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We stumbled across some reading lists from Amazon. These lists are a starter for ten, but please feel free to browse around YourNextRead to find out more.

Paperback beach reads USA

Beach Reads

50 best summer reads: Independent (UK) – we have a smaller list of 10 on the Featured tab

50 best summer reads

What everyone will be reading: well according to Amazon USA

Summer Reads

We have been receiving some great blog reviews and write-ups. Please find a non exhaustive list below:

Thanks to Jason from Lifehacker for writing this article about us at Lifehacker

A blog with a summary of the site  here

A nice article from Josh O’Connell here

We met Doug Richards and he became an instant fan see us here…

Promoting our technology brillance…here

The nice people at MakeUseOf featured us even before our name change, here

It’s independant booksellers week this week! (14th-21st June 2010)

This includes the launch of the IBW Award, which we’ve now added as one of the lists on the frontpage of our site. This award is for your favourite book from the shortlist chosen by independant booksellers.

The Shortlist:

Adult

• The Music Room by William Fiennes (Picador)
• Mad Dogs & Englishmen by Ranulph Fiennes (Hodder)
• Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel (Fourth Estate)
• The Horse Boy by Rupert Isaacson (Viking)
• One Day by David Nicholls (Hodder)
• The Other Half Lives by Sophie Hannah (Hodder)
• The Winter Vault by Anne Michaels (Bloomsbury)
• An Equal Stillness by Francesca Kay (Phoenix)
• The Outlander by Gil Adamson (Bloomsbury)
• Strangers by Anita Brookner (Penguin)

Children’s

• Running Wild by Michael Morpurgo (HarperCollins)
• Auslander by Paul Dowswell (Bloomsbury)
• Henderson’s Boys: The Escape by Robert Muchamore (Hodder)
• Dog Loves Books by Louise Yates (Red Fox)
• Dogs by Emily Gravett (Macmillan)
• The Unfinished Angel by Sharon Creech (Andersen Press)
• Cosmic by Frank Cottrell Boyce (Macmillan)
• What’s For Dinner Mr Gum? by Andy Stanton (Egmont Press)
• Ostrich Boys by Keith Gray (Definitions)
• The Last Leopard by Lauren St John (Orion)
• Revolver by Marcus Sedgwick (Orion)
• The Silver Blade by Sally Gardner (Orion)

Get reading these great books! You can then vote for your favourite in your local independent book shop.

Further information about his week can be found at http://independentbooksellersweek.org.uk/. There’s also a handy tool to find your local bookstore.

Happy reading!