{"id":6847,"date":"2026-01-01T11:05:41","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T18:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/?p=6847"},"modified":"2026-02-28T13:00:36","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T20:00:36","slug":"books-i-read-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2026\/01\/books-i-read-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"books I read 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The General theory of Employment, Interest, and MOney by John Maynard Keynes &#8211; finished\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>i listened to this book on audio, because it woudl have been impossible ot sit and read it. But i have an undersatndign and respect for KEynes that I didn&#8217;t expect, even though I dont&#8217; udnerstand it as well as I would have if I&#8217;d read it on paper<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>good things by samin nosrat<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>the Wedding People\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>this book reminds me of the rule, that modern &#8220;Literary fiction&#8221; has to have a suicide. I&#8217;ts darkly humourous, that this dpressing book is an unepected literary book, I thought it woudl be a romance novel, ok, it kinda was, but I didn&#8217;st like how liekly they treated the suicide<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Caliban&#8217;s War<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>the feminine mystique <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What is Art by Leo Tolstoy<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Art and Fear<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Monkey King<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>how to argue and win every time<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>a girl named Zippy<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>She got up off the couch<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>something rising<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>can&#8217;t hurt me<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>How to fail at almost everythign and still win Big<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>the used world<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary><\/summary>\n<p><\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Good things<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2 The wedding people<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>good things by samin nosrat<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Caliban&#8217;s War<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The General theory of Employment, Interest, and MOney by John Maynard Keynes &#8211; finished<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What is Art by Leo Tolstoy<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Art and Fear<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Monkey King<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>+<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good things 2 The wedding people 3 good things by samin nosrat Caliban&#8217;s War The General theory of Employment, Interest, and MOney by John Maynard Keynes &#8211; finished What is Art by Leo Tolstoy Art and Fear Monkey King<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-thoughts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6847"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6954,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6847\/revisions\/6954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}