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

1. Coal – Audre Lorde
2. Look, Don’t Touch – layla-roxanne hill & Francesca Sobande
3. Guapa – Saleem Haddad
4. I Want You to Be Happy – Jem Calder
5. Florenzer – Phil Melanson
6. Strangers on a Pier – Tash Aw
7. Shorelines – Alycia Pirmohamed
8. On the Calculation of Volume IV- Solvej Balle
9. On the Calculation of Volume III – Solvej Balle
10. The Glass Room – Simon Mawer
11. Chaotic Good – Isabelle Baafi
12. Loved One – Aisha Muharrar
13. Big Man – Dean Atta
14. Hide Me Under the Blood and I Shall Be Satisfied – Keith Jarrett
15. All Fours – Miranda July
16. Clean Up on Aisle Earth – Tasmin Lockwood
17. Wimmy Road Boyz – Sufiyaan Salam
18. Bad Queer – Gayathiri Kamalakanthan
19. Boy Friends – Kai Spellmeier
20. Winter – Karl Ove Knausgård (trans. Ingvild Burkey)
21. Floodlines – Saleem Haddad
22. West Wind – Mary Oliver
23. Pig – Sam Sax
24. Forest of Noise – Mosab Abu Toha
25. The Coin – Yasmin Zaher
26. Knockan – Jim Carruth
27. Spring – Karl Ove Knausgård (trans. Ingvild Burkey)
28. Where There Was Fire – John Manuel Arias
29. The Ten Year Affair – Erin Somers
30. Hope Must Be Held in a Clenched Fist – Nikesh Shukla
31. Palaver – Bryan Washington
32. Orkney Days – Christine Muir
33. The Search for Othella Savage – Foday Mannah
34. My Battle of Hastings – Xiaolu Guo
35. Speak Still – Wing Lam Tong
36. A Field Guide to Getting Lost – Rebecca Solnit
37. Apparitions – Margo Glantz (trans. Ellen Jones)
38. Fair – Jen Calleja
39. What Do We Know – Mary Oliver
40. Notes of a Crocodile – Qiu Miaojin (trans. Bonnie Huie)
41. The Complete Poems of Edwin Muir
42. Hunchback – Saou Ichikawa (trans. Polly Barton)
43. Pedro Páramo – Juan Rulfo (trans. Douglas J. Weatherford)
44. Scottish Journey – Edwin Muir
45. The Two Roberts – Damian Barr

You can learn more about my 2025 reading list here.