These are all the books I've read in 2026 so far, from most- to least-recent. Anything bolded I particularly enjoyed.
Currently I'm reading The History of Sexuality by Michel Foucault and The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
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The Sorrows of Young Werther – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Malina – Ingeborg Bachmann
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G. – John Berger
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An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures – Clarice Lispector
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City of Quartz – Mike Davis
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Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
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The Immoralist – André Gide
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Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys
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Riverwork – Lisa Robertson
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The Philosophy of Translation – Damion Searls
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The Shock Doctrine – Naomi Klein
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Nostalgia – Mircea Cǎrtǎrescu
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I Who Have Never Known Men – Jacqueline Harpman
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Candide – Voltaire
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Case Closed – Patrik Ouředník
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Stealing the Future – David Z Morris
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Wild Horses – Jordi Cussà
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Tell Them I Said No – Martin Herbert
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Letters from a Seducer – Hilda Hilst
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By Night in Chile – Roberto Bolaño
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Jaw Filler – Charlie Markbreiter and Maz Murray
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The Jakarta Method – Vincent Bevins
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Nadja – André Breton
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Jack the Modernist – Robert Glück
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The Hour of the Star – Clarice Lispector
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Persona – Aoife Josie Clements
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Margery Kempe – Robert Glück
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Reactionary Democracy – Aurélien Mondon
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Havoc – Tom Kristensen