12 recommendations from 12 friends- saw this one on Insta and Facebook and wanted to reach out to the Reddit buddies- all suggestions welcome!

Here’s the plan:
➡️ 12 friends
➡️ 12 book recommendations
➡️ 1 book per month for 2026

Guidelines (because I’m picky, lovingly):
📖 Fav genres: Thriller | Mystery | Romance | Historical Fiction | Contemporary Fiction | Horror
✨ Lately, I’ve been especially drawn to genre-defying, hard-to-label stories
🚫 No romantasy please (too old for it 😂)
😉 Bonus points if I already own the book (wink wink)

For context, some of my 2025 favorites:
• The Bright Years
• The Correspondent
• Intermezzo
• Finding Grace
• The Nightingale
• Broken Country
• A Witch’s Guide to Magical Innkeeping

Drop ONE book you swear by in the comments ⬇️
Tell me why I should read it (no spoilers!)
Tag a friend whose taste I should absolutely trust 👯‍♀️

Thank you in advance for shaping my 2026 bookshelf — I already know this is going to be GOOD 🖤