Daily Star Books is excited to be teaming up with Dhaka's Bookcentric library for their monthly reading challenge, which encourages readers to read books following each month's theme and write their own book reviews. Starting from August, reader reviews stand a chance to be published online on The Daily Star.

This month's theme is "nautical books", and Bookcentric recommends titles spanning fantasy (Life of Pi) to historical fiction (Amitav Ghosh's Ibis trilogy) to mythology (A Thousand Ships) and more. Follow @bookcentricbd and @thedailystarbooks on Instagram for more information, and tag us in your book review posts on social media using the hashtag, #bookcentric2021readingchallenge.