What I am reading

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

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

You can learn more about my 2025 reading list here.