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

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

You can learn more about my 2025 reading list here.