Esquire best books of 2026 so far

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I always find this list from Esquire magazine to be interesting and somewhat offbeat I can often find something here that was not on my radar . Thought you might also like looking at it

This Is Where the Serpent Lives — Daniyal Mueenuddin
Football — Chuck Klosterman
Island at the Edge of the World: The Forgotten History of Easter Island — Mike Pitts
One Sun Only: Stories — Camille Bordas
Autobiography of Cotton — Cristina Rivera Garza (translated by Christina MacSweeney)
On Morrison — Namwali Serpell
Kin — Tayari Jones
Whidbey — T Kira Madden
The Natural Way of Things — Charlotte Wood
Children of Strife — Adrian Tchaikovsky
Python’s Kiss — Louise Erdrich
Seasons of Glass and Iron — Amal El-Mohtar
Transcription — Ben Lerner
London Falling — Patrick Radden Keefe
Questions 27 & 28 — Karen Tei Yamashita
Honey — Imani Thompson
John of John — Douglas Stuart
One Leg on Earth — ’Pemi Aguda

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There are some listed that are not familiar but that is not surprising because my scope can be limited.
JOHN OF JOHN and LONDON FALLING are two of my favorites for this year.
THIS IS WHERE THE SERPENT LIVES has definitely caught my interest.

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Thanks as always, @Anne_Glasgow!

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I have Questions 27 & 28 on my tbr and hope I can get to it before end of the year. I’m interested in the topic because Texas had Japanese internment camps during the war.

The one about Easter Island seems possibly interesting also.

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Thanks for sharing. None of these were on my radar, but Questions 27 and 28 looks very intriguing.

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RE: Questions 27 & 28
It is also on my TBR. Actually, a hard copy is sitting on my shelf waiting for me.

Thanks for the list. This is actually a list to which I can relate.