📚 Books read in 2026

January

Lord of Light, by Roger Zelazny

An enjoyable speculative sci-fi tale of a far future where an advanced group has solved re-incarnation and elevated themselves to godhood, styling themselves after the Hindu Gods. They govern humanity by controlling thir karmic cycle and offering godhood as a faraway boon. Their reign is challenged by one of their own, who has a promethean desire to accelerate it to the masses.

What We Can Know, by Ian McEwan

Midway through the book I was not sure if I should keep going, and if this was my kind of fiction. But I'm glad I stuck with it. In the near future, a historian looks at an 'Immortal Lunch' hosted by a poet, that contained the only known rendition of a lost poem. A thoughtful look at how history remembers its heroes.