Welcome to the Monthly Wrap Up hosted by Nicole @ Feed Your Fiction Addiction and Shannon @ It Starts At Midnight to share our monthly wrap-up posts that summarizes our month in books, our favorite books of the month, what we did on our blogs, and anything noteworthy we want to share.
April 2026 Wrap Up
As expected, April was another busy month and quite disorganized, to be honest. But the good news is that I’m getting more exercise; I’ve been getting up early almost every morning to run and/or go to the gym, and so far it’s sticking! Fingers crossed!
The other good news is that I actually managed to get a lot of books read because of all the exercising, through audiobooks! Out of the 15 books I read this month, 14 were audiobooks! That would be sad except that I know I’d have read significantly fewer books this month if it weren’t for the audiobooks, so you know what? I’ll focus on the good and be grateful for them!
Still, I do miss the printed books and I’ll try to make time for focused reading in May.
My April 2026 TBR Intentions
I played it safe and only listed three, and finished them all! Yay!
Foundryside by Robert Jackson BennettShorefall by Robert Jackson BennettLocklands by Robert Jackson Bennett
Books Read in April 2026
- Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennett
- Shorefall by Robert Jackson Bennett
- Locklands by Robert Jackson Bennett
- Radium Girls by Kate Moore
- Into the Wild by Job Krakauer
- Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn
- The Librarian of Crooked Lane by C.J. Archer
- The Medici Manuscript by C.J. Archer
- The Untitled Books by C.J. Archer
- The Dead Letter Delivery by C.J. Archer
- Secrets of the Lost Ledgers by C.J. Archer
- The Journal of A Thousand Years by C.J. Archer
- Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle
- Educated by Tara Westover
- The Hot Zone by Richard Preston
Notable Book(s) This Month
The nonfiction were the standouts this month!
The Radium Girls and Educated had me feeling all kinds of feelings. For different reasons, of course. The Radium Girls was devastating on a “where-is-the-humanity?!” level, but Educated touched me on a personal level.
The Hot Zone was very good too, in a scary, horrifying way. I learned more than I wanted to about the terrifying and painful ways we puny humans can die, and I don’t know what to do with this.
I’ve been on such a nonfiction binge though, which is great. There are still so many books on my 2026 Nonfiction Reader Challenge TBR, and I’m adding more every day!
May 2026 TBR Intentions
Okay soooooooo…. Book 8 of the Dungeon Crawler Carl series, A Parade of Horribles, is coming out on May 12th! I have already pre-ordered it and I am very excited to read it, but not before rereading Books 1 through 7 again… Which means the series is probably going to take up my whole month, or I have to be more patient and space them out while I read other books in between, or I have to forget about rereading the previous books and just read Book 8.
I haven’t decided! But I do have to read the other books below as well, for bookclub obligations and other reasons!
- Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
- Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke
- Stiff by Mary Roach
- Rage Becomes Her by Soraya Chemaly
How was your month in April? What were your most memorable bookish moments? I hope you have a wonderful May with lots of great books!
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