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

1. The Question of Palestine – Edward Said
2. Something about Living – Lena Khalaf Tuffaha
3. We, The Survivors – Tash Aw
4. Roses for Hedone – Prishita Maheshwari-Aplin
5. I Can Give You Anything But Love – Gary Indiana
6. A Safe Girl to Love – Casey Plett
7. John of John – Douglas Stuart
8. The Dance and the Fire – Daniel Saldaña París
9. The Book of Jonah – Luke Kennard
10. Prelude to Bruise – Saeed Jones
11. El taller de las garzas – Jordi Oms
12. Mirror Stage – Peter Scalpello
13. Call Me by Your Name: the Graphic Novel – André Aciman; Illustrated by Sarah Maxwell-McNicol
14. Borderline Fiction – Derek Owusu
15. Disappoint Me – Nicola Dinan
16. Coal – Audre Lorde
17. Look, Don’t Touch – layla-roxanne hill & Francesca Sobande
18. Guapa – Saleem Haddad
19. I Want You to Be Happy – Jem Calder
20. Florenzer – Phil Melanson
21. Strangers on a Pier – Tash Aw
22. Shorelines – Alycia Pirmohamed
23. On the Calculation of Volume IV- Solvej Balle
24. On the Calculation of Volume III – Solvej Balle
25. The Glass Room – Simon Mawer
26. Chaotic Good – Isabelle Baafi
27. Loved One – Aisha Muharrar
28. Big Man – Dean Atta
29. Hide Me Under the Blood and I Shall Be Satisfied – Keith Jarrett
30. All Fours – Miranda July
31. Clean Up on Aisle Earth – Tasmin Lockwood
32. Wimmy Road Boyz – Sufiyaan Salam
33. Bad Queer – Gayathiri Kamalakanthan
34. Boy Friends – Kai Spellmeier
35. Winter – Karl Ove Knausgård (trans. Ingvild Burkey)
36. Floodlines – Saleem Haddad
37. West Wind – Mary Oliver
38. Pig – Sam Sax
39. Forest of Noise – Mosab Abu Toha
40. The Coin – Yasmin Zaher
41. Knockan – Jim Carruth
42. Spring – Karl Ove Knausgård (trans. Ingvild Burkey)
43. Where There Was Fire – John Manuel Arias
44. The Ten Year Affair – Erin Somers
45. Hope Must Be Held in a Clenched Fist – Nikesh Shukla
46. Palaver – Bryan Washington
47. Orkney Days – Christine Muir
48. The Search for Othella Savage – Foday Mannah
49. My Battle of Hastings – Xiaolu Guo
50. Speak Still – Wing Lam Tong
51. A Field Guide to Getting Lost – Rebecca Solnit
52. Apparitions – Margo Glantz (trans. Ellen Jones)
53. Fair – Jen Calleja
54. What Do We Know – Mary Oliver
55. Notes of a Crocodile – Qiu Miaojin (trans. Bonnie Huie)
56. The Complete Poems of Edwin Muir
57. Hunchback – Saou Ichikawa (trans. Polly Barton)
58. Pedro Páramo – Juan Rulfo (trans. Douglas J. Weatherford)
59. Scottish Journey – Edwin Muir
60. The Two Roberts – Damian Barr

You can learn more about my 2025 reading list here.