"The Reading List” by Sara Nisha Adams

Online Meetup
The Kyoto Book Club will start online in August.　Whether you have a Skype account or not, you can join by clicking the URL provided below.

【Assigned book】
The Reading List: A Novel (English Edition) by Sara Nisha Adams

【What we're gonna do】
Read the book before the meetup if you can (not necessary, but it's better to avoid spoilers!). Then, hop online and join us to discuss your thoughts while enjoying some food and drinks.
The book is around 432 pages long. If you go for the digital version on Kindle, it's priced at $12.49 or ￥1,699. Alternatively, you can listen to it on your audible.com app if that's more your style.

【Synopsis】
An unforgettable and heartwarming debut about how a chance encounter with a list of library books helps forge an unlikely friendship between two very different people in a London suburb.
Widower Mukesh lives a quiet life in Wembley, in West London after losing his beloved wife. He shops every Wednesday, goes to Temple, and worries about his granddaughter, Priya, who hides in her room reading while he spends his evenings watching nature documentaries.
Aleisha is a bright but anxious teenager working at the local library for the summer when she discovers a crumpled-up piece of paper in the back of To Kill a Mockingbird. It’s a list of novels that she’s never heard of before. Intrigued, and a little bored with her slow job at the checkout desk, she impulsively decides to read every book on the list, one after the other. As each story gives up its magic, the books transport Aleisha from the painful realities she’s facing at home.
When Mukesh arrives at the library, desperate to forge a connection with his bookworm granddaughter, Aleisha passes along the reading list…hoping that it will be a lifeline for him too. Slowly, the shared books create a connection between two lonely souls, as fiction helps them escape their grief and everyday troubles and find joy again.

【Important to know】
No entrance fee, no membership fees.