… as determined by a panel “of major and independent booksellers and representatives of reading groups, as well as World Book Day organisers.” The full list is in the Telegraph and includes a host of books I’ve never heard of. Might be a good reading group selection tool. You can vote for your favourite title.
Some titles:
- Catch a Fish from the Sea (Using the Internet) by Nasreen Akhtar (Greenbirds Publishing)
- Away by Amy Bloom (Granta)
- The Song Before It Is Sung by Justin Cartwright (Bloomsbury)
- Random Deaths and Custard by Catrin Dafydd (Gomer)
- Zoology by Ben Dolnick (Harper Perennial)
- The Vitamin Murders by James Fergusson (Portobello)
- The Condition by Jennifer Haigh (Harper)
- The Fantastic Book of Everyone’s Secrets by Sophie Hannah (Sort of Books)
- The Archivist’s Story by Travis Holland (Bloomsbury)
- The Family That Couldn’t Sleep by D.T. Max (Portobello)
- Queuing for Beginners by Joe Moran (Profile)
- Train to Trieste by Domnica Radulescu (Doubleday)
- Do Good Lives Have to Cost the Earth? by Andrew Sims & Joe Smith (Constable & Robinson)
World Book Day is 5 March 2009.
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