The 2008 Books Alive ‘50 Books You Can't Put Down' List will be released to the public in News Limited newspapers around the country this Sunday 27 July.

The Sunday Telegraph (NSW/ACT); Sunday Herald Sun (Vic); Sunday Mail (in both Qld and SA) and Sunday Times (WA) will all contain 12-page stand-alone inserts, while the Sunday Tasmanian (Tas) and Sunday Territorian (NT) will both include a two-page news feature promoting the titles.

As previously reported, the free title this year is Michael Robotham's Bombproof.

The '50 Books You Can't Put Down' are:

Fiction:
• The Household Guide to Dying, Debra Adelaide, Pan Macmillan
• Breath, Tim Winton, Hamish Hamilton
• People of the Book, Geraldine Brooks, Fourth Estate
• The Spare Room, Helen Garner, Text
• The Six Sacred Stones, Matthew Reilly, Pan Macmillan
• Exit Music, Ian Rankin, Orion
• The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson, Quercus
• A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini, Bloomsbury
• Change of Heart, Jodi Picoult, Allen&Unwin
• Those Faraday Girls, Monica McInerney, Penguin
• Skin and Bone, Kathryn Fox, Pan Macmillan
• 7th Heaven, James Patterson with Maxine Paetro, Century
• The Forgotten Garden, Kate Morton, Allen&Unwin
• Les Norton and the Case of the Talking Pie Crust, Robert G Barrett, HarperCollins
• The Day After Tomorrow, Allan Folsom, Warner Books
• Nothing to Lose, Lee Child, Bantam Press
• The Memory Room, Christopher Koch, Vintage
• Addition, Toni Jordan, Text
• Voodoo Doll, Leah Giarratano, Bantam
• The Rouseabout, Rachael Treasure, Penguin
• Avoiding Mr Right, Anita Heiss, Bantam
• This Charming Man, Marian Keyes, Penguin
• The Gift, Alison Croggon, Penguin

Nonfiction:
• Scar Tissue, Anthony Kiedis, Little, Brown
• Infidel, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Simon & Schuster
• God's Callgirl, Carla Van Raay, HarperCollins
• Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert, Bloomsbury
• Secrets of the Red Lantern, Pauline Nguyen with Luke Nguyen and Mark Jensen, Murdoch
• Somme Mud, E P F Lynch, Random House
• Vietnam: The Australian War, Paul Ham, HarperCollins
• Turn, Turn, Turn...Please, Kerry O'Keeffe, ABC Books
• Over the Top With Jim, Hugh Lunn, ABC Books
• That'd Be Right, William McInnes, Hachette Livre
• Back From the Brink, Peter Andrews, ABC Books
• True Green, Kim McKay & Jenny Bonnin, ABC Books
• He'll Be OK, Celia Lashlie, HarperCollins
• Girl Stuff, Kaz Cooke, Viking
• Lucky For Me, Frank Robson, HarperCollins
Children's/Young Adult:
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, J K  Rowling, Bloomsbury
• Obernewtyn, Isobelle Carmody, Penguin
• Superior Saturday, Garth Nix, Allen&Unwin
• Twilight: Special Edition, Stephenie Meyer, Atom Books
• George's Secret Key to the Universe, Lucy & Stephen Hawking, Corgi
• Treasure Fever!, Andy Griffiths, Pan Macmillan
• Water Witcher, Jan Ormerod, Little Hare
• The Waterhole (new edition), Graeme Base, Puffin
• Parsley Rabbit's Book about Books, Frances Watts & David Legge, ABC Books
• Quest for the Crown: The Faraway Fairies, Eleanor Coombe, Lothian
• Go Girl! Angels: Anniversary Edition, Chrissie Perry & Meredith Badger, Hardie Grant Egmont
• Nim's Island, Wendy Orr, Allen&Unwin

http://www.booksellerandpublisher.com.au/articles/2008/07/08963/

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