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Les Miserables (Illustrated) | Victor Hugo

#readingbracket #readingbracket25 #readingbracket2025 @Catsandbooks 😍

And even with different wild cards, it still won out, @TheBookHippie. #missionaccomplished 💙🤍♥️

ChaoticMissAdventures So glad! It is such an effort to get though! 23h

dabbe @ChaoticMissAdventures I feel like I climbed a high mountain, not Everest, though. That will be Proust if I'm able to get through him this year! 🤣 23h

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dabbe

Les Miserables (Illustrated) | Victor Hugo

#readingbracket #readingbracket25 #readingbracket2025 @CSeydel 🩶❄️🤍

Can you believe it, @TheBookHippie? Can you really? I'm a bit stunned if I do say so myself. Thank you for this monumental achievement--for me, anyway. 😘 Wonder if Proust will be the favorite next year? Somehow I doubt it, but we'll see. 🤣

#vivelafrance 💙🤍♥️

TheBookHippie Honestly I‘m so happy for you. 🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷 22h

CSeydel Woohoo!! 🇫🇷💥 8h

dabbe @TheBookHippie 🤍❄️🩶 7h

dabbe @CSeydel 🤍❄️🩶 7h

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LitsyEvents

Untitled | Anonymous

repost for @CSeydel

By request … 2026 Book bracket in a second color palette for your enjoyment 🤗

#readingbracket #readingbracket2026
#bookbracket #bookbracket2026

CSeydel Thanks for posting both graphics! This way people can run category-specific “tournaments” - eg, nonfiction, genre books, memoirs, graphic novels, etc. 8h

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LitsyEvents

Untitled | Anonymous

repost for @CSeydel

Happy new year, everyone! I made a 2026 bracket template for those who would like one.

Each month, choose the best book you read that month and repost this graphic with your book added to the appropriate box. They will face off against each other until one is crowned the best book you read all year. There are also two “bonus” spaces to even up the matches!

#readingbracket #readingbracket2026
#bookbracket #bookbracket2026

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CSeydel

Take Two!: A Celebration of Twins | Jane Yolen, J. Patrick Lewis

By request … 2026 Book bracket in a second color palette for your enjoyment 🤗

#readingbracket #readingbracket2026
#bookbracket #bookbracket2026

Amiable

Soubhiville Yay, thank you! 1d

Amiable Thank you so much! 🙌🏼🤩 1d

GingerAntics Ooooooooh, I like the new color scheme!!! 1d

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dabbe So pretty! Thank you! 💚🩵🤎 1d

kspenmoll Thanks!!! 1d

BookishMarginalia Nice! 1d

Offmybookshelf Thank you for both 1d

Aconight I love this 😍 23h

Meshell1313 Love your brackets! Thanks for making these again! 😍❤️ 22h

rachelsbrittain Yay so excited to start a new year of this! 10h

CSeydel @Soubhiville @Amiable @GingerAntics @dabbe @kspenmoll @BookishMarginalia @Offmybookshelf @Aconight @Meshell1313 @rachelsbrittain Thanks everyone! I‘m so glad people enjoy these 😊 8h

Amiable @CSeydel In 2024 I posted my monthly brackets on Facebook for some friends who are readers to follow along. It was like a social media book club and prompted discussions and sharing. I didn‘t do it in 2025 because I lost motivation and enthusiasm due to current events 😖 and all of my friends clamored for me to post again this year because they missed it. So your brackets have a wide reach! 🙂 7h

CSeydel @Amiable oh wow!!!! I‘m delighted to hear that! 7h

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CSeydel

Untitled | Unknown

Happy new year, everyone! I made a 2026 bracket template for those who would like one.

Each month, choose the best book you read that month and repost this graphic with your book added to the appropriate box. They will face off against each other until one is crowned the best book you read all year. There are also two “bonus” spaces to even up the matches!

