What I am reading

Here is a list of the books I have read so far this year in 2026:

  1. Winter – Karl Ove Knausgård (trans. Ingvild Burkey)
  2. Floodlines – Saleem Haddad
  3. West Wind – Mary Oliver
  4. Pig – Sam Sax
  5. Forest of Noise – Mosab Abu Toha
  6. The Coin – Yasmin Zaher
  7. Knockan – Jim Carruth
  8. Spring – Karl Ove Knausgård (trans. Ingvild Burkey)
  9. Where There Was Fire – John Manuel Arias
  10. The Ten Year Affair – Erin Somers
  11. Hope Must Be Held in a Clenched Fist – Nikesh Shukla
  12. Palaver – Bryan Washington
  13. Orkney Days – Christine Muir
  14. The Search for Othella Savage – Foday Mannah
  15. My Battle of Hastings – Xiaolu Guo
  16. Speak Still – Wing Lam Tong
  17. A Field Guide to Getting Lost – Rebecca Solnit
  18. Apparitions – Margo Glantz (trans. Ellen Jones)
  19. Fair – Jen Calleja
  20. What Do We Know – Mary Oliver
  21. Notes of a Crocodile – Qiu Miaojin (trans. Bonnie Huie)
  22. The Complete Poems of Edwin Muir
  23. Hunchback – Saou Ichikawa (trans. Polly Barton)
  24. Pedro Páramo – Juan Rulfo (trans. Douglas J. Weatherford)
  25. Scottish Journey – Edwin Muir
  26. The Two Roberts – Damian Barr

You can learn more about my 2025 reading list here.