2026 in Books

May

April

24. The Museum of Modern Love –Heather Rose

23. As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow Zoulfa Katouh

22. Breasts and Eggs  Mieko Kawakami

21. The Persian Boy – Mary Renault

20. The Bridge of San Luis Rey –Thornton Wilder

19. Unwritten Women

18. Project Hail Mary  Andy Weir

March | International Women’s Month

Reading and Marching On

17. In Diamond Square Merce Rodoreda

16. The Nights are Quiet in Tehran  Shida Bazyar

15. Regarding the Pain of Others  Susan Sontag

14. House of Day, House of Night  Olga Tokarczuk

13. The Afghans  Asne Seierstad

12. Restoration  Ave Barrera

February

February Between and Beyond Book Covers

11. A Horse at Night: On Writing  Amina Cain

10. The Piano Cemetery Jose Luis Peixoto

9. Hamnet  Maggie O’Farrell

8. Memoirs of an Art Forger  Julian Tiongson, Jr.

7. A Mountain to the North, A Lake to the South, Paths to the West, A River to the East  Laszlo Krasznahorkai

January

“‘No books!’ I exclaimed. ‘How do you contrive to live here without them? …take my books away, and I should be desperate!’” — Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

6. The Sisters  Jonas Hassen Khemiri

5. A Calamity of Noble Houses  Amira Ghenim

4. A View from the Ground  Atom Araullo

3. In a Strange Room  Damon Galgut

2. Wuthering Heights  Emily Brontë

1. Frankenstein  Mary Shelley