‘Your’ Top 20 books of 2010 on Lovereading
What good is a new year without a look back at the last one? So, in time honoured tradition we’ve analysed all the visits, page views and book downloads to put together the
20 most popular books, according to our readers, of 2010. As ever you’ll find some of the
‘usual suspects’ but also a lot of fresh surprises – which shows off your love of reading books from
debut authors as well as the growing trend of
Young Adult Fiction ‘crossing over’ in to the grown-ups market, such as the Winner of the Book Trust Teenage Book Prize 2010
Unhooking the Moon by Gregory Hughes
Visit our
special section to see the full lists and we hope you enjoy catching up on any gems you might have missed.
January Features and Promotions not to miss
Get them before their hot! – January’s Pre-publication titles
Billy Brown, I'll Tell Your mother - Billy Brown
An autobiographical feel good memoir about a real life Del Boy, wheeling and dealing at the age of 7 in post war Brixton.
Sleep Like The Dead - Alex Gray
Fans of Ian Rankin will love this sharp and vivid mystery: set in an unforgiving, seedy Glasgow, as an assassin searches for stolen money and a detective must race to find a missing student and her ex’s killer.
(sp)Reading the Love at Lovereading.co.uk!
Ok, ok it’s perhaps a little early for Valentine’s Day but we believe in spreading the love here. That’s why we’ve created a Valentine’s Section on the site. Here’s a taster of the featured titles to get your romantic (ahem) juices flowing….
New York Valentine
Carmen Reid
Snapping at Sophie Kinsella’s heels, Carmen Reid has written a must-read tale of romance but with an edge as Annie Valentine, personal shopper extraordinaire with a dream job in Manhatten must make a choice; that of her new love in...
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Valentine's Kiss
Lucie Hart
A romantic comedy set in a house party in the South of France where handsome men abound and heroine Imogen wants one. Playing blind man's buff she kisses one and finds it's the most perfect kiss ever but is she...
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Tweetie Pie 140 Ways to Say I Love You
Veronica Henry
Why not tell that special person in your life just how much you love them and better still why not say it poignantly and affectionately or quirkily and amusingly by tweeting it. Each one of these 140 short and sweet...
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1 million free books - 25 titles - 40,000 copies of each - 20,000 people to give away these books – and you could be one of them!
We are very excited that the inaugural World Book Night will take place on Saturday 5 March 2011, two days after World Book Day.
That evening one million books will be given away by an army of 20,000 passionate book lovers to members of the public across the UK and Ireland – and you could be part of that ‘army’.
Why not volunteer to be one of these World Book Night ‘givers’? It should be great fun and couldn’t be easier. If you are successful with your application, you will be sent 48 copies of the book you chose and these can be picked up at your local library or bookshop. How and to whom you give these books away is entirely up to you but with over 1,100 libraries and almost 800 bookstores signed up as World Book Night partners, there will be a huge number of events going on that night. You can throw your own party. You can give away the books on the street, in the pub, outside the cinema, in your local hospital, on the beach, in your house, on a bus, in your library. It’s down to what you feel comfortable with and what you think will take this book you love to an audience who might not have read it.
To find out more and to apply, simply visit our special section on Lovereading. You ONLY have until midnight on Monday 24 January 2011 to apply, so don’t delay!
In the Lovereading office, we’ve already chosen our favourites from the 25 give-away titles, so if you’re not sure which one to choose, why not select one of ours (below)?
Beloved
Toni Morrison
Terrible, unspeakable things happened to Sethe at Sweet Home, the farm where she lived as a slave for many years until she escaped to Ohio. Her new life is full of hope but eighteen years later she is still not...
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Case Histories
Kate Atkinson
Wow! You are in for a treat here. Kate has a tremendous reputation but in my mind she has never really lived up to Behind the Scenes at the Museum, her Whitbread winner. Well now she has, and surpassed it....
£5.99 Save 25% |
Agent Zigzag
Ben Macintyre
Shortlisted for the Biography of the Year Award at the Galaxy British Book Awards 2008.Shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award 2007.Costa Book Awards 2007 Judges' comment: "Ben Macintyre uses his exceptional writing skill to make this...
£5.99 Save 25% |
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Mohsin Hamid
In the wake of September 11, Changez, a Pakistani man in Manhattan, finds his position in the city he loves suddenly overturned, and his budding relationship with Erica eclipsed by the reawakened ghosts of her past. Changez's own identity is...
£5.99 Save 25% |
The Blind Assassin
Margaret Atwood
* Atwood's Booker prize-winning novel reissued with a striking new jacket along with other titles from Margaret Atwood's backlist
£6.74 Save 25% |
Stuart : A Life Backwards
Alexander Masters
Read the endorsements on the cover and believe them, this is truly a tragic and unique biography. I love the style, right from the start you are caught up in this strange story and then I love the story itself....
£5.99 Save 25% |
So, don’t let your New Year’s resolutions slip – especially the ones about reading more – and more from us in February.
Happy Lovereading
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