Season archive

2026 in Review

11Books in season

57Numeric scores

15Without a score

9Completed verdicts

Unnecessarily official

Season awards

Book of the year

No Country for Old Men

4.43/5 club average.

Hall of shame

Monkey Grip

2.75/5 club average.

Civil war

Dragonflight

1.24 population SD.

Hivemind

Matt + Jacob

0.30 stars apart across 5 shared books.

Generous one

Matt

+0.83

Hater

Ed

3.00 average.

Chaos merchant

Ed + Eric

1.29 stars apart.

Best picker

Oliver

4.43 average across 1 selections.

Chronology

Season timeline

Jan

Demon Copperhead

by Barbara Kingsolver · chosen by Alec

3.9/5

Feb

Between Two Fires

by Christopher Buehlman · chosen by Eric

3.6/5

Mar

The Death of Bunny Munro

by Nick Cave · chosen by Ed

3.3/5

Apr

Peter and Wendy

by J.M. Barrie · chosen by Jacob

3.8/5

May

Dragonflight

by Anne McCaffrey · chosen by Josh

3.1/5

Jun

A Confession

by Leo Tolstoy · chosen by Matt

3.0/5

Jul

The Gone World

by Tom Sweterlitsch · chosen by Nathan

3.9/5

Aug

No Country for Old Men

by Cormac McCarthy · chosen by Oliver

4.4/5

Sept

Monkey Grip

by Helen Garner · chosen by Alec

2.8/5

Oct

Dungeon Crawler Carl

by Matt Dinniman · chosen by Eric

3.0/5

Nov

Layer Cake

by J.J. Connolly · chosen by Ed

TBD

Committee roll call

Member summaries

Matt4.1010 scores Jacob3.905 scores Nathan3.756 scores Alec3.605 scores Oliver3.506 scores Eric3.437 scores Josh3.179 scores Ed3.009 scores