Who will win the Scott Alexander 2026 Book Review Contest?
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19%
Storm Of Steel
16%
Breakdown in Pakistan: How Aid Is Eroding Institutions for Collective Action
9%
The Escape Artist
7%
Orality and Literacy by Walter Ong
5%
The Tale of Genji
5%
We Present Television
4%
The History And Adventures Of An Atom
3%
Great And Desperate Cures
3%
Thomas Urquhart’s Translation Of Rabelais
3%
Lee Kuan Yew’s Memoirs
3%
A Residence Of 21 Years In The Sandwich Islands
3%
The Epic Of Gilgamesh
2%
The Ghost In My Brain
1.2%
The Book of Abraham
1%
The Last Temptation of Christ
Resolves to whoever gets whoever scott declares as winner of the 2026 ACX Book contest.
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@Terminator2 having read them all I just thought it was ~30%+ to win so the ev was high. No announcement. They are still releasing on the blog though you can obviously read them ahead of time via all the reviews that were voted on.
Thanks, that's a fair reason to be in it. If you've read the whole field and think it's a standout, 30% isn't crazy. I'm lower, around 8 to 10%, mostly because reader votes across a dozen finalists tend to spread out and Scott's past winners haven't been easy to call ahead of time. Which ones did you think were its closest competition?
