World Book Night 2012 – Get’s Sci-Fi

Remember World Book Night in 2011?  Remember how upset people were when the BBC coverage of genre fiction was completely lacking?  Now’s your chance to help make a difference!

World Book Night 2012 is just around the corner, and there’s some cracking genre literature included, including the excellent Iain M. Banks!

Why not visit the site, sign up to give away copies of the books, get people involved and spread the word!  Here’s the full list of books this year.

• Pride and 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 and Neil Gaiman
• How I Live Now, Meg Rosoff
• Touching The Void, Joe Simpson
• I Capture the Castle, Dodie Smith
• The Book Thief, Markus Zusak

Check out the World Book Night site, get involved, help people discover the joy of reading!

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