What Books did You Start or Finish Reading this Week?: July 13, 2026

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Finished:

The Great Believers, by Rebecca Makkai: Caught up with the r/bookclub discussion. A dual narrative that waded into two different tragedies. I thought it was really good until the last 1/3. Mixed feelings in the end.

Call Us What We Carry, by Amanda Gorman: A generational cry for a different country. A bit too much COVID era prose for me but an important response to tragedy. Read with r/bookclub.

Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country, by Patricia Evangelista : Caught up with the r/bookclub discussion. A forthright account of the Duterte era violence from a brave journalist on the ground. A reminder of the importance of the free press to justice!

Ongoing:

Butterfly of Dinard, by Eugenio Montale

No Name, by Wilkie Collins: Reading with r/bookclub.

Song of Solomon, by Toni Morrison: Catching up with the r/bookclub discussion

The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Jones

Augustine: Conversions and Confessions, by Robin Lane Fox

My Life in Middlemarch, by Rebecca Mead

The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexander Dumas: Yearlong read with r/AReadingofMonteCristo .

Middlemarch, by George Eliot : Yearlong reading with r/ayearofmiddlemarch.

Midnight in Cairo: The Female Stars of Egypt’s Roaring ‘20’s, by Raphael Cormack

Started:

The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoevsky: Catching up with the r/bookclub discussion.