2026 Reading

A listing of the 58 books I have read so far in 2026. Clicking on the image will take you to the Amazon (paid link) page for the book; clicking on the title will take you to my blog entry for the book.

Exit Strategy by Lee Child and Andrew Child	Kill Your Darlings by Peter Swanson	Class Clown — The Memoirs of a Professional Wiseass: How I Went 77 Years Without Growing Up by Dave Barry	Steve Martin Writes the Written Word — Collected Written Word Works by Steve Martin by Steve Martin	The President Who Would Not Be King — Executive Power under the Constitution by Michael W. McConnell	The Dark Design by Philip José Farmer
The Proving Ground by Michael Connelly	Octopussy and The Living Daylights by Ian Fleming	The Mistletoe Mystery by Nita Prose	Showdown by Mike Lupica	Beartooth by Callan Wink	The Greatest Sentence Ever Written by Walter Isaacson
Faraday, Maxwell, and the Electromagnetic Field — How Two Men Revolutionized Physics by Nancy Forbes and Basil Mahon	Project Pope by Clifford D. Simak	Trigger Mortis by Anthony Horowitz	Listening to the Law — Reflections on the Court and Constitution by Amy Coney Barrett	The Thinking Machine — Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World's Most Coveted Microchip by Stephen Witt	You Have No Right to Your Culture — Essays on the Human Condition by Bryan Caplan
London Rules by Mick Herron	If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies — Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All by Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares	The Savage, Noble Death of Babs Dionne by Ron Currie	The Hadacol Boogie by James Lee Burke	A Dangerous Man by Robert Crais	The Doorman by Chris Pavone
The Pleasure of Finding Things Out — The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman by Richard P. Feynman	The Good Liar by Denise Mina	The Martians — The True Story of an Alien Craze that Captured Turn-of-the-Century America by David Baron	The Magic Labyrinth by Philip José Farmer	All the Traps of Earth — and Other Stories by Clifford D. Simak	The Impossible Fortune by Richard Osman
Breakneck — China's Quest to Engineer the Future by Dan Wang	The Crossroads by C.J. Box	Forever and a Day by Anthony Horowitz	A Talent for Murder by Peter Swanson	On Liberalism — In Defense of Freedom by Cass R. Sunstein	James Madison — America's First Politician by Jay Cost
One Perfect Couple by Ruth Ware	The Constitution of Liberty — The Definitive Edition by Friedrich A. Hayek	Over Ruled — The Human Toll of Too Much Law by Neil Gorsuch and Janie Nitze	Joe Country by Mick Herron	Engineers of Victory — The Problem Solvers Who Turned The Tide in the Second World War by Paul Kennedy	The Keeper by Tana French
The Fellowship of the Talisman by Clifford D. Simak	Murder at Gulls Nest by Jess Kidd	Rage and the Republic — The Unfinished Story of the American Revolution by Jonathan Turley	Animal Farm by George Orwell	The Diary of Lies by Philip Miller	The Stars Turned Inside Out by Nova Jacobs
FDR — A New Political Life by David T. Beito	Peak Human — What We Can Learn From the Rise and Fall of Golden Ages by Johan Norberg	Tell Me Who You Are by Lousia Luna	Blank Space — A Cultural History of the Twenty-First Century by W. David Marx	How to Survive in the Woods by Kat Rosenfield	The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck — A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life by Mark Manson
1929 — Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History--and How It Shattered a Nation by Andrew Ross Sorkin	Innocent by Scott Turow	The Edge of Space-Time — Particles, Poetry, and the Cosmic Dream Boogie by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein	Hayek — A Life, 1899–1950 by Bruce Caldwell and Hansjoerg Klausinger