BLOGS > JULY 1, 2026
BY FOLLETT CONTENT
If you follow Britten Follett on social media, you may already be tracking her #BritReads26 journey – a personal commitment to reading and sharing the books that are moving, surprising, and staying with her. Here’s her latest roundup, straight from our CEO.
Some people have a reading life. I have a reading legacy – one that, like most readers, started with a series…or several.
I’ve devoured series books for as long as I can remember – with Nancy Drew, The Baby-Sitters Club, and Sweet Valley High fueling enough Book It pizzas to feed a small village, and Accelerated Reader points so abundant I had plenty to share with my entire class. Safe to say, books have always been my currency.
Nancy Drew by Carolyn Keene
The Baby-Sitters Club by Ann M. Martin
College and early career brought the big series years: Harry Potter, The Hunger Games, Divergent. The kind of series that, when you turn the last page, leave you both satisfied with the conclusion and empty because it’s over.
Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Divergent by Veronica Roth
As an adult, Sophie Kinsella’s Shopaholic series made me laugh out loud on airplanes in a way that earned more than a few sideways glances. David Baldacci’s Memory Man series, featuring Amos Decker, pulled me into the kind of propulsive, can’t-put-it-down thriller I enjoyed in both print and audiobook format. And Elin Hilderbrand’s Winter Street series gave me the cozy, character-driven comfort read I didn’t know I needed – the literary equivalent of a blanket and a fireplace.
Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella
Memory Man by David Baldacci
Winter Street by Elin Hilderbrand
These days, my TBR pile is a bit overdue – I’m holding out for time to read print editions of Dan Brown’s The Secret of Secrets and Suzanne Collins’ Sunrise on the Reaping, because some books deserve to be held in your hands. But between my full-time job at Follett Content and my full-time job managing a toddler, sitting down to read a print book is tough!
The Secret of Secrets by Dan Brown
Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins
The series that shaped me are a pretty good window into who I am: a little nostalgic, endlessly curious, often rooting for the underdog – and always consuming a good book.
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