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Our top 20 young adult novels

20 of our favourite YA Novels

Young adult fiction is becoming increasingly popular with adults let alone young adults. Just take a look at the books you see on your morning commute. We are certainly guilty of reading one or two YA novels this year and we have seriously loved them! Take a look at our top 20 YA novels that you need to read right now.

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Our Favourite Literary Dads

Our Favourite Literary Dads

We are just putting our own celebrations for our Dads on hold and will raise a glass to those in the literary world who we can only admire as fictional fathers. Although most books feature a doting mother, we can’t help but nod to those amazing Dads and father figures we have all grown to love.

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Our Favourite Book Covers

Our Favourite Book Covers

By Rebecca Reed, CRM Executive.

They say never judge a book by its cover but here at World of Books, we are not just readers or book lovers, we are judging rebels. With the list below, we just can’t help it; these book covers are iconic, and simply the best.

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Author of the Week

Celebrating Jodi Picoult

Celebrating Jodi Picoult

Jodi Picoult was born on the 19th May 1966 in New York and was raised by her parents, she was late joined by her brother. She moved to New Hampshire. Jodi wrote her first story at the age of five, and has always said that her mother and grandmother were both teachers, and their influence was very important growing up.

“You don’t love someone because they’re perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they’re not.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister’s Keeper

Jodi is an American writer and is the bestselling author of 23 novels. Approximately 14 million copies of her books are in print worldwide and they have been translated into 34 languages. Her books are incredible stories, all dealing with real-life situations; suicide, school shootings and illness. She is a favourite of ours here in the office.

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