This year I used StoryGraph to track my reading daily, and then I went back to LibraryThing to track my reading over time. LibraryThing is great: fully featured and non-evil. I also tried Paperback for tracking reading but I think they’re not quite ready yet — maybe in 2026. There is definitely room to improve on StoryGraph.
Anyhow, I aimed to read 52 books this year and ended up reading 57. Why? Because many of these ‘books’ were more like short pamphlets than real books. This was the year I read randomly and widely, and read science fiction and fantasy. In 2026 I hope to read more intentionally.
Here are the books:
- Acker, Kathy. Blood and Guts in High School (Penguin Modern Classics)
- Arikha, Noga. Franz Boas: In Praise of Open Minds (Jewish Lives)
- Arnason, Eleanor. A Woman of the Iron People
- Bagot, Françoise. Albert Camus, L’etranger (Etudes litteraires) (French Edition)
- Barlow, Julie. The Bonjour Effect: The Secret Codes of French Conversation Revealed
- Bautista, Lola Quan. Steadfast Movement around Micronesia: Satowan Enlargements beyond Migration
- Bissinger, H. G.. Friday Night Lights, 25th Anniversary Edition: A Town, a Team, and a Dream
- Blackhawk, Ned. The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History (The Henry Roe Cloud Series on American Indians and Modernity)
- Blaylock, James P.. The Last Coin
- Bown, Stephen R.. 1494: How a Family Feud in Medieval Spain Divided the World in Half
- Cech, Thomas R.. The Catalyst: RNA and the Quest to Unlock Life’s Deepest Secrets
- Dawsey, Josh. 2024 : how Trump retook the White House and the democrats lost America
- Descola, Philippe. The composition of worlds: Interviews with Pierre Charbonnier
- Descola, Philippe. Anthropology of Nature: Inaugural lecture delivered on Thursday 2 March 2001
- Descola, Philippe. Politics of Worlding: An Anthropological Contribution to Cosmopolitics
- Doctorow, Cory. Enshitification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It
- Drake, Tuki. Mata Austronesia: Stories from an Ocean World
- Duff, Alan. Once Were Warriors
- Field, Laura K.. Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right
- Fox, Margalit. The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum: The Rise and Fall of an American Organized-Crime Boss
- Fraser, George MacDonald. Flashman: A Novel
- Goo, Sara Kehaulani. Kuleana: A Story of Family, Land, and Legacy in Old Hawai’i
- Haberman, Maggie. Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America
- Hagedorn, John M.. The Insane Chicago Way: The Daring Plan by Chicago Gangs to Create a Spanish Mafia
- Haldeman, Joe. The Forever War
- Harp, Seth. The Fort Bragg Cartel: Drug Trafficking and Murder in the Special Forces
- Hoffman, Carl. Liar’s Circus: A Strange and Terrifying Journey Into the Upside-Down World of Trump’s MAGA Rallies
- Hurwitz, Maximilian. The Workmen’s Circle; its history, ideals, organization and institutions
- Jenkins, John Philip. Jesus Wars: How Four Patriarchs, Three Queens, and Two Emperors Decided What Christians Would Believe for the Next 1,500 years
- Jr., Donald S. Lopez. Hyecho’s Journey: The World of Buddhism
- King, Charles. Midnight at the Pera Palace: The Birth of Modern Istanbul
- Lomnitz-Adler, Claudio. Sovereignty and extortion : a new state form in Mexico : the 2021 lectures at El Colegio Nacional
- Mamdani, Mahmood. Define and Rule: Native as Political Identity (The W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures)
- Matsuda, Matt K.. A Primer for Teaching Pacific Histories: Ten Design Principles (Design Principles for Teaching History)
- McNamee, Lachlan. Settling for Less: Why States Colonize and Why They Stop
- Merleau-Ponty, Maurice. The World of Perception
- Moorcock, Michael. Elric of Melnibone 1
- Moorcock, Michael. Fortress Of Pearl
- Moorcock, Michael. The Sailor on the Seas of Fate
- Moorcock, Michael. The Weird of the White Wolf (Elric Saga)
- Nixey, Catherine. Heretic: An Intriguing Exploration of Early Christianity, Diverse Interpretations of Jesus, and the Evolution of Singular Christ in Ancient History―An … Magazine and UK Times Best Book of the Year
- Orwell, George. Homage to Catalonia
- Osorio, Jamaica Heolimeleikalani. Remembering Our Intimacies: Mo’olelo, Aloha ‘Aina, and Ea (Indigenous Americas)
- Rauchholz, Manuel. Adoption, Emotion, and Identity: An Ethnopsychological Perspective on Kinship and Person in a Micronesian Society (Person, Space and Memory in the Contemporary Pacific Book 8)
- Reichard, Gladys A.. Spider Woman: A Story of Navajo Weavers and Chanters
- Ressa, Maria. How to Stand Up to a Dictator: The Fight for Our Future
- Roth, Philip. Goodbye, Columbus
- Rucker, Rudy. Software
- Rucker, Rudy V. B.. Wetware
- Sahlins, Marshall. Islands of History
- Sahlins, Marshall David. Historical Metaphors and Mythical Realities: Structure in the Early History of the Sandwich Islands Kingdom
- Sahlins, Marshall David. Tribesmen (Foundations of Modern Anthropology)
- Scott, Melissa. Trouble and Her Friends
- Shalin, Dmitri. Erving Manuel Goffman
- U.S. Army Center of Military History. The U.S. Army Campaigns of World War II: North Apennines
- Westerfeld, Scott. The Risen Empire (Succession)
- White, James. Double Contact: A Sector General Novel
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