Book 9 for 2026: Louder: We Can't Hear You (Yet!) Louder: We Can't Hear You (Yet!): The Political Poems of Marge Piercy , by Marge Piercy. My attention span doesn't usually do well with audio books. Poetry turns out to be an exception, which is...

Book 9 for 2026: "Louder: We Can't Hear You (Yet!): The Political Poems of Marge Piercy."

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Book 8 for 2026: The Canterville Ghost The Canterville Ghost and Other Stories , by Oscar Wilde. This collection has four of Wilde's stories, two almost novelette-length and two shorter. The title story is sort of a 19th-century...

Book 8 for 2026: "The Canterville Ghost and Other Stories" by Oscar Wilde. Sort of a 19th-century Beetlejuice.

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Book 7 for 2026: The Banned Book Club The Banned Book Club by Kim Hyun Sook and Ryan Estrada, illustrated by Ko Hyung-Ju. This graphic memoir tells the story of Kim Hyun Sook's college activism under a repressive regime in South Korea in....

Book 7 for 2026: "Banned Book Club," a graphic memoir by Kim Hyun Sook and Ryan Estrada, illustrated by Ko Hyung-Ju.

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Book 6 for 2026: The Bandit Queens The Bandit Queens , by Parini Shroff. This is a delightfully over-the-top dark comedy where very bad men get what's coming to them, but you know the dog will be fine. In a small village in...

Book 6 for 2026: "The Bandit Queens" by Parini Shroff. A dark comedy where very bad men get what's coming to them.

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Book 5 for 2026: The Children of Men LAURA RUTH LOOMIS

Book 5 for 2026: "The Children of Men," by PD James. After 25 years of no children born on earth, one woman is about to change everything.

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Book 4 for 2026: The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue been  The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue , by Mackenzi Lee. There are unlikeable narrators, and then there's Henry "Monty" Montague. It's the early 1700s, and Monty, the 18-year-old son of an...

Book 4 for 2026: "The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue" by Mackenzi Lee.

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What's New Lysistrata , by Aristophanes (translated by Douglass Parker) . Humor is difficult to translate, from another language or another era. Fortunately, this play is about the funniest possible subject:...

Book 3 for 2026: "Lysistrata," by Aristophanes, translated by Douglass Parker.

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Book 2 for 2026: Orwell's Roses Orwell's Roses, by Rebecca Solnit. This book is hard to describe. My library shelved it as a biography. Some critics called it an essay collection. Elsewhere, Solnit noted approvingly that one critic....

Book 2 for 2026: "Orwell's Roses" by Rebecca Solnit. Part biography, part essay collection, maybe just beyond genre.

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Book 1 for 2026: Exit Strategy Exit Strategy , by Martha Wells. This is the fourth book in the Murderbot Diaries series. While they can be read as standalones, it really helps to read this series in order, starting with All...

Book 1 for 2026: "Exit Strategy," 4th book in the Murderbot Diaries series by Martha Wells. Managed to hit all my reading challenges: #PopsugarReadingChallenge, #52BookClubChallenge, #BooklistQueenChallenge, and #ThisChallengeKilledTheBookworm.

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