Spring 2026 Selections: April to June
Current reading agenda.
You can also see the long-term already-read selection as well as our reading wish-list (coming soon).
April: Doris Lessing’s Shikasta originally published in 1979. Winner of the Novel Prize in literature, Lessing and her work, including Shikasta, remains a pivotal influence for contemporary of speculative and science fiction writers—and writers in general. “Presented as a compilation of documents, reports, letters, speeches and journal entries, this purports to be a general study of the planet Shikasta, clearly the planet Earth, to be used by history students of the higher planet Canopus and to be stored in the Canopian archives.” (Goodreads)
May: The Secret Life of Saeed: The Pessoptimist; A Palestinian Who Became a Citizen of Israel “is regarded as a classic of Arabic literature, and was ranked the 6th-best Arabic novel of the 20th century by the Arabic Writers Union. Nancy Coffin wrote that the book’s success “lies in its ability to straddle the expectations of both acceptable politics and good literature and, perhaps even more important, the fine lines between military response and political solution.” (From Wikipedia)We celebrate the 50th anniversary of this powerful Palestinian satire.
June: We Will Rise Again, Edited by Karen Lord, Annalee Newitz and Malka Older