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08/02/2005
BBC bookclub shortlist announced
The BBC has announced the shortlist of its hugely anticipated TV bookclub, Pageturners.
The first programme will air next month and will be presented by former Newsnight presenter Jeremy Vine.
Each show willl examine three books from the shortlist which will be put forward by a celebrity or writer.
Over 300 books were initially submitted for the shortlist which now runs to 24 books.
The full Pageturners shortlist:
Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
How to Be a Bad Birdwatcher by Simon Barnes
Fools Rush In by Bill Carter
Becoming Strangers by Louise Dean
About Grace by Anthony Doerr
Chronicles Volume One by Bob Dylan
Inside Hitler's Bunker by Joachim Fest
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Ninth Life of Louis Drax by Liz Jensen
Feast: Food That Celebrates Life by Nigella Lawson
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka
Not the End of the World by Geraldine McCaughrean
Kafka On The Shore by Haruki Murakami
Leonardo da Vinci: The Flights of the Mind by Charles Nicholl
The Understudy by David Nicholls
How To Breathe Underwater by Julie Orringer
The Icarus Girl by Helen Oyeyemi
Fleshmarket Close by Ian Rankin
Let Me Go by Helga Schneider
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris
Light on Snow by Anita Shreve
We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
The Last Crossing by Guy Vanderhaeghe
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