Favorite reads of 2026

• The Price of Peace (Zachary D. Carter)
• The Practice, The Horizon, and the Chain (Sofia Samatar)
• A Confederacy of Dunces (John Kennedy Toole)
• In Cold Blood (Truman Capote)
• The Pillow Book (Sei Shōnagon, trans. Meredith McKinney)
• Butcher's Crossing (John Williams)
• The Last Samurai (Helen DeWitt)