World Book Night

World Book Night is April 23rd, 2012

About World Book Night
What is World Book Night?

World Book Night is an annual celebration designed to spread a love of reading and books. To be held in the U.S. as well as the U.K. and Ireland on April 23, 2012. It will see tens of thousands of people go out into their communities to spread the joy and love of reading by giving out free World Book Night paperbacks.


World Book Night, through social media and traditional publicity, will also promote the value of reading, of printed books, and of bookstores and libraries to everyone year-round.


Successfully launched in the U.K. in 2011, World Book Night will also be celebrated in the U.S. in 2012, with news of more countries to come in future years. Please join our mailing list for regular World Book Night U.S. news. And thank you to our U.K. friends for such a wonderful idea!


Additionally, April 23 is UNESCO’s World Book Day, chosen due to the anniversary of Cervantes’ death, as well as Shakespeare’s birth and death.

Book List

The Hunger Games (Paperback)

By Suzanne Collins

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ISBN-13: 9780439023528
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Published: Scholastic Press, 7/2010

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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Paperback)

By Rebecca Skloot

$16.00

ISBN-13: 9781400052189
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Published: Broadway, 3/2011

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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (Paperback)

By Sherman Alexie

$14.99

ISBN-13: 9780316013697
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Published: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 4/2009

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The Book Thief (Paperback)

By Markus Zusak

$12.99

ISBN-13: 9780375842207
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Published: Knopf Books for Young Readers, 9/2007

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The Things They Carried (Paperback)

By Tim O'Brien

$14.95

ISBN-13: 9780618706419
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Published: Mariner Books, 10/2009

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The Glass Castle: A Memoir (Paperback)

By Jeannette Walls

$16.00

ISBN-13: 9780743247542
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Published: Scribner, 1/2006

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Just Kids (Paperback)

By Patti Smith

$16.00

ISBN-13: 9780060936228
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Published: Ecco, 11/2010

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Ender's Game: Author's Definitive Edition (Mass Market Paperback)

By Orson Scott Card

$6.99

ISBN-13: 9780812550702
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Published: Tor Science Fiction, 7/1994

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The Kite Runner (Paperback)

By Khaled Hosseini

$16.00

ISBN-13: 9781594480003
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Published: Riverhead Trade, 1/2003

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Zeitoun (Paperback)

By Dave Eggers

$15.95

ISBN-13: 9780307387943
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Published: Vintage, 6/2010

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Little Bee (Paperback)

By Chris Cleave

$15.00

ISBN-13: 9781416589648
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Published: Simon & Schuster, 2/2010

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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Paperback)

By Junot Diaz

$16.00

ISBN-13: 9781594483295
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Published: Riverhead Trade, 9/2008

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The History of Love (Paperback)

By Nicole Krauss

$14.95

ISBN-13: 9780393328622
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company, 5/2006

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The Namesake (Paperback)

By Jhumpa Lahiri

$14.95

ISBN-13: 9780618485222
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Published: Mariner Books, 9/2004

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Because of Winn-Dixie: Movie Tie-In (Paperback)

By Kate Dicamillo

$6.99

ISBN-13: 9780763625580
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Published: Candlewick, 1/2005

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Peace Like a River (Paperback)

By Leif Enger

$14.95

ISBN-13: 9780802139252
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Published: Atlantic Monthly Press, 8/2002

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A Reliable Wife (Paperback)

By Robert Goolrick

$14.95

ISBN-13: 9781565129771
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Published: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1/2010

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Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream (Paperback)

By H.G. Bissinger

$15.95

ISBN-13: 9780306809903
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Published: Da Capo Press, 9/2000

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Kindred (Paperback)

By Octavia Butler

$15.00

ISBN-13: 9780807083697
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Published: Beacon Press, 2/2004

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Housekeeping (Paperback)

By Marilynne Robinson

$15.00

ISBN-13: 9780312424091
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Published: Picador, 11/2004

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My Sister's Keeper (Paperback)

By Jodi Picoult

$16.00

ISBN-13: 9780743454537
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Published: Washington Square Press, 2/2005

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Wintergirls (Paperback)

By Laurie Halse Anderson

$9.99

ISBN-13: 9780142415573
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Published: Speak, 3/2010

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The Stand (Mass Market Paperback)

By Stephen King

$8.99

ISBN-13: 9780307743688
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Published: Anchor, 6/2011

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The Poisonwood Bible (Paperback)

By Barbara Kingsolver

$17.99

ISBN-13: 9780061577079
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Published: Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 6/2008

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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Paperback)

By Maya Angelou

$17.00

ISBN-13: 9780812980028
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Published: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 4/2009

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Bel Canto (Paperback)

By Ann Patchett

$16.99

ISBN-13: 9780061565311
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Published: Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 6/2008

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Blood Work (Mass Market Paperback)

By Michael Connelly

$7.99

ISBN-13: 9780446602624
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Published: Grand Central Publishing, 10/1998

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The Lovely Bones (Paperback)

By Alice Sebold

$14.99

ISBN-13: 9780316044936
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Published: Back Bay Books, 9/2009

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La breve y maravillosa vida de Oscar Wao (Paperback)

By Junot Diaz

$15.00

ISBN-13: 9780679776697
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Published: Vintage, 9/2008

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Q Is For Quarry (Mass Market Paperback)

By Sue Grafton

$7.99

ISBN-13: 9780425192726
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Published: Berkley, 9/2003

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