World Book Night US Announces Titles!

Book lovers, mark your calendars – Monday, April 23 is World Book Night!

Held simultaneously in the UK, Ireland, and the US, World Book Night is an annual celebration designed to spread the love of reading and books throughout communities worldwide. How? By enabling tens of thousands of volunteers to go out into their cities and towns and hand out free copies of World Book Night paperbacks.

The goal is to spread 1 million books throughout America on April 23. If you want to help, register to be a book giver. BookPeople will be be a major Austin distribution center on World Book Night, supplying givers with the special WBN paperback books they’ll hand out. We believe reading is of paramount importance in fostering a culture of thoughtfulness and understanding and are proud to participate in this incredible campaign that puts books in readers hands.

We hope you’ll join us in making this year’s effort a success! World Book Night U. S. needs 50,000 book givers to sign up by February 1st, 2012 in order to make this happen. For more info and to sign up as a book giver, visit the World Book Night U. S. website.

Here’s what will be handed out this year, as announced today:

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Friday Night Lights by H.G. Bissinger
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
Little Bee by Chris Cleave
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Blood Work by Michael Connelly
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz; a Spanish-language edition, La breve y maravillosa vida de Óscar Wao, will also be made available.
Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
Peace Like a River by Leif Enger
A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick
Q Is for Quarry by Sue Grafton
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
The Stand by Stephen King
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult
Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Just Kids by Patti Smith
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

Books Rule!….THE WORLD!