My Bookish Bullet Journal for 2026!

My 2026 bullet journal is finished and all ready to start using at the new year! I actually got it earlier than normal this year to start working on it, because I knew with the baby it would be harder to find time for it. I was right and it took me a few months, but I had fun working on it and am really happy with the finished product.

I like to have all the pages done before the year starts so that they are all organized the way I like them to be. It might not be how most people use bullet journals, but it is fun for me. The "bookish" part has grown over the years to include things like my writing goals and activites and movies with my family as well.

Here are the finished (but not all filled out) pages for 2026:

This is my Notes page for my 2027 bullet journal. If I have any ideas for changes or pages for my 2027 bullet journal, I write them down here so I don't forget. I also write down any new releases coming out in 2027 that I see throughout 2026.

This spread is my year calendar page. I write down big events (like birthdays, holidays, and trips) that are going to come up during the year. Each month has a different color here and I use that color for that month throughout my entire bullet journal (so if I finish a book in January, I'll write it down in light blue, etc.).

Then comes my book log! I leave plenty of pages blank following this because I'd rather end up with extra blank pages at the end than run out of pages before the end of the year. (which I've accidentally done in the past). I write down the book title, with the author underneath the title, then how many stars I gave the book and the date I finished. Before the title, I also number the books I've read that month and note how many pages are in the book.

I changed up my stats page a little this year and really like it. Last year, I had the stats page and genres here. As I finish a book, I put a tally mark in the different corresponding sections. Then I had the next page reserved for counting up the tallies in each section each month and writing down a number so I could see it at a glance. I got really tired of flipping between the pages to count everything up, so this year, I combined them and pushed the genres to the next page. I will have to try it out, but I think it will work better and I also like how it turned out visually.

And here is my genres page that I talked about previously. The left hand side is for tally marks as I finish the book and the right hand side is for writing down the number each month so I have it at a glance. The boxes at the bottom of the right hand page are for writing down the total number at the end of the year.

This is my visual reading tracker, where I can see at a glance how many books I've read that month and for the year total. At the end of each month, I color in how ever many books I read, in that month's color. My goal is always 180 books, but I often exceed that so I leave plenty of space for going over just in case.

My TBR on Goodreads is astronomical and growing every year as I get more book recommendations from people and as new books come out. This TBR list is a way for me to prioritize books that I want to get to soon. I pick 33 books, which is about 3 books a month minus December (when I'm usually tired of reading goals and just want to read Christmas books). I like to pick a variety of genres and have books that span middle grade, YA, and adult. I write down the book name in column 1, the author in column 2, the age category in column 3, and the genre in column 4. One I read it, I color in the box next to it.

This is my Classics page. On the left are classics that I want to someday get around to reading and on the right are classics so good, I'd like to reread them in my lifetime. I usually pick 2-5 classics from each list to read throughout the year.

And this is my list of books that I loved so much I'd like to reread them at some point. Similar to my classics list, I am not trying to read them all this year, they are just ones that I want to keep on my radar.

I call this page my "rereadathon" page from when BookTube did a rereadathon every year (I don't think it's happened for a few years now). I love rereading books, so this is a way for me to pick at least one book each month to revisit.

This is my series page. The first section is where I put series that I am in the middle of. The bottom section on the left is where I keep track of series that I'm not sure I am going to finish, but I'm also not ready to commit to DNFing. On the top right, I have series that I've started that I can't finish because the author hasn't finished writing them yet. And on the bottom right are series that I haven't started that I would like to read (like the Wheel of Time).

This is my new release page -- I always count a new release as anything that releases in the previous year (so this year, I count new releases as anything released in 2026 OR 2025). In the past, I've just had them mixed in together, but this year I tried making a separate page for 2025 and 2026. I write the book title and the author or series (so I remember what the book is) on the right and I write the release date on the left. If it released in 2025, I simply write that. For 2026, I write the month and if I know it, the date. For 2026, I also write the month in that month's color so I can easily glance and find releases for that month or that have already come out.

This is my page where I keep track of books I read aloud with my kids. I read out of a novel to them at night before bed, often during homeschool hours, and we always have a family audiobook we're in the middle of. This list is similar to my rereads and classics, where they are books I want to read with my kids at some point but not necessarily this year. For this year, I pick one book for each month at the very beginning of the list. In the past, I've typically read 6-9 of the 12 books I pick out. I usually get the first few months in and as the year goes on, the less I stick with the list I made--we often find other books we want to read or the kids have requests (either to continue a series I started or to read aloud a book they've loved on their own).

This page is to keep track of authors I've read and enjoyed, so I want to read more books by them (but am not ready to commit to reading all their books yet). I put one author in each box and when I read another book by them, I fill in a little square within that box.

This is my section for authors that I am ready to commit to reading all their books. This section started with my goal to read all of Agatha Christie (a goal I've been working on for years now as I've read at least one book a month) and I'm getting close! The colored in squares are books I've already read by them. Once I finish all their books, they go into my "Author Collection" page the next year and I find an author from my "More" page to move to this one. This is a slow and steady, where most of these authors stay on here for years as I slowly read a book or two by them each year.

