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

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

Strangers by Belle Burden

Writers & Lovers by Lily King

The Cookbook Collector by Allegra Goodman

The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai