2026 READING LIST

Updated as of March 4, 2026
Titles in bold are books I’m currently reading
Previous years: 2024, 2025

FICTION

Alexis, André: Fifteen Dogs
Ferrante, Elena (trans. Ann Goldstein): My Brilliant Friend
Jemisin, N. K.: The Fifth Season
Latronico, Vincenzo (trans. Sophie Hughes): Perfection
Laurence, Margaret: The Stone Angel
MacLeod, Alistair: No Great Mischief
Mujica Lainez, Manuel (trans. Gregory Rabassa): Bomarzo
Ōe, Kenzaburō (trans. John Nathan): A Personal Matter
O’Farrell, Maggie: Hamnet
Opsina, María (trans. Heather Cleary): Only a Little While Here
Kawakami, Mieko (trans. Sam Bett & David Boyd): Breasts and Eggs
Sotto Yambao, Samantha: Water Moon
Stuart, Douglas: Young Mungo
Vo, Nghi: When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain
Wachman, Sam: The Sunflower Boys
Wood, Benjamin: Seascraper

SHORT FICTION

Gaitskill, Mary: Bad Behavior
Lispector, Clarice (trans. Katrina Dodson): Complete Stories
Ross, Jacquelyn Zong-Li: The Longest Way to Eat a Melon

NONFICTION

Downs, Alan: The Velvet Rage: Overcoming the Pain of Growing up Gay in a Straight Man’s World
Le Guin, Ursula K.: The Language of the Night: Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy
Saunders, George: A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life

POETRY

Cavafy, Constantine P. (trans. Rae Dalven): The Complete Poems of Cavafy: Expanded Edition
Chemidlin, Grant: In the Middle of a Better World
Ondaatje, Michael: The Distance of a Shout: Selected Poems
Whitman, Walt: Leaves of Grass
Williams, Oscar (editor): Immortal Poems of the English Language