In 2025 I read 32 books… so I missed my goal of 52 by quite a bit.
For 2026 my goal is to, again, read 52 books in the calendar year. Some of these are fast reads others…not so much.
Also; the links below are to Amazon but they are not affiliate links so you can’t make me rich this way.
- Hell is Empty, Author: Craig Johnson – 01/03/2026
- Clown Town, Author: Mick Herron – 01/12/2026
- Abundance, Author: Ezra Klein, Derik Thompson – 01/13/2026
- Brothers, Author: Alex Van Halen – Reading
- Butcher’s Crossing, Author: John Williams – 01/24/2026
- The Unforgiven, Author: Alan LeMay – 01/25/2026
- A Blaze of Glory, Author: Jeff Shaara – 01/25/2026
- Everything is Tuberculosis, Author: John Green – 01/25/2026
- As the Crow Flies, Author: Craig Johnson – 01/28/2026
- A Serpent’s Tooth, Author: Craig Johnson – 02/02/2026
- Any Other Name, Author: Craig Johnson – 2/15/2026
- The Fish that Ate the Whale: Life and Times of America’s Banana King, Author Rich Cohn – 02/20/2026
- The Greatest Sentence Every Written, Author: Walter Isaacson – 04/24/2026
- The Dog Stars, Author: Peter Heller – 04/26/2026
- Dry Bones, Author: Craig Johnson – Late May 2026
- An Obvious Fact, Author: Craig Johnson – Late May 2026
- The Western Star, Author: Craig Johnson – Late May 2026
- The Last Campaign, Author: Andrew Ross Sorkin – Late May 2026
- On Great Fields – The life and unlikely heroism of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, Author: Ronald C. White – Late May 2026
- Mobilize, Author: Shyam Sankar – Late May 2026
- Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63, Author: Taylor Branch – Mid-July 2026
- A Chain of Thunder: A Novel of the Siege of Vicksburg, Author: Jeff Shaara – Late July 2026
- Close to Shore: The Terrifying Shark Attacks of 1916, Author: Michale Capuzzo – Early August 2026
- Cannae: Hannibal’s Greatest Victory, Author: Adrian Goldsworthy – Middle of August, 2026
- On the Shortness of Life, Author: Lucius Annaeus Seneca – Late August, 2026
- The Name of the Wind, Author: Patrick Rothfus – Reading
