Reader Bookshelf 2026 – The Home We Carry
The Reader Bookshelf theme of this year is “The Home We Carry”. Why ? This is why : “We can look for it, long for it, thrive in it or flee from it – ‘home’ isn’t a place, it’s a constellation of feelings, ideas and associations we carry round with us always. It looks different for every different person – it could be a community, a country, a room or a bed; it could be a person, or a memory. For some, home is an absence; for others, it’s their journey’s end.”
Adult’s Bookshelf
Orbital – Samantha Harvey
Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
Lila – Marilynne Robinson
The Home-Maker – Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Brotherless Night – V. V. Ganeshananthan
How Green Was My Valley – Richard Llewellyn
Stand By Me – Wendell Berry
Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
All My Sons – Arthur Miller
Braiding Sweetgrass – Robin Wall Kimmerer
Homegoing – Yaa Gyasi
The Pilgrim’s Progress – John Bunyan
Children’s Bookshelf
King of the Sky
– Nicola Davies
Trash – Andy Mulligan
Don’t Ask the Dragon – Lemn Sissay
The Very Noisy House – Sally Nicholls
The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
Glasgow Boys – Margaret McDonald
Home – Carson Ellis
Anne of Green Gables – L.M. Montgomery
The Blue Umbrella – Emily Ann Davison
Heidi – Johanna Spyri
Runaways – E.L. Norry
The Skull – Jon Klassen