Reading in Progress
I tend to have a few books going at the same time. This page is just what I'm reading right now.
Last updated: July 6, 2026
Indignity: A Life Reimagined
After finding a hidden photo of her grandmother on social media, Ypi reconstructs her life through secret police files and court records, asking how we judge the choices of people we loved made under unimaginable circumstances.
Spain My Way: Eat, Drink, and Cook Like a Spaniard
José Andrés's love letter to Spain, his home country, and the cooking traditions that shaped him. Part memoir, part cookbook, it traces food back to where he first learned to love it.
Land
Tomás, a Irish mapmaker and Great Famine survivor who lost his entire family, is commissioned by the British Ordnance Survey in 1865 to map post-famine Ireland. Hr has a mystical epiphany at an ancient spring, leading him to create an unofficial map that documents the land using the native Irish language and local cultural landmarks, rejecting British colonial perspectives.
A Little Trickerie
After her mother dies mid-trick, fourteen-year-old Tibb sets off across Tudor England with a newborn sister and no home to find one. Based on the real Holy Maid of Leominster, a medieval con artist who posed as an angel and gathered a cult following. Foul-mouthed, warm-hearted, and funny. Won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction.