Happy World Book Night!

Happy World Book Night! Today across the UK, Ireland, Germany and the US almost 80,000 people will give over 2 million books to spread their passion for books and reading in their communities and encourage new people to fall in love with reading. In the UK and Ireland, 20,000 givers including the Duchess of Cornwell and Stephen Fry will be giving specially printed copies of the 25 books. There are givers all across the country from the Shetlands to the Channel Islands and almost every populated corner in between. In addition more than 70,000 books will be going in to over 110 prisons for prisoners as well as their families (to enable shadow reading) and staff. This year the books include an extract from another book recommended by the author to encourage recipients on to their next, as well as a Shakespeare sonnet chosen by poet Don Paterson to celebrate our greatest writer's birth and death day. How you can celebrate Tell everyone you know about what books and reading mean to you (as well as about World Book Night). If you're using social media, follow us on twitter @worldbooknight and use #worldbooknight to follow today's activities. On facebook you can like us and join in the conversation - we're asking everyone to share their favourite book as their status update to spread the word. Give / share your favourite book with someone today Visit your local library and bookshop. Join your library, ask your librarian or bookseller for a recommendation, buy or borrow an amazing new book you'd never otherwise have discovered. Celebrate this evening at one of the hundreds of events taking place around the country from author readings to quizes and parties as well as candle-lit readings or you can watch our flagship London event live streamed on your computer. SImply login or register for an account and follow the link from the homepage this evening. Event starts at 7.15pm. 2013... Many people are already asking about how they can sign up to be a giver and get involved with World Book Night 2013 as well as what the titles will be and which new countries will be celebrating. We won't be announcing anything for 2013 till later in the year but you will be one of the first to know, and if your friends and family want to stay up to date please tell them to join our mailing list We hope you have a very happy World Book Night!

World Book Night 2012 Titles Pride & Prejudice Jane Austen The Player of Games Iain M Banks Sleepyhead Mark Billingham Notes from a Small Island Bill Bryson The Alchemist Paulo Coelho The Take Martina Cole Harlequin Bernard Cornwell Someone Like You Roald Dahl A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens Room Emma Donoghue Rebecca Daphne Du Maurier The Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro Misery Stephen King The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic Sophie Kinsella Small Island Andrea Levy Let the Right One In John Ajvide Lindqvist The Road Cormac McCarthy The Time Traveler’s Wife Audrey Niffenegger The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox Maggie O’Farrell The Damned Utd David Peace Good Omens Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman How I Live Now Meg Rosoff Touching the Void Joe Simpson I Capture the Castle Dodie Smith The Book Thief Markus Zusak

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