My 51st read of 2026 is a reread of The Marketplace by Laura Antoniou. Still the crown jewel of service erotica. Depicts a super realistic, modern consensual slave system, with four out of five likable characters. If you haven’t read it, you should. 

My 50th read of 2026 is His Doll by Anna Svoboda. Kidnap victim falls in love with the trainer who is preparing her for life as a sex slave to a drug cartel. You know, as one does. I enjoyed the harsher parts more than I enjoyed the romance, but all in all not bad. 

My 49th read of 2026 is Tuesday Night at the Gardens by Jim Cornette and Mark Davis. A wonderful snapshot of wrestling in Louisville, Kentucky in the early 70s. Filled with pictures and personal recollections of Cornette when he was a young kid.

My 48th read of 2026 is Romeo and/or Juliet by Ryan North. It’s a choose your own adventure version of Romeo and Juliet. Completely ridiculous and also smartly funny. You can play as either lovestruck teens, often flipping back-and-forth between them. There’s even an unlockable character lol

Thanks! During the tornado wasn’t that scary but seeing the aftermath was sobering.

My 47th read of 2026 is The Wisdom of Crowds by Joe Abercrombie. A really great finale for the second trilogy. Nice to see some of my suspicions pay off, but equally nice to be genuinely surprised at some revelations.

My 46th read of 2026 is The Trouble With Peace by Joe Abercrombie. Joe makes watching two characters that you love make AWFUL choices fun, which is quite the feat.

Six Magic Words is my latest kink erotica book, now available on Amazon. Audrey runs the local kink munch, has an open marriage and has plenty of offers to dominate her, but sadly her sex drive is in the crapper. A stranger offers her a way to ignite her libido, but can six words really help?

My 45th read of 2026 is Foreclosure Gothic by Harris Lahti. Weirdness follows a guy who becomes obsessed with buying and flipping houses. I really admire how the story would just jump ahead by years.

My 44th read of 2026 is Devolution by Max Brooks. Epistolary novel about a tiny community under siege by Bigfoots. Fast read and actually makes Sasquatches scary.

My 43rd read of 2026 is A Little Hatred by Joe Abercrombie. Joe brings his fantasy world into the early Industrial Revolution. So much bloodshed. How many good jokes about the darkest of moments.

My 42nd read of 2026 is Damascus Station by David McClosky. Tense spy drama in Syria. Does a really great job of showing how different agencies and factions approach the same problem as well as sympathetic portrayal of the inhabitants of Syria.

My 41st read of 2026 is When Sarah Screamed by Tobias Tanner. An unhappily married woman reconnects with her first husband who is Dom AF. More romantic than I was expecting, but oh my God, I’m so happy to see kink characters in their 40s.

RIP John Blanche, an insanely talented artist. In the 80s, so much of Fantasy look like a cartoon and then I encountered this genius’s work and my world changed.

My 40th read of 2026 is the graphic novel, Lavender Jack by @danschkade.bsky.social and Jenn Manley Lee. Turn of the 20th century steam punk vigilante, taking on the corrupt wealthy. Yes. Yes. Yes. There is so much to love. An older female Great Detective! Significant characters of color!

My 39th read of 2026 is Lathe of Heaven by Ursula k le Guin. Wow, fantastic book. Reads like a Phillip K Dick novel with Guin’s empathy. Loved, loved, loved it.

My 38th read of 2026 is The Wind’s Twelve Quarters by Ursula k le Guin. An anthology of some wide ranging stories. I’ll be haunted by the story of the 10 clones for a very long time.

My 37th read of 2026 is Red Country by Joe Abercrombie. Pleasantly surprised to read a Western set in a fantasy world. As usual, another wonderful book. Abercrombie is easily my favorite living writer of Fantasy right now.

My 36th read of 2026 is The Other Wind by Ursula K le Guin. The last Earthsea book. It is a nice wrap up of the series and a meditation on death, as well as an interesting recontextualization of the first trilogy.

My 35th read of 2026 is a reread of Vox by Nicholson Baker. Two strangers share sexual fantasies and experiences on a party sex line. The fantasies were way more absurd than I remembered.

I can’t believe I forgot to post the cover for this. Again, really loved it and found it so useful.

My 34th read of 2026 is Favorites by Acorn Sweetleaf. A collection of erotic stories, with a common theme of a good girl, accidentally teasing or flashing a good friend, and it leads to sex. I liked it.

My 32nd read of 2026 is Renegades: Harrowmaster by Mike Brooks. A remarkably sympathetic space marine novel. Really fun read .

My 31st read of 2026 is The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt. Insanely popular book about the saddest young man who never really grows up or becomes a better person. Remind me to never read mainstream books again lol. Do NOT recommend and best avoid.

My 30th read of 2026 is Sheepdogs: A Novel by Elliot Ackerman. Two ex-operatives get recruited to steal a luxury plane. Shenanigans happen. A funny book about some deadly serious geopolitics. I enjoyed it immensely and highly recommend it.

Without stating your age post your favorite film released the year you turned 18.

My 29th read of 2026 is The Spy Inside the Castle by MB Courtenay. A blend between a gothic romance and a Dan Brown novel. It didn’t work for me but I have no doubt it will be a blockbuster movie one day.

My 28th read of 2026 is Vacation on Planet Glor by L. A. Guettler. A sci-fi comedy Choose-your-own-Adventure that is just the right length. I liked it a lot.

My 27th read of 2026 is the XXXenophile Omnibus by Phil Foglio and other artists. I have read all of these before but it is nice to have it all in one book. These stories were a huge inspiration for my early work.

My 26th read of 2026 is The Heroes by Joe Ambercrombie. A three day fantasy battle that is both thrilling and properly horrifying. War sucks.