Every summer, I put together a reading list that is mostly aspirational. It’s a combination of books I want to read, books I should read, and books that I have to read for my research or just being a good well-rounded person or whatever. By mid-summer, the reading list has collapsed and I’m frantically skimming whatever academic articles are necessary to finish whatever project is looming in front of me. What matters is that I want to read more broadly, more deliberately, but life is life and the wheels always fall off at some point. Here an index of my former efforts: 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, and 2011. Here’s hoping that 2026 might be different. First, I have a stack of fiction. I’ve been working my way through Iain Banks’s Culture series and have three more books to read (of the 9 books available on Kindle): Excession (1996), Hydrogen Sonata (2010) and Surface Detail (2015). I also want to read the new Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children…
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