Non-Fiction Reading for 2026

• Sacred Pathways: Nine Ways to Connect with God by Gary L. Thomas
  • Mentioned in the footnotes in Practicing the Way. My copy is already here awaiting me. 
• Praying Like Monks, Living Like Fools by Tyler Staton
  • Another one purchased (on Kindle) and waiting for me. Our church is putting a renewed focus on prayer this year, so it feels like time to finally tackle this one. 
• Holier Than Thou by Jackie Hill Perry
  • A book about trusting in God from a voice that I have come to appreciate. You’ve seen her videos floating around on social media where she puts into words what you couldn’t even really get your finger on. My copy is sitting here awaiting me. 
• Liturgies for Resisting Empire by Kat Armas
  • I heard about this book and immediately ordered a copy (currently on its way). A book about community, the meaning of being human, and not losing our way under the cultural pull from the world around us. I’m exicted to read this one. 
• Don’t Mom Alone by Heather MacFayden
  • I saw Heather speaking on some YouTube video and immediately purchased her book. Then the book came and has sat on my shelf waiting on my reading time to catch up to my purchasing impulses. Again, the focus here is community (I’m sensing a theme) and how you need others. I’m reading you this year!
• We Who Wrestle with God by Jordan Peterson
  • I preordered this months before it came out. Then when it arrived, I was in the middle of something else and still haven’t gotten around to reading it. I’m mostly interested in his perspective into the Bible stories as someone who is seeking, but not yet in the faith. 

Fiction Reading for 2026

• The Ending Writes Itself by Evelyn Clark
  • I’ve preordered this mystery novel which is set to release in April. Six authors come to a secluded island and find their host dead. Hooked already.
• The Caretaker by Marcus Kliewer
  • This one has also been preordered to arrive in April. Three days in a strangers house following some very stringent instructions. Listed as a supernatural horror, I anticipate things get weird. 
• Wind and Truth by Brandon Sanderson
  • We already talked about the Stormlight Archives—this is the fifth in the series. I prefer these books, because of their size, in mass market paperback form, so I am awaiting my preorder of the correct book format, though the book is already out and I could have read it already if I wanted. 
• Very Slowly All at Once by Lauren Schott
  • I’m awaiting my preordered copy at the end of this month. Labeled a mystery thriller, a couple in financial stress begins receiving money that they don’t think to question until it is too late. 
• Operation Bounce House by Matt Dinniman
  • Dungeon Crawler Carl (also available on Kindle Unlimited) is in my Audiobook library awaiting my listening. But I couldn’t resist preordering Operation Bounce House, which should arrive in February. This one is futuristic, space travel but based around a game where players try to destroy new Earth settlers who just want to farm in peace. 
• The Extraordinary Disappointments of Leopold Berry by Ransom Riggs
  • I’m already working on this one. I picked it up in a bookstore just based on the cover art. This one is young adult fantasy. I will say, the story is exciting, but it is so slow at unfolding. It almost got set aside because it took over 100 pages to get into the story. 
• The Book of Elsewhere by Keanu Reeves and China Mieville
  • China Mieville has written some books that I loved (Kraken), so I bought this book in hopes that this collaboration is worth my time. This is a fantasy science fiction book that also has a horror label, which I’ll see if it deserves that one or not. It came out last summer but I haven’t gotten around to it yet. 
• The Last Murder at the End of the World by Stuart Turton
  • Another book I bought and haven’t gotten around to reading yet. (Don’t act like you don’t have this problem!) An island is all that is left of the world and there is a murder to be solved! It is available on Kindle Unlimited.
• Home is Where the Bodies Are by Jeneva Rose
  • Another book I purchased because of the cover art when I saw it in the bookstore. This is a horror murder mystery about children going through their deceased parents’ things and finding some dark secrets. 
• Hum by Helen Phillips
  • This was on my list last year and I didn’t get to it. (I didn’t get to very many books last year, which is pretty sad.) This is a futuristic dystopia about artificial intelligence and disconnection in humans. 

What About You?

What books are you looking forward to reading this year?

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