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World Book Night 2013

I am very excited that I am going to be a book distributer for the second annual U.S. World Book Night in April!

I am giving away John Green's Looking for Alaska. I'll confess that I haven't read this book so I'll do that in March. I may do what I did last year and distribute the books in English classes at the high school where I work. Last year I went into classes where the students don't enjoy reading and it was great to see them get excited about the books I had and then to have them come to me later saying how much they liked the books!

Each book distributer is given 20 books to distribute to people who don't normally read. Here is the complete list of books that are being distributed this year:

2013 Book List

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood 
City of Thieves by David Benioff 
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury 
My Antonia by Willa Cather
Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros 
La Casa en Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros -translated by Elena Poniatowska
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho 
El Alquimista by Paulo Coelho
The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh 
The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan 
Bossypants by Tina Fey 
Still Alice by Lisa Genova 
Looking for Alaska by John Green 
Playing for Pizza by John Grisham  
Mudbound by Hillary Jordan 
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster; illustrated by Jules Feiffer 
Moneyball by Michael Lewis
The Tender Bar by J.R. Moehringer 
Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley 
Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life by James Patterson 
Population 485 by Michael Perry
Good Omens by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman 
The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan 
Montana Sky by Nora Roberts
Look Again by Lisa Scottoline 
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris 
The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith 
Glaciers by Alexis M. Smith 
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain 
Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward 
Favorite American Poems in Large Print edited by Paul Negri

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