2026: Timelines

In 2026 we are focused on the intersection of time, or what do we owe the past, and what do we owe the future? We have a new and evolving bookclub that is considerate of the past members and reading history but also focused on how the future will shape up with new personalities and new energy.

This outlook is a unifying lens for the list of books we have chosen because every one of these novels is, in some way, negotiating responsibility across time. Not nostalgia or progress for its own sake, but the uneasy space in between when both the past is having influence but the future is forcing its own considerations on us as readers.

We have books steeped in memory and legacy, others that examine how deeply the past imprints itself on the physical self. What happens when the past is distorted? How does trauma and colonial inheritance influence our current day decisions? What do we carry forward? What do we lay down? Which inheritances are burdens and which are gifts? What happens when future paths are infinite and determined by the paths we abandoned?

In 2026, we read across time. And we invite you to join us on the journey. Here’s our reading list:

Love Is Blind – William Boyd
Dark Matter – Blake Crouch
Girls Against God – Jenny Hval
All Our Yesterdays – Natalia Ginzberg
1985 – Dominic Hoey
What We Can Know – Ian McEwan
Soviet Milk – Nora Ikstena
The Frozen River – Ariel Lawhon
Intermezzo – Sally Rooney
Daughters Of The Deer – Danielle Daniel