Attached is a list of the books I read so far
in 2026. Sometimes I add markers like (*) to indicate books I
particularly like. I also try to keep track of how many books
of a particular kind (novel, etc.) and from a given country
and century (Eng. 19th, etc.), I read each year. For the
complete list of my reading since 1958, see http://www.seltzerbooks.com/readall.html
1 Emily St. John Mandel 1 **Station Eleven AMER 21st 1 NOVEL
1
2 Max Bennett 1 ***A Brief History of Intelligence AMERICAN 21st 2
SCIENCE 1
February
3 Alexander McCall Smith 29 In the Time of Five Pumpkins
SCOTTISH 21st 1 NOVEL 2
March
4 Anonymous Popol Vuh MAYAN 8th 1 ANTHROPOLOGY 1 April
5 Lee Woodman Colorscapes AMERICAN 21st 4 POETRY 1
6 John Irving Queen Esther AMERICAN 21st 5 NOVEL 3
7 Bernal Diaz The Conquest of New Spain SPANISH 16th 1
HISTORY 1
May
8 Timothy Seltzer 1 Crystal Concord Book 1: The Ghost and the
Tiger AMERICAN 21st 6 NOVEL 4
9 Julius Lester 1 To Be a Slave AMERICAN 20th 1 HISTORY 2
10 Julia Peterkin 1 Scarlet Sister Mary AMERICAN 20th 2
NOVEL 4
11 Aphra Behn 6 Oroonoko [second time] BRITISH 17th 1 NOVEL 5
12 Aphra Behn 1 The Rover Part 1 [second time] BRITISH 17th
2 PLAY 1
13 James Gleick ***Isaac Newton [second time] AMERICAN 21st 6
BIOGRAPHY 1
14 Studs Terkel ***** Hard Times AMERICAN 20th 3 HISTORY 3
15 Aphra Behn 7 Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His
Sister BRITISH 17th 3 NOVEL 6
16 Jessica Koehler 1 Who the Hell is Jean Piaget AMERICAN 21st 7
PSYCHOLOGY 1
17 Arthur C. Clarke 1 Childhood's End AMERICAN 20th 3 NOVEL 7
18 Sebastian Mallaby 1 ***** The Infinity Machine: Dennis
Hassabis, Deepmind, and the Quest for Superintelligence BRITISH
21st 1
June 19 Arthur C. Clarke 2 Imperial Earth AMERICAN 20th 4
NOVEL 8