Wednesday is World Reading Day. It’s one day, held once a year, where people of all ages are encouraged to turn off the TV, log off the net, put away the video games & ignore all the other myriad distractions of modern life and enjoy the simple pleasure of reading a book instead.
On Access Utah we’re joining in the celebration by asking you what you’re reading. You can suggest some good books we may want to pick up. We’re also asking you to tell us what books & reading mean to you. You can post your reading list to our Utah Public Radio Facebook page or send it to upraccess@gmail.com and we’ll share it on air. Or you can call us at 1-800-826-1495. UPR producer and avid reader Elaine Thatcher joins us for the hour. And booksellers Anne Holman from The King’s English BookShop in Salt Lake City; Andy Nettell from Back of Beyond Books in Moab; and Jeanee Hagman from The Book Table in Logan will all tell us about the hot new titles they’re most excited about.
Official website:
http://www.worldreadingday.com/index.php
Utah Public Radio facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/utahpublicradio/posts/10151972997953385
The Book Table's Jeanee Hagman's List:
3: Battle of Ampere, Michael Vey
Inferno, Dan Brown
Silver Star, Janette Wall
Storm breakers,
Risked, Margaret Peterson Haddix
Missing Risk, Alex Rider
Back of Beyond Book's Andy Nettell's List:
Spider Woman's Daughter,Anne Hillerman
Sweet Thunder,Ivan Doig
This Day: Collected & New Sabbath Poems,Wendell Berry
Emerald Mile,Kevin Fedarko
Country of the Bad Wolfes,James Carlos Blake
The King's English Book Shop's Anne Holman's List:
Monument Road, Charlie Quimby
Cinnamon and Gunpowder, Eli Brown
The Rosie Project Graeme Simsion
The World's Strongest Librarian, Josh Hanagarne
When Charley Met Grampa, Amy Hest and Helen Oxenbury, Ages 4-6
Fangirl, Rainbow Rowell
Our Listener's Reading List:
Little House on the Prairie Series,
Harry Potter,
Westing Game,
The Hobbit
American Girl Books,
The Farthest Away Mountain,
Magic Tree House
Guardians of GaHoole
Little Women,
Bleak House by Dickens,
North and South by Gaskell
On the Death Beat, by JS Bateman
Rabid: by Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy
Jack London's "To Build a Fire
Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
Dandelion Wine – Ray Bradbury
Angle of Repose
Crossing to Safety – Wallace Stegner
Huck Finn
Adam and Eve
Puddinhead Wilson - Mark Twain
Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver
How Green Was My Valley – Richard Llewellyn
My Antonia
Neighbor Rossicky (short story)
Song of the Lark
Oh Pioneers – Willa Cather
David Copperfield
A Christmas Carol
Great Expectations
Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
Pride and Prejudice
Emma
Persuasion
Sense and Sensiblity – Jane Austen
Lonesome Dove -0 Larry McMurtry
East of Eden
Winter of Our Discontent – John Steinbeck
Count of Monte Cristo
The Black Tulip – Alexandre Dumas
The Good Earth – Pearl S. Buck
Washington Square
Portrait of a Lady – Henry James
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
Holes – Louis Sachar
Foundation Series - Isaac Asimov
Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton
A River Runs Through It - Norman McLean
Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis
The Giver – Lois Lowry
Lord of the Rings – Tolkien
Silas Marner – George Eliot
Little Women – Louisa May Alccott
Life of Pi – Yan Martel
The Samaritans Pistol by Eric Bishop
Death From the Skies: the Science Behind the End of the World by Philip Plait, PhD.
My Antonia by Willa Cather
The Whistling Season
All the Truth That’s In Me
