Named One of The New Yorker’s Best Books of 2026
One of The New York Times’s anticipated books of February!
What can I know? What must I do? What may I hope?
National Book Award–longlisted author Christopher Beha recounts his struggle with these questions while making an earnest appeal for readers to seek out answers of their own
Twenty-five years ago, celebrated author (and cradle Catholic) Christopher Beha gave up on God. Helped along by a reading of Bertrand Russell’s classic text Why I Am Not a Christian, he became a committed atheist, certain that his days of belief were behind him. A youthful brush with mortality soon set Beha on a decades-long quest for meaning in a godless world.
| Publisher | Penguin Press |
| Author | Christopher Beha |
| Country | USA |
| Publication Date | 17/02/2026 |
| Pages | 432 |
| Edition | first |
| Size | 16×24 |
| About the Author | Christopher Beha is the former editor of Harper’s Magazine and the author of four previous books, including The Index of Self-Destructive Acts, which was nominated for the 2020 National Book Award. |
| Publisher Address | info@penguin.com |
| ISBN | 978-0593490471 |
