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Some Reads for the Road, to Celebrate World Book Day

March 1, 2012 at 2:06 PM | by | Comments (0)


Or there's always Tintin!

Today, March 1st 2012, is World Book Day. While you'll still get a chance to hit the library or overbuy novels at your local bookstore in May for National Book Day, we wanted to chime in with a few recommendations for early spring.

Classics:

Italian Hours by Henry James
Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Roughing It by Mark Twain
Anything by Freya Stark

Novels to travel with you:

Prague by Arthur Phillips
The Question of Bruno by Aleksander Hemon
I Served the King of England by Bohumil Hrabal
Of Diamonds and Diplomats by Letitia Baldridge
A History of the World in Six Glasses by Tom Standage
Full Circle by Michael Palin (of Monty Python)

Novels for a really, really long plane/train/bus/car ride

Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles
The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett

Have any more suggestions for good reads on the road? Drop 'em in the comments below!

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