What I am reading

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

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

You can learn more about my 2025 reading list here.