You're listening to Reading Glasses, a show about book culture and literary life designed to help you read better.

I'm author and booktabower, Mallory O'Mara. And I'm Brea Grant, filmmaker, and e-reader. This episode,

we talk about our most anticipated books for the start of 2026. This is one of our most popular episodes.

If you're new to the show, this is what we do. We say these are books we're looking forward to. We want to read. We're doing January and February. We know it's already January. Okay, listen, we're not perfect. Well, the problem with January is that we have all this new year stuff to do first. We got to start there. Yeah, but now we're going to tell you what we want to read from this month and next month.

We're also talking to

Danica Ellis from Book Riot about their 2026 Read Harder Challenge. This is very exciting for us because

Danica is awesome and we are both such big book riot fans. We love Book Riot over here. Very

exciting. But first, Brea, what are you reading? But first, Mallory, what are your pajamas?

We talked for four full minutes about pajamas before we started.

And honestly, this is the outtakes that we should be releasing as bonus episodes.

Have you ever done Print Fresh?

What's that? That really fancy.

Oh, Briah, you'll love it.

They're fancy.

They're expensive.

But Google Print Fresh right now. It's like pajamas,

bathrobes. I don't want anything on my legs, though. Well, that's why I get the short ones.

Oh, you get the short ones. I got the satin set that's shorts. Wow. Some of these look like

very, they're like trad wife coated, but I'm okay with it in a pajama. I told pream before we recorded, getting nice pajamas when you start getting older, it makes you feel like an empress. Yeah, you do feel like a hero. I'm swanning around. I wish I had a cigarette holder even though I don't smoke anymore. Wait, wait to you, have you gotten into the robe game? Oh, yeah. Okay, great. I have two, I have, no, three robes. I have my

winter rope. I have my, my long sleep robe and then I have a short sleep robe. Wow. Anyway, what are you reading? No, what are you reading? What am I reading? I am reading a book that, okay, my book club read this last year or the year before and I was just out of town and it's been on my list.

It was on my list before that, but it of town and it's been on my list.

It was on my list before that, but it's on, it was definitely on my list because everyone in book, I mean, my book club loved it. I read bright young women by Jessica Nol. Oh, I never read it. It's fantastic. Basically, it's literary fiction meets true crime, I would say. So it's, there's a woman in a sorority who in the middle of the night, this guy breaks in,

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