#readingbracket #readingbracket2026
#bookbracket #bookbracket2026

Amiable Yay! Can you make another in a different color? I track fiction and NF separately. 😬 1d

CSeydel @Amiable Sure, let me see what I can do 1d

LeeRHarry Thank you for doing this again. 😊 Happy New Year! (edited) 1d

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CSeydel @LeeRHarry Thanks for playing along! I love seeing everyone‘s choices each month. Happy new year to you as well! 1d

Soubhiville Oh two colors! I like this one better, but maybe I‘ll do as @Amiable is doing… 😁📚 1d

Amiable @Soubhiville I have to separate the genres —it‘s too hard for me to compare them equally. 🤷🏻‍♀️ 😀 1d

GingerAntics Ooooooooh, I like this one even better!!! 1d

CSeydel @Soubhiville @GingerAntics Thanks! This was the original 2026 design, but I made a second color scheme for people like @amiable who do separate fiction and nonfiction brackets 1d

GingerAntics @CSeydel I was just thinking that. Having the two different colors would help keep them separate. Love that so much!!! 1d

CSeydel @Amiable I know what you mean - when I do a single bracket my nonfiction reads always win. But when I tried to do two brackets, I realized I don‘t read more than one NF per month - and sometimes it takes me a couple of months to read a really good one. 1d

dabbe Now officially on the new #LELH (#LitsyEventsLittleHelper) spreadsheet! Thanks for this; it's lovely! 🤩

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xB17c0YZ6-IcngwWteNPyWiwoLn3bvcb7kjtqOLu... 1d

CSeydel @dabbe Thanks! I was just copying the link to send you 😆 1d

CSeydel @dabbe If I could get one new Litsy feature it would be PINNED POSTS on our profiles!! 1d

dabbe @CSeydel 🎯🎯🎯 1d

Meshell1313 Perfection! 😍 22h

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monalyisha

Giving Up the Ghost: A Memoir | Hilary Mantel

I‘m not confident about many of the microdecisions I made in 2025‘s #ReadingBracket. Truth is, I had an INCREDIBLE reading year! A bunch of the match-ups could‘ve gone either way. I think I feel pretty confident about the WINNER (though I did read it a while ago now).

Best I can *confidently* do is a Top 7 (tagged below)!

•Giving Up the Ghost
•Journal of a Solitude
•Night Swimmers
•Sleep
•Death Valley
•The Ten Year Affair
•Moominland Midwinter

CSeydel

monalyisha

Giving Up the Ghost: A Memoir

monalyisha

Journal of a Solitude

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monalyisha @Cseydel Thank you for making the bracket! I‘m not sure if I‘ve mentioned it before but I‘ve loved tagging you every month and being put in mind of the seaside, or “Cseyde.” 😉🌊 1d

kspenmoll Loved

Giving Up the Ghost: A Memoir

monalyisha @kspenmoll Her writing slayed me. 1d

CSeydel The seaside! I love it! And I‘ve enjoyed seeing your bracket take shape over the year. It‘s a fun exercise for me too in terms of letting go and just picking a winner, even knowing that it could easily go the other way. Top 7 is very reasonable! 1d

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vonnie862

Women | Kristin Hannah

There were some good ones out there but Women was my favorite of 2025.
#bookoftheyear
#readingbracket

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MaleficentBookDragon

What You Are Looking for Is in the Library | Michiko Aoyama

This turned out to be a interesting year for my #2025ReadingBracket.
There were some isurprising matchups, but it ended with a desicive winner.
#BOTY #BOTY2025 #ReadingBracket #wrapup

ferskner I loved this book too! 23h

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GingerAntics

Sinner | Sierra Simone

There are QUITE a few dirty books in this bracket!!! I even had to switch two books around (wild card vs Feb) just so that I could give all of the books a proper chance. This book was dirty (sooo dirty) but also really philosophical, so it appealed on so many levels. (I hope we get a book for the youngest Bell brother, too… just saying.)
#SierraSimone #Sinner #ReadingBracket #BookBracket2025 #BookBracket #fiction @CSeydel

GingerAntics Just realised that my top author of the year, Elira Firethorn, is not in this bracket at all!!! I have failed Oliver, Elliot, Rhett, Wren, Cora, Ezra, and Wilder!!! I have failed Elira Firethorn!!! 2d

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