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Happy World Book Day!

Happy World Book Day!

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We love celebrating all things “book,” so we couldn’t pass on creating a collection to help you celebrate World Book Day. What would be better than providing online access to some of the 100 best sellers of all time (as calculated by The Guardian)?

Well. . .it turns out that academic libraries don’t really collect (even as ebooks) the top 100 best sellers. Instead, we collect scholarship about the best sellers. So, here for your reading pleasure are some books about books to give you a new perspective on the bestseller list.

Please note: if you select a book that is a collection of essays about more than one book, you can find the essay you want by using the ebook platform’s search options to search for the author’s name.

The books can be used by any member of the University, just click the cover below and use your Raven ID to login. Or access them from iDiscover, just like your reading list texts, if you prefer to go that way.

  • Like One of the Family: Domestic Workers, Race, and In/visibility in The Help edited by Fiona Mills
    The Help by Kathryn Stockett
  • Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird: New Essays edited by Michael J. Meyer
    To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
  • Interdisciplinary Approaches to Twilight: Studies in Fiction, Media, and a Contemporary Cultural Experience edited by Mariah Larsson & Ann Steiner
    Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
  • Multiculturalism and Magic Realism in Zadie Smith's novel White Teeth: Between Fiction and Reality by Sylvia Hadjetian
    White Teeth by Zadie Smith
  • Splattered Ink: Postfeminist Gothic Fiction and Gendered Violence by Sarah E. Whitney
    The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
  • Contemporary Spanish Gothic by Ann Davies
    The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • The Politics of The Hunger Games by Jamey Heit
    The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
  • Islamophobia and the Novel by Peter Morey
    The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
  • Dawkins' God: from The Selfish Gene to The God Delusion by Alister E. McGrath
    The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
  • Truth and Fiction in The Da Vinci Code: a Historian Reveals What We Really Know about Jesus, Mary Magdalene, and Constantine
    The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
  • The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and Philosophy: Everything Is Fire edited by Eric Bronson
    The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
  • The International Relations of Middle-Earth: Learning from The Lord of the Rings by Abigail E. Ruane and Patrick James
    The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
  • Imagining Autism: Fiction and Stereotypes on the Spectrum by Sonya Freeman Loftis
    The Curious Incident of a Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
  • Narrative Projections of a Black British History by Eva Ulrike Pirker
    Small Island by Andrea Levy
  • States of Exception in the Contemporary Novel Martel, Eugenides, Coetzee, Sebald by Arne De Boever
    Life of Pi by Yann Martel
  • Navigating the Kingdom of Night by Amy T. Matthews
    The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne
  • Facing the East in the West: Images of Eastern Europe in British Literature, Film and Culture edited by Barbara Korte, Eva Ulrike Pirker and Sissy Helff
    A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka
  • Race and Antiracism in Black British and British Asian Literature by Dave Gunning
    Brick Lane by Monica Ali
  • Scholarly Studies in Harry Potter: Applying Academic Methods to a Popular Text by Cynthia Whitney Hallett
    Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling
  • Sebastian Faulks's Birdsong: a Reader's Guide by Pat Wheeler
    Birdson by Sebastian Faulks
  • Modern Confessional Writing: New Critical Essays edited by Jo Gill
    Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding
  • Empire's Wake: Postcolonial Irish Writing and the Politics of Modern Literary Form by Mark Quigley
    Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
  • Rewriting the Hero and the Quest: Myth and Monomyth in Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernières by Tatiana Golban
    Captain Corelli’s Mandolin by Louis de Bernières
  • Lad Trouble: Masculinity and Identity in the British Male Confessional Novel of the 1990s by Andrea Ochsner
    About a Boy by Nick Hornby
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