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

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

You can learn more about my 2025 reading list here.