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Books to Read- January 2026

  • The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta – Paul A Rahe
  • Being Peace – Thich Nhat Hanh
  • The Lady and the Monk – Pico Iyer
  • Fur, Fortune, and Empire – Eric Jay Dolin
  • Escaping the Rabbit Hole – Mick West
  • Behemoth – Joshua B Freeman
  • A World Lit Only by Fire – William Manchester
  • Denali’s Howl – Andy Hall
  • Life Ever After – Carla Grauls
  • A Crazy Inheritance – Tommy Krappweis

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Books Read – January 2026

Fiction

A Short Stay in Hell – Steven L Peck

Don’t Sleep with the Dead – Nghi Vo

Rose/House – Arkady Martine

Hide – Kiersten White

All Systems Red – Martha Wells

ThornHedge – T Kingfisher

Non- Fiction

Digital Minimalism– Cal Newport

Barracoon – Zora Neale Hurston

Short Stories

Breakable Things – Cassandra Khaw

Poetry

Deaf Poetry – Ilya Kaminsky


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Books to Read- December 2025

  • The Republic of Pirates – Colin Woodard
  • The Practicing Stoic – Ward Farnsworth
  • The Fissure King – Rachel Pollack
  • Backflash – Richard Stark
  • A Walk on the Wild Side – Nelson Algren
  • Ten Restaurants That Changed America – Paul Freedman
  • Hitman – Howie Carr
  • David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
  • Murder on the Orient Elite – Larry Correla
  • When You Finish Saving the World – Jesse Eisenberg

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Books Read – December 2025

Fiction:

Nobody Move – Denis Johnson

What Feasts at Night – T Kingfisher 

Nothing but Blackened Teeth – Cassandra Khaw

Non-Fiction:

Hunting Buffalo with Bent Nails – Lawrence Block

The Gap and the Gain – Dan Sullivan & Dr. Benjamin Hardy

Peace is Every Step – Thich Nhat Hanh

Better Than Before- Gretchen Rubin

Graphic Novels: 

Rivers of London: Night Witch – Ben Aaronovitch & Andrew Cartmel


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Books to Read- November 2025

  • The Best New True Crime Stories – Mitzi Szereto
  • The Lessons of History – Will & Ariel Durant
  • When Women Rules the World – Kara Cooney
  • Surprised by Joy – CS Lewis
  • Deviant – Harold Schechter
  • The Demon Next Door – Bryan Burrough
  • The Perfect Kill – Robert B Baer
  • Road Trip Elegies: Montreal to New York – Rufus Wainwright
  • Ghost in the Wind – EJ Copperman
  • Night Magick – Suri Rosen

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Books Read – November 2025

Fiction

Hard Day’s Knight – Simon R Green

Strange and Perfect Account from the Permafrost – Donald Niedekker, Trans. Jonathan Reeder 

Short Stories

The Nightmare Box and Other Stories – Cynthia Gomez

Non- Fiction

How to manage Your Home without Losing Your Mind– Dana K White

Why I Hate Everything – Maggie Weber

This is Your Mind on Plants – Michael Pollan


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Books to Read- October 2025

  • Man with No Name – Laird Barron
  • Inside Jobs – Ben H Winters
  • The Girl with Ghost Eyes – M H Boroson
  • The Sense of Wonder – Rachel Carson
  • Hard Magic – Larry Correla
  • The Weight of Glory – CS Lewis
  • Twelve Slays of Christmas – Jacqueline Frost
  • Roughing It – Mark Twain
  • What I Talk About when I Talk About Running – Haruki Murakami
  • Black Dahlia Avenger – Steve Hodel

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Books Read – September & October 2025

Fiction

Pride in Prejudice– Jane Austen

Animal Farm – George Orwell

The Furthest Station – Ben Aaronovitch

Wolf in the Fold – Simon R Green

Sport for the Baron – John Creasey

The Last Days of New Paris – China Mieville

The Masquerades of Spring – Ben Aaronovitch

What Abigail Did That Summer – Ben Aaronovitch

Nettle & Bone – T. Kingfisher

The Specialists – Lawrence Block 

Forces From Beyond – Simon R Green

Design for Great-Day – Alan Dean Foster & Eric Frank Russel

Alchemy of Secrets – Stephanie Garber

The Penelapiod – Margaret Atwood

Hekate– Nikita Gill

Short Stories

Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century – Kim Fu

Graphic Novels

Nimona – Noelle Stevenson

Rivers of London – Bodywork – Ben Aaronovitch & Andrew Cartmel

Non- Fiction

Braiding Sweetgrass – Robin Wall Kimmerer

Kitchen Confidential – Anthony Bourdain

Messy – Tim Harford


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Books to Read- September 2025

  • We Sold Our Souls – Grady Hendrix
  • Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen – Lois McMaster Bujold
  • Cetaganda – Lois McMaster Bujold
  • Shards of Honor – Lois McMaster Bujold
  • Winterfair Gifts – Lois McMaster Bujold
  • The Lord of Stariel – AJ Lancaster
  • In the House of Aryaman, a Loney Signal Burns – Elizabeth Bear
  • Morgan is my Name – Sophie Keetch
  • A Certain Hunger – Chelsea G Summers
  • The Grand Hotel – Scott Kenemore

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