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15 Books You Should Have Read in 2010 - Culture - GOOD - StumbleUpon
Image by Jane Mount, Courtesy 20x 200 Yes, we read Freedom this year and yes, it was good.
For World Book Night 2012 we want to find out about the nation's favourite books. We're compiling the top 10s of thousands of readers to see what books people love to read, share and give. Below is an ever changing top 100 which will ultimately inform the 25 books chosen for World Book Night 2012.
The WBN Top 100 Books
2 Wissen: Islands junge Literaten - SWR2 :: Programm :: Sendungen A-Z :: Wissen | SWR.de
Literarisch gesehen ist Island, die kleine Insel am Polarkreis, ziemlich groß. Kein anderes Land der Welt kann eine so hohe Dichte an Schriftstellern aufweisen. Die Tradition des Geschichtenerzählens findet sich bis heute in den Texten isländischer Autoren. "Zu jedem Stein, über jeden Berg oder jedes Tal haben wir eine Geschichte – wir hatten ja auch jahrhundertelang nichts anders", sagt der 38-jährige Bestsellerautor Andri Snær Magnason. Vor dem Hintergrund der wundersamen isländischen Landschaft erzählt die jüngere Autorengeneration von Wirtschaftsproblemen, Umweltzerstörung und sozialen Veränderungen – aber auch von Einsamkeit, Identitätsfindung und Zukunftsängsten. Island ist in der Tat ein kleines Land mit einigen Besonderheiten.
Poague on Jacobean Visions
Read from a film-critical perspective, at least, Alan Taylor’s Jacobean visions: Webster, Hitchcock, and Google culture is an avowedly and enthusiastically eccentric book.
Das „andere“ Jahrhundert In dieser Weltgeschichte des 19.
Die Berliner Literaturkritik - Rezensionen, Literaturkalender, Leseproben, Buchladen
Longlist announced for Man Booker Prize 2010: Man Booker Prize news
27 July 2010 The judges for the 2010 Man Booker Prize for Fiction today, Tuesday 27 July, announce the longlist for the prize, the leading literary award in the English speaking world. "Here are thirteen exceptional novels - books we have chosen for their intrinsic quality, without reference to the past work of their authors.
The Millions : A Chiefest Pleasure: Discovering The Sot-Weed Factor on its 50th Birthday
Some of the chiefest pleasures in a lifetime of reading fiction are those moments when you stumble upon a gem of a book you somehow missed.
Books that everyone should read at least once
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The Book Bench: The Trouble With Recommending Books : The New Yo
As a child—an easily bored, semi-feral child without a TV—I spent a lot of time in the local bookstore.
So far, 132 people have voted for the best geek novels written in English since 1932 , in spite of Survey Monkey's rubric saying free polls were limited to 100 responses. The top 20 is therefore as follows, with the numbers in brackets showing the number of votes.
Top 20 geek novels -- the results! | Technology | Guardian Unlim
Still more questions for, and answers from, the Biblioracle: That first installment of the Biblioracle was quite something, wasn’t it? Boy howdy!