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

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

You can learn more about my 2025 reading list here.