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Books Read This Year
13 books in 2026
Straight to Hell: True Tales of Deviance, Debauchery, and Billion-Dollar Deals
John LeFevre
White Nights
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You
Julie Zhuo
The Enchiridion: Pocket Edition
Epictetus
The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance
W. Timothy Gallwey
Small Things Like These
Claire Keegan
Foster
Claire Keegan
Olive Kitteridge
Elizabeth Strout
Football
Chuck Klosterman
Train Dreams: A Novella
Denis Johnson
Who Is Government?: The Untold Story of Public Service
Michael Lewis
The Correspondent
Virginia Evans
Theo of Golden
Allen Levi