The Shelf Life: Champaca Bookstore Blog
The Champaca Reading Challenge: 2025
Hello and welcome to the Champaca Reading Challenge for 2025 – a list of prompts to help us to read widely and diversely, and to discover books we may not otherwise pick up. Find the prompts and our recommendations here, and buy your copies on our online store.
What We Read at Champaca's First Reading Retreat
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In September 2024, Champaca hosted its first ever Reading Retreat in Goa. We stayed in Olaulim for three days, where all we had to do was focus on our books. This blog post is about how we chose what to read at the retreat.Â
Reading Ursula K. Le Guin: A Guide
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You may have read everything by Ursula K. Le Guin, or nothing by her, or have read different parts of the vast universes she built. At Champaca, we thought we could present you an overview of her work that we think is meaningful, books that are available in India (and our bookstore) to read.Â
The Champaca Reading Challenge: 2024
Welcome to the Champaca Reading Challenge! This year, we’ve put together 24 prompts for 2024. They’re designed to help us read widely, more diversely, and more adventurously. Let’s discover something new together! How this works: Just pick a book to read that fits each prompt! You don’t need to fulfil prompts in the order they are listed, and you don’t even have to finish the challenge. Think of this as a way to discover books beyond our horizons and comfort zones – discovering new voices and new worlds in the books we read! If you’re curious, you can even revisit...
Dispatches from Champaca | August 2023
Hello fellow book lover, How have you been? July was a hectic month for us, with back-to-back events and book signings. But we spent some time reflecting on the first half of the year: the books we read, the events we curated, and the conversations we’ve had with each other, and our readers. Our bestseller list for the first six months of 2023 was surprising, in the best way possible. It was wonderful to see the books that we had hosted discussions around, sent in our subscription boxes and loved reading ourselves make it to the list. From Aanchal Mallhotra’s...