the love of reading again. I know a lot of it is trash by literature standards but I've enjoyed the escapism quite a bit. My favorite was Moonbound, maybe my favorite sci-fi book of all time tbh. I also enjoyed the House of Salt and Sorrows, Bitterblue, and Sea Sparrow quite a bit.
What were your favorite books?
I'm seeing a lot of stories along the lines of "I read xxx books this year" and, well, fuck me, I don't keep track of that kind of thing.
2026? I absolutely will. I don't know HOW yet, but I'll take notes.
StoryGraph
Hardcover is a new website for book tracking that I like right now, Story Graph is a slightly less polished but similar website and Good reads is the most popular one
They all have apps, so I downloaded each of them and, what the heck, I'll try out all four and see what I like! Might be a good thing to add to year end 2026... "Here's what I read and here's how the book apps compare!"
I went back through my e-reader in October and checked the last modified times on the metadata file to work out what I'd at least finished in 2025, then went forward from there.
I've tried Fable, and it seems neat, but I'm not currently in the habit of going to an app to tell it I read that day and as far as I can tell I can't say "yes, I read yesterday".
Another option to check out is Hardcover
Try Fable?
it's like GoodReads, but actually good.
I used storygraph but I'm not really sold on it. Going to look at some of the other alternatives in this thread!