What’s on your 2026 reading list?

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As I sort through my unread book stacks, which double as side tables currently, I’m getting my 2026 line up ready.

Here’s the list so far.

-Lords of the fly by Monte Burke
-East of Eden by John Steinbeck
-Lonesome Dove (for the second time) by Larry McMurtry
-White Heat by Marco Pierre White
-whatever else I unearth this year

What is everyone else reading this year?
 
I'm going to give Lonesome Dove a second try. It was a slow start for me and I couldn't get into it. Finishing up Terrorist Attack Girl right now. Dersu the Trapper is up next.
 
Lonesome Dove ends up an excellent read, and you’ll instantly want to go read Comanche Moon and the rest of the series when you finish it.

I’m currently working through all the books I should have read by now but didn’t. Just finished the Count of Monte Cristo, and started Moby Dick today. Unsure what after this, but I have a few ideas.
 
I'm starting "The Unvanguished: The Untold Story of Lincoln's Special Forces, the Manhunt for Mosby's Rangers. And the Shadow War That Forged America's Special Operations."

Big title! It's been recommended a few times. I'm in the mood to read it now. If anybody has read it, let me know what you think.
 
I embarrassingly have never read Count of Monte Cristo, so I talked a friend into reading it with me. Also planning a re-read of Jamaica Inn and finishing Truman Capote's the Grass Harp.
 
Working my way through "Men at War" compiled by Hemingway, an overlooked item of his. From the Bible, to Xenophon, to Churchill, to Kipling...from Caesar's invasion of Britain, the trenches of WWI, the German invasion of Sweden, the Alamo, etc. it is a remarkably broad and beautiful collection of writing on war and its nature selected by a literary great.
 
vogel.r.john said:
As I sort through my unread book stacks, which double as side tables currently, I’m getting my 2026 line up ready.

Here’s the list so far.

-Lords of the fly by Monte Burke
-East of Eden by John Steinbeck
-Lonesome Dove (for the second time) by Larry McMurtry
-White Heat by Marco Pierre White
-whatever else I unearth this year

What is everyone else reading this year?
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Ha! That first one is my brother's book - it's a good one!
 
I bought “the wager” by David Gran. I love exploration books. I need to finish “something of value” by Robert Ruark before I do.

I highly recommend something of value to anyone remotely interested in Africa
 
etwr2 said:
I bought “the wager” by David Gran. I love exploration books. I need to finish “something of value” by Robert Ruark before I do.

I highly recommend something of value to anyone remotely interested in Africa
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Follow that with his “Uhuru”. Not quite a sequel but perhaps even more prescient
 
Well, I just ordered every back-issue of FE that I didn’t have from my subscription (started mid 2024), including the new hardcover of year one, so I reckon I’ll be reading through those.
 
Right now, I’m reading the Holy Bible through chronologically. Started last year and am now in the book of Isaiah.

Additional reading for this year will include The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Stop in the Name of God by Charlie Kirk, Liberal Privilege by Don Jr, and probably a couple Hemingway books. Also going to revisit No Country for Old Men and possibly the Patriot series by Rawles.
 
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