Ask HN: Best books you read in 2026?

9 points | by 013 12 hours ago ago

4 comments

  • MostlyFragile 34 minutes ago ago

    I quite liked Between Two Fires. Medieval horror which was a new genre for me.

  • hyraki 8 hours ago ago

    Dungeon crawler Carl

    • fugaziboutit 8 hours ago ago

      Given you enjoyed that, give '100th Run' a read. The cover art is awful but the RPG-lit writing is solid.

  • chistev 4 hours ago ago

    These are usually posted in December. You should have waited.

    But since you asked -

    1. Lying by Sam Harris

    2. The Road by Cormac McCarthy

    3. Cosmos by Carl Sagan.

    4. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

    5. A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

    6. Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl

    7. Mortality by Christopher Hitchens

    8. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J. K. Rowling

    9. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling

    10. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander.

    11. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

    12. Billions and Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium by Carl Sagan

    13. Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space by Carl Sagan

    These are some of the books but not all that I read thus far this read. I'll write a short review of them in my blog my year's end.