How Should One Read A Book?

We're delighted to bring you Champaca Bookstore's first publication, Virginia Woolf's seminal essay 'How One Should Read A Book?'. First published in The Common Reader: Second Series in 1935, this essay is Virginia Woolf in her most purposeful and measured while asserting her writer self while being poignantly reflective and vulnerable as a reader. It offers us glimpses of her widely admired writing that has been a major influence on reading and writing in the last one hundred years or more.

We hope this reflective, playful, and insightful essay brings you a new perspective with which to approach reading.