What I am reading

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

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

You can learn more about my 2025 reading list here.