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Novelist Nick Hornby |
It’s all about a book as readers rise to Hornby’s name-your-favourite challenge
THE name-your-favourite-book challenge thrown out by Highbury novelist Nick Hornby has brought 1,500 responses.
Love Books, being run in conjunction with Islington Council and Borders bookshop, celebrates the National Year of Reading by aiming to discover Islington’s favourite title.
To date, the top 10 titles are, in no particular order: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Perfume by Patrick Suskind, The BFG by Roald Dahl, Catch 22 by Joseph Heller, The Time Traveler’s Wife, by Audrey Niffenegger, Captain Underpants by Dav Pilkey, The Witches by Roald Dahl and Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.
Lib Dem deputy council leader Councillor Lucy Watt – favourite book, If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin – said: “It is good to see so many people are taking part and nominating their favourite books – classics, children’s books and ones that are more unusual too.
“I’d urge everyone to pop into their local library, cast your vote and borrow a book, DVD or CD while you’re at it.”
Votes can be cast – for any book – in libraries and at Borders Angel branch until the end of November, with the results sorted into three categories by voter age, 6-10, 11-16 and 17 to adult.
A winner, chosen at random, from each of the children’s age categories will receive the top 10 books in their group, and two winners in the
17-to-adult category will each win the top 25 books in their category.
The first vote was cast by Nick Hornby, who chose Great Expectations by Charles Dickens as his top title. |
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