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2026: Year of the Horse – Books to Read

Happy Lunar New Year! The Year of the Fire Horse in 2026. This year encourages courage and boldness. To celebrate, here’s a curated book list featuring horse-themed stories like “The Horse and His Boy” and “Black Beauty”.

Happy Lunar New Year, dearies!

2026 is the Year of the Fire Horse, exciting? I think so, and I like the Chinese Zodiac and the Lunar New Year, I’m hooked.

So, before I go into books that have horses on the cover or are about horses, did you know this about the Chinese zodiac? I didn’t know, and I like to keep myself informed: The Year of the Horse is about energy, independence, and a restless spark for adventure. 🐎 The rare Fire Horse amplifies that spirit even more. And, it appears once every 60 years, and is associated with fierce passion, charisma, and bold, untamed ambition. In traditional lore, Fire Horse years were considered powerful and unpredictable. A year for courage, risk, and charging toward new horizons. 🔥✨

So, this 2026 is a fierce one that we can definitely look forward to enjoying and having a spark of adventure. Alright, enough astrology, let’s do books!

First, here’s a video detailing the list:

If you’re here for my ranting on words, here are a few books that I found, and one that it is actually in my online bookshelf.

Five Fingers Book Challenge pt. 2

The 5 Fingers Book Challenge is back… now to pick other 5 books. 📖✋️

Hello, dearies! Welcome to a new book challenge! 😊

For this second round I went with books that I don’t have on paperback but I wish I did. 📚

So, I don’t have a photo of my hand on each book as last time, but that is okay, too. 😆 Regardless, the basics remain, and each finger is for a book.

Just one Book?

Picking one book to re-read?

What book could you read over and over again?

How about 9 Books to re-read? Because I have that list all set up and ready if you want book recommendations, you can check out that post on the blog.

But long story short, it is a variety of fantasy, romance, and young adult.

So, any Shadowhunter Novel and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince are top in the re-reading list. Don’t be so shocked, if you spent some time here on the blog, you’ll see those worlds have a special place in it.

YP Books: The Story of a Reader in Seoul

Where to next? YP Books in Seoul!

Welcome, everyone! 🧳

Did you know about this new series into my bookish adventures in Seoul? I decided to go to some of the bookstores there last year, and wow 🥰 it was amazing.

The first one was for Arc n Book, there is also a haul vlog for it.

But today is about YP Books (Young Poong Books), the one in South Korea, Seoul: 168-151 Haengdang-dong Seongdong-gu. ‘Wangsimni Station’ Exit 12. There are other branches of it.

Book Challenge: The Timeline Book Quest

“The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed.”

Hello, dearies! 🍁

Here we are with a new challenge, at this point I should make a blog page solely for the book challenges, I have quite a few now. Should I?

Why not? 😆

Anyway, you can check out the new page of the blog with all book challenges listed on here: Book Challenges.

Created and inspired by this post.

Maybe I should I explain what this book challenge is about, I have rambled on enough. The Timeline Book Quest is about the books I have read and their years of publication or rather a list of years and checking if I read a book from that year. Let’s check it out.

June Mini Book Mail: Manga + Light Novel

The happy mail that I love sharing: Book Mail!!!

Welcome, dearies! ✨️📚

I have some book mail to show off…

This is a mini book mail as the name clearly states because I got other things in the same package and only 1 manga and 1 Light Novel along with that.

So, I have never owned a Light Novel, not even on Kindle so I was excited to show of this one: My Happy Marriage. You might know it as: Watashi no shiawase na kekkon, and yes, this is an anime (you can watch it on Ntflix). In any case, it’s super cute, the cover I mean.

2014 Reads

So, what was on the TBR back in 2014? I can barely recall what I read last year, but let’s give it a go! 😊🩷

Wow! 2014, ten years ago? You’re joking…

It’s still 2021 for me. 😆

What books were out in 2014? I can’t even remember, I was probably reading a Shadowhunters book, I think I started around that time.

This one acts as a Flashback Friday too since we’re remembering all of these books. 😊

Also, fun fact, 2014 was the Year of The Horse. 🐎

And, of course, don’t forget to check out 2009 Reads and 2011 Reads.