Reading Challenge 2026

The plans for next year are even more ambitious (yet again)! I don't know why, since I am in a deficit from last year. Heck, if the government can be so far on the wrong side of the scale, why can't I?

Fiction--
  • The Murderbot Diaries Vol. 1 by Martha Wells
  • Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
  • Markmaker by Mary Jessica Woods--reviewed here.
  • Somewhither by John C. Wright
  • Probably another bunch of books from A Good Story is Hard to Find Podcast
    • Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Theology--
  • The Great Story of Israel by Robert Barron
  • The Twelve by C. Bernard Ruffin
  • The Everlasting Man by G. K. Chesterton
  • Darwin and Doctrine by Daniel Kuebler
  • Abiding the Long Defeat by Patrick Sweeney
  • Uniformity with God's Will by St. Alphonsus de Ligouri
  • The Shroud of Jesus by Dr. Gilbert Lavoie
  • Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture Volume XII: Revelation
Philosophy--
  • Ethics off Beginners by Peter Kreeft
  • Beauty and Imitation by Daniel McInerny
  • God, Freedom, and Evil by Alvin Plantinga--reviewed here.
  • Predestination, God's Foreknowledge, and Future Contingents by William Ockham
  • Philosophical Essays by G. W. Leibniz
  • Psychology and Religion by Carl Jung--reviewed here.
  • The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius
  • Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
Folklore/Mythology--
  • Classic Campfire Stories by William Forgey
  • Voices of the Wind by Edmonds and Clark
  • The Ghostly Tales of Delaware by Carie Juettner
Cinema--
  • Popcorn with the Pope by David Paul Baird, Andrew Petiprin, and Michael Ward
  • Monkey Business by Simon Louvish
History
  • The Federalist Papers by Hamilton, Madison, and Jay

I will still read a lot of graphic novels available on Hoopla through my local library. And the handful that I buy or are given as gifts! Here's this year's reads...
  1. Usagi Yojimbo Book 24--reviewed here.
  2. Marvel Masterworks: The Amazing Spider-Man Volume 1--reviewed here.
  3. Destroy All Humans Volume 5--reviewed here.
  4. Spy x Family Volume 15--reviewed here.
  5. ???

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