World Book Night – The Books
Here is the list of the 25 books that will be distributed today in Great Britain. One million books—given away! What an idea! What a luxury!
Links to information about each author, about the books, and first-chapter excerpts can be found at worldbooknight.org.
In alphabetical order (except I’ve put the Canadians first!):
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
A Life Like Other People’s by Alan Bennett (UK)
Agent Zigzag by Ben Macintyre (UK)
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque (Germany)
Beloved by Toni Morrison (US)
Case Histories by Kate Atkinson (UK)
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell (UK)
Dissolution by C.J. Sansom (UK)
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters (UK)
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Nigeria)
Killing Floor by Lee Child
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
New Selected Poems 1966-1987 by Seamus Heaney
Northern Lights by Philip Pullman
One Day by David Nicholls
Rachel’s Holiday by Marian Keyes
Stuart by Alexander Masters (UK)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time by Mark Haddon
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John Le Carré
The World’s Wife by Carol Ann Duffy
Toast by Nigel Slater
How many of these have you read?
There's your reading plan for the next few months!!
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