For decades, I’ve heard about CEO’s who read 52 books a year. I tried before and found it impossible. I decided to give it one more go. While I started and didn’t finish (for various reasons) 19 books, I managed to squeak in finishing the 52nd book on New Years Eve. Most of the books were audiobooks, but there were plenty read before bed and when waking up in the middle of the night, unable to fall back to sleep, while waiting in lobbies for appointments, and those rare, beautiful hours where there wasn’t work. I hope you’ll check out some of these in 2026. The * are the ones I really enjoyed.
- Get the Picture – Bianca Busker
- *James – Percival Everett
- A Love Song for Ricki Wilde – Tia Williams
- *This Motherless Land – Nicki May
- The Storyteller’s Death – Ann Cardinal
- It Starts with Us – Colleen Hoover
- My Brilliant Friend – Elena Ferrante
- *The Four Winds – Kristen Hannah
- Martyr!
- Another Country – James Baldwin
- Ruin Read – Lamar Giles
- Coyote Blue – Christopher Moore
- *American Dirt – Jeanine Cummins
- The Emperor of Gladness – Ocean Vuong
- Black Water Rising – Attica Locke
- The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store – James McBride
- Hum – Helen Phillips
- Squirm – Carl Hiaasen
- Good Dirt – Charmaine Wilkerson
- Wandering Stars – Tommy Orange
- Unlock your menopause type
- You’re not broken
- Validation
- Raven book
- The Hospice Journey Handbook
- The Good Lord Bird – James McBride
- Notes to myself – Seth Godin
- The boy, the mole, the fox & the horse – Charlie Mackesy
- An Everyone Culture – Robert Kegan
- Automatic Habits – James Clear
- Manifesto for a Moral Revolution
- *An Absolutely Remarkable Thing – Hank Green
- *A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor – Green
- *Professional Troublemaker – Luvvie Ajayi Jones
- *The Curse of Pedro Houdini – Derek Miller
- House of A Thousand Lies
- Babel – RF Kuang
- The Cutting Season – Attica Locke
- Pleasantville – Attica Locke
- Bluebird, Bluebird – Attica Locke
- ‘Guide Me Home – Attica Locke
- Deep Cuts
- The Small & the Mighty – Sharon McMahon
- The Service Berry
- Little Heathans – Mildred Armstrong Kalish
- The Orchard Keeper – Cormac McCarthy
- The Last Policeman –
- Grandma Gatewood’s Walk
- *The Women – Kristin Hannah
- Ministry of the Future
- No one gets to fall apart – Sara Labris
- *Rednecks – Taylor Brown
- The Message – Ta-nehisi Coates