Here is a supplementary reading list to accompany my new non-fiction book, Relearning to Read: Adventures in Not-Knowing. If there’s a title you think I should include, drop me a line and I’ll look into it.

• Abell, Stig, What to Read Next: How to Make Books Part of Your Life, (John Murray, 2020)
• Adler, Mortimer J., How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading (Touchstone, 1972)
• Avagyan, Shushan, tr. Cachoian-Schanz, Deanna, A book, untitled (Tilted Axis Press, 2023)
• Bernart, Luelen, ed. and tr. John L. Fischer, Saul H. Riesenberg and Marjorie G. Whiting The Book of Luelen (Australian National University Press, 1977)
• Ed. Bhanot, Khavita (Dr) and Tiang, Jeremy, Violent Phenomena: 21 Essays on Translation (Tilted Axis Press, 2022)
• Briggs, Kate, This Little Art (Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2017)
• Buchanan, Daisy, Read Yourself Happy (DK RED, 2025)
• Buzbee, Lewis, The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop (Graywolf Press, 2008)
• Chiziane, Paulina, tr. Brookshaw, David, The First Wife: A Tale of Polygamy (Archipelago Books, 2016)
• Choden, Kunzang, The Circle of Karma (Zubaan Books and Penguin India, 2005)
• Damrosch, David, Around the World in 80 Books: A Literary Journey (Pelican, 2021)
• Damrosch, David, How to Read World Literature (John Wiley & Sons, 2008)
• Eagleton, Terry, How to Read Literature (Yale University Press, 2013)
• Ferrante, Elena, tr. Goldstein, Ann, My Brilliant Friend (Europa Editions, 2012)
• Freud, Sigmund, tr. Crick, Joyce The Joke and Its Relation to the Unconscious (Penguin Classics, 2002)
• Fish, Stanley, Surprised by Sin (Macmillan and St Martin’s Press, 1967)
• Gansel, Mireille, tr. Schwartz, Ros, Translation as Transhumance (Les Fugitives LTD, 2017)
• Hardy, Thomas, dram. Hedges, Sally, The Mayor of Casterbridge (BBC Enterprises Ltd, 1994)
• Iraqi, Shalash the, tr. Leafgren, Luke, Shalash the Iraqi (And Other Stories, 2023)
• Knott, Marie Luise, tr. Dollenmayer, David, Unlearning with Hannah Arendt (Granta Books, 2014)
• Kpomassie, Tété-Michel, tr. Kirkup, James and Schwartz, Ros, Michel the Giant (Penguin Classics, 2022)
• Maliandi, Carla, tr. Riddle, Frances, The German Room (Charco Press, 2018)
• Manguel, Alberto, A History of Reading (Flamingo, 1997)
• Mayer, So, Bad Language (Peninsula Press, 2025)
• Morgan, Ann, Reading the World: How I Read a Book from Every Country (Vintage, 2022)
• Ómarsdóttir, Kristín, tr. Vala Thorodds, Swanfolk (Harvill Secker, 2022)
• Ong, Walter, Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word (Routledge, 1982)
• Prose, Francine, Reading Like a Writer (Union Books, 2012)
• Richards, I.A., Practical Criticism (Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner: London, 1929)
• Roberts, Kate, tr. Gramich, Katie, Feet in Chains (Parthian Books, 2012)
• Salami, Minna, Sensuous Knowledge: A Black Feminist Approach for Everyone (Zed Books, 2020)
• Saunders, George, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain (Bloomsbury, 2021)
• Slimani, Leïla, tr. Vassallo, Helen, The Devil is in the Detail and Other Writings (Liverpool University Press, 2023)
• Ujayli, Shahla, tr. Hussain, Sawad, A Bed for the King’s Daughter (Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of Texas – Austin, 2021)