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