Bookmarked 2026 Week 46

How was your week and weekend? What are you currently reading? Here’s a look at what I read last week and links I bookmarked.

What I Read

Bat Eaters and Other Names for Cora Zeng, Kylie Lee Baker. I felt all the feels for this novel. It’s sad, dark, depressing, real and raw. Set during COVID times in NY, when anti-Asian rhetoric was getting more brazen, it tells the story of Cora, who becomes a crime-scene cleaner after seeing her sister pushed in front of a moving train on the subway. She and her 2 coworkers realize they have been cleaning up after more and more crime scenes of Asians, and many with “bats” and think they have a serial killer on their hands. To top it off, it’s hungry ghost season, and Cora thinks her sister is haunting her, plus, her neurosis is at an all time high.

The author does an amazing job of showing us the full on gory details of what cleaning up crime scenes are like, plus many other horrific scenes. The story of the racism experienced, all while trying to exist as Cora has a feeling of not being worthy, is a loner and has all these pent up feelings that manifest in different ways. This book, as hard as it was to read, was just as hard to put down, and the author did a fantastic job with the pacing and the story telling.

Currently Reading

The Rainfall Market, You Yeong-Gwang has been on my TBR for a long time, and it satisfies a Key Word challenge prompt for “fall” and an Author A to Z – for “Y”.

On the outskirts of Rainbow Town, there is an old, abandoned house. They say that if you send a letter detailing your misfortunes there, you could receive a ticket. If you bring this ticket to the house on the first day of the rainy season, you’ll be granted entrance into the mysterious Rainfall Market – where you can choose to completely change your life. No one is more surprised than Serin when she receives a ticket. Lonely and with no real prospects for a future, Serin ventures to the market, determined to create a better life for herself.

Bookmarked

⮕ Do you keep a reading journal? I’ve been going down the rabbit hole on IG of people setting up their 2027 spreads, and also looking at the ones people made in 2026 like this and this and … this. I can’t say I kept up with mine, but you can see one of my spreads in the image above.

⮕ The best apps for tracking your reading and discovering new books introduced me to a few new-to-me reading apps. Have you heard of all of these?

⮕ Last week I shared what to watch in November, but here’s 36 Literary Movies and TV Shows to Watch This Fall – so you can catch up.I’m trying to catch up on my reading so haven’t made time to watch anything much.

⮕ LitHub is asking you to VOTE – What is the Best Literary TV Adaptation of All Time? There are some unfair matchups … they expect us to choose between Roots vs Dexter?? … Game of Thrones vs. The Haunting of Hill House?? C’mon Man – how am I supposed to choose?! I plan to print out this list, and have it as your holiday watchlist for the next several months!

⮕ Speaking of the holiday season, here is a really cute Free 2026 Christmas Printable Reading Calendar that you color in as you complete the prompts. Some really fun seasonal ones like drink hot cocoa while your read, read by candlelight, color while you read etc.

⮕ This year I read more novellas than ever before, which I shared in My Year in Novellas #NovNov2026, but I also read a few short stories early in the year, and I want to incorporate more. The Shortlisted Stories from the 2026 Commonwealth Short Story Prize Now Available to Read on adda … and Read the winning story of the 2026 Caine Prize for African Writing free online. I saved these links for some holiday reading.

⮕ This is a pretty good Genre Guide for the Audiobook-Curious: Where to Start Based on What You Love.

⮕ Have you started thinking about Joining 2027 Reading Challenges yet? Behind the scenes I’ve started combing through StoryGraph for the most popular and interesting reading challenges.

⮕You have a say on what’s part of your library Libby catalog. Libby deep search lets you find books that exist in the Libby catalog, but your library doesn’t have in their collection yet. Once it comes up in deep search you can notify your library you want them to buy it. Here’s How to Use Libby Deep Search.

That’s it from me. Cheers to the week ahead!