2026

What We Can Know by Ian McEwan

Breaking Clean by Judy Blunt

The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu

Company Water by Jeff Guay

The Beasts of Templeton by Lauren Groff

The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris

Trials of the Earth by Mary Hamilton

The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner

Transcription by Ben Lerner

Living Well Is the Best Revenge by Calvin Tomkins 

Second Place by Rachel Cusk

Lightning Rods by Helen DeWitt

Secret History by Donna Tartt (reread)

The Wayfarer by Adam Johnson

The Keeper by Tana French

When We Were Feral by Shasta Grant

Underlake by Erin McCoy

The Leopard by Giuseppe di Lampedusa

Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie (audiobook)

Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins (audiobook)

Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay

Deny Me This by Hubble Stark

Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane (audiobook)

Nightjar by Emily Ruskovich

Gap Year by Anthony Cardellini

The Odyssey by Homer, trans. Emily Wilson 

The Mystery Guest by Gregoire Bouillier 

Mina’s Matchbox by Yoko Ogawa 

Victorian Psycho by Virginia Feito

Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather

The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen

A Short Stay in Hell by Stephen Peck

Night of the Jabberwock by Fredric Brown

(This is where I commence the project of going through my bookshelf alphabetically and reading every novel I own that I haven’t read yet)

The Famous Magician by César Aira

Case Histories by Kate Atkinson 

Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

Persuasion by Jane Austen

2025

Rejection by Tony Tulathimutte

Rock Springs by Richard Ford

The God of the Woods by Liz Moore (audiobook)

Life Stories by Claiborne Barksdale

Ex-Wife by Ursula Perrot 

Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

Huge quantity of children’s picture books about Peru

Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter by Mario Vargas Llosa

Birds of America by Lorrie Moore

A Manual for Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin

When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut

Being Here Is Everything by Marie Darrieussecq

The Maniac by Benjamín Labatut

Beta Vulgaris by Margie Sarsfield

Biography of X by Catherine Lacey

The Third Man by Graham Green

The Fire Concerto by Sarah Landenwich

Harrow by Joy Williams

Will and Testament by Vigdis Hjorth

Middlemarch by George Eliot

The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles (audiobook)

Sunday by O. Schrauwen

Audition by Katie Kitamura 

Wool by Hugh Howie (audiobook)

The Club by Ellery Lloyd (audiobook)

Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively

Wanting by Claire Jia

Pure Colour by Sheila Heti

What Kind of Paradise by Janelle Brown (audiobook)

Pity the Beast by Robin McLean

City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert (audiobook)

Intermezzo by Sally Rooney

Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis 

In the Shadow of Man by Jane Goodall

Parallel Lives by O. Schauwen