The Last 10 Books (I added to my Wish List) - February 2026  

I’m picking up quite a few new book ideas these days from various YouTubers – not that I need THAT much encouragement! Together with searches to deepen my knowledge of subjects I’m presently reading this is probably where most of the additions come from. A few others – the top 2 here at least – are hardback to paperback conversions. I much prefer paperbacks (for a host of reasons including price) I so periodically go through my list looking for the hardbacks I added when the book first came out to see if it had gone to paperback yet. I’ve been surprised more than once how many books never make that leap. So, here’s what I’ve added recently...   

Faster: How a Jewish Driver, an American Heiress, and a Legendary Car Beat Hitler's Best by Neal Bacomb 

Rebellion: How Antiliberalism Is Tearing America Apart Again by Robert Kagan 

Pox Romana: The Plague That Shook the Roman World by Colin Elliott 

McNamara at War: A New History by Philip Taubman 

The Invention of Russia: The Journey from Gorbachev's Freedom to Putin's War by Arkady Ostrovsky 

The Lighthouse of Stalingrad: The Hidden Truth at the Centre of WWII's Greatest Battle by Iain MacGregor 

Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction by Philip Tetlock and Dan Gardner 

Endure: Mind, Body and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance by Alex Hutchinson 

Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know by Malcolm Gladwell 

The Genius Myth: A Curious History of a Dangerous Idea by Helen Lewis 

More of a mixed bag this time but still (and always!) History heavy. It’s my thing – and it's not as if I’m EVER going to run out of things to interest me in such a HUGE subject area.