World Book Night – Monday 23 April 2012

On World Book Night, thousands of people spread the joy and love of reading by giving away free books across the UK, Ireland, Germany and USA.

Our library staff gave books away in town centres and railway stations across East Sussex. You can also borrow the 25 titles from our libraries by clicking the titles below.

2012 books

This year's titles include classics from Charles Dickens and Jane Austen, as well as modern fiction and travel books.

• 'Pride and prejudice' by Jane Austen
• 'The player of games' by Iain M Banks
• 'Sleepyhead' by Mark Billingham
• 'Notes from a small island' by Bill Bryson
• 'The alchemist' by Paulo Coelho
• 'The take' by Martina Cole
• 'Harlequin' by Bernard Cornwell
• 'Someone like you by Roald Dahl
• 'A tale of two cities' by Charles Dickens
• 'Room' by Emma Donoghue
• 'Rebecca' by Daphne Du Maurier
• 'The remains of the day' by Kazuo Ishiguro
• 'Misery' by Stephen King
• 'The secret dreamworld of a shopaholic' by Sophie Kinsella
• 'Small island' by Andrea Levy
• 'Let the right one in' by John Ajvde Lindqvist
• 'The road' by Cormac McCarthy
• 'The time traveler's wife' by Audrey Niffenegger
• 'The vanishing act of Esme Lennox' by Maggie O'Farrell
• 'The damned united' by David Peace
• 'Good omens' by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
• 'How I live now' by Meg Rosoff
• 'Touching the void' by Joe Simpson
• 'I capture the castle' by Dodie Smith
• 'The book thief' by Markus Zuzak

2011 books

On Saturday 5 March 2011, 20,000 passionate book lovers gave away one million free books across the UK and Ireland in partnership with BBC Two.

• 'Half of a yellow sun' by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• 'Case histories' by Kate Atkinson
• 'The blind assassin' by Margaret Atwood
• 'A life like other people's' by Alan Bennett
• 'The spy who came in from the cold' by John le Carré
• 'Killing floor' by Lee Child
• 'The world's wife' by Carol Ann Duffy
• 'The curious incident of the dog in the night-time' by Mark Haddon
• 'New selected poems' by Seamus Heaney
• 'Rachel's holiday' by Marian Keyes
• 'The reluctant fundamentalist' by Mohsin Hamid
• 'Agent Zigzag' by Ben Macintyre
• 'Love in the time of cholera' by Gabriel García Márquez
• 'Life of pi' by Yann Martel
• 'Stuart' by Alexander Masters
• 'A fine balance' by Rohinton Mistry
• 'Cloud atlas' by David Mitchell
• 'Beloved' by Toni Morrison
• 'One day' by David Nicholls
• 'Northern lights' by Philip Pullman
• 'All quiet on the Western Front' by Erich Maria Remarque
• 'Dissolution' by CJ Sansom
• 'Toast' by Nigel Slater
• 'The prime of Miss Jean Brodie' by Muriel Spark
• 'Fingersmith' by Sarah Waters