The Shelf Life: Champaca Bookstore Blog
The Champaca Reading Challenge: 2026
The Champaca Reading Challenge 2026 – a list of prompts to help us to discover new reads. Find our recommendations here, and buy your copies on our online store.
The Champaca Reading Challenge: 2025
Welcome to the Champaca Reading Challenge for 2025 – a list of prompts to help us to read widely and diversely!
What We Read at Champaca's First Reading Retreat
In September 2024, Champaca hosted its first ever Reading Retreat in Goa. This blog post is about how we chose what to read at the retreat.
Reading Ursula K. Le Guin: A Guide
You may have read everything by Ursula K. Le Guin, or nothing at all. We present you an overview of her work that we think is meaningful.
The Champaca Reading Challenge: 2024
Join the Champaca Reading Challenge for 2024, a list of prompts designed to help us discover new books, and read more widely.
On Circularities, Genre, and Alien Intelligences: An Interview with author Martin MacInnes
In this, Booker-longlisted author Martin MacInnes discusses the recurring themes in his work, beginnings and endings, and his literary influences.
Dispatches from Champaca: June 2023
As we get ready to begin shipping our subscription boxes for July, a few updates from our team and store!
Recap: Champaca Book Subscription Year Three — Loneliness & Connection
A look back at our third year of the Champaca Book Subscription, where we read about the twin themes of loneliness and connection.
Imaginations of the Future: Part Three — Social Futures
These books show us a future where new social orders can emerge, grow, change, die, be replaced by something new. The limit is really only our imagination.
Imaginations of the Future: Part Two — Technological Futures
What kind of technology will become widespread by 2100? What kind of social order will exist?