Thursday, November 8, 2012

World Book Night 2013

Plans are already in the works for the 2013 World Book Night. 2012 was the first time the U.S. participated, and the 2013 events are similar to last year and the activities in the UK and Ireland. Thirty books will be given away...The titles, announced in July, have been chosen by a panel of booksellers and librarians.
Here's the list: (How many of these have you read?)
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
City of Thieves by David Benioff
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
My Antonia by Willa Cather
Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros --also in Spanish
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho --also in Spanish
The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan
Bossypants by Tina Fey
Still Alice by Lisa Genova
Looking for Alaska by John Green
Playing for Pizza by John Grisham
Mudbound by Hillary Jordan
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
Moneyball by Michael Lewis
The Tender Bar by J.R. Moehringer
Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley
Middle School:
The Worst Years of My Life by James Patterson
Population: 485 by Michael Perry
Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
Montana Sky by Nora Roberts
Look Again by Lisa Scottoline
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
Glaciers by Alexis M. Smith
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain
Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward
Favorite American Poems, large print edition (Dover)

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