When Aleisha’s family suffers a devastating event, Aleisha looks to Mukesh to help her pick up the pieces, but he’s not sure he’s the person she needs. Meanwhile, Aleisha begins relying on Mukesh as the only stable adult in her life. It seems this budding relationship is just the thing to save Mukesh from his continued grief over his late wife. When Mukesh returns to tell Aleisha how much he enjoyed Mockingbird, they decide to create an impromptu book club. She also decides to read every book on the list herself, rationalizing that it will help pass the long days in the library.
Even so, when she stumbles on a handwritten reading list tucked into a just-returned book, she impulsively uses it as a way to apologize to Mukesh, recommending the first book, To Kill a Mockingbird. She regrets her behavior almost immediately, but she’s more focused on difficulties in her home life, including her absentee father and her mentally fragile mother. As he pushes for a suggestion, she becomes defensive, even rude. When Mukesh, an older man who's recently lost his wife, visits the library seeking a book recommendation, Aleisha has little to offer. And so begins a new chapter between two.An aging widower and a lonely teenage girl form an unlikely friendship by bonding over books.Īleisha works at the Harrow Road Library in North London not for her love of books, but because she needs the money. And when Mukesh arrives at the library, desperate to forge a connection with his bookworm of a granddaughter, Aleisha discovers that the reading list will be a lifeline for him too. In turn, each story on the reading list gives up its magic, transporting Aleisha away from the painful realities she's facing at home. Aleisha is working at the local library on Harrow Road for the summer when she discovers a crumpled-up piece of paper in the back of To Kill A Mockingbird with a list of books that she's never heard of before – let alone read. He shops every Wednesday, goes to Temple, and worries about his disinterested granddaughter, Priya, who tucks herself away reading whilst he watches David Attenborough.
Widower Mukesh lives a quiet life after the loss of his wife Naina.
A love letter to reading and some of our best-loved novels, THE READING LIST is the story that everyone needs on their nightstand in 2021.
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