New Books I’m Looking Foward To This Year (First Half of 2026)
Books that arrive already humming with questions: about how we live, what we inherit, what we automate, what we grieve, and what we still hope books can do for us when the news is unbearable and the group chat is tired.
Best Books I Read in 2025
A curated list of fiction and nonfiction exploring burnout, work, grief, attention, and belonging. Personal notes on books that helped me think more clearly about modern life.
Most Recent Additions to My Bookshelf
My Top Ten Tuesday Post-Christmas book haul reveals: translated Nobel Prize winner I keep abandoning, writing guides that might finally crack my note-taking chaos, a bookseller so bitter it might be too mean even for me, and the best neighborhood book box score of 2025.
Ten Books I'd Love to Be Gifted This Year
Top Ten Tuesday - From the only cookbook Marcella Hazan brought to America to Pynchon's 'great cheese novel,' this year's wishlist has some stories to tell. (Plus: the housing market horror novel that might hurt too much to read.)