What I am reading

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

  1. Chaotic Good – Isabelle Baafi
  2. Loved One – Aisha Muharrar
  3. Big Man – Dean Atta
  4. Hide Me Under the Blood and I Shall Be Satisfied – Keith Jarrett
  5. All Fours – Miranda July
  6. Clean Up on Aisle Earth – Tasmin Lockwood
  7. Wimmy Road Boyz – Sufiyaan Salam
  8. Bad Queer – Gayathiri Kamalakanthan
  9. Boy Friends – Kai Spellmeier
  10. Winter – Karl Ove Knausgård (trans. Ingvild Burkey)
  11. Floodlines – Saleem Haddad
  12. West Wind – Mary Oliver
  13. Pig – Sam Sax
  14. Forest of Noise – Mosab Abu Toha
  15. The Coin – Yasmin Zaher
  16. Knockan – Jim Carruth
  17. Spring – Karl Ove Knausgård (trans. Ingvild Burkey)
  18. Where There Was Fire – John Manuel Arias
  19. The Ten Year Affair – Erin Somers
  20. Hope Must Be Held in a Clenched Fist – Nikesh Shukla
  21. Palaver – Bryan Washington
  22. Orkney Days – Christine Muir
  23. The Search for Othella Savage – Foday Mannah
  24. My Battle of Hastings – Xiaolu Guo
  25. Speak Still – Wing Lam Tong
  26. A Field Guide to Getting Lost – Rebecca Solnit
  27. Apparitions – Margo Glantz (trans. Ellen Jones)
  28. Fair – Jen Calleja
  29. What Do We Know – Mary Oliver
  30. Notes of a Crocodile – Qiu Miaojin (trans. Bonnie Huie)
  31. The Complete Poems of Edwin Muir
  32. Hunchback – Saou Ichikawa (trans. Polly Barton)
  33. Pedro Páramo – Juan Rulfo (trans. Douglas J. Weatherford)
  34. Scottish Journey – Edwin Muir
  35. The Two Roberts – Damian Barr

You can learn more about my 2025 reading list here.