Books Read 2026

  1. Frances Wilson. Guilty Thing: A Life of Thomas De Quincey.
  2. Thomas De Quincey. Suspiria de Profundis, from Thomas De Quincey: 21st-Century Oxford Authors.
  3. Frances Wilson. Electric Spark: The Enigma of Muriel Spark.
  4. Elizabeth Bowen. The Heat of the Day.
  5. John Carey. The Unexpected Professor: An Oxford Life in Books.
  6. Christopher J. Berry. Adam Smith: A Very Short Introduction.
  7. John Carey. A Little History of Poetry.
  8. Thomas Hardy. Selected Poetry.
  9. John Carey. What Good are the Arts?
  10. C. S. Lewis. The Reading Life.
  11. G. K. Chesterton. Orthodoxy.
  12. Andrew Lang. Adventures Among Books.
  13. Solvej Balle. On the Calculation of Volume Book III. Tr. Sophia Hersi Smith and Jennifer Russell.
  14. Charlotte Beradt. The Third Reich of Dreams. Tr. Damion Searls.
  15. *Julian Barnes. Nothing to he Frightened of.
  16. Lydia Davis. Into the Weeds.
  17. C. S. Lewis. An Experiment in Criticism.
  18. Lydia Davis. Essays One.
  19. Stella Gibbons. Cold Comfort Farm.
  20. Laurie Lee. Cider With Rosie.
  21. Paul Auster. The Red Notebook.
  22. Paul Auster. Winter Journal.
  23. Paul Auster. The Invention of Solitude.
  24. James Elkins. A Short Introduction to Anneliese.
  25. Samuel Beckett. Stories and Texts for Nothing.
  26. The William H. Gass Reader.
  27. Conversations with William H. Gass.
  28. Jorge Luis Borges. The Book of Sand and Shakespeare’s Memory. Tr. Andrew Hurley.
  29. William Marx. Libraries of the Mind.
  30. Antoine Volodine. Radiant Terminus. Tr. Jeffrey Zuckerman.
  31. *Nicholas Royle. White Spines: Confessions of a Book Collector.
  32. Nicholas Royle. Finders, Keepers: The Secret Life of Second-Hand Books.
  33. Siri Hustvedt. Ghost Stories: A Memoir.
  34. Juan Rulfo. Pedro Páramo. Tr. Douglas J. Weatherford.
  35. *Dag Solstad. Armand V. Tr. Steven T Murray.
  36. Solvej Balle. On the Calculation of Volume Book IV. Tr. Sophia Hersi Smith and Jennifer Russell.
  37. Flann O’Brien. At Swim-Two-Birds.
  38. Javier Marías, Written Lives. Tr. Margaret Jull Costa.
  39. +Henry James. The Beast in the Jungle.
  40. +Henry James. The Jolly Corner.
  41. Jane Ellen Harrison. Alpha and Omega.
  42. Aulus Gellius. Attic Nights Books 1-5. Tr. John C. Rolfe.
  43. Caroline Clark. What Lies Ahead and other essays.
  44. Jessie G. Stewart. Jane Ellen Harrison: A Portrait in Letters.