Reading in 2026

These are the books I read this year. Previously.

The best book I read this year was - unclear. There wasn't a standout, but I've put an * next to books that I was thinking about weeks later.

A lot of my mental energy this year was spent on learning new things for work, so my reading this year was random, as if I just grabbed a book off a shelf and started it. This means it spanned from female Irish authors that are sure to be in the literary canon a century from now, to weird white folk gurus, batman graphic novels, new yorker-style short stories and even 2 Chainz's biography.

• Walk the Blue Fields
• The Control of Nature
• No Country for Old Men
• Ladies Lunch
• Take Me With You
• Being Aware of Being Aware
• The Fall
• Short Cuts
• The Alignment Problem
• Expensive Basketball
• Vigel
• Batman Hush
• Aimless Love
• One Breathe at a Time
• A Philosophy of Software Design
• Owls and other Fantasies
• Batman The Court of Owls Saga
• Wisdom takes Work
• How Not to be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking
• Code: The Hidden Language of Hardware and Software
• The Man Who Solved the Market
• Call if You Need Me
• The Voice in My Head is God
• Moonlight Throught The Pines
• Revenge of the Tipping Point
• An Introduction to General Systems Thinking*
• Being Myself
• The Stupid Hour
• Don't Call it Art
• The Rider
• The Land and Its People
• The War of Art*
• The Heart of Prayer
• A Book of Common Prayer
• Cointelligence
• The Daily Stoic
• Silence*
• Someone will Love you in All Your Damaged Glory
• Bluebeard*
• No Bull: My Life In and Out of Markets
• Let's Not Do That Again
• Meditations in an Emergency
• The Coming Wave
• REDACTED
• 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know
• REDACTED
• Me Talk Pretty One Day
• Notes of a Native Son
• Inside the Box: How Constraints Make Us Better
• The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI8
• The Field*
• A Few Short Sentences about Writing*