A list of interesting sounding books — fiction and non-fiction, older and not yet published — that I haven’t read yet but have caught my eye somewhere (as at March 2026):

• Almost Life, by Kiran Millwood Hargrave

• The Last Kings of Hollywood, by Paul Fischer

• Table 4 at The River Cafe, by Ruthie Rogers

• This is the Door: Notes from a Body in Pain, by Darcey Steinke (June 2026)

• The Score: How to Stop Playing Somebody Else's Game, by C. Thi Nguyen

• Friction: A Biography, by Jennifer R. Vail

• The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI:How to Think About Artificial Intelligence Before It's Too Late, by Cory Doctorow

• The Beginning Comes After the End, by Rebecca Solnit (June 2026)

• The Art of Fighting: The Transformative Power of Conflict, by Priya Parker (September 2026)

• Tiny Gardens Everywhere, by Kate Brown

• Crux, by Gabriel Tallent

• From Mistakes to Meaning: Owning Your Past So It Doesn't Own You, by Michael Lynton and Joshua L. Steiner

• The Revolution Will Be Internalised: On the unlikely politics of inner prepping, by Anouchka Grose

• Foreign Return: On Art and Inhabitation, by Neha Kale

• Aug 9 - fog, by Kathryn Scanlan

• Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed, by Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff

• Behind the Beautiful Forevers: life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity, by Katherine Boo

• Man in the Mirror: Hope, Struggle, and Belonging in an American City, by Anand Giridharadas (September 2026)

• Autobiography of Cotton, by Cristina Rivera Garza; translated from the Spanish by Christina MacSweeney

• Bernie for Burlington: The Rise of the People's Politician, by Dan Chiasson

• What Am I, A Deer?, by Polly Barton (May 2026)

• The Floating World, by Ben Eastham (October 2026)

• The Global Casino: How Wall Street Gambles with People and the Planet, by Ann Pettifor (via Pod Save the UK)

• In Defence of Leisure: Experiments in Living with Marion Milner, by Akshi Singh (via London Review Bookshop podcast)

• Art Work: On the Creative Life, by Sally Mann

• The Wall Dancers: Searching for Freedom and Connection on the Chinese Internet, by Yi-Ling Liu

• Good People, by Patmeena Sabit

• Being with Cows, by Dave Mountjoy (via Rewilding the World with Ben Goldsmith)

• Attensity! A Manifesto of the Attention Liberation Movement, by The Friends of Attention (via Mark Hurst / Creative Good)

• The Renovation, by Kenan Orhan

• This is Where the Serpent Lives, by Daniyal Mueenuddin

• Without Reservation: Lessons From a Life in Restaurants, by Jeremy King

• Discipline, by Larissa Pham (April 2026)

• Over The Water: Essays on Islands, by various contributors (published April 2026, via Sinead Gleeson’s newsletter)

• The Things We Never Say, by Elizabeth Strout (May 2026)

• Beginning Middle End, by Valeria Luiselli (July 2026)

• Ex-Wife, by Ursula Parrott (via The Pleasure Lists)

• Precious Bane, by Mary Webb (via The Belonging Book Club)

• Bookish, by Radhika Jones

• Range, by Dorthe Nors, translated from the Danish by Caroline Waight (August 2026)

• Contrapposto, by Dave Eggers (June 2026)

• First Time, Long Time, by Amy Silverberg (via The Creative Independent)

• Exit Party, by Emily St. John Mandel (September 2026)

• Ghost Stories: A Memoir, by Siri Hustvedt (May 2026)

• Techno-Negative: A Long History of Refusing the Machine, by Thomas Dekeyser (March 2026)

• Billionaire Backlash: The Age of Corporate Scandal and How it Could Save Democracy, by Pepper Culpepper and Taeku Lee

• How to See Like a Machine: Art in the Age of AI, by Trevor Paglen (May 2026)

• Patchwork: A Graphic Biography of Jane Austen, by Kate Evans

• Cool Machine, by Colson Whitehead (July 2026)

• Marble in Metamorphosis, by Rachel Cusk & Chris Kontos

• Language as Liberation: Reflections on the American Canon, by Toni Morrison (March 2026)

• The Problem of Personhood: Giving Rights to Trees, Corporations and Robots, by Lisa Siraganian (February 2026)

• Algorithmic Capital: Resistance in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, by Jonathan Durand Folco and Jonathan Martineau (June 2026)

• Days of Love and Rage: A Story of Ordinary People Forging a Revolution, by Anand Gopal (March 2026)

• Tiny Gardens Everywhere: A History of Urban Resilience, by Kate Brown (June 2026)

• Traversal, by Maria Popova (March 2026)

• No Is Not a Lonely Utterance: The Art and Activism of Complaining, by Sara Ahmed

• Discord, by Jeremy Cooper (May 2026)

• Don't Forget We're Here Forever: A New Generation's Search for Religion, by Lamorna Ash

• Name Recognition, by Min Jin Lee

• American Hagwon, by Min Jin Lee

• Who Owns Beauty?, by Bénédicte Savoy, translated by Andrew Brown

• Tell Me How You Eat: Food, Power and the Will to Live, by Amber Husain (February 2026)

• Last Week in End Times Cinema, by A.S. Hamrah

• Last Night in Brooklyn, by Xochitl Gonzalez (April 2026)

