Books read in 2026

Not much blogging going on here still, but here's my annual list of books read for 2026.

Bryan Burrough, Chris Tomlinson, and Jason Stanford, Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of An American Myth (2021)
Ted Chiang, Exhalation (2019)
Laura K. Field, Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right (2025)
Kerry Howley, Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs: A Journey Through the Deep State (2023)
Christopher Mathias, To Catch a Fascist: The Fight to Expose the Radical Right
Matthew Rose, A World After Liberalism: Five Thinkers Who Inspired the Radical Right (2021)
Scott J. Shapiro, Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks (2023)

Top for 2026 published in 2026: Mathias; other top reads for the year: Howley, Chiang, Rose, Burrough et al, Field

A few planned or already (or still) in-progress reads for 2027:

Robert Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (1975)

G.A. Cohen, Self-Ownership, Freedom, and Equality (1995)

John Ferris, Behind the Enigma: The Authorised History of GCHQ, Britain's Secret Cyber-Intelligence Agency (2020)

Peter H. Wilson, The Holy Roman Empire: A Thousand Years of Europe's History (2017)

Arthur M. Melzer, Philosophy Between the Lines: The Lost History of Esoteric Writing (2014)