Volunteers to Give Away a Half Million Free Books on Tuesday, April 23rd
Lennertz added: “This is a beautiful mix of books that match the volunteers’ passion to share – the givers applied last fall to be WBN volunteers online by essay and book choice request – as well as appeal to the half million recipients of the books, some of whom might be getting the first book of their own, ever. We looked for diversity and variety in the book choices: subject matter, age level, ethnicity and geography. And we thank the authors, who have agreed to waive royalties on the World Book Night editions.”
The 30 World Book Night U.S. titles for 2013, alphabetical by author, are:
- The Handmaid’s Tale, by Margaret Atwood (Anchor Books/Random House)
- City of Thieves, by David Benioff (Plume/Penguin Group (USA))
- Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury (Simon & Schuster Paperbacks)
- My Antonia, by Willa Cather (Dover)
- Girl with a Pearl Earring, by Tracy Chevalier (Plume/Penguin Group USA)
- The House on Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros (Vintage/Random House)
- La casa en Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros; translated by Elena Poniatowska (Vintage Español/Random House)
- The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho (HarperOne/HarperCollins)
- El Alquimista, by Paulo Coelho (Rayo/HarperCollins)
- The Language of Flowers, by Vanessa Diffenbaugh (Ballantine/Random House)
- The Worst Hard Time, by Timothy Egan (Mariner/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
- Bossypants, by Tina Fey (Reagan Arthur/Back Bay Books)
- Good Omens, by Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett (William Morrow/HarperCollins)
- Still Alice, by Lisa Genova (Gallery Books/Simon & Schuster)
- Looking for Alaska, by John Green (Speak/Penguin Group USA)
- Playing for Pizza, by John Grisham (Bantam/Random House)
- Mudbound, by Hillary Jordan (Algonquin Books/Workman Publishing)
- The Phantom Tollbooth, by Norton Juster; illus. by Jules Feiffer (Yearling/
- Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers)
- Moneyball, by Michael Lewis (W. W. Norton)
- The Tender Bar, by J. R. Moehringer (Hyperion)
- Devil in a Blue Dress, by Walter Mosley (Simon & Schuster)
- Middle School, The Worst Years of My Life, by James Patterson and Chris Tebbetts (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
- Population: 485, by Michael Perry (HarperPerennial/HarperCollins)
- The Lightning Thief, by Rick Riordan (Disney-Hyperion)
- Montana Sky, by Nora Roberts (Berkley/Penguin Group USA)
- Look Again, by Lisa Scottoline (St. Martin’s)
- Me Talk Pretty One Day, by David Sedaris (Back Bay Books/Little Brown)
- The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, by Alexander McCall Smith (Anchor Books/Random House)
- Glaciers, by Alexis M. Smith (Tin House Books)
- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, by Mark Twain (Dover)
- Salvage the Bones,by Jesmyn Ward (Bloomsbury)
- Favorite American Poems (Large Print edition), by various authors (Dover)
About World Book Night
World Book Night in the U.S. is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization. World Book Night U.S. is supported by authors, publishers, Barnes & Noble, the American Booksellers Association, the American Library Association, Ingram Content Group, Federal Express Corporation, Domtar Paper, RR Donnelley, and other printers and paper companies; a full list of sponsors is at our website.
Source: Press Release