Here’s a list of the 20 most re-read books in the UK. (From www.costabookawards.com)

What books do you re-read? Do you think the ones in this list deserve re-reading?

THE TOP 20 MOST REVISITED READS:

1. The Harry Potter Series by J.K Rowling
2. Lord of the Rings Trilogy by JRR Tolkien
3. Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen
4. The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien
5. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
6. 1984 by George Orwell
7. Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
8. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis
9. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
10. Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
11. Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson
12. To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee
13. Flowers in the Attic by Virginia Andrews
14. Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
15. Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
16. The Bible
17. Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
18. Bridget Jones Diary by Helen Fielding
19. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
20. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Heading out into the world at large?

Check out Getting Out.

This site has all the info that the authors wished they had when they were younger; such as renting a house, buying a car, safe partying and feeding yourself on a budget. And it has bucketloads of uselful phone numbers and links to other helpful and important sites.

 From the totally fabulash youth literature site ‘Inside a Dog’ comes… The Inkys!

As the Centre for Youth Literature folks say:

“3000 votes were cast by young people from Australia and internationally to decide the inaugural Inky Awards, Australia’s first teenage choice bookprize. The winners were announced at the State Library Victoria last night.” 

There are two awards: the Golden Inky for an Australian book, and theSilver Inky for an International book. 

And the winners are…

Golden Inky
Notes from the Teenage Underground, by Simmone Howell

Silver Inky

Looking for Alaska, by John Green

 Might be worth a read?