Reading Updates

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 Having an app for tracking my reading is nice, because I would 100% forget things if I were just listing based on my memory.

My 2026 reading thus far is about to hit the goal that I set for the year (24 books).  This is in part because the goal was somewhat modest, but mostly because pressure to read libby ebooks before they have to be returned and the use of the reading tracking app conspired to substantially increase how much I am reading.

Here's what I've read this year:

January:

1. Piranesi (Susanna Clarke) reread
2. The Loop (Jeremy Robert Johnson)
3. Ship of Fools (Richard Paul Russo)
4. Far from the Light of Heaven (Tade Thompson)
5. The Last Astronaut (David Wellington)
6. The Keeper (Sarah Langan)
7. Mysterium (Robert Charles Wilson)
8. The Deep Sky (Yume Kitasei)
9. As The Earth Dreams (Terese Mason Pierre, ed.)
10. The Surviving Sky (Kritika H. Rao)

February:

1. I'm Glad My Mom Died (Jennette McCurdy)
2. Semiosis (Sue Burke)
3. Seven Taoist Masters (Eva Wong, trans)
4. The Stardust Grail (Yume Kitasei)

March:

1. Moonbound (Robin Sloan)
2. Shroud (Adrian Tchaikovsky)
3. I Who Have Never Known Men (Jacqueline Harpman)
4. Light From Uncommon Stars (Ryka Aoki)
5. Roadside Picnic (Arkady & Boris Strugatsky)
6. There is no Antimemetics Division (qntm)
7. The Neverending Story (Michael Ende)

Of these, the ones that stick with me the most are: Piranesi, Ship of Fools, Shroud, I Who Have Never Known Men, Roadside Picnic, and There Is No Antimemetics Division.  You may notice a sort of theme in the things that I respond to.

The ones that stuck with me the most in a not quite so complimentary way are Light From Uncommon Stars and Mysterium. Uncommon Stars was just too busy and, to steal an observation from ambyr , unconcerned with morality. Mysterium I posted about previously, but it was such a waste of a great premise.

Anyway, if you can think of books that seem like they'd be right up my alley, based on that reading list, please do recommend in the comments.