Books of 2026
Here’s a list of what I’ve been reading this year. I update this post periodically.
| 👓 | ★ | Title | Attribution | Category | Format | Media | Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BZRKR | Keanu Reeves | fiction | graphic | 🖥️ | |||
| Eloquent Javascript | Marijn Haverbeke | nonfiction | 🖥️ | ||||
| Beating Hearts & Battle-Axes | ed. Jay Wolf | fiction | anthology | 🖥️ | |||
| ✓ | The Burgess Bird Book for Children | Thornton W. Burgess | fiction | 📖 | |||
| ★ | The Geography of Nowhere | James Howard Kunstler | nonfiction | 📖 | |||
| What It's Like to Be A Bird | David Allen Sibley | nonfiction | 📖 | ✓ | |||
| Black-Owned | Char Adams | nonfiction | 📖 | ✓ | |||
| ★ | Across the Universe | Natan Last | nonfiction | 📖 | ✓ | ||
| Monsters | Barry Windsor-Smith | fiction | graphic | 🖥️ | ✓ | ||
| ✓ | Lost Marvels No. 1: Tower of Shadows | ed. Michael Dean | fiction | graphic | 🖥️ | ✓ | |
| All Systems Red (Murderbot Diaries #1) | Martha Wells | fiction | novella | 🔊 | ✓ | ||
| Artificial Condition (Murderbot Diaries #2) | Martha Wells | fiction | novella | 🔊 | ✓ | ||
| New Edge Sword & Sorcery #6 | ed. Oliver Brackenbury | fiction | anthology | 🖥️ | |||
| ★ | Project Hail Mary | Andy Weir | fiction | novel | 📖 | ||
| ★ | Termination Shock | Neal Stephenson | fiction | novel | 🖥️ | ✓ | |
| Rogue Protocol (Murderbot Diaries #3) | Martha Wells | fiction | novella | 🔊 | ✓ | ||
| The Nature of Oaks | Doug Tallamy | nonfiction | 📖 | ||||
| The Common Uncommon | Bernd Heinrich | nonfiction | 📖 | ||||
| Exit Strategy (Murderbot Diaries #4) | Martha Wells | fiction | novella | 🔊 | ✓ | ||
| ★ | Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2025 | ed. Nnedi Okorafor & John Joseph Adams | fiction | anthology | 📖 | ||
| ★ | Network Effect (Murderbot Diaries #5) | Martha Wells | fiction | novel | 🔊 | ✓ | |
| Big Machine | Victor LaValle | fiction | novel | 📖 | ✓ | ||
| Federations | ed. John Joseph Adams | fiction | anthology | 🖥️ | |||
| Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet #51 | ed. Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant | fiction | zine | 📖 | |||
| Enshittification | Cory Doctorow | nonfiction | 📖 | ||||
| ★ | A Sand County Almanac | Aldo Leopold | nonfiction | 📖 | |||
| Fugitive Telemetry (Murderbot Diaries #6) | Martha Wells | fiction | novella | 🔊 | ✓ | ||
| The Cat Who Saved Books | Sosuke Natsukawa, translated by Louise Heal Kawai | fiction | novel | 📖 | |||
| ★ | The World's Fastest Man | Michael Kranish | nonfiction | biography | 📖 | ||
| ★ | The Violent Century | Lavie Tidhar | fiction | novel | 🖥️ | ||
| System Collapse (Murderbot Diaries #7) | Martha Wells | fiction | novel | 🔊 | ✓ | ||
| LEGO Space 1978-1992 | Tim Johnson | nonfiction | 🖥️ | ✓ | |||
| 100% | Paul Pope | fiction | graphic | 🖥️ | ✓ | ||
| Beowulf | Translated by Maria Dahvana Headley | fiction | epic poety | 📖 | |||
| ✓ | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eleventh Annual Collection | Edited by Gardner Dozois | fiction | anthology | 📖 | ||
| Year's Best SF 2 | Edited by David G. Hartwell | fiction | anthology | 🖥️ | |||
| ✓ | Roadside Picnic | Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, retranslated in 2012 by Olena Bormashenko | fiction | novel | 🖥️ | ✓ | |
| ★ | Green Mars | Kim Stanley Robinson | fiction | novella | 📖 | ||
| ✓ | Travels in Alaska | John Muir | nonfiction | 📖 |
Posted on Friday, March 6th, 2026. Tags: books.