Relearning to Read: Adventures in Not-Knowing.

by Ann Morgan

Relearning to Read: Adventures in Not-Knowing invites you to turn the way you read upside down and see what falls out. Drawing on an approach to reading developed over more than a decade of interactions with stories and book-lovers around the world through the author’s hit blog, the book puts not-knowing centre stage and plays with what examining the gaps in our understanding and the assumptions we use to plug them can teach us about ourselves and our world.

Many books about books celebrate the cosiness and consolation of reading; Relearning to Read does the opposite. Built on the realisation that to read widely we must make friends with incomprehension – because no one can be an expert in all the world’s literatures – it explores how getting comfortable with discomfort and owning our limitations can take us further and deepen our appreciation of the world’s complexity and richness.

224 pages, Paperback

Published October 1, 2025

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Reviews

[Anne · Rating 5 out of 5]

My book of the year ~ one of the last I read in 2025 but it will impact all my reading going forward. I shall try to approach a book in the spirit of not-knowing and see what I can learn. If you love books or reading, you’ll be fascinated by this

[Valerie Brett · Rating 5 out of 5]

Have some questions or critiques but overall love the concept & impressed by the execution. Very enjoyable for a books-about-reading nerd!

[archana · Rating 5 out of 5]

Utterly brilliant