Books I’m Reading 2026

New American Bible.

Mark Leidner, Elegy for Pangaea.

Hagen Koo, Korean Workers: the Culture and Politics of Class Formation.

Marcia Bjornerud, Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World.

Alan Moore and David Lloyd, V for Vendetta.

Ishmael Reed, Mumbo Jumbo.

Shiga Naoya, The Paper Door and Other Stories (tr. Lane Dunlop).

Saadat Hasan Manto, The Dog of Tithwal: Stories (tr. Khalid Hasan and Muhammad Umar Memon).

R.K. Naryan, Malgudi Days.

Darcy Steinke, This Is the Door: the Body, Pain, and Faith.

Philip Goff, Why?: The Purpose of the Universe.

Fanny Howe, This Poor Book.

Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov.

Sally Rooney, Intermezzo.

Waguih Gadih, Beer in the Snooker Club.

Bernadette Mayer, The Bernadette Mayer Reader.

Etty Hillesum, An Interrupted Life and Letters from Westerbork.

Alicia Jo Rabins, When We’re Born We Forget Everything: a Memoir.

Abi Pollokoff, Nightmyths . Before the Body.

Sam Szabo, Enlightened Transsexual Comics.

Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre.

Henrik Pontoppidan, Lucky Per.

Anne Carson, Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera.

Pico Iyer, Aflame: Learning from Silence.

E.M. Forster, A Room with a View.

Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red.

William Faulkner, “Red Leaves,” “Barn Burning,” “Delta Autumn.”

Herman Melville, Moby Dick.

Adonis, Selected Poems (ed/tr. Khaled Mattawa).

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