
The Reading Circle
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About The Reading Circle
This is the official channel of The Reading Circle, a bookclub committed to promoting reading culture. We started in February 2023. We announce a book of the month in the first week of each month. We convene online on Twitter X Spaces or on Google Meet for an hour long session on the same book in the last week of each month. TRC is open to all and sundry.
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Our May’25 Bookclub chapter on Rehman Anwer’s novel “Breaking Silences” will commence at 9:00 PM PST tonight! Link to join: https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1OdKrDZozbYJX

The recording of May 2025 Bookclub Chapter can be browsed here: https://x.com/ridaakhtar_/status/1928843696868302871?s=46


The Reading Circle is proud of several creative minds that are the backbone of this literary venture. Sadaf Fatima is one of our founding members. She blogs about life rather dextrously. You may follow Sadaf Fatima’s whatsapp channel “A Reading, Writing Life” here: https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029VarBYWn6GcG8CoscqS3b


https://x.com/ridaakhtar_/status/1886087656351936895?s=46 January Bookclub session on Kaveh Akbar’s “Martyr” is set to start in five minutes - 9:30 PM PST - at this link!

The Reading Circle’s January 2025 session recording can be browsed here: https://x.com/ridaakhtar_/status/1886087656351936895?s=46

*What our Bookclub members recommend for reading about Lahore:* 1- Lahore: Topophilia of Space and Place by Anna Suvorova 2- Imagining Lahore: That City That Is, The City That Was by Haroon Khalid 3- Lahore Aawargi by Mustansir Hussain Tarrar 4- Lahore: Ek Shehr e Be Misaal by Ahmad Saeed 5- City of Sin and Splendour: Writings on Lahore by Bapsi Sidhwa 6- Lahore, I Am Coming by Rizwan Akhtar 7- Twelve Stories of Lahore: Grieving For Pigeons by Zubair Ahmad 8- Tareekh E Lahore by Kanhaiya Lal 9- Breaking Silences by Rehman Anwer 10- Lahore: A Sentimental Journey by Pran Nevile