new year: new books! the weekly reading book reviews of january 2026!

happiest of brand new years to you! let’s start it off with some new stories, shall we? :D

here are all of january’s weekly reading book reviews— posted every monday as thtey happen. complete with links to shop each title at bookshop.org (because we’re all about the indie bookstores, no?) ;)

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✨ weekly reading book review january 2026: episode one!! ✨

this week i read:

☕️ MACBETH by wm. shakespeare

⚖️ MEASURE FOR MEASURE by wm. shakespeare ( 1/2 way through the canon since last january!!)

☕️ DEATH IN THE DRESSING ROOM by simon brett

☕️ FIREWORKS by matthew burgess & illustrated by cátia_chien

currently reading:

☕️ THE WITCH WHO STORMED THE PALACE by ryan graudin

perhapsedly to be reading next:

☕️ THE MERCHANT OF VENICE by wm. shakespeare (let’s go, #brushupyourshakespeare2026 !!)

☕️ DAYS AT THE TORUNKA CAFÉ by satoshi yagisawa

☕️ FUNNY YOU SHOULD ASK by elissa sussman

☕️ SCARLET MORNING by nd stevenson

what stories are you starting Your BrANd NeW year with?!

with visions of leftovers dancing dancing dancing….

❤️xo,

*hallie :)

✂️ & fret ye not: disaster hair to be fixed tomorrow by my gal melissa; plz & ty!! ❤️

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stay tuned for our second episode o the year, coming january 12! :D

in the meantime, you can shop all my recs by category on my bookshop.org landing page: https://bookshop.org/shop/halthegal