World Book Night Meme
Book meme! (via Ian Sales’s website
http://iansales.com/ ) Here are the 25 titles chosen for 2012 World Book Night
Do the usual: bold for read, italics for owned but unread. And, given the multimedia nature of our cultural landscape, asterisk those with film or television adaptations you have seen.
*Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Player of Games by Iain M Banks
Sleepyhead by Mark Billingham
Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
The Take by Martina Cole
Harlequin by Bernard Cornwell
Someone Like You by Roald Dahl
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Room by Emma Donoghue
*Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
*The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
*Misery by Stephen King
The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella
*Small Island by Andrea Levy
*Let the Right One In by John Ajvde Lindqvist
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O’Farrell
The Damned Utd by David Peace
Good Omens by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman
How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff
Touching the Void by Joe Simpson
*I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
The Book Thief by Markus Zuzak
So that's 7 out of 25. And if I were to be passed any of the others, that might be interesting! A couple on there are ones I have intended to get round to. A couple of others, I've read other fayre from the authors. Some I would not have contemplated.
http://iansales.com/ ) Here are the 25 titles chosen for 2012 World Book Night
Do the usual: bold for read, italics for owned but unread. And, given the multimedia nature of our cultural landscape, asterisk those with film or television adaptations you have seen.
*Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Player of Games by Iain M Banks
Sleepyhead by Mark Billingham
Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
The Take by Martina Cole
Harlequin by Bernard Cornwell
Someone Like You by Roald Dahl
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Room by Emma Donoghue
*Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
*The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
*Misery by Stephen King
The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella
*Small Island by Andrea Levy
*Let the Right One In by John Ajvde Lindqvist
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O’Farrell
The Damned Utd by David Peace
Good Omens by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman
How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff
Touching the Void by Joe Simpson
*I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
The Book Thief by Markus Zuzak
So that's 7 out of 25. And if I were to be passed any of the others, that might be interesting! A couple on there are ones I have intended to get round to. A couple of others, I've read other fayre from the authors. Some I would not have contemplated.