Ex Libris

The Library of Muskan

Building a library one book at a time

About the Reader

I read across every shelf I can reach: psychology and philosophy, physics and folklore, Wodehouse and witches. I think as much about why genres work as what lives inside them. I write; I think about ideas for their own sake; I believe a good email is a small literary form and that beautiful things are worth making carefully. This library is where all of it lives.

Currently Reading

The books open beside me right now.

Correspondence

Books have always been conversations across time. If you’d like to continue one, you’re welcome to write to me. I read and reply to every letter.

✉ Leave a letter

Letters are welcome from every shelf of the world.

The Shelves Abroad

My reading life also keeps a public diary. Shelves, ratings and the long to-read list live on Goodreads, growing by the week.

❧ Visit my Goodreads

880 books and counting.

Recommend a Book

Every library grows by word of mouth. If a book changed the way you see things, tell me what it was — I’m always making room on a shelf.

✿ Send a recommendation

The next favourite is always a stranger’s letter away.

Penguin Little Books

Twenty-three little books, collected one at a time.