My favourite books of first half 2026
9 Jul 2026It's that time of the year!
Honestly, I haven't read as much as I would have liked this year, but I won't lose an excuse to point at those books that I've already loved.
There's no particular order in this list, but I can assure you, you won't get wrong picking any of them!
The Knight Watch, by Thomas D. Lee
The Helm of Midnight (The Five Penalties #1), by Marina J. Lostetter
Dream of the Jet-Black City, by Pablo Valcárcel Castro
City of Others (The DEUS Files #1), by Jared Poon
The Iron Garden Sutra (The Cosmic Wheel #1), by A.D. Sui
Mordew (Cities of the Weft #1), by Alex Pheby
Mortendant's Peril (The Trials of Irody Hasp #1), by R.J. Barker
The Republic of Memory (Song of the Safina #1), by Mahmud el Sayed
The Girl with a Thousand Faces, by Sunyi Dean
Pantomime (Micah Grey #1), by L.R. Lam
The Book of Fallen Leaves (The Autumn Empire #1), by A.S. Tamaki
Aicha, by Soraya Bouazzaoui
The Misheard World, by Aliya Whiteley
Moon Over Brendle, by Jeff Noon
A Dance of Burning Blades (Invoker Trilogy #2), by M.H. Ayinde
All Hail Chaos (Time of Iron #2), by Sarah Rees Brennan
Black Sun (Between Earth and Sky #1), by Rebecca Roanhorse
Heaven's Graveyard, by Grace Curtis
Review forthcoming!
First Mage on the Moon, by Cameron Johnston