• The Complex, by Karan Mahajan (March 2026)

• The Last of Earth, By Deepa Anappara

• American Fantasy, by Emma Straub (April 2026)

• A Tender Age, By Chang-rae Lee (August 2026)

• Repetition, by Vigdis Hjorth, translated by Charlotte Barslund (March 2026)

• To Rest Our Minds and Bodies, by Harriet Armstrong

• Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century, by Dan Sinykin and Johanna Winant

• Arranging Things: A Rhetoric of Object Placement, by Leonard Koren

• My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein: A Fiction, by Deborah Levy (April 2026)

• Whistler, by Ann Patchett (June 2026)

• John of John, by Douglas Stuart (May 2026)

• Painting Writing Texting, by Chantal Joffe & Olivia Laing

• How to Weather Together: Feminist Practice for Climate Change, by Astrida Neimanis and Jennifer Mae Hamilton

• Blank Space: A Cultural History of the Twenty-First Century, by W. David Marx (h/t Craig Mod)

• Flower, by Ed Atkins

• The Small Stuff: How to Lead a More Gratifying Life, by Ian Bogost (July 2026)

• We Will Rise Again: Speculative Stories and Essays on Protest, Resistance, and Hope, edited by Malka Older, Annalee Newitz and Karen Lord (March 2026)

• The Social Codes of Tech Workers: Class Identity in Digital Capitalism, by Robert Dorschel (h/t John Naughton)

• Claire McCardell: The Designer Who Set Women Free, by Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson

• Could Should Might Don’t, by Nick Foster

• What Is Mine, by José Henrique Bortoluci, Translated by Rahul Bery

• Racebook: A Personal History of the Internet, by O Tochi Onyebuchi

• Sick of It: The Global Fight for Women's Health, by Sophie Harman

• One Aladdin Two Lamps, by Jeanette Winterson

• Analog Days, by Damion Searls

• Pretentiousness: Why it Matters, by Dan Fox

• Squeeze Me: Lemon Recipes & Art, by Ruthie Rogers and Ed Ruscha

• The Exhibition of Persephone Q, by Jessi Jezewska Stevens

• Love Divine, by Ysenda Maxtone Graham

• The Catastrophe Hour: selected Essays, by Meghan Daum

• Land, by Maggie O’Farrell (2026))

• London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City, and a Family’s Search for Truth, by Patrick Radden Keefe (April 2026)

• Minister without Portfolio: Memoir of a Reluctant Exile, by Hooman Majd

• Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What To Do About It, by Cory Doctorow

• Earlier, by Sasha Frere-Jones

• What the Deep Water Knows, by Miranda Cowley Heller

• Antimemetics: Why Some Ideas Resist Spreading, by Nadia Asparouhova

• What Is Free Speech?, by Fara Dabhoiwala

• The Word for World: The Maps of Ursula K. Le Guin, Edited by So Mayer and Sarah Shin 

• Death of an Ordinary Man, by Sarah Perry

• Dog Days, by Emily LaBarge (May 2026)

• On the Calculation of Volume I, by Solvej Balle

• The Last Human Job: the work of connecting in a disconnected world, by Allison Pugh

• The People’s Project, curated by Saeed Jones and Maggie Smith

• Paris Was Yesterday: 1925-1939, by Janet Flanner

• Information Age, by Cora Lewis

• I Want To Burn This Place Down, by Maris Kreizman

• Vigil, by George Saunders 

• Brawler, by Lauren Groff

• Cyberfeminism Index, by Mindy Seu

• The Equivalents, by Maggie Doherty 

• The Other Island, by Carina del Valle Schorske

• Bird Milk & Mosquito Bones, by Priyanka Mattoo

• Moderate to Poor, Occasionally Good, by Eley Williams

• Shopkeeping: stories, advice and observations, by Peter Miller 

• Opacities: On Writing and the Writing Life, by Sofia Samatar

• Ordinary Disasters: How I Stopped Being a Model Minority, by Anne Anlin Cheng 

• Acts of Resistance: the power of art to create a better world, by Amber Massie-Blomfield 

• The Fantasy and Necessity of Solidarity, by Sarah Schulman 

• The Wilderness, by Aysegul Savas

• Three Lives A Young Girl in Me Who Will Not Die, by Tove Ditlevesen

• Vilhelm's Room, by Tove Ditlevesen

• Searches: selfhood in the digital age, by Vauhini Vara 

• To Save and To Destroy: writing as an other, by Viet Thanh Nguyen

• The Work We Need, by Hilary Cottam 

• Book of Lives, by Margaret Atwood

• The Age of Choice, by Sophia Rosenfeld 

• The Living Mountain, by Nan Shepherd

• Mood Machine: the rise of Spotify and the costs of the perfect playlist, by Liz Pelly

• Alterations, by Cory Winrock (Undelivered Lectures series from Transit Books)

• Immemorial, by Lauren Markham (Undelivered Lectures series from Transit Books)

• Lecture, by Mary Cappello (Undelivered Lectures series from Transit Books)

• Together, by Ece Temelkuran

• Liquid Reflections, by Liliane Lijn

• Notes from an island, by Tove Jansson

• Nova Scotia House, by Charlie Porter

• Elite Capture, Olufemi o Taiwo

• How We Show Up, by Mia Birdsong

• Emergent Strategy, by Adrienne Maree Brown