2026 Book Reviews

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'Tis always good to think critically about that which our minds ingest. As ever my goal for 2026 is to read 50 books. I'll post links to blogs reacting to the literature below.

👍 1 Gegenwind: Vom Wachsen an Widerständen by Reinhold Messner
- 2 Couleurs de Guerre: Autochromes 1914-1918
👎 3 Wisdom Takes Work by Ryan Holiday
👍 4 Realm of the Black Mountain: A History of Montenegro by Elizabeth Roberts
👎 5 Le Petit Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
👍 6 AI Engineering: Building Applications with Foundation Models by Chip Huyen
👍 7 Ich denk, ich denk zu viel by Nina Kunz
👍 8 Indignity: A Life Reimagined by Lea Ypi
- 9 Meltdown: Scandal, Sleaze and the Collapse of Credit Suisse by Duncan Mavin
👍 10 Samurai Strategies: 42 Martial Secrets from Musashi's The Book of Five Rings by Boyé Lafayette de Menthe
👎 11 Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green
👍 12 Malta's Prehistoric Treasures by David H. Trump, Sharon Sultana, and Daniel Cilia
👍 13 The Era of the Hungarian Conquest by László Révész
👍 14 Eight Bears: Mythic Past and Imperiled Future by Gloria Dickie
👍 15 The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
- 16 Temple Bar: A History by Maurice Curtis
👍 17 The Broken China Dream: How Reform Revived Totalitarianism by Minxin Pei
👍 18 Rejection Proof: How to Beat Fear and Become Invincible by Jia Jiang
👍 19 Gebrauchsanweisung für Rom by Birgit Schönau
👍 20 Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare by Edward Fishman
- 21 The Tonality of Thought by Byung-Chul Han
👍 22 A Concise History of Romania by Keith Hitchins
👍 23 Selected Poems by D. H. Lawrence
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