The Reader Bookshelf is a carefully curated collection of literature for adults and children, exploring a different theme each year. The Bookshelf includes a diverse range of stories, plays and poems which are shared across our Shared Reading movement. We join a Shared Reading group at Calderstones reading from Jhumpa Lahiri’s short story collection Interpreter of Maladies, a popular choice from last year’s Reader Bookshelf. And The Reader’s Director of Literature, Katie Clark, introduces our new Bookshelf for 2024-25, and this year’s theme of ‘Wonder’. 

The Reader Bookshelf 2024-25 

The Reader Bookshelf at Bookshop.org 

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Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri 

Hill of Doors poetry collection by Robin Robertson