The Reading List

Description

Title: The Reading List
Author: Sara Nisha Adams
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers, 2021
Format: Paperback
Language: English
ISBN-13: 9780008391331

The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams is a warm and uplifting contemporary novel about the quiet power of books to connect people across age, grief, culture, and loneliness. Set around a London library, it follows two very different readers whose lives are changed by a handwritten list of novels.

Aleisha is a teenager working at the local library for the summer when she discovers a crumpled reading list tucked inside a copy of To Kill a Mockingbird. At first, she begins reading the books out of curiosity, but the stories slowly become a way to understand her own life and the people around her.

Mukesh is a widower trying to connect with his book-loving granddaughter and to cope with the absence of his wife. When Aleisha shares the reading list with him, the books become a bridge between strangers, generations, memories, and new beginnings.