Top reads for 2026

So far, my fav reads of all genres are these with 6/14 being rereads. I realize the names alone are not giving much detail. I’ve only done reviews of a couple. Be that as it may,


The Last Song of the World by Joseph Fasano (Copper Canyon, 2024) [reread]
My Red, The Selected Haiku of John Stevenson (Brooks Books, 2021) [reread]
The Black Wolf by Louise Penny (Minotaur Books, 2025)
Screaming Obscenities at the Sky by Christian McPherson (At Bay Press, 2025)
Red Moon by Kim Stanley Robinson (Hachette Book Group, 2018)
Becoming Altar: New and Selected Poems by Kyla Houbolt (Suppress, 2025)
The Thirteenth Apocalypse by MissUnderstoodLyrics (AO3, 2025)
Cinema of the Present by Lisa Robertson (Coach House, 2014) [reread]
Weather by Rob Taylor (Gaspereau Press, 2024) [reread]
Do It Wrong: How to be a Poet in the Twenty-first Century by Derek Beaulieu (Assembly Press, 2026)
Lycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses by Kristen O’Neal (Quirk Books, 2022)
The New Road (is an Old Friend) by MisunderstoodLyrics (AO3, 2024) [reread]
Turtle Dreams: The Red Moon Anthology of English Language Poetry 2025, ed. by Jim Kacian (Red Moon Press, 2026)
No End in Strangeness by Bruce Taylor (Cormorant Books, 2011) [reread]

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