Choose Book Review Finalists 2026

It’s time to narrow the 162 entries in the Book Review Contest (https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/book-review-contest-rules-2026) to about a dozen finalists. I can’t read 162 reviews alone, so I need your help. Please pick as many as you have time for, read them, and rate them 1-10. This year, Rob Ennals has stepped up and built a fancy website (https://acxreviews.robennals.org/?year=2026) that makes this easy. Rob is a software engineer who blogs at Messy Progress (https://messyprogress.substack.com/) and works on interactive tutorials to help people understand AI (https://learnai.robennals.org/). Many people offered to help, but Rob offered at the exact moment I was fretting about this and I took him up on it; thanks to all of you, but especially to him. Again, go here to read and rate the reviews (https://acxreviews.robennals.org/?year=2026) (they start off displayed randomly so that not everyone rates the same ones, but you can switch to alphabetic if you prefer). You have until June 15.