Books of 2026
Here’s a list of what I’ve been reading this year. This is a pinned post — intermittently I update or reorganize it. At the end of the year, I’ll replace this list with a structured table as in my books of 2025 and 2024 posts.
| 👓 | ★ | Title | Attribution |
|---|---|---|---|
| BZRKR | Keanu Reeves | ||
| Eloquent Javascript | Marijn Haverbeke | ||
| Beating Hearts & Battle-Axes | ed. Jay Wolf | ||
| ✓ | The Burgess Bird Book for Children | Thornton W. Burgess | |
| ★ | The Geography of Nowhere | James Howard Kunstler | |
| What It's Like to Be A Bird | David Allen Sibley | ||
| Black-Owned | Char Adams | ||
| ★ | Across the Universe | Natan Last | |
| ✓ | ★ | Monsters | Barry Windsor-Smith |
| ✓ | Lost Marvels No. 1: Tower of Shadows | ed. Michael Dean | |
| All Systems Red (Murderbot Diaries #1) | Martha Wells | ||
| Artificial Condition (Murderbot Diaries #2) | Martha Wells | ||
| New Edge Sword & Sorcery #6 | ed. Oliver Brackenbury | ||
| ★ | Project Hail Mary | Andy Weir | |
| ★ | Termination Shock | Neal Stephenson | |
| Rogue Protocol (Murderbot Diaries #3) | Martha Wells | ||
| The Nature of Oaks | Doug Tallamy | ||
| The Common Uncommon | Bernd Heinrich | ||
| Exit Strategy (Murderbot Diaries #4) | Martha Wells | ||
| ★ | Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2025 | ed. Nnedi Okorafor & John Joseph Adams | |
| ★ | Network Effect (Murderbot Diaries #5) | Martha Wells | |
| Big Machine | Victor LaValle | ||
| Federations | ed. John Joseph Adams | ||
| Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet #51 | ed. Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant | ||
| Enshittification | Cory Doctorow | ||
| ★ | A Sand County Almanac | Aldo Leopold | |
| Fugitive Telemetry (Murderbot Diaries #6) | Martha Wells | ||
| The Cat Who Saved Books | Sosuke Natsukawa, translated by Louise Heal Kawai | ||
| ✓ | The World's Fastest Man | Michael Kranish |
Posted on Friday, March 6th, 2026. Tags: books.