Celebrating books of all kinds and the pure joy of reading, World Book Night is an annual event held worldwide which in Staffordshire sees dozens of small and large scale reading events run by passionate volunteers gifting books in their community to share their love of reading.
Twenty selected books will be given away during the free events, which in 2014 will be held on April 23 in the UK, as well as Ireland and the US, and coincides with the UNESCO International Day of the Book
A network of volunteers will distribute the books across the UK to encourage more people to begin reading, or to widen their reading experiences. The list includes books by Agatha Christie, Jeffrey Archer, Andy McNab and Roald Dahl.
Organisers say the 2014 titles have been chosen to appeal to and inspire people who “haven’t yet been turned on” to reading, with an emphasis on books that might particularly interest teenagers and young adults.
World Book Night is an independent charity, though it is partnered with the BBC and The Reading Agency.
[h3]The complete list of World Book Night 2014 books is as follows:[/h3]
Hello Mum by Bernardine Evaristo (Penguin General)
Four Warned by Jeffrey Archer (Macmillan)
A Perfect Murder by Peter James (Macmillan)
Today Everything Changes by Andy McNab (Transworld)
Short Stories by Roald Dahl (Penguin Michael Joseph)
Cherub: The Recruit by Robert Muchamore (Hachette Children’s)
Theodore Boone by John Grisham (Hodder & Stoughton)
The Humans by Matt Haig (Canongate)
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne (Vintage, Random House)
Gorky Park by Martin Cruz Smith (Simon and Schuster)
Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin (Transworld)
Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch (Orion)
After the Funeral by Agatha Christie (HarperCollins)
Whatever it Takes by Adele Parks (Headline)
Geezer Girls by Dreda Say Mitchell (Hodder & Stoughton)
Black Hills by Nora Roberts (Little, Brown)
Getting Rid of Matthew by Jane Fallon (Penguin Michael Joseph)
The Boy With the Topknot by Sathnam Sanghera (Penguin General)
59 Seconds by Richard Wiseman (Macmillan)
Confessions of a GP by Dr Benjamin Daniels (The Friday Project, Harper Collins)
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