2026's four selected books and all related additional reading
created by sproutling
last updated January, 2026
The Cambridge Companion to Romanticism and Race (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
Manu Samriti Chander
The Brontës and the Idea of the Human: Science, Ethics, and the Victorian Imagination
Alexandra Lewis
You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World
Ada Limon
Startlement: New and Selected Poems
Parable of the Talents (Earthseed, #2)
Octavia E. Butler
An American Tragedy: a tragedy in four acts.
Theodore Dreiser
Rebecca
Daphne du Maurier
The Blue Castle
L.M. Montgomery
The Penguin Book of Spiritual Verse: 110 Poets on the Divine (Penguin Classics)
Kaveh Akbar
Bright Dead Things
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë
The Octopus: A Story of California
Frank Norris
The Cambridge Companion to the Brontes
Heather Glen
The Cambridge Companion to American Realism and Naturalism: From Howells to London (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
Donald Pizer
The Cambridge Companion to Gothic Fiction (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
Jerrold E. Hogle
Working Days: The Journals of The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck
McTeague: A Story of San Francisco (Signet Classics)
Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë
The Grapes of Wrath
The House of Mirth
Edith Wharton
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