My Author Collection page is where I keep track of authors that I've read all their books (I put the authors name in a star). If I reread a book by one of these authors, I put a little dot on the outside of the star and if I read a new release by them, I put a line through the star. This page is actually where I find the bulk of my new releases that I want to read (searching for these authors' new releases). I want to add a page where I can "retire" authors that I don't want to keep up with for whatever reason (whether I am just not into their books anymore or they moved to open door, or whatever).

This is my Agatha Christie page (the scrambled letters spell out her name XD). I pick one book a month and put it in the corresponding magnifying glass, then color in the magnifying glass after I've read the book.

Middle Grade March is my top favorite readathon (or reading challenge) on BookTube. The challenge is to read middle grade books throughout the month of March and the hosts give additional prompts you can try if you want. I put a prompt in each clover and color it in after I've read the book that I've picked to go with the prompt.

This is a page I made for last year's bullet journal as I reread the Little House series (for the first time since I was a girl, it was delightful!). I redid it in this year's bullet journal because I want to read them all with my girls now. I am planning on these being our main read alouds for the first part of the year. After reading through them last year, I am very excited to share them all with my kids!

I made a free printable of this page that you can find here.

I added this Anne page this year as my personal reading challenge for the year is to read all the books--I've read a few (and read the first many times!), but never the entire series and this is the year I'm going to remedy that. I do not consider myself an artist, so I was really happy with how the page turned out.

Jane Austen July is another readathon on BookTube that I like. I don't always participate, but I do like to try--you can read Jane Austen's original novels or anything related such as retellings, nonfiction, etc. to participate.

This is another new page for this year's bullet journal. Every December, the kids and I do a countdown together where we unwrap a (previously owned) Christmas picture book and do a Christmas activity together each day. On the bottom part of the page, I'll put what book and activity we're doing (I plan those in October) and then as we do each activity and read each book, I can color in the corresponding number on the tree.

30 Books in 30 Days is another of my favorite readathons--where you try to read 30 books (or stories, novellas, etc) in 30 days. It's a fun way to get me jumpstarted into reading again after the summer!

Series September is another readathon on BookTube that I really like and try to do (usually I overlap this and 30 in 30). They do it as a Bingo board, so I pick the books I want to read using their prompts and then I color in the number on the grid in the center as I read that book.

I call this my Nonfiction November page because of the online reading challenge, but I often use this page throughout the year (I find that my November reading is already so full trying to finish up the last of my reading goals that I don't want to focus on nonfiction). I try to pick one nonfiction book a month to be reading or listening to and I keep track of those here.

Then I have spreads (not pictured are several more pages with different nonfiction categories) to keep track of the nonfiction books I'd like to read. This is the list I pick from when I am choosing what nonfiction books to read throughout the year. I also keep an eye out for these books at thrift stores and on Kindle sales.

This is my cover page for the section on borrowing and buying books.

This is my library book spread. In the center section, I write down the title of the book (in the color of the month that I am borrowing it). In the next column, I write down what format I borrowed it (physical, eBook, audiobook) and in the column next to that, I write down the due date. When I finish reading it, I color in the square in the left-most column.

I love making these bookshelves every year (I have several pages of them). In the books, I write down the title of books I've enjoyed enough that I want to buy the physical copy (I read a lot of library books as well as ebooks and audiobooks, but I love to collect my favorites, both for me to read in the future and for my kids to have available, and also because I just love owning them). If I do buy a book throughout the year, I color in the book.

At the end of my bookshelves, I have this page. I keep the books here blank, so that if I buy or am gifted any books that weren't on my list, I can write them in the books here. The bottom section is where I keep track of my book buying budget--the top half is where I write how much I have budgeted to spend on books and the bottom half is where I write how much I actually spent.

This is a section I have to write down the full title of the books I buy each month (the bookshelf is a cramped space and more just for fun, it's also more spread out). This can be really helpful for cataloguing purposes (I keep a digital catalogue of all the books I own so I can check if I own it when I'm out bookshopping, especially at thrift stores). It's also helpful when I'm filling out my stats page in this section.

I love buying children's books for our kids and this is a page to keep track of any children's books I buy throughout the year.

This is a page where I keep track of any books I donate (or get rid of).

I love to gift books and like to give a book to someone each month. This is a page where I keep track of who I am giving it to and which book I'm gifting.

And this is my stats page for this section, where I keep track monthly of how many books I've bought, donated, borrowed, and gifted. I use tally marks each month and then at the end of the year, I put the total number in the boxes. The chart on the left is so I have a visual of how many physical books I bought each month and the pie chart is for keeping track of what format I bought them in at the end of the year (ebook, audiobook, paperpack, hardback, etc).

This is my cover page for my movie section.

