Reading List 2026

Here are the books I have read this year: 

January 

• Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll 
• Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad

February 

• Outer Dark, Cormac McCarthy 
• Child of God, Cormac McCarthy 
• The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson 
• Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson

March

Short Stories

• The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins 
• Masque of the Red Death, Edgar Allan Poe 

• The Road, Cormac McCarthy 
• Maeve Fly, C.J. Leede
• The Handmaids Tale, Margaret Atwood
• Ballad of Black Tom, Victor LaValle
• In The Tall Grass, Stephen King — Joe Hill 

April

• No Longer Human, Osamu Dazai
• The Testaments, Margaret Atwood

May

• The Willows, Algernon Blackwood
• The Woman in Black, Susan Hill

June

Comic Books

• Silent Hill: Dying Inside 0-5, Scott Ciencin
• Silent Hill: Three Bloody Tales (Among the Damned, Paint it Black, The Grinning Man), Scott Ciencin - Shaun Thomas 
• Silent Hill: Dead or Alive, Scott Ciencin - Nick Stakal
• Silent Hill: Past Life, Tom Waltz
• Silent Hill: Downpour — Anne’s Story 1-4, Tom Waltz

• Official Silent Hill Novelization 1-4 (English Translation), Sadamu Yamashita
• Official Silent Hill Movie Novelization (English Translation), Paula Edgewood
• Official Silent Hill: Revolution Movie Novelization (English Translation), M.J. Basset - Kiyomi Abe

July

• The Boats of the "Glen Carrig,” William Hope Hodgson

August 

• Scarlet Plague, Jack London 
• The Hellbound Heart, Clive Barker
• The Fall of the House of Usher, Edger Allan Poe
• The Murders in the Rue Morgue, Edgar Allan Poe
• The Scarlet Citadel | A Conan Story, Robert E. Howard
• The Wasp Factory, Iain Banks
• The Castle of Otranto, Horace Walpole
• Vine Terror, Howard Wandrei