On World Book Day 2026, the conversation around books inevitably returns to a familiar question: who is reading, what are they reading, and how is the ecosystem sustaining itself?
Lucky for our readers, we can answer the first two questions for you. Here's what the PrintWeek team is reading this World Book Day.
Abhay Avadhani is reading A Book of Simple Living: Brief Notes from the Hills by Ruskin Bond
Anand Singh (my desk-mate) and I often find ourselves trading giggles over Michael Howe’s Terrible Maps
Dibyajyoti Sarma is reading Writing from the Solitary: An Anthology on Loneliness by Semeen Ali while it rains away in Guwahati
Divya Subramaniam is reading Amitav Ghosh's Ghost-Eye
I, Jiya Somaiya, am reading Happy Hour by Marlowe Granados, and the book is a sparklin' riot
Our in-house pharma gyaani ji, Prabhat Prakash, is reading two books — Made in India: The Story of Desh Bandhu Gupta, Lupin and Indian Pharma by Manish Sabharwal and Sundeep Khanna and Ishq Mein Shahar Hona by Ravish Kumar
Ramu Ramanathan is reading Diwan-e-Mir by Vipin Garg in the halls of New Delhi's Bharat Mandapam
Sai Deepthi Pavani is reading Jiddu Krishnamurti's Don’t Make a Problem of Anything
Sujit Mandvikar (aka Dev Manoos, as we admiringly call him at the office) is reading Leela Pustakanchya by Nitin Rindhe
Sunny Gije is reading Dinkar Manvar's Zinnacha Kavita
For the team at PrintWeek, reading is a shared ritual that keeps us sharp and occasionally, keeps us sane and even funny as we make each other laugh with literary puns.
We hope you find a moment to step away from the screen and get lost in a page.
Happy World Book Day from our team to yours.
Globally, World Book Day was established by UNESCO in 1995 to promote reading, support publishing, and protect intellectual property. The date, 23 April, is symbolically linked to literary figures such as William Shakespeare and Miguel de Cervantes.