World Book Night spreads the love of reading from person to person

On November 24, 2013 the Word Book Night organization announced the addition of three book titles for book givers to choose from because of overwhelming demand. The number of books to be be given away will increase to 550,000.

According to the Carl Lennertz, Executive Director of World Book Night U.S.,  “Sadly, the call for books for at-risk teens across the country is growing, from underfunded schools to foster homes to tutoring programs, but it’s encouraging that our givers are seeing that need and want to reach out with a book. “

The additional WBN US picks for 2014 are:

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“Me and Earl and the Dying Girl” by Jesse Andrews (Amulet/Abrams)

“Zora and Me” by Victoria Bond and T.S. Simon (Candlewick)

“The Raven’s Warrior” by Vincent Pratchett (YMAA Publications)

World Book Night U.S. is part of an ambitious campaign to encourage light and non-readers to read. A half million free paperbacks will be handed out across America April 23, 2014 by 25,000 volunteer book lovers.

The online giver application process opened on October 24, 2013 and continues through January 5, 2014. Applicants must state where and to whom they intend to give out their 20 WBN special paperbacks.

The 35 World Book Night U.S. titles for 2014, alphabetical by author, are:

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“The Zookeeper’s Wife” by Diane Ackerman (W.W. Norton)

“Kitchen Confidential” by Anthony Bourdain (Ecco)

“The Weird Sisters” by Eleanor Brown (Berkley)

“The Perks of Being a Wallflower” by Stephen Chbosky(Simon & Schuster)

“After the Funeral” by Agatha Christie (William Morrow Paperbacks)

“The Ruins of Gorlan: Ranger’s Apprentice Book 1” by John Flanagan (Puffin Books)

“Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet” by Jamie Ford (Ballantine Books)

“Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet” (in Large Print) by Jamie Ford (Thorndike/Gale; Cengage Learning)

“The Lighthouse Road” by Peter Geye (Unbridled Books)

“The Tipping Point” by Malcolm Gladwell (Back Bay Books)

“Wait Till Next Year” by Doris Kearns Goodwin (Simon & Schuster)

“Catch-22” by Joseph Heller (Simon & Schuster)

“The Dog Stars” by Peter Heller (Vintage)

“Hoot” by Carl Hiaasen (Knopf)

“Pontoon: A Novel of Lake Wobegon” by Garrison Keillor (Penguin Books)

“Same Difference” by Derek Kirk Kim (First Second Books)

“Enchanted” by Alethea Kontis (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

“Miss Darcy Falls in Love” by Sharon Lathan (Sourcebooks)

“Bobcat and Other Stories” by Rebecca Lee (Algonquin Books)

“Young Men and Fire” by Norman Maclean (University of Chicago Press)

“Tales of the City” by Armistead Maupin  (HarperPerennial)

“Waiting to Exhale” by Terry McMillan (New American Library)

“Sunrise Over Fallujah” by Walter Dean Myers (Scholastic)

“Bridge to Terabithia” by Katherine Paterson (HarperTrophy)

“The Botany of Desire” by Michael Pollan (Random House)

“Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children” by Ransom Riggs (Quirk Books)

“When I Was Puerto Rican” by Esmeralda Santiago (Da Capo)

“Cuando Era Puertorriqueña” by Esmeralda Santiago (Vintage Español)

“Where’d You Go, Bernadette” by Maria Semple (Back Bay Books)

“Where’d You Go, Bernadette” by Maria Semple in Large Print (Thorndike/Gale; Cengage Learning)

“Wild” by  Cheryl Strayed (Vintage)

“Presumed Innocent” by Scott Turow (Grand Central Publishing)

“Code Name Verity” by Elizabeth Wein (Disney Hyperion)

“This Boy’s Life” by Tobias Wolff (Grove Atlantic)

“100 Best-Loved Poems” edited by Philip Smith (Dover)