reading list 2026
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
A New World by Amit Chaudhuri
Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico, trans. by Sophie Hughes
House of Day, House of Night by Olga Tokarczuk, trans. by Antonia Lloyd-Jones
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka
The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson
Strangers by Belle Burden
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
Essentials of Christian Theology, edited by William C. Placher
The Art of Fiction by John Gardner
The School of Night by Karl Ove Knausgaard
The Art of Revision by Peter Ho Davies
A Hymn to Life by Gisèle Pelicot
Writers & Lovers by Lily King
The Cookbook Collector by Allegra Goodman
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai
Bonsai by Alejandro Zambra, trans. Megan McDowell
The Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante, trans. by Ann Goldstein
Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera, trans. by Lisa Dillard
Women Without Men by Shahrnush Parsipur, trans. Faridoun Farrokh
Cold Enough for Snow by Jessica Au
The Deserters by Matias Énard, trans. by Charlotte Mandel
Desperate Characters by Paula Fox
Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust, trans. by Lydia Davis
In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower by Marcel Proust, trans. by James Grieve
School of Night by Karl Ove Knausgaard, trans. by Martin Aitken
The Rest of Our Lives by Ben Markovits
This Is Not About Us by Allegra Goodman
Some Bright Nowhere by Ann Packer
The Complex by Karan Mahajan
Stoner by John Williams
Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth
Waiting by Ha Jin
Family Lexicon by Natalia Ginzburg
Hunts in Dreams by Tom Drury
The Guermantes Way by Marcel Proust, trans. by Mark Treharne
Sodom and Gomorrah by Marcel Proust, trans. by John Sturrock
The Prisoner by Marcel Proust, trans. by Carol Clark
The Fugitive by Marcel Proust, trans. by Peter Collier
Finding Time Again by Marcel Proust, trans. by Ian Patterson
The Chronology of Water by Lidia Yuknavitch
Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman
The Glass Hotel by Emily St John Mandel
The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith
Famesick by Lena Dunham
Transcendence for Beginners by Clare Carlisle
My Phantoms by Gwendoline Riley
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
Weather by Jenny Offill
Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid
A Cup of Rage by Raduan Nassar, trans. by Stefan Tobler
Sucker Punch by Scaachi Koul
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
The Lover by Maguerite Duras, trans. by Barbara Bray
Strange Houses by Uketsu, trans. by Jim Rion
Bibliophobia by Sarah Chihaya
Clam Down by Anelise Chen
Heart the Lover by Lily King
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead by Barbara Comyns
Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov
Versailles by Kathryn Davis
A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
I Who Have Never Known Men by Jaqueline Harpman, trans. by Ros Schwartz
