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

1. Emergency Dream – Polly Atkin
2. Jonny – Tomek Mossakowski
3. Pigeon with Warburtons – Lorna Callery-Sithole
4. White Noise – Don DeLillo
5. How to Have Sex in a Poem – Anahid Nersessian
6. Beginning Middle End – Valeria Luiselli
7. Paradise Burns – Pol Guasch
8. The Matter – Padraig Regan
9. Never Was – H. Gareth Gavin
10. Father Myself – James McDermott
11. Primers Volume 8 – Nine Arches Press
12. Agnes Lives! – Hallie Elizabeth Newton
13. This Is Where The Serpent Lives – Daniyal Mueenuddin
14. The Question of Palestine – Edward Said
15. Something about Living – Lena Khalaf Tuffaha
16. We, The Survivors – Tash Aw
17. Roses for Hedone – Prishita Maheshwari-Aplin
18. I Can Give You Anything But Love – Gary Indiana
19. A Safe Girl to Love – Casey Plett
20. John of John – Douglas Stuart
21. The Dance and the Fire – Daniel Saldaña París
22. The Book of Jonah – Luke Kennard
23. Prelude to Bruise – Saeed Jones
24. El taller de las garzas – Jordi Oms
25. Mirror Stage – Peter Scalpello
26. Call Me by Your Name: the Graphic Novel – André Aciman; Illustrated by Sarah Maxwell-McNicol
27. Borderline Fiction – Derek Owusu
28. Disappoint Me – Nicola Dinan
29. Coal – Audre Lorde
30. Look, Don’t Touch – layla-roxanne hill & Francesca Sobande
31. Guapa – Saleem Haddad
32. I Want You to Be Happy – Jem Calder
33. Florenzer – Phil Melanson
34. Strangers on a Pier – Tash Aw
35. Shorelines – Alycia Pirmohamed
36. On the Calculation of Volume IV- Solvej Balle
37. On the Calculation of Volume III – Solvej Balle
38. The Glass Room – Simon Mawer
39. Chaotic Good – Isabelle Baafi
40. Loved One – Aisha Muharrar
41. Big Man – Dean Atta
42. Hide Me Under the Blood and I Shall Be Satisfied – Keith Jarrett
43. All Fours – Miranda July
44. Clean Up on Aisle Earth – Tasmin Lockwood
45. Wimmy Road Boyz – Sufiyaan Salam
46. Bad Queer – Gayathiri Kamalakanthan
47. Boy Friends – Kai Spellmeier
48. Winter – Karl Ove Knausgård (trans. Ingvild Burkey)
49. Floodlines – Saleem Haddad
50. West Wind – Mary Oliver
51. Pig – Sam Sax
52. Forest of Noise – Mosab Abu Toha
53. The Coin – Yasmin Zaher
54. Knockan – Jim Carruth
55. Spring – Karl Ove Knausgård (trans. Ingvild Burkey)
56. Where There Was Fire – John Manuel Arias
57. The Ten Year Affair – Erin Somers
58. Hope Must Be Held in a Clenched Fist – Nikesh Shukla
59. Palaver – Bryan Washington
60. Orkney Days – Christine Muir
61. The Search for Othella Savage – Foday Mannah
62. My Battle of Hastings – Xiaolu Guo
63. Speak Still – Wing Lam Tong
64. A Field Guide to Getting Lost – Rebecca Solnit
65. Apparitions – Margo Glantz (trans. Ellen Jones)
66. Fair – Jen Calleja
67. What Do We Know – Mary Oliver
68. Notes of a Crocodile – Qiu Miaojin (trans. Bonnie Huie)
69. The Complete Poems of Edwin Muir
70. Hunchback – Saou Ichikawa (trans. Polly Barton)
71. Pedro Páramo – Juan Rulfo (trans. Douglas J. Weatherford)
72. Scottish Journey – Edwin Muir
73. The Two Roberts – Damian Barr

You can learn more about my 2025 reading list here.