Today’s prompt from Long and Short reviews is: what genre do you want to read more of in 2026? My science fiction and historical fiction reading last year were both fairly dismal, so….both.

WHAT have you finished reading recently? Treacherous Alliance, Trita Parsi. A history of Israel, Iranian, and American relations.

WHAT are you reading now? Paradise Lost, John Milton, and Losing the Signal, a history of BlackBerry’s rise and fall.

WHAT are you reading next? After The Confessions, Treacherous Alliance, and Paradise Lost, I think I need something fun. I might commit to Summer of 49 by Robert Halberstam, a baseball history about when DiMaggio and Williams were king.