Reading List

2026

A Beast Slinks Towards Beijing, Alice Evelyn Yang Cursed Bunny, Bora Chung Roadside Picnic, Arkady and Boris Strugatsky The Aleph, Jorge Luis Borges The Unconsoled, Kazuo Ishiguro

2025

The Hearing Trumpet, Leonara Carrington Down Below, Leonara Carrington Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, Olga Tokarczuk My Death, Lisa Tuttle Things We Lost in the Fire, Mariana Enriquez The Age of Reason, Jean-Paul Sartre Endling, Maria Reva The Woman in the Dunes, Kobo Abe Wildcat Dome, Yuko Tsushima Set My Heart On Fire, Izumi Suzuki The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera The Dangers of Smoking in Bed, Mariana Enriquez The Fall, Albert Camus The Empusium, Olga Tokarczuk The Exctintion of Irena Rey, Jennifer Croft Galápagos, Kurt Vonnegut Jr. City, Alessandro Baricco A Scanner Darkly, Philip K. Dick

2024

Mexican Gothic, Silvia Moreno-Garcia Scattered All Over the Earth, Yōko Tawada Foucault’s Pendulum, Umberto Eco White Teeth, Zadie Smith Private Rites, Julia Armfield Butter, Asako Yuzuki The Erstwhile, Brian Catling If on a Winter's Night a Traveller, Italo Calvino The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco Walking Practice, Dolki Min Money, Martin Amis Lote, Shola von Reinhold Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

2023

Alias Grace, Margaret Atwood Audition, Ryū Murakami Brainwyrms, Alison Rumfitt Authority, Jeff VanderMeer Annihilation, Jeff VanderMeer Borne, Jeff VanderMeer The Vegetarian, Han Kang The Vorrh, Brian Catling The City & The City, China Miéville Brave New World, Aldous Huxley The Hound of the Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle The Secret History, Donna Tartt Dark Neighbourhood, Vanessa Onwuemezi God Is Dead, Friedrich Nietzsche Black Butterflies, Priscilla Morris Time Shelter, Georgi Gospodinov The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood A (Very) Short History of Life On Earth, Henry Gee The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. Le Guin Our Wives Under the Sea, Julia Armfield Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen Persuasion, Jane Austen Anthills of the Savannah, Chinua Achebe The Leviathan, Rosie Andrews Hare House, Sally Hinchcliffe Birnam Wood, Eleanor Catton The Splendid City, Karen Heuler The Classic Horror Stories, H.P. Lovecraft Armadale, Wilkie Collins Grey Bees, Andrey Kurkov We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Shirley Jackson Alone In Berlin, Hans Fallada A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini The Milkman in the Night, Andrey Kurkov

2022

The Fisherman, John Langan Human Acts, Han Kang The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, Shehan Karunatilaka Legends & Lattes, Travis Baldree Diary of a Void, Emi Yagi Before the Coffee Gets Cold, Toshikazu Kawaguchi The Cabinet, Kim Un-Su The Memory Police, Yōko Ogawa Cibola Burn, James S.A. Corey 1984, George Orwell Anthracite, Matthew Thomas Abaddon’s Gate, James S.A. Corey American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis Caliban’s War, James S.A. Corey Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage, Haruki Murakami