Best Books of 2026 So Far
Jim's tracking the best reads of 2026. These are the books everyone's talking about this year — from buzzy debuts to long-awaited sequels.
| Book | Rating |
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 Demon Copperhead | 5/5
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 Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow | 4/5
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 Lessons in Chemistry | 4/5
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 The Midnight Library | 4/5
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 Piranesi | 5/5
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 Klara and the Sun | 4/5
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Jim's Quick Takes
Demon Copperhead
"Kingsolver took Dickens and dropped him into Appalachian opioid country, and the result is devastating, brilliant, and necessary. Demon's voice is so ..."
Read full review →Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
"A book about making video games that made Jim feel ALL the feelings? Sign this worm up. Zevin captures the creative process — the joy, the jealousy, t..."
Read full review →Lessons in Chemistry
"Elizabeth Zott is Jim's new hero. A chemist who refuses to dumb things down, a dog named Six-Thirty who understands words, and a 1960s cooking show th..."
Read full review →The Midnight Library
"A book about a library? Jim was sold before page one. But seriously, this story hits different. It's about regret, possibility, and finding contentmen..."
Read full review →Piranesi
"This book is like burrowing into a dream you never want to wake up from. Susanna Clarke built an impossible, gorgeous labyrinth and Jim wandered its h..."
Read full review →Klara and the Sun
"Leave it to a Nobel Prize winner to make Jim — a humble bookworm — question the very nature of consciousness. Klara's perspective is so innocent and o..."
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