World Book Night

World Book Night will take place on 23 April 2012

We are thrilled to reveal the 25 titles that will be given away on the second World Book Night. The selected books were initially chosen by public vote and then narrowed down by an editorial committee. A total of one million copies of the final 25 will be given away by voluntary book givers on 23 April 2012.

To find out more about World Book Night visit www.worldbooknight.org

The 25 titles selected for World Book Night 2012 are:

• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (Vintage)

• The Player of Games by Iain M Banks (Little, Brown)

• Sleepyhead by Mark Billingham (Little, Brown)
• Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson (Transworld)
• The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho (HarperCollins)
• The Take by Martina Cole (Headline)
• Harlequin by Bernard Cornwell (HarperCollins)
• Someone Like You by Roald Dahl (Penguin)
• A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (Penguin)

• Room by Emma Donoghue (Pan Macmillan)

• Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier (Little, Brown)

• The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro (Faber)

• Misery by Stephen King (Hodder)

• The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella (Transworld)
• Small Island by Andrea Levy (Headline)

• Let the Right One In by John Ajvde Lindqvist (Quercus)

• The Road by Cormac McCarthy (Pan Macmillan)

• The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger (Vintage)

• The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell (Headline)
• The Damned Utd by David Peace (Faber)

• Good Omens by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman (Transworld)
• How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff (Penguin)
• Touching the Void by Joe Simpson (Vintage)
• I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith (Vintage)

• The Book Thief by Markus Zuzak (Transworld)

Becoming a book giver

The 20,000 bookgivers for this year's World Book Night have now been chosen and pick-up point selection is currently taking place. Almost 90% of library authorities registered as pick-up points, providing bookgivers with plenty of local pick-up points.

Library briefing pack

Briefing packs have been circulated to libraries and are available to download from The Reading Agency website. They include information about when the books will be delivered and more details about the campaign.

World Book Night 2011

We were delighted to be lead the library element of the first ever World Book Night, brainchild of Canongate's Jamie Byng.

World Book Night happened on 5 March 2011, when 1,000,000 book were given away by "an army of passionate readers" to members of the public across the UK and Ireland. We were inspired by the imaginative response and great events that took place in libraries across the country, including late night library events.

On 4 March, the day before World Book Night there was a thrilling showcase event in Trafalgar Square with a great line-up of authors, actors and musicians. This included authors such as Margaret Atwood, Philip Pullman and Sarah Waters. The event was compered by Graham Norton.

The 25 titles selected for World Book Night 2011 were:

* Kate Atkinson - Case Histories (Black Swan)
* Margaret Atwood - The Blind Assassin (Virago)
* Alan Bennett - A Life Like Other People's (Faber/Profile)
* John Le Carré - The Spy Who Came in From the Cold (Penguin)
* Lee Child - Killing Floor (Bantam)
* Carol Ann Duffy - The World's Wife (Picador)
* Mark Haddon - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Vintage)
* Seamus Heaney - Selected Poems (Faber)
* Marian Keyes - Rachel's Holiday (Poolbeg/Penguin)
* Mohsin Hamid - The Reluctant Fundamentalist (Penguin)
* Ben Macintyre - Agent Zigzag (Bloomsbury)
* Gabriel García Márquez - Love in the Time of Cholera (Penguin)
* Yann Martel - Life of Pi (Canongate)
* Alexander Masters - Stuart: A Life Backwards (Fourth Estate)
* Rohinton Mistry - A Fine Balance (Faber)
* David Mitchell - Cloud Atlas (Sceptre)
* Toni Morrison - Beloved (Vintage)
* Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Half of a Yellow Sun (Fourth Estate)
* David Nicholls - One Day (Hachette/Hodder)
* Philip Pullman - Northern Lights (Scholastic)
* Erich Maria Remarque - All Quiet on the Western Front (Vintage)
* C J Sansom - Dissolution (Pan)
* Nigel Slater - Toast (Fourth Estate)
* Muriel Spark - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Penguin)
* Sarah Waters - Fingersmith (Virago)