Reading paths through the list, chosen.

A first order for the reading room

For Libraries and Institutions

A first standing order for a public library, university reading room, or ministry office. Selected across imprints for the shape of a collection rather than the individual volumes — every book earns its shelf because the next reader needs to find it there.

Where the Hindi novel begins

Hindi Fiction — the first hundred

The first hundred titles on the Post Script Hindi fiction list — arranged in the order in which the house acquired them. Read to feel the shape of a modern Hindi novel from the century of its arrival; use to draw a syllabus.

A route through the writings

Reading Vivekananda

A route through the collected writings of Swami Vivekananda in English editions on the Post Script list — the Chicago Address, the letters, the Karma-Yoga lectures, and the notes on Vedanta. Read in this order for a first pass; return to any volume for a second.

Translation as editorial work

World Classics in English

The novels, plays and stories the world has kept re-reading, in the English editions on the Post Script list. Every book chosen because the translation carries the original's patience — Hugo without haste, Dostoevsky without bombast, Shakespeare without exposition.