The Books I Read in 2026

Written By Sydney Conroy

An ongoing, and periodically updated, list of what I am reading over the course of 2026

  1. The Art of Thinking Clearly by Rolf Dobelli

  2. Loved Ones by Aisha Muharrar

  3. Good Inside: A Practical Guide to Resilent Parenting Prioritizing Connection Over Correction by Becky Kennedy

  4. Life in Three Dimensions: How Curiosity, Exploration, and Experience Make a Fuller, Better Life by Shigehiro Oishi

  5. The Hurting Kind: Poems by Ada Limon

  6. The Satisfaction Cafe by Kathy Wang

  7. Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us by Susan Magsamen

  8. This Sweet Earth: Walking with Our Children in the Age of Climate Collapse by Lydia Wylie-Kellermann

  9. How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them by Jason F. Stanley

  10. We Had to Remove This Post by Hanna Bervoets

  11. Cape Fever by Nadia Davids

  12. Middle Spoon by Alejandro Varela

  13. Playful: How Play Shifts Our Thinking, Inspires Connection, and Sparks Creativity by Cas Holman

  14. The Correspondent by Virginia Evans

  15. Bel Canto by Ann Patchett

  16. Elena Knows by Claudia Piñeiro

  17. Hysteria by Jessica Gross

  18. Climate Change: What Everyone Needs to Know by Joseph Romm

  19. The Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan

  20. Woman Without Shame: Poems by Sandra Cisneros

  21. The Compound by Aisling Rawle

  22. When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors & Asha Bandele

  23. If You Could See the Sun by Ann Liang

  24. Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico

  25. I’m Afraid of Men. by Vivek Shraya

  26. How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder by Nina McConigley

  27. Discipline by Larissa Pham

  28. Simple Passion by Annie Ernaux

  29. The Culture Map: Decoding How People Think, Lead, and Get Things Done Across Cultures by Erin Meyer

  30. How To Keep House While Drowning by K.C. Davis

  31. The Anxious Person’s Guide to Non-Monogomy: Your Guide to Open Relationships, Polyamory and Letting Go by Lola Phoenix

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