This is a page for keeping track of our family's favorite movies to watch. It's especially useful now that we mostly use DVD's (especially from the library) instead of streaming services. When we watch one of the movies, I color in the box.

When our oldest turned 10 last year, we started doing a special movie night with her after her siblings were in bed once a week. We watch movies that are more grownup or less interesting to the younger kids (we've watched movies like National Treasure, Bridge to Terrabithia, Lord of the Rings, Lost in Space). Last year, this page said, "Movies with Ashtyn" but in 2026, our second oldest will turn ten and join us, so I changed it to "Movies with Mom and Dad".

This is my spread for tracking Halloween movies we want to watch. As we watch them, I color in the square. I also include our one Thanksgiving movie (A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving).

And my Christmas movie spread! We have a lot of Christmas movies we love to watch, though it doesn't fill up all the way. When we watch the Christmas movie, I color in the ornament.

This is a page for movies or shows that my husband and I want to watch together after the kids are in bed. Lately, we've been really into watching the old BBC Jane Austen movies, though we're on the hunt for a new show to watch. I write down the name of the show, then in the second column, I write why we're watching it (whether a favorite actor is in it or if it's a genre we enjoy) and then once we watch it, I write down what month we watched it in.

This is my cover page for my writing section.

This is a page where I can keep track of different novels I've written (at least a first draft finished). I'm hoping as my kids get older, I will be able to add to this page a little faster.

This is a page to track some different stats around my writing. In the Nonfiction Word Count coumn, I keep track of how many words I've written on my nonfiction project weekly (and the last column is where I write down what nonfiction project I'm currently working on), and the Monthly Progress column is where I add up the weekly numbers to see how much I wrote for the month. For my blog posts, I keep track of how many posts I do a week and the views on those posts, for both my personal blog and my bookish blog. Then I also keep track of whether we met for writing group and whether I uploaded to my writing group (with a checkmark or an x).

This page is where I track my weekly writing on my novels. I write the number of words I wrote in the box each week and color it in. If I didn't write that week, I simply put an X in the box.

And this page is where I keep track of my novel writing monthly. At the beginning of the month, I write down my goal (in the top box, I write what I'm working on, like first draft or brainstorming). At the end of the month, I write down what I actually got done. Then in the right hand box, I write how far into the project I am (estimating how big the project will be).

This is my page for quotes from books I've read in 2026. I write the quote in the color of the month that I read the book in and it ends up being really pretty.

And this is my page for inspirational writing quotes (or quotes on creativity in general). I like to do one a month, with the quote in that month's color.

This is my end of year stats page. I use my stats page at the beginning to add everything up and fill this out at the end of the year.

This is where I keep track of my favorite books of the year. I pick three books a month, writing down the titles and authors at the end of each month.

Then at the end of the year, I pick ten of my favorites from that list. I like to use these categories to help me narrow down my favorites. I also don't ever include rereads on my favorites list (the reason I'm rereading it is because I like it so much), so I always have a bonus and pick my favorite reread of the year.

This is a fun page for me every year. On the very left, I pick my favorite book of the month and then put them through the bracket. In theory, my favorite book of the year should win (though it can be tough to pick sometimes and I wouldn't say it always is my favorite book). It's fun for me to see even if it's not scientific.

This is my cover page for my monthly calendar pages.

On this first page, I have a place to write down my main goals for the month, some things I'd like to get done, and any big events we have coming up. On the right, I have a calendar. On the sides of the calendar, I can write down ideas I have for blog posts and Instagram posts. The top rectangle on each date is where I can put any Instagram posts I made. In the bottom, bigger square is where I write down any blog posts (or YouTube videos) I post. For my personal blog, I color in the square solid and for any bookish posts, I color in the square darker on the outside and lighter on the inside. I circle our birthdays and any big holidays.

This second page is my TBR list. I pick ten books to put in the book stack as the ones I want to prioritize (here is where I put my read alouds, Agatha Christie reads, the 3 reads from my 2026 TBR, etc). Underneath the book stack, I pick 5 other books that I want to read but are priorities. I always write my TBR list in erasable pen and only use my colored pen once I actually start reading them. Once I read it, I color it in darker on the outside and lighter on the inside. If I DNF a read, then I color it in dark and solid. At the end of the month, I write down how many I DNF'd and how many of the 10 and 15 I finished reading. If I finish reading one a later month, I come back then and color it in using that month's color.

The left page is where I keep track of the books I own but haven't read yet. I try to keep that number small, for physical books as well as eBooks and audiobooks. Once I finish reading it, I color in the square in the color of the month that I read it. If I DNF (and donate or delete from my library) a book, I cross it out. My goal each year is to finish reading all the books in my unread library from January by the end of the year. I don't always reach this goal, but am often very close (this year, I think I will have one eBook and three physical books unread).

I do these spreads for every month of the year, through to December and they are the end of my bullet journal.

That is my bullet journal for 2026! Do you do a bullet journal? How do you track your reading? I'd love to hear from you in the comments below!