Most Anticipated Books: Second Half of 2026
A mix of fiction and nonfiction for the second half of 2026: prison blues, forbidden forests, a Veracruz con job, and the long fight over who counts as equal.
Armchair Euro Fakeation: A European Reading List for Summer 2026
Twenty books of summer spanning Hungary, Ireland, the Calabrian coast, a Swiss mental institution, wartime Berlin, and a crumbling Tuscan villa. The Europe that didn't make the brochure.
Bookish Wishes: A Midsommar's Night Read
Ten books I'd love to own, summer edition: books about food, writing, the Dust Bowl, memoirs, with a little snarky satire, of course.
Buzzwords and Phrases That Make Me Want to Read (or Avoid) a Book
The descriptors book marketers use tell you a lot about who they think you are. These are the ones that pull me in and the ones that send me running.
New-to-me Authors Read in 2025
A Top Ten Tuesday list of new-to-me authors I read in 2025, plus the real question underneath: was I pulled in by the author, the premise, or the hype, and did the book deliver?
Goals for 2026 & Defensive Book Quoting
This year I'm setting reading and book goals while trying to stay out of the performance trap.
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.